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It may be cheaper to pay him off. Settlements are usually around half of the anticipated earnings to end of contract, are they not? Of course, management appear not to rate the player ( and/or feel his salary less than value), and MW, himself, has stated that he does not want to carry a player who is unlikely to figure in the 1st team. Rejected may become disaffected, and a pernicious influence of the park; this is a risk he clearly has no wish to take.

Is this shirt of similar quality to that worn by the Switzerland XI the other day, which, after a while, became fashionably distressed, like, oh, I suppose, a Swiss cheese?

Dress code is a problem for them, They don't know whether to wear their Res 12 T shirts under their selliktaps, or over them.

Is that the pub off Victoria Road, in which Billy McNeill had an interest?

Get a grip, Sir, get a grip!

£120K. Barely enough to buy out the contract of even one porkheid plug.

Is the 38 yo Ricardo Carvalho doing much these days?

2 each? A helluva plateful at 5pm.

Hired assassin: The Club has long needed one.

Maybe the deal was done before they all repaired for a light tea.

Already house hunting in Eastwood. (I have my coat, and hat.)

Wallace looked significantly overweight for two seasons.

Is Warburton not on annual leave? If matters were not concluded before his holiday, I should expect them to resume thereafter. More fireless smoke, I assume.

Broon will employ the 1000 yard stare, or vacant look, as my mother would call it.

Romania is a better side than Scotland.

Recently, and randomly, Radio 5 described Krancjar as a "Match of the Day player": one who looks good on highlights reels, but over 90mins..... I think that he would/will be an attractive addition to the squad. However, he is not a guy for the muck and the nettles, or the blood and the snotters, if you prefer.

I intend to file the singular revelations of Mcgillivan, together with the Resolution 12 phantasmagoria, under "Fireless Smoke".

Puerile, unnecessary behaviour. How did Cummings react?

Lennon and Petrie; syphillis and gonorrhoea.

Not one of the self styled "journalists" of this parish have either the nous, or the nerve, to even attempt to gainsay Ms Dudley Edwards' piece.

Last night, France brought on as subs, Messrs Martial and Griezemann; Strachan countered with Mr Charlie Mulgrew. I'd be interested to know, with WC Qualifiers to commence shortly, just what the ginger bauchle "learned" from the matches against Italy and France. Precisely nothing would be my best guess. However he has the job for as long as he wants it, that much is obvious. Lawwell begat Regan; Lawwell and Regan begat Strachan. Until this incestuous sellik oriented three headed hydra is extirpated, there will be precious little progress, on, or indeed off, the field of play.

I think that his approach was based on bringing in players who were "experienced", who were "professional football men", who "knew the Scottish game", who "knew what they were doing", and letting them get on with it. Ultimately, the kind of players who, he assumed, did not need to be coached. The approach was probably a Walter Smith legacy. As for the quality of the players, a no of his captures had been Players of the Year at their immediately previous SPL clubs. I admit to being pretty jaundiced as regards AMcC's time as manager, but no one honestly could say that it was a success, either in results ( 4 years to get out of part time leagues), or in the style of play (where do you start?).

I thought that AMcC's approach to coaching/management was lazy and cynical; unfortunately, for him, and for the support, some of the players he brought in were lazier and more cynical than him. Maybe he has learned......We will know soon enough, should he get a job.

When was McCoist a 'football manager'?

Bastards appear to be walking free, in either event.