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Good thinking. Timothy and Timothea will be all over this, whether they understand it or not.

The crews were all on zero hours contracts, so mobilisation problems arose......

Even Waghorn might score against this outfit.

Don't know how many there are, but they meet in The Bear Pit, within The Clansman Bar, apparently. I imagine that Young Mr Halliday would be more than welcome there. https://bakubears.az/

Lots of bluenoses out in Azebaijan, right enough, mostly in oil industry/pipelines and the like. Is there not a (big) Baku Bears Supporters' Club?

Big Lafferty is a guy who is good at football; he never convinced me that he was a Professional Footballer, quite honestly. I think that he is too old now, to learn new Portuguese tricks.

If AH lines up against Bialystok, he will face, probably, Mr Ziggy Gordon, ex Harry Wragg's full back, who, iIrc, is currently billeted there.

You won't get many to disagree with you there.

He might be 3rd fiddle to Herrera and Frazier Campbell.

James Beattie. A season of of unadulterated shite. Ditto Francis Jeffers.

A 30 yr old striker, who runs about, doesn't score, and who will have zero sell on value....what's not to like? Signing Frazier Campbell would be a reckless act of sheer hope triumphing over experience.

5 in 43 for Palace; 13 in 49 for Cardiff; 6 in 58 for Sunderland. He had a couple of decent seasons 10 or so years ago: 20 in 31 for Royal Antwerp; 15 in 24 for Hull City. He's 30 in September.

I know absolutely nothing about his contract details. The assumption on here seems to be that he is being treated shabbily, compared to others in the dressing room. I cannot comment. I do think that he has quite a lot to prove, in the coming season. Maybe the Club should offer him a deal with high incentivisation.

He has been on a downward glide for a few years, in all honesty. It's a "No", from me

McInnes looks like a bullet dodged for Rangers, then (irrespective of football considerations).

You are suggesting, at least so I infer, that the Club should make him an offer he can't refuse. I am unsure. Is he good enough to justify a salary substantially greater than anyone else in the dressing room? Has he shown that level of performance in the Premier League? For Warburton? for Murty? for Caixinha?

The mere threat of such irregular, dubious dealings being exposed would be enough to force McInnes's hand.

He, McKay, has been offered an extension; I do not know the terms; it seems that he is loathe to sign it. Ergo, I am left to conclude that he wishes to continue his career elsewhere. Maybe he has been tapped up; maybe he is advised by an agent that the grass is greener elsewhere; maybe the boy just fancies a change; maybe he just fancies a Bosman, and a big signing on fee; maybe someone has greatly upset him. Personally, I think that he would be better advised to stay, and learn under a new, technical, coaching regime. He has time on his side in this regard. Maybe he does not fancy the work. He is a decent player, although over the piece last season he did not shine. (Nobody did, really.) Cooper was generally regarded as enigmatic, a euphemism, I suppose, for a quality player who could be inconsistent. It strikes me that persevering with Cooper was worth while because when he was good, he was very, very good, and football, then, perhaps allowed for a luxury player to be carried through his inconsistencies. Are we sure that McKay will regain form? Will that form be comparable to that of Cooper? (I sense a chorus, here.) Will it be sufficient to justify carrying him through a fallow period, or periods? Does the game, currently, allow the team to carry a passenger, on the strength of talent, and potential application of it, alone? McKay has shown little in the last 10 months to allow me to answer these questions in the affirmative. Of course, I should like him to stay, regain form, and contribute to the success of the team. Should the Club pull out all the stops to keep him? Of that I am unsure. We should never forget that no man is bigger than the Club.

Walker, it seems, would like to play for us. McKay it seems, would not.

What a waster......?

Speirs is also the epitome of the hypocrite. He is the man who coined, almost jocularly, a phrase, "displaying a natural denominational antipathy" to explain, excuse, and, yes, condone, a sectarian onslaught on a Scottish referee by rahoops' support, during a match between Dundee Utd and rasellik. The referee was Michael McCurry, a Baptist Minister. In Speirs' world view, a limited and self limiting perspective, there is "religious bigotry" -and religiously based 'thought crimes', I may add- on the one hand, and on the other, "natural denominational antipathy". One is reprehensible, socially constructed, and not tolerable; the other innate, hereditary, congenital, and, thus, to be indulged. A useful idiot for the prejudiced.

And the most zealous are most often the converted.......

I assume that , now, the DUP will be able to stand for the legal fees.

Its worst visitor since Harry Lime.

What is the creepy bastard doing in Vienna? I'd keep a close eye on the Boys' Choir, if I was the Kapellmeister