DeeBairn

How do we know the guy wasn't just filling a jersey for the reserves? Let's not collectively piss or pants again.

In behind Rudden and Haber could be a thing of wonder. Or an utter shit fest. Scenes either way, that much is guaranteed.

Get him signed up.

That's quite a list of good managers at good clubs, and McInally and Ferguson. A McInally/McCall management team would provoke quite a few strokes, I would imagine. Wee Jobby is a good coach when he has the players he wants in, but that first season? Would be painful. Not as painful as being bottom of the league, but still.

6 games played, 0 goals according to Wikipedia. Standard, if true. Another very average player we appear to have squeezed a good season and a half out of.

Agree re Duffie. Still doesn't change the point that he should have been sold when he was at the top. Injuries didn't help, but we still kept him around way past the point of him being any use. Several years of wasted wages. The Arfield one is kinda with the benefit of hindsight I suppose. We didn't sell him as we we wanted to stay up. If we had sold him, I'm sure we would have got st least another couple hundred grand as a premiership player. Hard one to judge at the time. He didn't want to stay if the championship. Who's to say if he'd pulled out the stops and kept us up he'd have wanted to stay instead of moving to a far bigger club. I certainly wouldn't want to be running the contract department of a football club. Seems you'll get it in the neck either way.

Duffie? Held onto him way past the point he should have been sold. By a matter of years. Not saying we would have got a fortune, but he could have been sold for a couple hundred grand. We held into Arfield a season too long as well, though that might just be me, and money isn't always the best way to measure it.

Not totally true. We either sold players early for a reasonable amount, of held onto them for too long a g got pennies or nothing.

That would be an expensive way to provide fodder though. By the time you include scouts and coaches, be as well picking up youths that have been freed and training them in the reserves. Not sure what the difference would be cost wise though.

Alright Jimmy old fella. Try not to get banned again.

I'm sure he could share whatever he chooses to make up.

He was rumoured to be in a couple of grand a week. Clearly, the club never comments on contracts, and Loy was never going to out himself as a wage thief on that kind of level.

Am I angry today? Nope. Wasn't yesterday either. Ah well, just have to put up with being typecast I guess. Genuine questions abive re gloating and injuries though.

Kindly point out what is A, angry, or, B, incorrect. Becoming a habit of Ayr and Morton fans to claim someone is angry and then ignore the posts instead of actually reply. Maybe I should use lots of emojis to help the kids follow the difficult bits.

I'd concentrate on holding onto Shankland beyond January before you start gloating over league positions. Long way to go, a lot of football to be played and a lot of injuries to occur. And there's a point too, our team is mince. We wouldn't miss anyone. Shankland leaves or gets a long term injury, or Dobbie gets crocked? Hilarity abounds.

All the wee teams are gloating early this season. This could end up being glorious.

Won't be 100k a year. That's for certain. And we will be getting deducted points why...? Is this another thing on Crawford Raes Christmas list?

100k0 each a year, it seems.

So you're suggesting that between McKinnon and assistant, wages will be 400k for two years? Assuming your lunatic chairman gets his mythical 100k compo? Hartley will have left with a few months payoff and Gordon Young left for another job.

My word, it's 500k in compensation now? That's some heavy duty lead spillage through Greenock way this weather it seems.

I'd settle for the Aussie actor Brian Brown right about now.

I think it was more relief at getting Houston out while we had a chance of turning it around.

This. We used to see the same the other way around. We would lose good strikers who would then go on to be bang average elsewhere. Very much the case of good enough players in a system that suits them. Now we have until January to see if we can do the same with this lot.

Doesn't have to be physically hard, but there's no way they should be getting off the training ground until they are getting the basics right, time after time.

Is this possibly why Robson has been consistently benched, despite being one of our best players? Greenwood as well? I know Ray seems to prefer 4231,which may not suit Greenwood, but you'd have to fancy him for one of the attacking 3 slots? I'm hoping like hell that I'm right too, I like an away day at the seaside, but during the summer, not on a rainy Saturday in February. We are missing a bit of luck, but teams that are playing with confidence seem to make their own luck, so we'll probably need a win or two before anything starts falling for us. God help us all.