veteran

Possibly not much suppose about it.

Can't see what difference where you train has much bearing on fitness levels or indeed skill levels. It's what you do at training that's the crucial factor.

"then maybe stuff on your own" There should be no maybe about it - unless of course a player has no weaknesses in his game. No one at Palmerston fits the no weaknesses description.

Most of the time McGuffie played in mid-field was as a wide mid-field player in a 4-4-2 formation which is a totally different ball-game from playing in the centre.

Thirty five years too late.

I'll be surprised if McPherson gets another significant managerial job. Football has moved on a lot but I don't think he has. I remember hearing stories allegedly coming from players a year past in December about a lot of unhappiness on the training ground and the dressing room. I think I posted then that we were going down if the manager stayed. That coincided with a rash of silly 'in Gus we trust' type posts. All the excuses about lack of resources were trotted out but the bulk of the current squad were at Palmerston back then and properly managed they could have survived in Div 1. When a manager however loses the dressing room (or a large part of it) a team is in real trouble. For that scenario there are only two solutions : a complete change of squad or the manager walks. The former was never a possibility and the latter unfortunately didn't happen.

A couple of mates who were St Mirren fans couldn't wait to see the back of McPherson and had doubts about his ability to do the job at Palmerston. In a league where 'everybody can beat everybody else' his philosophy of 'don't lose' was always going to be a disaster. With that approach you can't win games but you can still lose them. His rating of players was fairly amazing. Players like Simmons and Potter he rated highly while players like Craig Reid and McKenna he didn't. No wonder he lost the dressing room. I wonder if Davie Rae regrets keeping him in the job at the start of 2012. Had he been punted then I think we might at least have been in play-off position. All history now unfortunately.

But Levein played an attacking 4-6-0 formation unlike the McPherson 'park the bus' 4-6-0 formation. In all seriousness I would rate McPherson as one of the worst managers at Palmerston in over 60 years of following Queens and there have been a lot of contenders for that title.

Alan Preston's rating as a pundit has just become negative. Quote " there are still good managers out there without a job , like Jimmy Calderwood and Gus McPherson".

For me keeping the management team in place is probably the most important job.

After a season of torture under 'park the bus' McPherson , everybody at Palmerston is playing better. No surprise there.

McKenna and Young are far and away the best central mid-field pairing we have. They give us dominance in mid-field. So much so that against Arbroath in the second half Johnstone was able to switch to what was a very risky 4-2-3 formation and we blew the opposition away. I doubt we could have done that without either of them.

Will Rangers run out at all ?

In addition the SFL have to agree to release clubs to form an SPL 2.Either that or the clubs involved have to give 2 years notice. Any attempt to form SPL2 without the agreement of the SFL will result no doubt in protracted litigation and intervention by FIFA/EUFA which could result in severe sanctions for any associations complicit in the matter.

The SFL can get all of that by simply using the bargaining chip - Sevco in Div 3 or Sevco out of senior football. The former depends on changes to the league set-up. The latter would be a problem for the SPL and the SFA.

When will a spokesman for the SPL predict that if Sevco are not put into Div 1 , the world will end on Friday 13th June. That after all is the ultimate bogeyman. I continue to be amazed how apparently sane chairmen in the SFL believe in all these bogeymen. Most people grow out of that between 3 and 4 years of age.

It is frankly unbelievable that the SFL have not adopted the position that they will allow Newco into Div 3 , only if the SPL/SFA accept conditions they would propose. The SFL hold all the aces yet seem incapable of using them.

Were the peepul !!!

An official of Erededivisie Live , who televise Dutch Football , describes the much vaunted Sky deal as "paltry". Maybe instead of trying to gerrymander Newco into Div 1 to save Scottish Football , Messrs Doncaster,Regan and Longmuir might do better to enrol for a course offering an SVQ in negotiating proper TV deals.

You couldn't make it up - unless of course you are the sports editor of a publication that has spent it's whole existence trying to publish something true - and failing abysmally in the process.

I would love to believe that was the case. It certainly should be.

Voting proposals for Friday have been altered or removed then ? Proposal (ii) is clear and uneqvivocal as it stands.

The SPL clubs according to an article by the Morton chairman in todays Herald says the SPL were told by Regan that if Newco were admitted to the SPL the SFA would have applied a veto. Integrity never came into the equation hence the 'principled' stance by the SPL - bullsh*t of the highest order.

Could Stenhousemuir and Dumbarton afford to be sued for consequential to every SFL club if they left without 2 years notice. Could be two wee newco's in the making.

I suspect for many clubs , especially SFL clubs , the problem is not predicting the number of 'my club right or wrong' and 'I'll never go there again' fans. These are probably minority extremes. The majority of fans I suspect will become more disillusioned at the open corruption flaunted day after day and will become floaters. On a good day with nothing better to do they'll go to a game. On a cold dreich day , they'll find something better to do. SFL clubs have to decide by Friday what poses the greater risk : a possible sharp short term drop in income or a certain long term drop in income when large numbers of fans become less committed.