Deep Blue Something

Stand in for Alan Carr as Fatty Man.

It will all come to a head at the AGM. Digging his cabbage patch in the Algarve after then.

Glen Hoddle? God only knows. And he's not telling. David Icke, even, if he didn't change the colours to purple.

Each side is playing a game of poker. McCoist wants his money, all of it, before he will leave and he will sit it out either in the dug out or his garden and collect his weekly cut of the 750K per annum. The Board want him to take a reduced payment to leave and sign a Confidentiality Agreement. Ally will not accept the money nor sign the CA as he will probably be looking at a book deal to spill the beans. End of Round 1 - IMPASSE I expect Round 2 after Saturday's result but before the AGM without much change. Round 3 will be after the AGM and it is then I expect an agreement (even amicable???) and Ally's departure thereafter. A very Ally Christmas to us all.

Money does not equate with performance and that goes as much for the players as it does for the manager. Whatever the outcome, the blame lies fully at the feet of Champagne Charlie for offering such inflated contracts. SPIV.

Can I just add here that I totally hate the Alloa strip. It is bogging.

A lot of wishful thinking is going on with our supporters. Me included. If MA can make a profit by have two of his considerable fingers in both pies then he will, but if he is forced to pull one finger out of a pie then it is not going to be the magpie.

Not going to happen. Apparently, Ings ain't what he used to be.

Money's too tight to mention. Money, money, money, money. We're talkin' about money, money. We're talkin' about money, money. We're talkin' about money, money, We're talkin' about money, money, MONEY! We just have to accept that we are fooked unless Daddy Warbucks opens up his considerable war chest.

Up until yesterday I separated McCoist the man, the legend from McCoist the not very good football manager. But now I see no difference. If he really cared about the club he'd just leave..

Players going out on loans are no use to us. We want them out permanently and transfer money in. And I wouldn't give anything to that manager.

I am totally gobsmacked by the news. I will let it sink in before I comment. It would appear that every other football supporter in Scotland, apart from us, is elated at the news that McCoist is staying. Why should that be? I'm away to kick the cat.

Certainly couldn't get much older than Alex Smith. Soon be getting his card from the Queen.

Not quite but I know someone who is.

This is my thunking. An agreement will be reached. But Ally's legal/financial advisor(s) will be looking for a payoff. £400k is the figure being banded around and I would expect a number somewhere close to that.