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Am I right in saying that Shug had a spotty injury record before he got here? At our end of the market something has to give, be it injury record, ability, age, whatever. I'm personally happy with this and hoping for the best.

Depends. if the lack of progress is due to one side 'ghosting' it and it dying on the vine, I'd want us to withdraw sooner rather than later so that we can start thinking in other directions. If the lack of progress is purely on the outside and there are in fact things moving behind the scenes, and the end outcome will be what we have voted for (a portion of the club's equity sold for 750k and integration with Estrella platform and staff) then I'd be fine waiting months if we had to.

For a shanner of a team like Stranraer set tickets for a fiver.

I love tops with tons of logos so I have many from Central America in my collection, because they plastered them on everywhere. We should have more.

Presumably on a scholarship. Good luck to him.

Dunga McClung, Logan O'Boy.

Not sure I approve of the name "Bobby McLuckie", it's the kind of name you'd give a scrappy hero in an adventure story for 10 year olds.

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I really hope we offered deals because we were contractually bound to do so (after X appearances or something) rather than Murray thinking he knows how to use them.

20 grand is fine if we rate him. If he's coming from a lower level he probably has a lower signing-on fee than an experienced player.

Frankie Deane's available.

Filip Stuparevic signed for IBV in the Icelandic top flight about a month ago. He's yet to score a goal in two starts and three sub appearances and his team is bottom of the league with one point after seven games, 6 goals scored, 20 against. He's probably on decent money there but still, bit of a shanner to drop to what's probably League One standard at best and to play for a team likely to get relegated. I wonder if IBV actually train on Vestmannyaejar (the islands off the south coast that they represent and where they play their home games) or if they're based in Reykjavik. Reykjavik is a great city, pound for pound one of the best in the world for culture, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in Iceland as an expat.

They'll both absolutely stroll that division. Although it'd be funnier if this was the start of a five-year exile like Falkirk, I don't think it will be.

I mean there's no real principle as to why championship team should get it if we're being honest, UEFA gives it to non-qualifiers to try to even the playing field a little versus those clubs with prize money, and that doesn't apply to us.

It's a "non brainer", Murn doon. Yes they'd probably thump us but it's a bit of extra money in the bank for us versus having no derbies, and more importantly it'll take them down a peg after their recent successes.