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Taken us to the end of March to have a squad of players too big for the match day team.

In the 5-0 game Oakley could have played with both legs in plaster and still had our back line on toast. Suspect this game will be entirely different I think it will be more of a battle between him and our defenders if he's fit to play.

Fair play to everyone involved in this. Cracking stuff!

My last post in this thread was criticising Dundee Uniteds offering so I wasn't fishing at all. And PS it's a multi club forum.

2 I knew, yielding a miserable 3 for Friday.

Joint top of the league and still all about the pars. Quite sad really. Try enjoying yourself!

On the balance of things probably not...

Bringing American culture wars into a Scottish football forum. You do you champ!

Would be good to rename the post Head of baller creation Much more sensible than the current title.

Scottish football at it's finest, I thought Raith were being a bit tin pot moaning about reduced allocation in the Fair Play stand. But for United then not to back themselves selling out the ground for a top of the table clash is decidedly small time imo. Demand is clearly there get the tickets sold FFS.

Fair play to them. Suspect it will come down when they have loads of cars going past now to have a look at it.

7 for Thursday

Bingo! Poor man's brain has been turned to porridge.

Encourages them to commit a crime they can get away with.

0-0 suits me so happy to go for that.

Having had a flick through that thread reminds me why it don't go on there. Loads of folk conflating the training pitches with the academy which isn't helpful. The pitches should save money in the long run, unless they train at EEP then there are costs and time implications, once we have our own place we can train 24/7 365 if we do wanted, I would hope that would help players in recovery and the help develop younger players with more time on the training pitch. In terms of the academy, we have pretty much always had one, I don't think the FEFA model worked particularly well because most of the other clubs couldn't fund it. Obviously for pro youth the old firm Hearts, Hibs and Dundee United will probably be our main competition and will take the best youth prospects unless they have a tie to the club or can't commit to traveling outwith the west Fife area. I think the academy has been successful enough in the past for bringing through players that can play a part in our squad, it hasn't been so successful in making sellable assets which obviously needs work. Matty Todd probably the only significant asset currently in the squad from out academy. Whilst McCann may have some interest I don't think anyone is paying £100k+ for him currently. However if you have aspirations of top flight football then you have to have an academy to get the solidarity payments, so once there it would cost you £250k not to have an academy, and I get we aren't there nor are likely to be there next season and probably not for a while yet. But the investors clearly want to get to the top flight and if they want to pay for an academy and training site then I don't think it would be wise to dissuade them from it because hopefully long after they have gone both should still be working well.

You would have to have a pretty inept contractor to leave water in an undersoil heating system before concreting over the top of it. It is possible to have weather related postponements on an AstroTurf pitch but there are less of them than a grass pitch.

Nice of him to keep his Christmas lights up

Tbf elite level tennis like cycling a few years back is letting their stars take any drugs without having to leave the mainstream.

I got £100 from my gran. No idea what happened to it. Add me into the 100% inheritance tax club, maybe with a few exceptions for orphans under 25 and those with assets under £20k. Of course if you don't have a will and don't have family to make a claim, in bits of the country you're estate is taken in by our dear leaders Chuck, Wills and Andy.

7 for Wednesday

I don't think anyone has gone to the expense of laying under soil heating with an astro pitch, so yes.

Likes Simpsons memes and is probably middle class, in the immortal words of Meatloaf 2 out of 5 ain't bad. Open goal, like meatloaf are completely insufferable.

I think it points more generally to how poorly the SPFL and SFA run Scottish football. The SPFL would say they are run by the clubs which is technically correct but their is no obligation for the clubs nor the SPFL to involve fans in any decision making. The SFA don't even have the clubs arguement to make and yet have no obvious fan engagement. We are a quarter into the year and yet Supporters Direct Scotland still have "Happy New Year" as their lead article which doesn't feel very relevant. Yes we all make it difficult and the fans rarely unite but there is no one drawing it together to even attempt to have a unified voice. Aside from the fans, Airdrieonians and Ayr hold the Championship rep spots at the SPFL so any moves from those clubs would obviously carry more weight.

Wonder which one survived, the boy on the end has had three gins and not taken his glasses back which is poor form.