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I was sat right next to that, he kept shouting at him to run and McMann wouldn't, then he gave up and passed it to him, at which point McMann ran.

If the stories about the Brentford owner buying the club are true, I wouldn't be surprised if he replaced Goodwin irrespective of what league we're in, he seems to have a set approach with his managerial hires. In saying that, a Hibs-type setup with him owning a minority stake feels more likely to me.

On the flipside, I refuse to consider Brechin because of their godly soup. It's got to be Gretna really.

Aye after we scored the 2nd, I saw Watt gesturing towards the fans in the George Fox like he was asking them to calm down and stick with the team. We play best when there's a lot of quick passes in the final 3rd to help open teams up, and I think that takes a degree of confidence.

As an aside, Scottish wingers playing in the US include Lewis Morgan, Greg Hurst, Nick Ross and Sam Nicholson.

There's some pretty good Latin American attacking players in that league, from the little I've seen. The level isn't great but Vassell at Killie has shown it's a market worth looking into for Scottish teams.

I get the impression that teams have sussed us out, chiefly by flooding the wide areas where previously we were getting a lot of joy down the left in particular. Obviously we need signings(well, maybe not in the BBC punditry team's alternate reality of us having a giant squad full of quality). I'd be looking for an Armstrong type 10 and a fast striker, so we're less one-dimensional in attack, and probably a defensive mid if Docherty is going to be the physio's new best mate.

Saw that in the background on the stream too, they were restraining him like a terrorist. Anyway, that was a laugh.

Aye, partly based overseas so I have a subscription. It's decent for the most part, when I first moved in 2016 it was far worse.

I hate drums but also hate this woman's attitude, so I don't know where I stand.

I had a pretty good view of it from the main stand that day and was sure he'd have got a red card were he not stretchered off. I just tried to go back and look at the highlights but couldn't find them on youtube, happy to be corrected if wrong.

Ordinarily I'd agree, but he was so clearly going out to injure Rankin with that tackle that I understand it. As for the game, pleasing that we kept going until the end, last season our heads would definitely have dropped, and great for Cudjoe to get such a big goal off the back of getting his first last week, but tactically and in terms of personnel there's concerns. Grimshaw moving to right-back lost the control of the midfield we had up to that point, we could have had Denham replace Freeman like-for-like, and if Goodwin won't bring on McLeod in that kind of scenario, we badly need another striker. Moult was so easily isolated once we were chasing the game, it was clear to see we needed someone else through the middle with him. Meekison was anonymous, and I'm not convinced Glass and Fotheringham can offer much even in this division.

Selling GMS and Armstrong to Celtic in January. Birighitti. Not replacing Birighitti in January. Continuing to play Birighitti.

Watching the podcast, and then reading the court papers after, you have to say that English does a poor job, he should have been quoting from key parts of that and giving Goodwillie the chance to respond. Letting him just speak unopposed, including or excluding things as he sees fit, fails to really illuminate anything and just serves to make observers not familiar with the case side with him. FWIW, he and Robertson are guilty in my book, probably in part down to being too dense to realise what they were doing was wrong, and it is striking that even now, 12 years later, young people seem to be far more informed about consent in those circumstances.

This feels like very Osman Sow.

Right enough.

I must have missed that.

McLeod looked decent, Fotheringham was just there, like the pavement.

That was my question on the podcast regarding how to make Scottish football more competitive. I was fully expecting a copout non-answer, but what he said was even worse than I anticipated.

Aye he's been decent whenever played as an out and out winger, last season in particular he really paid for the change to a back 5 as he struggles to get forward as a wing-back and usually ends up outnumbered, 1-on-1 he does get a few crosses in. Still think we can do a lot better as our first choice winger, but as a squad player I wouldn't be too fussed if he stayed.

Fairly happy with Goodwin getting the job, it's an early appointment which hopefully means we start our recruitment early for a change, and it appears he will have complete control on that front, having had the squad's glaring deficiencies made horrifyingly clear.

Yeah it was used for functions etc. for a long time before it became the Hegarty Lounge, but still had the astroturf.

James Grady played in the juniors until he was 23.

Aye, looking at it in those terms, I could see why an outsider would think things haven't been too bad; I was talking specifically about player recruitment, where there's been clear gaps that any casual observer could see that haven't been filled. This season, the lack of a striker(after punting Watt and Clark), a defensive mid and a mobile right-sided centre-back have largely been our undoing(along with the goalkeeping debacle, presumably down to poor or non-existent scouting before we signed the Biro). Last season, we would line up against bigger teams with both Fuchs and Butcher in the middle, the difference has been night-and-day with our current centre-mids, and it's dragged down the likes of Levitt due to how wildly imbalanced the team is.

Ogren seems like a good bloke, but we're in a situation where the chairman isn't a football man, and so he appears to have child-like faith in Asghar, someone who any other chairman would likely identify as at least a major part of the problem in our recruitment failures, thus nothing will change unless someone from outside the club manages to get through to him and explain how catastrophic it's been on that front.