Mad Dog

Can we bring Olly Whyte into the squad to see how he does? Not sure how these partnership loans work.

Which begs the question, is it really him that has struggled to find a club? He will have been on a better wage in England, so fairly comfortably well off now if he was sensible with his income. He could drop his wage demands to, say, £5k a week if he wanted to or if his agent allowed him to.

Was thinking the same thing, bizarre to think that a right-footed player can't play anywhere in the back two or three. Celtic's loss, he'll do a great job wherever he goes.

He was only there out of courtesy. Don't forget Mark McGhee, though.

Yeah, we don't need that behaviour in our team. Not saying that I agree with it, but head-to-head like that should be a red card for Freckleton, though.

So Gogic can flatten Maswanhise from the kickoff and that is okay. Yet our counterattack a few minutes earlier was stopped because of a similar offence by Said. Not sure if I like this ref.

I get what you're saying, but he's only four hours and one time zone away. Also, he only played one full game over there

Good shout, Tex.

Bit late, but you can watch all games on channel 4.

I've watched a few games now and been a wee bit disappointed in the standards on display. I normally look forward to this tournament but it's been poor so far.

The Swedish season has finished, so perhaps JBA might have an idea of a goalscorer from there who wouldn't cost anything.

You're right about Ward, he is looking a lot more solid these days. Having said that, it is obvious to me that our defence are not leaking many opportunities to the other team, so Ward hasn't actually had much to do. I can recall two good saves in the past month and a lot of him with the ball at his feet but not much else!

Cedric Kipré put Ipswich 1-0 up first half.

Can SK speak any French, though?

I'll always be grateful to him for his first half season with this football club. We were plummeting towards relegation with Hammy and he didn't inspire any confidence in his interviews, so SK was a breath of fresh air. He got the results that we needed on the pitch and also put in a lot of work getting players released to free up wages and steady this football club's finances. After that, he didn't do so well, he managed to sign some pretty poor players and he became very indisciplined towards the end - perhaps due to the pressure he was under - but he didn't deserve abuse and threats.

Do we have any updates for the injuries to Sule and Robinson? We may not need to spend any more money if they fit well with Askou's system.

Also going long on occasion instead of rigidly sticking to short balls to feet.

Watching this on the Killie feed as ours is crap again (for me) and in the halftime messages they're asking their fans to pay for their grass pitch! Buy a square and get a wee certificate.

Hoping for a good run of performance and goals from Maswanhise before he heads off to the African Cup of Nations next month. I think we'll win and SK will go on a winless streak, although somehow keeping his job.

Which, presumably, would be a 'normal football challenge' that Uruguayan referees have to deal with.

Must've missed this last month but very surprised to see that Aaron Taylor-Sinclair is now caretaker manager at Airdrie - currently leading them (with supersub Jake Hastie) to a win over Partick Thistle. Edit: Drama! 1-1!

I thought Ward had a good game and was unfortunate for the third goal. He was left totally exposed by defensive dithering in front of him and did well to make the save initially. Regarding the need for reinforcements, I wasn't too impressed by Robinson during SK's tenure but could he be a better fit with our current style of play?

7! Might get a game before his contract expires.

No such luxuries on this rock, although Waitrose usually stock frozen haggis ahead of Burns night.

Just once would be enough!