"Hopefully we have the tractor ready for Friday's press conference"
Unfortunately the owner of the tractor is now using it, so we're trying to get one of those shopping trolleys with the toy car attached to it.
Why are we so bad at this? Teams operating in the same market at us seem to be getting business done, are they spending more money or just bringing in shite?
Vigurs probably did break down in training, allowing burns to backtrack on his made up story, which also included us being interested in a left back from Shef Utd who was actually under contract at Boro.
So, rumour roundup:
Some Hungarian winger, argentine keeper, irish center back, twitter rumours of richie towell but that seems unlikely since he was reported as staying with his club last week, Heffernan of Hibs, James Dayton, missed any?
A 32 year old center back who spent 10 years at Scunthorpe, and currently of Alfreton Town. Possible he is helping in a coaching capacity, but I'll just outrage myself anyway.
Twitter has some Argentine guy coming on loan. Too lazy to paste or translate, look on Twitter
Got un-lazy:
Manuel Garcia of Rosario, GK - http://www.rosariocentral.com/planteles/garcia-manuel/
We're toast.
The only positive is that we aren't tied to many contracts for next season.
We won't bounce straight back up as there are better organized clubs down there and we'll go the way of Dunfermline.
Whereas the supporters some of the bigger teams like Hearts and Hibs (and Utd in previous years) have rallied around their club, I believe that our support will dwindle further.
With the subject of the Accies player being discussed in the shoutbox, I figured a thread might be worthwhile.
I think that the reasons other clubs have been able to sell guys for higher price tags are as follows:
1 - They pay them more
2 - They spend more money on their development
3 - They play them then sell them at a younger age
I think the last player we brought through and sold was Jamie Murphy, while we seem to have missed the boat with Hutchinson. We also don't seem to be very good at the sales pitch.
One argument is that we were too busy coming 2nd and playing in Europe, but I don't think the model has ever changed in that we have always aimed to be a selling club.
Are we just getting out what we are putting in to the youth setup, i.e nothing? Or should I be encouraged by what is in the pipeline?
We can accommodate two left footed midfielders, and pearo's running would allow vigurs to play his natural game. If we also have ojamaa and Sutton play in the bulk of the games between now and the end of the season we should definitely get goals. Hopefully a defender or two are on the shopping list now.