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Totally sensible move to get Luca game time, hopefully he’ll do really well for them and get a positive permanent move to a championship side. I’d hope Willy will get a move soon too, to help his development.

I’d have your selection but Hodge in place of Priestman. I like Oscar and rate him but I think Hodge could be exceptional after a run of games.

The players available to us under Bertie(apart from a few exceptions … faddy, Fletcher, Ferguson… possible 1 or 2 more) was dreadful. The worst in all my time watching Scotland. When you see lists of the players called up, you had no idea what team they were playing with. Bertie was given a sh1t hand. The standard of player I think got generally better by the time Clarke took over, regular premiership players, decent standard. Unfortunately the football Clarke chose to play was eye bleeding. I’m genuinely quite excited to see how this new manager will do, if he can mix the good ones we have already with a lot of the newer ones coming through. Lennon Miller hopefully included.

John Hendry was probably our worst ever forward signing. Utterly appalling buy. His career was pretty incredible mind you, Dundee, where he failed to break into the first team, Forfar on loan where he scored a couple of goals and then Spurs?? wtf!! Where he played a couple of games and scored 2 against Arsenal in a league cup game. He really should have retired at that point. big Shaun wasn’t the worst although not worth a penny of that huge fee we gave to Killie. He scored a rasper against the artist formerly known as Rangers so he does hold a special place in my heart. for what it’s worth I felt AP was a good player, he just struck me as someone who wanted to give Europe a try, he arrived and was chronically homesick and wanted to go back. I think we did get an offer from a Scandinavian side but he point blank refused to go as he wanted home. Ultimately a bad signing due to the money we paid but a decent player… you don’t get caps for Australia at that time if you weren’t decent.

Glad AP has gone, as much as I think he is a good striker and was a potentially good buy, it’s not worked out and it’s clear he wants to be back in Oz with his family. Fair enough. Good for us as it removes a decent wage but unsure what opportunities he’ll get… but not our problem.

Can’t believe you are suggesting a guy who broke his wrist putting on a polo shirt is made of glass…. You should hang your head 🤣 I do get your point, I just like Koutroumbas, any time he played last season…. And his cameo this season, I felt he did well.

He is, also JKL is an option, we also have ODonnell who is now fit who would have brought a bit of experience yesterday as about 90% of their chances originated from their left wing. I’m just hoping Koutroumbas can get back asap and get a run of games. All proper defenders. I like sparrow, he works his ar5 off but he’s not a full back. I also don’t think he’s recovered from his injury as he doesn’t seem to be able to run properly. In the cold light of day I felt for him yesterday … he had a stinker. But he wasn’t alone. this is not bedwetting either, I’m not even particularly annoyed at our crazy goal we lost, just disappointment on how we underperformed against a side who have spent millions but are totally disjointed…. And they won’t finish second.

True…. Unfortunately we did have a few today. It’s frustrating as I think we all know we are better than that. Really poor performance

That just did not feel right at all today, we lacked the speed we have been playing at and we were really slack, really frustrating that we didn’t give a good account of ourselves. Rangers are not good at all yet they should really have scored about 5 goals. the break comes at a good time as we look knackered.

Worst performance I’ve seen from us in a long time. Sparrow the worst of the bunch. we look knackered which is fair enough, we need a wee break. hodge our best player

A statement win please today ‘Well against these knuckle dragging, funny handshake, sectarian bigots. its all I ask of you …. Should be straightforward enough.

Good interview today with Alfred, interesting stuff about young player development

What’s the Alfred song that’s been getting sung? I can’t place it at all and tbh I’d have hoped to have a better one

I don’t think Lee Hollis has been employed by anyone after us….. come to think of it I don’t think he was employed by anyone before us. I’m sure he’ll be available fits the criteria, small and looks like a full back.

A 10 team league would be horrendous, playing each other 4 times and added pressure of 6 or 7 teams every year fighting relegation. Imagine the pressures that would bring to bed in young players. 16 or 18 team league playing home and away fixtures is what most fans want and I think would help Scottish clubs bring through youngsters and would also help Scottish sides in Europe