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If we'd done the sensible thing last summer and signed him on loan instead of spunking £400k on him, how many people think we would have followed that up and paid cash for him this summer? It was an incredible risk and it doesn't really look like paying off.

I’d be surprised if we bought a target man, that’s Cosgrove’s role. You should never go full-Levein.

The importance of those attributes is diluted somewhat when that is a striker’s only attributes.

I would like to think that over the last 5 years or so that we have evolved from being a team that has a striker in the starting 11 on the basis that he “puts himself about” and “holds the ball up well”. I haven’t seen anything from Cosgrove that suggests his role should be anything more than taking over the “we’re out of ideas, let’s thump the ball up to the big man for the last 10 minutes” role that Ash Taylor previously occupied.

Who scored our goals?

Seems sensible to me. Did well at Dumbarton, not so well at Falkirk. Now he’s a couple of years older, a whole season playing in the SPL will either show him up as not being good enough or cement his position as the successor to Lewis. If he is to be our future first choice keeper then we need him to get as many top league games under his belt as we can until the time comes for him to take over. He’s not going to progress sitting on the bench for another season.

At least it’ll be a cracking battle in the streets if the Russians get past Croatia.

Maybe so but I have a feeling that if Celtic offered Christie to us for £500k and he was keen to sign, we’d find the cash.

Not sure if we have anything left in the pot for transfer fees but Chris Cadden has a year left in his contract so could be available relatively cheaply. That would be an exciting signing worth pushing the boat out for.

It certainly wasn’t us either unfortunately.

Hamilton signed Ziggy Gordon who plays the same positions as this McGowan guy. Hamilton don't seem to be the sort of team that doubles up on players in each position.

Jack Ross gives Chris Maguire a 2 year contract at Sunderland in addition to the Hearts goalie and ex-Hearts defender Alim Ozturk. I hope he knows what he's doing filling his team with mediocre SPL players.

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Apparently our group is: Atalanta AZ Alkmaar Burnley Zalgiris Vilnius Molde/Glenavon

Is that Japanese keeper the guy who was old and shit for the pikeys?

Cove v Cowdenbeath should be tasty.

I particularly like the “Snug Bar” advert sellotaped to the socks, dead classy that.

New home strip is a banger:

Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse.

Not sure how they can send off Logan and do nothing with Boyata who throws a ball at him twice, goes after him about 3 times, and Lustig (I think) who seems to stick his head in Logan's face. Hopefully we'll send a letter to the SPFL asking for "clarification".

They target him because he had the audacity to be racially abused by one of their players. Get it right fucking up them. Shay

What happened there at the end with Logan? Thomson looked like he was cumming in his pants at being able to send him off. Brown's a fucking mink, McLean should have gone out on a high and taken the troglodyte out. Shinnie should have stuck one on him at the end too.

Lewis Logan O’Connor Reynolds Considine Ball Shinnie Stewart McLean GMS Cosgrove That’s the starting 11, I’m guessing the shape. If we’re going to lump long balls up to Cosgrove all afternoon, it’ll be a walk in the park for the Celtic defence. They’ll be out to get to him after his tackle on Quasimodo last time.

Finishing 2nd by beating Celtic would be a nice way to wrap up the season. Finishing 2nd by relying on Hibs to beat Rangers at home, something we couldn’t do, would still keep us in a state of optimism deprivation. Finishing 3rd will cost us £500k and will impact on our budget for next season. Hopefully we avoid that.

Celtic could well play a reserve team and never get out of first gear. McInnes would still have us camped on the edge of our own box just to be on the safe side.