Archie McSquackle

I know it's highly unlikely we're going to sign KVV anyway but am I the only one thinking he possibly hit a purple patch with us and he's more likely to be the slightly off the pace, huffy bugger version?

Going by recent events (at other clubs as well, not just the Biereth rumours), it's looking like season-long deals aren't worth the paper they're written on.

I don't know how reliable The Star is but they also have other Championship clubs interested in that article. I didn't realise Biereth is London-born, just assumed he'd come over from Denmark at a young age.

Come on, you know that's not how it works

My memories of seeing Halliday is that he's quite good at scoring from late runs from midfield but not much of a midfield presence. Could be quite tidy with Spittal and Miller/Paton but we'd need Davor or Butcher to be doing a lot of donkey work behind them.

That's good to hear The one thing I'm taking from the Andy Halliday chat is I'm amazed the amount of people that say they listen to Super Scoreboard.

Didn't know he was into Harry Potter. He might have an appropriate scarf already I suppose.

You've certainly got a point. It would hopefully avoid the formation tombola through necessity but, as we saw in some of the recent games, we don't have subs to change things when the legs have gone.

Yeah, it's difficult not to get carried away with rumours when there's nothing else happening transfer wise. That's all they are at this stage - rumours. Biereth and Slattery.

Or they saw some of the games where we continually launched it over his head? There have been times when I've come out of games thinking 'Surely this isn't what Arsenal are looking for for his development '?

That's quite impressive actually. I suppose they hold all the cards and can do whatever they want.

I've read (well, listened to audiobooks in the car) the first 12 books and found the last two (this was from book 11) to be a downturn in quality. They are very formulaic anyway but there's a definite feeling of clues being presented when required as someone mentioned so i was surprised they chose this. I've not watched any of series 2 but will give it a go as I enjoyed the first series.

Did Arsenal not do something similar before with a player on loan at County who they recalled and loaned out to Hibs in January (presumably for more money)?

The club won't announce anything until there is something to announce. One of the normally trusted journalists (Burns or McGarry, can't remember which one) posted we had nothing to worry about regarding Biereth. We'll just have to wait and see.

An average of slightly over 3 fouls per game, I'm surprised it's not higher.

Incredible story and I'm amazed he's not more generally known. Considering it was obviously in the media at the time, it seems like a forgotten story. Also on iPlayer, I watched My Old School recently and still can't get my head round how it was all able to happen. I can remember it being in the news but couldn't remember the details. It's the story of a 32yo pretending to be school age to go back to school in Bearsden. Told through interviews with classmates and teachers, animation and Alan Cummings voice-syncing the guy's interview. Bonkers.

Was he the guy that supposedly didn't want to stay in Scotland?

Now you're talking. I don't think she's ever had a roll and mince.

Oops! You're right. Now, is a midweek trip to Pittodrie more or less romantic than Fir Park?

Now I need to persuade my wife that a trip to Fir Park is a romantic night out . Only joking tbh. Gave up on any pretence of romance years ago.

Wow. We've actually been paid money for Wilkinson.

Who is the young right-back we loaned to Stirling? Any word on how he's been doing? Would we recall him?

I saw him outside Firhill at lunchtime a few weeks ago and it took me a few seconds to remember where I recognised him from. I wouldn't be surprised to see him move on in January, clearly not in the plans.

My (sort of) uncle was governor there for a while. I took my grandparents to his funeral as my parents were on holiday but it was in Aberdeen so didn'tmake it to Peterhead. We stopped in Airdrie on the way back and my gran stopped Alex Salmond (he was canvassing for a by-election) and asked him if he knew any good tearooms. I didn't know where to look.

Due to a combination of Motherwell away games, work and cycling (for some of the more local on the list), I've been to all of those on that list but, as someone mentioned, some of the figures seem rather on date. I'm also confused by the complete omission of Coatbridge which I thought would be mid-ranking. On that list, the only place I've not been to is Peterhead - am I missing much? Generally, I've not seen much of the northwest of Scotland other than a trip up the A9 to Thurso many moons ago and a visit to Gairloch for a wedding and I've not visited many of the Borders towns like Melrose and Hawick. I need to get myself up to Dingwall for a game at County some day but I'm not bothered about many of the others.