Devil's advocaat

Pretty much all EPL clubs have set piece coaches, but none of them have had the success that Arsenal have recently, that I'm aware of anyway. Declan Rice's deliveries against Manure were immense on tuesday night.

I don't think the players need to be ready to walk straight into our team and improve it either, the key part is identifying players with potential to improve, and your own coaching staffs ability to do that.

Gonzo and the American fella seem to have disappeared too.

We've always bought talent from other Scots clubs, and always will, for many reasons. Clubs sign players at 9 years old, many of these kids don't make it, peak early, and many of them don't mature til they're beyond what we'd consider 'young', so there will always be loads that slip the net, no matter how good your system is. I'm not for a minute saying that our system couldn't be better btw. The difference from us buying the likes of Davie Cooper, these guys can go south nowadays and get paid a fortune for playing in the championship, that option wasn't as evident back in the day, so it's harder for us to sign them now, especially in our financial predicament. Anyway, there's a lot of straw manning going on in this chat, at no point did anyone say we'd be exclusively shopping in our backyard, so lets move on.

Our audited accounts perhaps?.

You could change Shankland for Dessers in that sentence, quite easily. I don't want to see us signing Shankland, but big Dessers was circa £5M, has a big wage and little or no sell on value. We do this far too often.

The story I heard from the Lammers transfer - and it's not the only transfer we've done this - is that the money we got from Twente for him was given to him to cover the difference in wages, or he wouldn't have left. So we made nothing from him, but got him off the wage bill. A shit show, and no wonder we get feck all in terms of fees for players when clubs know our financial position.

Lyall Cameron had another good game last night I see.

I'm enjoying your work, sir. 😎

A 39 year old winger as well, Dyche is a buffoon. Agreed! I'd be delighted with a new version of Hemdani and Caniggia tbh, given our budget.

PC is rightly protective of Sterling, and has openly said Igamane is building up to the physical standard required at this level. Game was won anyway, and tbh we should have scored more once those changes were made.

Nice haven't lost a game at home all season. Manure's new man, Amorim - when Braga manager, only lost 2 games, both against us. Both of these came from my fitba stato work colleague this morning, so if they're wrong, it's his fault.

I'd agree, however surely Muscat and McInnes are lazy journalism rather than any actual serious factual information.

I don't recall Sebo being a cult hero, any hero status was a bit of a piss take, he was shite. Shankland is a reasonable SPFL level striker who takes Kris Boyd-esque levels of time to get fit after injury, so one we should avoid. An assist and a double for Igamane is superb to see, he's a long way to go yet, but at least (along with Danilo looking decent recently) the big dunky up front has some competition. Edit - and we need to be signing Cerny permanently IMO.

Big cyriel is utter gash. 🤣

Yup, just before I posted 😅

Igamane been hooked yet?.....

Well, going by the Stone Island and Burberry gear, a man with a foot in the present, and the 90s ned culture. 😉

Ah, my bad, sorry buster. 👍🏻

Nope, problem was it wasn't ordered in time. No need for a contingency, if you give yourself a chance, and I'm not sure you can have a contingency on bespoke extruded steel, it's not something anyone has lying around, and if you want someone to hold it in their inventory, you're paying for it.

Aye, pretty much what I was told too.

The steel was always touch and go apparently, they were told that it had to come from South Korea earlier than they planned, but project timelines and fund release always dictate these things. Then the Houthis kicked off and many shipping companies opted to go via the Cape, which adds weeks.

The man that ate the widden haddie, perhaps.

I recall folk saying that about Souttar and Barron, and I feel they've both proven that they may have what it takes to be talked about for years to come. History is littered with players who had to actually come here to grow and be the players they needed to be.

Sounds a sensible appointment.