Devil's advocaat

For every one of those, we also had a Bollan, Namouchi and an Adamczuk remember.

The loss of hesgoal is still deeply mourned for such days....

Coming from a guy who's ready to 'lose his shit' over the potential signing of a guy he's never seen play before. Cool story bro.

The replies on that tweet, I thought you had to be 14 to have a twitter account. 🙈

Sometimes I wonder how fans got on judging signings in the days before transfermarkt etc, the only players you'd see were when they played against us. Now we have allsorts of armchair superagents. 🤣

Agreed Bill, Lowry will hopefully flourish up there.

Ah, yet another Internet expert.

Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

Quite possibly mate.

Mine came from a club physio, Stewarty.

A good friend was on the medical staff at the time, and that was the reason. Granted, your theory would also have played a part in the decision.

Fair enough, but its one injury.

I believe Windass was punted due to him having had a repeated injury (can't recall if it was hammy or achilles) and his subsequent numbers falling below a certain percentage.

Probably more than Nathan Patterson, but I'd take him back in a minute. Everton are a basket case, games played may not be a fair reflection.

A player with 'rumoured' attitude problems btw.

Aye, there is a worry there, but as buster says, we need to give the manager some trust here. I used to argue that we shouldn't be shopping in the EPL, but I think that's changed. These clubs have so many players it's very easy to fall out of favour, and incredibly difficult to get back in. The clubs are so awash with cash, they almost give up on players as assets and get rid. I like the idea of this pair.

No one thought for a minute that we'd get what we did for those two when we signed them, hindsight is indeed marvellous.

Or it could be any number of other factors. Good, available, affordable players, who fit in with your system and players ain't just lying about like empty vape canisters.

I like the similarities with the last time Beale was here, our press seem completely clueless as to potential signings.

I hope so, lazy link only appears as he's an ex player. Fuck off with the ex player pish.

A keeper who can move the ball quickly against the teams we play weekly is a massive advantage, as this is something thats probably needed more frequently than shot stopping. Even taking a cross, which is pretty basic, is huge in terms of then setting quicker players off on the attack. Such keepers are not ten-a-penny, sadly.

Absolutely. I've seen pics taken from Cathkin with a long lens that make Ben Lomond look as if it towers over the city. Stills can be very easily manipulated.

Stills are completely unreliable in such situations, has been proven before.

I'm hoping Beale operates in the same manner as Gerrard did, ie the press are the last to have any info on who we're after.

Dunno about that, I'd say last seasons run in the EL saw the best atmosphere I've ever seen at Ibrox, on more than one occasion.