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Maybe Caledonian Braves can clydebank them with all that money they scammed off of Americans.

Yep. Total sliding doors moment that one, and ill never get over the "but he's American" of it all. Right now we could all be talking about the finale of an epic Netflix series titled "Steelmen: Stuart Kettlewell's initial remarks, pt 22"

It's scary how this situation could materialize at just about any club, where a dodgy owner loses the run of themselves, or internal politics strangle a club. Even owners/execs with best of intentions can royally screw things up. What has happened at Accies over the last few years is just a whole other level though. How it took until now to deem their owner and chief execs as not fit and proper to run a football club beats me.

I'm guessing they dont care that much about getting paid.

I think we're getting carried away here. If the above was true Welsh would be getting a game for Celtic. We're rating the current scotland center backs (that qualified for a world cup) based on their performances against other international teams, but bigging up Stephen Welsh based on performances against Hibs and Hearts. Also, Clarke isnt going to change the teams style to acommodate one player, nevermind a motherwell player. Hanley and our style aside, all of those other CBs would walk into our team.

McGlynn seems to be more tactically astute than the other managers we've faced for a second time, so it will be interesting to see how he sets Falkirk up, as he clearly made the right changes to turn thimgs around when they played us at FP.

Im unable to click on any of the links in news articles, or even select the text to paste it in a browser. The Livingston game is back on the fixture list though, so progress.

His interview was after the game, and our tactics were plain to see. You can only keep your tactics secret until.the game starts. With the level of analysis that's done theese days, teams will know our players and tactics inside and out before they play us, but we'll do exactly the same, so it comes down to who adjusts the best. As others have stated, I dont think JBA was commenting on Hanley's ability as much as saying he wanted to isolate the center back. Our media will jump on absolutely anything that gives them a chance to put a wee team in its place, so maybe he should have known better, but if were trying to modernize fhe club, maybe we can start with not caring about this kind of stuff.

That was some clearance, and the fact that it was our striker that made it just shows how much graft this team puts in on top of the easy on the eye stuff. The work our attacking players put in is crazy. Just is so good at closing the opposition down and pressing, he covers the space really quickly. Then you have Said, who seems to have the shortest and longest legs at the same time, he's so good at keeping the ball, and finds ways to nick it back when he doesn't even look close.

Seems to have been a lack of testing in general. If we were working with an IT company to create this, they should have caught some of this stuff. Not sure what the need was to rush it out today without testing it, and some beta testing would have been useful too. Not many people are going to figure out that if you reset the app that it will work in dark mode (did for me) Not sure how they managed to get fixtures wrong, it doesn't have the livi game next Saturday.

Welsh was excellent, but Elliot Watt ran the game for us.

By the current standards that's a blatant handball. If the ball was going miles wide Hanley must have mr tickle arms. Also, whether its on target is completely irrelevant. Gray is really doing his best to deflect from us sussing his team out and ragdolling them. As mentioned in the Terrace podcast this morning, we focused on boxing in iredale and Nicky cadden, and gave them a torrid time, leading in them both getting subbed early. Hibs get a lot of joy out of N Cadden's crossing ability, and we totally nullified him.

Oh, and Elijah Just is awesome. Hes another that I don't think will be with us long, but as per the post above, he's such an intelligent player, and his work rate is excellent.

It's hard not to get carried away with the start to the season, but one thing that makes this a bit different is that a lot of the optimism and general good feeling isn't just tied to results. As pissed off as most of us were about the semi final, we all moved on rather quickly - and that's just weird. JBA will definitely be on the radar of much bigger clubs with the way he's transformed this team in such a short time. We have seen managers like Shaun Maloney, who has the exact same ethos (and worked with our assistant) struggle to get that across, and you wonder if someone like him could drop in once JBA goes and continue the work - not advocating him in particular, just wondering if JBA has set the foundation.. Im also interested in whether other scottish clubs will try the same. I also wonder if more ambitious managers will be open to coming to Scotland, and the smaller clubs at that, to build theor stock. Wimmer should get dome credit for kicking this off as well, and bringing us Fadinger at the very least.

Didn't realize that was McGinn both times, takes "dangerous pass" to a whole new level.

I also went with Priestman. I was worried about the lineup, but I was fine with the rotation, and that's all I saw it as at the time. I thought there would be a significant drop-off with Priestman in for Fadinger, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

I kind of get what youre saying, but he set up the first goal and was instrumental in the second. I also think its going to be hard to live up to the way he played in his first few games, as teams are more aware of him. It's on him to figure that out and adjust. I guess he was subbed for fitness reasons, as he wasn't playong bad enough that replacing him with a right back on a yellow card is the best option. Fadinger is such a solid player, he put in a great shift today, especially defensively.

His thinking may be that being unattached to a team while the window is closed will present opportunities to him if clubs need to add someone due to injury. He also may be looking at countries wirh other transfer window schedules. If he's adamant he wants to play abroad, then fair play to him for sticking to his guns.

He finished the game and seemed to be running fine in the last few mins.

In January? I don't think they can recall him outside of the transfer window. Goalies have different rules.

Justs header was definitely offside to the naked eye when it was replayed. The first one was very close, but the linesman gave it, so VAR wasnt a factor. Offside decisions don't need to be clear and obvious, you're either onside or you aren't. Whether the cameras are good enough is a different question, but the lines are consistent at each ground at least. As soon as you move away from the factual decisions for offside you would get all sort of stupid interpretations, like with all the other var decisions. It would be better if we just didn't have it at all.

Stam, 2 goals, enough said.

Went for Welsh. He was solid. I didn't think we were particularly good today, but the team still put a shift in, and kept their nerve in the latter stages, which was especially important with the lack of bench reinforcements that we have right now. However, we wouldn't have had the chance to win it if Lazetic had taken that chance, and a lot of that goes down to Welsh, who didn't give up and recovered well enough to put him off.

Not technically true. He did stop on multiple occasions to smell his own farts.

Turnbull back playing 90 for Cardiff. Devante scored for Port Vale in their win, with Ben Heneghan also in the lineup. Declan "gun to his head" Gallagher git sent off for Ross County in another loss for them.