WeeJim

£50,000 fine and a suspended ban (should they do it again) is what I expect. Banned from competing in next years competition and a large fine should be the absolute minimum punishment doled out.

The clues in the name "The Goalie". Kennedy and McCloy is as far back as I go seeing them in the flesh rather than film but from watching loads of black and white clips of old games I'm strongly of the opinion that old football was shite. Modern boots and balls, better surfaces and better tactics and, on average, fitter players to me means faster balls coming to the keepers. I might be talking shite but to me that's one of the reasons Goram has no equals from previous era's.

Seen it happen in two different places I've worked, both of them now out of business. All you need is applicants with a base level qualification for the job, in her case her HND, and a hiring manager from the "same background" and a workplace can go to the dogs within a year or two. The good workers get pissed off and leave and the replacements get hired based on background rather than ability. The real question should not be why was she sacked or was it right to do it, it should be why was she hired?

Fuck Stubbs, I hope his team rot in the lower leagues for years to come. Ideal scenario for me is Falkirk, QoS or any other team in the league outside Raith Rovers & St Mirren to turn it on in the play offs, keeps HIV's down and send Motherwell to join them with Dundee Hibs getting automatic relegation. Next season another couple of the usual first division clubs to go up and another two of the scum clubs to go down. That and us turning over the unwashed is my dream, fuck them all.

This. Plus the departing loans. I think Law will get a new contract if he's not greedy, Shiels maybe, Clark, Templeton will go along with Ball, Zelalem, King and probably Forrester. Couple of the younger guys might go too like Walsh and Murdoch. Squad won't get bigger but will hopefully get a lot better, with the two pre-contracts already signed I think he's looking at 4 on top of that and maybe another depending who goes and who stays, I won't be surprised if a couple coming in are loans. I'm not expecting big money to be spent and I don't really think we need to spend it. It's a continuous development thing

We had enough to win before this window. On the face of it, even though they've signed 4 or 5 players and punted 1, are HIV's really that much stronger than they were? After all they are the only real threat. I don't think they are. The terrorist supporter will bust a gut to fuck us over through sheer hatred and I'd expect him to pick up some goals but it's not like they've signed Messi. On to us, up to the signing of O'Halloran I don't think our signings have been better than what we had in the first team already but have been decent signings to give us better cover off the bench. I'm not convinced Forrester will be good enough to stay beyond this season but he's well worth a punt and is effectively a sub replacement for Templeton, with possibly McLeod being a longer term thought for that. King is probably a sub replacement for Clarke, who I'd expect to get even less game time now, or Oduwa. O'Halloran is really the only player we've signed who I think will be a regular starter so our front three will come from McKay, Miller, Waghorn and O'Halloran as first picks with one getting dropped according to form, injury or whoever Warburton thinks will do the best job against whoever we're playing, the rest of the team will stay the same if everyone is available. In my opinion between Forrester and King we probably don't need one of them so I'm guessing King's here in case O'Halloran didn't make it. I don't think we're greatly improved either but we have better cover so we are stronger, in terms of difference between us and HIV's there's little change but if anything I think we have done a little better than them. Real shame we couldn't pick up a good defensive midfielder as I think that would have completely killed off any threat there was and given us a better chance in the cup but considering most of the games we play will be against packed defences the extra depth we've got up front now should comfortably see us over the line in the league.

He should never have been allowed back in and this time we need to stick with it, he was given a second chance and he chose to abuse it. I take it this ban is the same as the last time, the individual rather than the corporation, so if they choose not to send anyone else ..... good. Their choice and suits us just fine.

I think it's the nature of being a wing player in those days that you were kind of a 1 in 3 player, plus when you had the ability he had you made a rod for you're own back as you were the one everybody was looking to. If the team was on song it's set up for players like that to shine like a beacon but if it's one of those games that's a bit of a dirge or the conditions are poor that's the position that's most likely to suffer. It amplified any quiet games you had, if someone else dropped 20% in performance they'd get away with it largely unnoticed but if you're the skill in the team, if you're Cooper, it's more noticeable.

Interesting that no-one at all has picked Zelalem, what with him being the guy touted to have a big future. Totally agree, I wouldn't pick him either. Wouldn't pick any of the new guys either until I had seen what they could do and they've had time to train and get with the program, we don't even know if the manager has bought them as first picks or as potential to phase in if things go right. The only slot I feel is wide open right now is one wide player.

Do journalists, and I use that term loosely, expect someone to just gift us multi-million pounds? King and the three bears included. Fact is we will be surviving on smallish drip fed loans until we can get to a position where a big share issue can get a lot of shares to the people the board want the shares to go to to bring in bigger money. In the present form these loans are not that big a deal as no-ones expecting anything other than shares as repayment and I could be wrong but as it stands right now don't the board only have power to issue a certain amount of shares? All loans are not created equal and the fuckwits in the press know this, they just choose to ignore it. I'm not expecting a fuck ton of money to go into the club before next season and I'm not expecting crazy money to be spent on new players, in my opinion those that are heavy touting the need for it are just playing a long game setting up excuses to keep slagging off the board or the club. Last year we were talking about realistically taking 3-4-5 years to be properly challenging the unwashed and I think we're a bit ahead of that. It won't take that much to be ahead of the diddy clubs next year but it might be a rougher road through the season to finish there than we'd like. Season after we'll be looking for another jump and hopefully by then a lot of the background court shit and dodgy deals will be sorted out. It's a long hard road and we're making our way down it well so there's no point kidding ourselves on it'll be anything other than that if we want to get back there in a sustainable way.

He played an hour in the first two games and was a late sub in the third and has been broken since. Looking at that as pure stats then he scored one goal in something around 140 minutes of play, look at that another way though and he was the weakest player on the park in both the first games then got dropped because he was shit then bruised an eyelash and hasn't kicked a ball since. Every time he comes back from one of his many many injuries there's some calls to give him a chance because he has potential to be a good player and every time the same thing happens, he gets a game or two as a sub to try and bring him up to fitness, he looks weak and out of it but occasionally scores a goal then he gets a broken flask and is out again. You can blame Ally for some of that as the full squad looked weak and out of it but at the end of the day we're carrying him and we can't afford to do that.

These threads can keep going on and on but when it comes to the crunch we're going to keep the words we've used for years..... for the most part. Some folk will sing a variety of other words or nothing at all for that line but most won't change. If you've got the police next to you sing something else or cover your mouth but next time we play the paedo harbourers at home can you even imagine anything else getting used by the majority? Not going to happen.

Bang on summary. Wank club. Cheated to get a man sent off today and got a result last week through bad sportsmanship at a drop ball. My dream end to the season is Falkirk pumping Hiv's and Motherwell in the play offs and Dundee Hibs going straight down.

If they hadn't cheated us down to ten men we'd have really pumped these spoon burning cunts.