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I'd say it was more to do with only having a defined number of units deliverable on Aug 1st and also having qty agreement with distributors and retailers leaving only a 50K limited amount for the pre sale. no retailer is going to set aside shelf space for a half dozen items - minimum orders will be pretty much industry standard and would need to be guaranteed to ensure our product is widely available on the high street. Also when making agreements with retailers like SD, Greaves etc they will require sales confidence, if we had , for example, pre-sold a quarter of a million, then retailers would have had much less confidence of footfall and sales. That said in a covidless planet with more consumer confidence, normal factory output and global shipping maybe we would have see a different marketing strategy.

Fluke.

Shit happens. Someone's misfortune is someone else's opportunity. We move on.

Helander is a first pick. His absence last season will probably prove to be a bigger blow than Katic being out this season.

I am not wishing ill on anyone, but how does this never happen to the likes of Brown Griffiths or Edouard

Have just seen confirmation bad news but we have Helander/Edmunson for cover.

I won't believe it until someone tells me that it is going around on Whatsapp.

Having read the 4lads interview with the Castore guy I understand it a bit better now. I still don’t get why they put 50k on pre-sale if they have 250k kits ready. Make them all available now and get the money in now. I would have understood if the presale was just for MyGers members, or season ticket holders, but for just a general sale to anybody why restrict it to a certain number? I think I was probably right in my first guess in that it was just a marketing move and didn’t need to read more into it than that. After being Badly bitten so many times in the last decade, it makes sense to be very wary of every deal. We can’t afford blind faith any more.

Ally Bally. "It is not new, Mark Walters infamously had a banana thrown at him as a welcome to his first old firm game". Above is a quote from Herald/National/Evening Times piece written by Freelancer, Alison McConnell during February last. Only last month, former Sellik manager, John Barnes answered BBC Radio Scotland's anchor, Richard Gordon's constant refrain, "are Celtic fans racist"; with a simple, "ask Mark Walters, he'll give you a different answer". Obviously, Alison McConnell would have benefited from asking Mark Walters, if she thinks a single banana was thrown at him during his Rangers debut at Celtic Park. A wee hint for Alison is to look at the screaming headlines on the 3rd of January'88, 'Yes, we have no bananas' - your fellow Yahoos emptied the Greengrocers of Glasgow. Today, once again Alison has pulled on the Hollicom jersey. She is what every team needs, an old warhorse galloping around the crud, breathless and sweating. McConnell has earned her place, she began as a cub reporter at ra Sellik View. Five years hard, penning fluf articles and fluffing the players. Alison kept Chris Sutton's spirit up, had him breathless and sweating. When she moved to the Daily Record, her commission was to provide a most emotional and personal account of attending ra Stade de Gadd to view ra Sellik defeat St Johnstone, thus ending Rangers attempt to achieve ten-in-a-row. Alison wrote of abandoning her car on the Gallowgate, in order to make kick-off. She was convinced no court would convict her, see emotion, see Sellik emotion? The column appears again in the Herald/National/Evening Times and it's one long dog whistle. Rangers launch of the new castore kit is sniggeringly analysed, Mike Ashley is trolled to taunt. Guffawing ensues and the usual Yahoo suspects pile on to the Readers' comments. This why Alison's place in the Hollicom side is secure, she guarantees happy endings. Alison also leaves a delicious barb - 'what do you do with a problem like Alfredo'? According to Alison, Morelos was no where to be seen during the launch, and this did not please Big Mike. Now, on Alison's twitter feed, you are recommended of the merits of Peter Martin, Hugh MacDonald, Stephen McGowan, .etc. I am sure they are all leaning forward on tender hooks, waiting for the reply? Like ask Mark Walters, if Alison had asked Alfredo, she would have found out he was in Columbia with wife and new born child, when the photo-shoot occurred. Still, I know Alison will console Big Mike, guarantee him one of your infamous happy endings.

Mikey, Mikey! A change of tact here, before PQ CSC begin broadcasting the weekend bilge, let's set them up on their previous week's garrulous exuberance. Mikey has been absent these last four weeks, but BBC Scotland are telling us Hearts/Partick Thistle have lost their case against the SPFL. I am sure Mikey can not let that pass without comment? Surely, a member of the Foundation of Hearts must take up the cudgel? The real battleground during the week occurred because the first of the former Celtic Boys' Club member's civil case against ra Sellik's contention of being a separate entity, had a preliminary outing in court. PQ's Isabel Fraser interviewed Patrick McGuire, Solicitor to several dozen former members of the Celtic Boys' Club. Isabel fixed bayonets and charged. Isabel blamed the victims. I have been told by several folk that Isabel is wife to Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland's Economic correspondent? If that is the case, then her performance can be comfortably consigned to exuberance. Douglas is a season ticket holder at Easter Road. The interview was removed from Play Back, and heavily edited before being placed back up for listening. Another interview on the back of the Celtic Boys' Club law suit, was John Beattie's questioning of Pat Nevin. Now, Pat is former CBC and lives in Duns. Interestingly, he is also a current Hibs season ticket holder. He decided to adopt a most strange attitude to events in the 70s. Pat the Rat has always twirled his Biro and shown the utmost angst for those in a state of sufferance. However, on this topic, he adopted a shrug of the shoulders and announced, 'I was all right Jack'. His Dad took the training at CBC and he was safe, but he knew things happened in the cars of known offenders after training/cars. Pat's interview was also taken off Play Back, the nervous sniggerfest was not the correct tone. Again, it reappeared after editing. One wonders what direction Big Dick will take on Saturday?

Do try Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. Dominic Cummings swears (often, apparently) by it. You might not get a return on the football results, but you could end up running the country.