buster.

I'd settle for one to be getting on with. When you see Billy Gilmour leave so early for relative peanuts, it's a real kick in the gonads and it shows that this isn't only about bringing the players through.

The financial will be impossible to match in the short to medium future but football fortunes often do swing and it's not all about money. The 'House of Cards' reference sounds good but is itself, built on sand. They have a playing squad that can realise large sums of money to put in place of CL money and the EL group stages are now worth a lot more than previously. As far as this century has gone, we have only had one spell of sustained dominance when Walter Smith came back and we lifted 3IAR. That included 3 CL group stages (if you count the season before the 3IAR) and a run to the UEFA Cup Final (which Martin Bain managed to gather 'surprisingly' little money). The 3IAR was based on some quality recruitment post-Kaunas, partly funded by the money from the net proceeds of the Cueller sale. Prior to that we had managed to squeeze a couple of titles away from Celtic on memorable last day wins but the rest of the time they tended to run away with the title, despite us having some excellent quality players at Ibrox. I think it fair to say that they were a better run club with a corporate and partly colliegiate board whilst we had Sir Duped and Bain (SDM left the board in August 2009 but Bain remained). It is noteworthy that Dave King mentioned independent businessmen as a potential good fit for the boardroom. What we have to do is to continue building our club from the bottom up. The football operation should be able to reach a point where it pays for itself.

It could be argued that given current circumstances, a gamble is required if we want to stop 10IAR. The issue for me is timescale. IMO a realistic gamble is a potentially galvanising management team who bring a culture of excellence and look to build something, targetting 19/20 and/or 20/21 for recapturing the League title. The pragmatic appointment seemed to become less attractive and less 'safe' due to the potential list being short and uninspiring.

Yes but I'd want a 'target man' striker to be getting goals as well. Corners, free-kicks, crosses into the box should be meat and drink for players like that. No semi-decent striker of that sort only makes goals.

He definately needs a break, you can't continually keep punishing the body without a break. If managed well, I think the lad could be a real top player by the time he reaches his mid-twenties.

We sometimes complain about Morelos and his dry spells but if you take a look at the latest Sheep striker Sam Cosgrove (6 months younger than Morelos) his numbers don't look too bright. In over 1300 minutes of senior football he seems to have scored ONE goal, been booked twice and sent off once. ------- Morelos 8793 minutes 72 goals 25 bookings No red cards Data source: soccerway stats

If you take out a mortgage, you can buy a round for the usual suspects on here.

The Kerrydale online degree in 'Law, Tax and Accountancy and it's applications at Sevco' surely makes them all 'unbiased experts' !

The NOMAD returns with his thick rulebook. Bit of a bind to lug that about !

Take a break from listening to Diane Abbott for a bit and you'll find the time Wrt the podcast, good work lads and lass. Pete seems to be on a bid to 'out jolly' the Reverend ! Christine sounds a lot younger than someone able to be SG's Mum ! Seriously, I thought Christine did very well on her first pod and like last week, the flow throughout the show was good. As for time, IMO just about spot-on. Very difficult to cram a week that saw SG pitch up at Ibrox to less than 47 minutes. I do think the bossman was missed because he brings a sensible sounding board for others to counter, eg. IIRC last weeks show seemed to be more of varied opinions...(although this obviously depends on the subject matter and can't be judged on a one-off).

We need our strong characters on the pitch, not as backseat managers.

Morelos looks done for this season and combinations with Cummings don't work. We'd almost be better with Herrera and Cummings up front in a more conventional 'big man wee man' combination surprise. Thing is, if Morelos got a real close season break followed by real hard and effective pre-season taken by the Scouse Jock Wallace.... we might already have a forward who would 'rip it up' next season.

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Timing might have something to do with getting the last game of the season out of the way before taking next step. If things don't go well on the field, just as post semi-final, it'll draw attention away from the football. .

I think we could do with sending potential new investors some 'Tactical Nuclear Penguin' before opening talks and their cheque books. Seriously, it's not surprising that there isn't a queue of people wanting to throw their money at the club. It would have to be an emotional 'investment' and if they haven't surfaced in the last 6 years, they are hardly likely to start now.

I see he's currently on a yellow card spurt with 5 in his last six games (which sum 397 minutes on the park). A booking every 79 minutes. A red card up in Aberdeen is probably as likely as a goal.

We won't be catching them next season. Next season is about improving what we have and building something that can catch them prior to them getting 10IAR. Some may moan that we should be all about going after them next season but IMO if we keep doing that trying to get shortcuts, we'll never get there. In other words, our best chance to stop the 10 is to take stock and 'build something'.

Not much point in commenting on warchest size until we see a fuller picture further down the line. It's about spending what we have wisely and getting a lot more out of the assets currently employed.

Is that Wee Harry who works at the 32 Red call centre ?

Fair enough I think I saw rumours of the following types of investor:- - Asian - American - Female - Gay - Corporate - Sir Duped and various other individuals

rbr Is Raman Bawbag talking Red Bull ? Or were you drinking copious vodka with your red bull yesterday ?

Going by what has been posted about his time with Liverpool under 18s Gerrard was adapatable re. system.

Yes, some aren't good enough but it's this team that has metaphorically died in recent OF matches but some of the individuals within can do a lot better within a better structure with more quality, confidence and a hungry motivation. First up in June would be to maximise fitness.

Our new manager (from June1st) comes from a club and a support who have done the one thing that constitutes a real fightback against the tabloid you mention.

Bottomline is that we need a management team that can improve players and that starts with many of those who are already there.