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Good to see Blaney scoring. Ive heard he's attracting a few new fans. 🤣 🤣

Dundee signed Simon Murray. As a replacement Ross County signed Ronan Hale who has been banging them in in Northern Ireland, last two seasons he's scored 20+ goals.

Ross County and Dundee have brought two guys in that range in. Although in the former case it remains to be seen if he can do it here.

Montrose gave Partick a scare at the weekend. They have a few older citizens in their team - 40 year old Sean Dillon and 38 year old Michael Gardyne.

From what I understand most football stadium in Europe or part or fully owned by the local authority. Good luck getting North Lanarkshire Council to pitch in.

Ebiye had a decent record in Norway and did quite well last season given his limited opportunities.

It's possible for opinion to evolve, you don't have to take a fundamentalist position, especially in an ever changing landscape like football. Bair was rubbish at St Johnstone. When we signed him, Kettlewell obviously saw something in him, but he had no track record as a player and I don't think the fan reaction was unjustified. He was better at Motherwell and I think almost all were happy enough to judge him on his form in claret and amber. I think it will be interesting to watch his career because he's a difficult player to really judge. I'd compare him to someone like Cedric Kipre, he has an athleticism and physique that puts him above our level, but he's very raw and you wonder if he has the technique or game intelligence to really go to the top of the game. Good luck to him and hopefully we get to invest some of the fee in the team.

Not sure I can give it to a defender since I could have strolled through the game at the back. I'm going to give it to Paton just for his willingness to get on the ball. Always gives you a shift and takes on responsibility. He's never an attacking midfielder though.

We weren't even that impressive and that's probably the biggest mismatch of a football game I've ever seen. Don't think our keeper even had a cross to take, never mind a shot. First half was sluggish and a bit raggedy. Probably to be expected for the first match of the season against a side that wasn't putting any pressure on us at all. Pretty much everything we created came from set pieces, clearly the Edinburgh City manager is going to have to work on that cos I think we could have scored 5 today from set plays. The two young lads, while not pulling up any trees, looked fine. You worry though about the number of jobbers in the midfield. Fair play to Paton for constantly looking for the ball but he's not the kind of guy you want that high up the pitch. Same as last season O'Donnell doesn't really offer you any width in forward areas and I though Halliday looked laboured yet again. Goalkeeper and defence had the easiest day of their careers with literally nothing to do. Need to sharpen up, play at a higher pace, have better shape etc but you'd hope that will come with games under our belt. Think we do need maybe one or two players in though. A creative midfielder at least.

We're probably going to play 1 up front all season so it's hardly a surprise. At least a couple of young players are getting a start.

Yeah, they were a bit of a calamity club in recent times, certainly not the same level of team that acquitted themselves reasonably well last time we played them. Motherwell are literally 1.04 at the bookies. Probably the lowest odds you'll ever get for a Motherwell win!

The bookies are never wrong so they say..... must know something I don't.

Well you are either onside or offside, there has to be a line. No one would think you should give a goal if it was nearly over the goal line, why is offside different? The main issue is delays to decisions, especially after goals, and the offside and goal line technology is yes or no and works efficiently.

Automated offsides and goal line technology seems to be working pretty well. Would much rather have that than VAR.

Three 17 or under players started a match in the Premiership last season. Apart from that you had a few more guys coming off the bench 2 or 3 times. Scottish football is utter garbage at giving youth players a chance or promoting them up the levels at anything other than a glacial pace. David Watson and Lennon Miller are the two most experienced players in the league under 18 and they have 2 U21 caps between them.

I'd agree if I could get some kind of sunglasses filter that magically put us in a decent strip!

Now I'm not saying Lennon Miller is in the same class as Yamal but one is 16 years old and just put his country through to the Euro finals and the other is 17 years old and we've just decided to move him up to the national U21 set up. We are so conservative and so distrusting of talent in this country. You just know that if Yamal was Scottish he wouldn't have a first team appearance under his belt at club level, never mind international.

Are we releasing the away kit before the season starts?

When I'm voting on here I just go for whoever I think was best but on my season spreadsheets I use the rating from Who Scored and their man of the match list was as follows. I've not go to the trouble of collating the top three from every match, just the top player. Spittal - 12 Gent - 6 Kelly - 5 Bair - 4 Biereth - 2 Blaney - 2 Mugabi - 2 Casey - 1 Miller - 1 Paton - 1 Wilkinson - 1 Nicholson - 1

Mad Dog beat me to the question. I've always thought Wilson was the one that was most likely to step up if given the opportunity.

Barmack talks snakeskin oil salesman level shit ('vision', 'values', 'global stage', 'technology platforms' etc) and his offer is ridiculous. Can we just please end this whole saga?

Pretty much half the Dundee squad last season were loans. Be interesting to see how they do this season.

You might want to look into the effectiveness of prayer.

Not a bad opening set of fixtures. Early season is a decent time to get Rangers. They won't have any momentum and will probably integrating new players that are new to the league. They will also be under a lot of pressure to get off to a good start. Also might not even be at Ibrox... Other three games should be looking for 3 points in all of them. Biggest problem is we will be playing in THAT strip!

It's not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Motherwell strip. It's like we are going to have to watch a different team for all of next season - but not in a good way. Honestly it's terrible and it gets even worse when you see the shorts and socks.