RicoS321

2-0 County. I like County, but it'd have been nice to see Raith up for a wee shotty.

Leverkusen must have some keeper.

Jack is there as a sympathy vote for playing in the qualifiers, I expect he'll be gone from the 26. Souttar was in the squad when he was with hearts and I guess when the choice is Cooper not playing for his club, Hanley not playing for his club, or Souttar, it's swings and roundabouts. At five years younger than the other two, he's probably more justified.

Pish. They could have done that in two passes.

I tend not to offer advice on many things, but I think that you should perhaps reassess this part of your life.

Don't think this has been mentioned elsewhere, but the club are looking to extend his contract. Been a great signing, with a fantastic goal return. As I said, not mentioned anywhere else but this dedicated McGrath thread.

That's the sort of lazy attitude that leads us to discussing former St Mirren players on two separate threads.

It's been in the other transfer news thread for a day, it's old news. Next you'll be telling us about a general election. In the Scotland squad thread.

There should be a different thread for this type of news.

Christ, his agent does seem to have undersold him a bit. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they're another side that has been bought by large pocketed foreigners or whatever. I have to admit, he didn't impress that much last time we played them, compared with the previous meeting, but he still seemed to be a midfielder that covered a lot of ground, which is what we'll need. Anyway, once Barron signs a new four year deal, we'll quickly forget about him.

I expect Jack is there because Clarke is loyal to his players. I expect that him and Kelly will drop out of the 28. I'd also probably have Souttar ahead of one of Hanley or Cooper (we've actually got seven centre backs, as Tierney will definitely be playing left of the three). Clarke does seem to have a tendency to let his squads get a bit stale because of his need to remain loyal to those that played in qualifying. Surely Doig in for one of the centre backs, Barron in for Jack and Johnson in place of one of the goalkeepers would have aided the transition. I expect we'll see quite a few not play again after this tournament, without having featured, or only minimal minutes on the park.

I thought Tierney was honking anytime he played right back previously. It was like playing with a man down. Maybe he's improved, but I'd probably stick with Ralston or McRorie. I'd normally agree about guys who aren't playing, but I'd make an exception for a young player coming through (like we did with Gilmour). I'd forgotten about Stewart, might be a good shout. We just have very little depth and nothing different coming off the bench. Armstrong and MacLean are okay in qualifiers against poorer opponents, but they're probably not going to swing a game against the Germans with some dazzling bit of footwork. The BBC mentions that Tommy Conway has scored 12 this season for Bristol, so might as well take him and McRorie so they can share travel expenses.

Disgusting article on the BBC regarding the squad to be announced tomorrow. No mention at all that Dons legend Nicky Devlin is a right back who isn't doing anything else this summer. I'm assuming it'll be Ralston, and maybe McRorie. The squad looks a little lacking though and I can't help but think we're going to need a surprise inclusion or two to give us something off the bench. Assuming that none of the English losers are going to suddenly manifest their Scottishness, I'd be inclined to throw Doak in. He looks a little bit off first team level, but he may just provide something when we need it with his direct running. It's also a good way to introduce him into the squad for future campaigns. When you look at the defenders in the squad, do we really need all of McKenna, Cooper and Hanley (the latter two didn't make their sides for the recent playoff)? Clarke values loyalty, of course, but at what point does that bridge into Craig Brown territory of resisting continuous squad development?

Yesssssssss. Bottom six champions. What a season

Unlucky from MacDonald, definite red. Think there was probably a foul on Devlin, but would have been soft. Random subs from Leven there like, a right sided centre back on for MacDonald and the hardworking Duk on when we go down to ten.

Another good goal, great run from Sokler and did the right thing just squaring it. Slightly lucky touch from Hoilett, but a great cutback for McGrath for another assist. Eleven goals for McGrath is a fantastic return.

Sokler. He's really good in the air like. Well played by Barron.

Great start. MacDonald on the left isn't going to be the answer. Murray an intriguing prospect....

Probably had bird flu.

Interestingly, Austin Samuels is actually Gaelic for Shayden Morris.

0-2 to accies now. ICT needing three. Much as I like to see a team from the North doing well, I do like the fact that Duncan disorderly is failing miserably at management. The number of times he was touted for us despite having zero experience was fucking annoying. Nothing against the guy like, just hopefully put people off suggesting guys like that in the future, based on nothing more than being a name, or hard, or takes no shite or the myriad of other reasons.

Legendary Don, Ngwenya on again for Patrick.

Elitist pish. If Raith win the playoff then they'll rightfully bring their plastic pitch up. There are too many honking grass pitches in the top flight to even contemplate having a ban on plastic. Obviously, I'd rather see games on grass, but plastic makes sense for a whole host of teams in the SPFL for various reasons. Livingston's pitch seemed worse, but I reckon that they regularly gamed it by under or over watering, just the same as letting the grass grow or narrowing the lines. Most Scottish pitches are bobbly tattie fields come November anyway, which nobody seems to consider when wondering why all Scottish goalkeepers' kicking goes to shite for six months (wind, also). Roos and Shamal Dode for Livi weren't even playing on grass at the weekend either, they were playing on a shitey patch of sand.

I counted 24 at one stage. Think there was maybe 10 by full time. Fair play to them like given their team had clearly chucked it.

Fucking Captain's Call? The only reason that shite would get anywhere is because of sunk cost fallacy. People are too scared just to accept that they were wrong and ditch it. Don't like our failed system? We'll take in even more rules just to make it slightly less shite. Of course, we'd then need to take in another rule to prevent players other than the captain speaking to the ref, lest they cloud his judgement and he is seen to be asking for a review just because he was shouted at. What's that ref? You asked for a review of a Tim's goal but not a Hun one? But there was a push in the build up. We must move back to checking all incidents, before this costs someone the league. And money. Don't forget money. The most important part of football. I'm not sure what you're talking about with the 7 tenths of a second thing, but surely the one thing that VAR has taught us, is that people who look onside aren't always onside and there is no possible way that everyone in the stadium can tell if someone is on or off in a marginal call.