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I'd replace him with Christie or Maloney, both are better through the middle.

It's straight out of Mark McGhee's "it's nae my fault, whit do you expect me to do?" book of shite excuses.

Tommy Wright happily saying that every team in the EL qualifiers are better technically than his team. I'd be embarrassed if he was our manager coming out with stuff like that.

He fairly fucked up there, turning down a 3 year contract with Hibs and ending up at the Pikeys.

Rightly or wrongly, the bottom line is that the club's revenue is going to be reduced because the people at the club who are paid to maximise merchandising revenue failed to predict that a blue away kit would not be popular with the majority of our supporters. The fact that we may have worn a blue away kit before most of our supporters were born doesn't make it any better of an idea. A plain generic white kit straight out of the Adidas team wear catalogue would sell better than this, it just doesn't make any sense that it would get to the stage of it being produced and stocked without someone along the chain of approval asking "are you fucking mental?"

They can't meet Norwich's asking price of £1.2m for Graham Dorrans which is in the ballpark of what I'd want for McLean. They keep offering less money payable in installments, and there's no way I'd be giving them fuckers credit terms. If he has to go there, it's money up front or no deal. And even if they weren't insolvent, we shouldn't be helping our direct rivals better manage their budget while they take one of our best players.

Jesus Christ

Andrew Shinnie struggled to get a game for Hibs in the 1st Division, not sure that makes him good enough for us.

I don't think it's Souness. To be the biggest Hun, you'd need to view being a Hun as the pinnacle of your career and hang around them like a bad smell for the rest of your days despite not having any employment connection to them. Souness didn't hesitate to fuck off to Liverpool and doesn't really involve himself in giving sound bites to the Daily Record on the latest shambles going on inside Snake Mountain. Detestable cunt but easily out-hunned by John Brown and Andy Goram who tick every box, especially the looking like a Hun box.

Just what you want on your first day, your new boss telling everyone about your weaknesses.

I wouldn't touch Stevie May unless it was a loan deal with a fixed price 1st option to buy. It's at least 2 years since he's shown any kind of good form. As he's failed at 2 English clubs (as harsh as that may sound) I don't think he'll have any kind of resale value in the same way that there's been very little interest in Adam Rooney despite his scoring record for us. If we had signed Rooney direct from ICT and he had the same scoring record, English Championship clubs would have been banging on our door with 7 figure offers.

Kazakhstan or Bosnia. Home in first leg.

The match in Belfast is on the day they march to celebrate the Battle of the Boyne.

Risky move paying that much when he's been out for a long time with a serious injury and has barely kicked a ball in anger either side of the injury.

On the flip side, Hibs are coming up needing to strengthen in a few areas and have money to spend and Hearts are also needing to replace half a team and also have money to spend. With not too dissimilar wage budgets, better training facilities and with Edinburgh being more attractive as a place to live for most people with no ties to the north east, we may struggle if we're competing in the same market for players that are proven up here but surplus to requirements for their English teams.

Was he not referring to the stories that McLeish has been on the bottle for the last couple of years? Any time I've seen him on TV lately he's looked like a wreck.

Eric Black was unfairly implicated in that bribery thing. If I remember correctly Southampton did a comprehensive investigation and found no wrongdoing so unsuspended him.

I'd rather he stayed injury free and played every minute of every game as they once again finish in our shadow in every single competition they play in. That way he'll have no excuses to hide behind for being an ordinary component of an ordinary team and will be obvious to all why the big move to England that he was expecting never came close to happening.

He played in most of their games, but the vast, vast majority of appearances came off the bench, 15 minutes here and there.

Taking McGinn off was the right thing to do. Sending O'Connor on wasn't. We needed to maintain width, they were playing McGregor as a makeshift left back and the only time we pressured him was when Hayes stole the ball from him for the horror show miss with McLean. Rooney ended up covering that area of the pitch where he's completely ineffective. We lost our counter attacking ability there and then. I may be alone but I think McLean is more to blame than Hayes for the miss. He should have halted his run to give himself a bigger angle to receive the ball and give Hayes a static target to pass the ball to. Hayes was expecting him to stop running but he kept going. Either way, McLean should be responsible for pointing where he wanted the ball to be played.

They'd be signing our 3rd best central midfielder (after Shinnie and McLean). I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Having said that, I'd rather we got McLean tied up to a long term contract before the new season kicks off considering we paid a hefty (for us) sum for him.

Interesting that the story on the BBC site makes it sound like McInnes is having an unprovoked rant at Rangers.

According to the BBC gossip column we've turned down the extra 1500 tickets and Celtic will now get a bigger allocation. Not sure I understand the logic there.

The Sigma thrashing was more a result of playing Stuart Duff and Derek Young in central defence.