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Shaun Fagan was a product of bizarre team selection by Butcher. A frequent first XI starter, obviously lacking ability and awarded a two year contract when most fans were questioning why he had a place in the squad, let alone starting. It was all very strange.

Believe me, Tom Boyd is known as an absolute horror, even within Celtic Park. With regards to Mark Hateley, he was always an aloof, arrogant bastards. Perhaps, given his background of being a successful, high profile player, but also having muppets in hell holes such as Renfrew fill his pockets. He's a relic, but the very worst was Graham Roberts. Anyway, a different thread perhaps.

Actually, I'm going all in here. Tom Boyd is a complete cock. Sitting just behind Charlie Nicholas in the most unpleasant footballers I've come accross in my professional career.

Between Steelboy and CM taxi chat... For the love of God.

I actually don't remember Offiong being that bad. Was it not Hamilton be went to and did reasonably well? Too tired to wiki. Callum Elliot irks me as we had Coakley desperate to feature and yet Malpas signed Elliot on a loan that cost two grand a week in wages and he was awful. Malpas. The worst football I've seen us play. Made Kampman look like the lovechild of Jose, Pepe and Fergie. Pump the ball into a channel for McDonald to chase and hope something will happen. Nightmares before bedtime...

To me, Tom Boyd really soured his time at the club by his goading of the Motherwell vans at Hampden and badge kissing antics. A bit like Scott Brown, he seemed happy to play at Celtic instead of pushing himself to play at a higher level.

Seems the SFA want to play about with all the cups this season... Scottish Cup: Fourth substitute to be available in extra time - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37281807

McGee has contacts at Leicester and I've sure he will have come accross him while scouting previously.

I recently Google searched those two masterful Austrian signings of McLeish. Darlington signed both of them from us. I was surprised that Darlington have dissappeared into the non leagues.

I remember Tarrant being the most hyped player in Scottish football at the time. At the time he was playing at Ross County one of my colleague's dad was majorly involved there. When Villa came in for a bid they couldn't believe it. It was enough money to completely redevelop the club. Sadly, he did slide into footballing obscurity pretty quickly after a brief loan with us.

I have reservations over Blyth, but having read his twitter feed, after questions being asked about his injury status, he appears to have been carrying a niggling injury since he arrived. The only forwards with decent aerial ability I can think of in recent times are Higdon and Sutton. I was trying to think of anyone else going back, to Coyne and Arnott, and struggled. I honestly can't remember Porter or Falconer having been good in the air. We've got options with Bowman, McDonald, Ainsworth, Thomas, Moult and Blyth now, something that I'm sure will provide goals. We'll see how Clay, McHugh and Cadden gel. Left back is still an issue and I still think McMannus is one of the most overawed Scottish defenders in the last decade. Still, the squad looks in better shape that it has in quite a few seasons.

Just read that too. Struggle to get an ever present young SPFL player in the squad, but an ex-Celtic player with three appearances this season and a handful of dreadful first team performances last term, Chalmers is straight in. Personification of Scottish football.

Difference is that Cadden comes from a football family with a solid grounding and a father that seems to advise his boys well. It is not as if they are on the fringes of our team, thinking they are the next Kenny Dalglish and behaving like Paul Slane. I fully expect Chris Cadden to be here for his development until he feels ready for a big move and I'm sure it will be a large offer from a Championship club. So many young Scottish players have gone to England and disappeared into obscurity. Fraser Fyvie, Scott Allan and Andrew Sinnue being three midfielders that spring to mind, all now playing at a level lower than us. If Cadden was a Celtic player, he may well have featured in senior Scotland Squad by now.

Got to feel a bit for Lee Lucas. McGee says he's a player he likes, but finance is the issue, then we get money in and he's punted.

I've got a mate who is a huge Hammers fan and says Belic is a real talent. He's pacy, inventive and a goal threat. He would have featured had West Ham really not been victims of their own success and over achieving to a certain extent. I've heard mixed v feelings about Blyth, from him being disinterested during training, nit applying himself and a few comments stating that really, apart from his physical presence, he is not very good and Mackin is a better player.

I'll just be happy when this saga is over. I'd gladly take 300k for Johnson now. He's a kick past and rush winger and not Robben, Ribery or Overmars.

I tend to agree. I don't think that Johnson is anywhere near an accomplished winger as Ainsworth, he uses his pace but fails on many levels technically and often flatters to deceive. His finishing is woeful on many occasions and often fails to pass in order to have a strike from unlikely angles and distances. Humphrey did well to establish himself after warming the bench for the first season and then we did the same we did with Coke, Jennings, Murphy and O'Brien. We've got Johnson under contract and demand a fee, but I'll be amazed if be progresses like Murphy has. [quote name="Ya Bezzer!" post="478570" Think of some of the wide players that have left Fir Park in recent times - McCormack, Murphy, O'Brien, even Humphrey - all better than Johnson. I was no great fan of Humphrey in the beginning but eventually he won me over and left a far better player than we signed. If Johnson leaves, can he say the same? I don't think so, and if he has its marginal. I'm strangely unmoved about the whole thing. I neither want to hound him out the club nor would lose a wink of sleep if we sold him.

My points still stand!

Actually, even if we move Johnson on, I'd be happy with Thomas or Ainsworth operating in a front three that McGee favours when Moult is back or Blyth is fit. Maybe McLean could feature there too, I'm a more advanced role? I suspect that GMS is on about 5 to 10 grand a week and I'm old enough to remember the nonsense of the Callum Elliot loan that kept a few of our youths out, Coakley in particular.

Summarising on transfer fees in the Championship I've just read this... Aston Villa have potentially smashed the Championship record signing for the second time this summer. Bristol City striker Jonathan Kodjia has joined the club on a four-year deal which could rise to £15milion - more than Villa could end up paying for Fulham forward Ross McCormack. Kodjia, 26, becomes Roberto Di Matteo's eighth summer signing after they saw off interest from Derby County and Premier League Hull City to land the in-demand attacker. He scored 20 goals in his 52 games for the Robins after joining from French side Angers. Also, reportedly now five Championship teams are chasing Johnson. I'd settle for anything over half a million.

Completely agree. As always, an informed and educated opinion expressed by Kmcalpin. Now, back to the taxi chat...

I did indeed get a 3 at Standard Grade Mathematics and didn't get the opportunity to sit the Higher. Hasn't stopped me running many successful businesses over twenty years or becoming a Cisco certified specialist, because computer networking doesn't involve complex maths or binary numbers. My skill set has allowed me to enjoy a nice life, work with some fabulous people and I've never belittled others. You must be enjoying your holiday, if you are preoccupied with getting a rise out of those discussing the club they support. I was going to be unkind to you, but I think God has been cruel enough.

As the son of a cabinet maker, brother of a joiner and a fan of the £120,000 per annum, taxi driver concept, to me, this is comedy genius.

Hateley... Rab Shannon, Christie, who was the one from Falkirk? Eddie May. Corrigan I'll give you. Page... Hateley is a bit of a Muppet, his father an absolute roaster of a man. Believe me, I know. Tom has had a couple of good years in Poland. I'm not forgetting the circumstances of his departure, but he was the best right back in the country at the time. Must have pained Craig Brown to say that too.

I rather agree, though a win may come from an unlikely source. Chalmers, Tait or Heneghan?