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Don't think we'll see more than 1 or 2 signings in January, and you'd expect a decent midfield addition would be the priority based on the recruitment approach in the summer. Hopefully that will free up Crawford to move (loan or transfer) and possibly a loan for Cornelius too. A renewal for Parker seems, eh, unlikely...

Unless cover is needed for a long term injury, I think the squad will stay fairly settled through January now.

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I noticed someone on Steelmen suggesting that they felt Lawless "didn't get much of a chance" under Alexander. That seems a pretty weird take IMO given the way Alexander treated the LC.

It's a fair point to say that he was limited by injury last season but in terms of this season he started 4 of our 5 league cup games (including the Airdrie and Dundee debacles).

It felt (to me at least) that those games were precisely "a chance" being given.

Looking at his record this season it seems like the Dundee LC game was the point at which Alexander decided the bold Steven wasn't for him.

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6 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

I noticed someone on Steelmen suggesting that they felt Lawless "didn't get much of a chance" under Alexander. That seems a pretty weird take IMO given the way Alexander treated the LC.

When he came in he ended up injured, then when he got in he looked unfit so I hoped he'd maybe catch up this season. However having been at the league cup group stage games I can confirm that he's suffering from a serious case of being fucking shite at football. 

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17 minutes ago, well fan for life said:

When he came in he ended up injured, then when he got in he looked unfit so I hoped he'd maybe catch up this season. However having been at the league cup group stage games I can confirm that he's suffering from a serious case of being fucking shite at football. 

He must be up there with Blyth in terms of level of dislike relative to his contribution.

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I was prepared to give Lawless another chance at the start of the season.

Ultimately though, he was average squad filler at best and not worth the baggage or shite attitude he comes with. After last season, I think we’ve all had quite enough of that sort of thing. 

Mind Robinson having quite a few digs about the attitude of some of his players early doors last year and it ended up plaguing most of our season. Alexander seems to have done a good job of weeding out said poor characters so I’m not surprised he’s emptied Lawless as well. 

Better off without. Just like Big Dec, Polworth, Long etc.. 

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The club are keeping this week’s attendance under 10,000.  Will this be a specific reduction of Celtic numbers or will they spread this ‘constraint’ across all 4 stands?

These games don’t usually breach the 10k mark, do they?

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The club are keeping this week’s attendance under 10,000.  Will this be a specific reduction of Celtic numbers or will they spread this ‘constraint’ across all 4 stands?
These games don’t usually breach the 10k mark, do they?

Seeing that there’s supposedly only around 150 tickets left for the home end according to the DR.

5,000 ST holders, 3,000 away fans, so have we sold 1,750 on top of that or have a lot of Celtic fans invested £30 to sit in the home end.
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16 minutes ago, ZX1886 said:


Seeing that there’s supposedly only around 150 tickets left for the home end according to the DR.

5,000 ST holders, 3,000 away fans, so have we sold 1,750 on top of that or have a lot of Celtic fans invested £30 to sit in the home end.

I hear we have reduced the allocation to away fans for this game. More for the home fans (Celtic fans in amongst the Well fans again). 

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Have we ever came close to selling out our end for a Celtic home game at any point in the last 10 years? I can't think of any reason for it other than Celtic fans buying up home end tickets.

I hope I'm wrong as I've bought tickets for the O'donnell Stand stand an cannot be arsed sitting amongst a load of Celtic fans.

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2 minutes ago, Richie said:

Aye, they'll only sell now if you have a customer ref and have purchased tickets directly from the club in the last 3 years.



 

Don't know how they get round it with the measures the club put in place, but you can guarantee there are always a good number of them in the home end. You can spot them a mile away, trying to blend in.

When any sit near me I like to try and engage them in conversation about us and watch them squirm and stammer when they've not got a fucking clue. Then I call them out as the horrible, home end infiltrating b*****ds that they are. If they persist in trying to keep up the pretence its also good to try and goad them into joining a good old bounce if we score.

Also seen many a literal kicking out in the past from some of the less hospitable members our support. Only themselves to blame if it happens, tbh.

A lot of 'Well fans usually stay away when the two Glasgow mobs are in town, mainly because they can't be arsed with the aggro they bring, and it will more often than not be televised. Hopefully the larger home support is actually just due to it being a Saturday at 3pm.

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21 minutes ago, beesher said:

Have we ever came close to selling out our end for a Celtic home game at any point in the last 10 years? I can't think of any reason for it other than Celtic fans buying up home end tickets.

I hope I'm wrong as I've bought tickets for the O'donnell Stand stand an cannot be arsed sitting amongst a load of Celtic fans.

As far as I know it's not that we've not nearly sold out every single seat in the home stands.  We've got a certain amount of home tickets available on top of the season ticket seats and there is 150 of them left. 

Back of a fag packet from what I've heard, to keep it under 10k:

5000 season tickets

+ 3500 (ish)away tickets*

+ less than 1500 extra home end tickets 

= Under 10k

* Haven't heard if we have indeed allocated the full south stand now given the new Covid restrictions being able to be relaxed. If we have it's 4500 and 500 extra home tickets. 

 

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