dunning1874

The email of 24 May had the following update: In my eyes that effectively acted as the update you're looking for? If it was indeed concluded a few days later I don't see the need for a further email confirming that, when the next update could come with something more substantive like the finalising of the agreement and/or a timeline for when MCT members will vote? I understand a concern about a vacuum with no updates, but I don't think that's what we have here really. For a comparison, when the MCT takeover was happening in 2021 they set a deadline of when the takeover was to be fully completed, didn't meet it and then we didn't get an update for weeks with the Tele then filling the vacuum. I don't see this as the same because the end of the due diligence period wasn't actually a deadline for anything to be completed.

22 appearances in 3 seasons, 20 of them coming between September & February last season before he broke down again in February and wasn't seen again. He was great for them in 22/23 but that's a long time ago now. We've already got injury prone players signed up in Wilson, Gillespie & Brophy with an offer made to MacPherson too, adding an attacking midfielder with an even worse injury record than all of them just seems too much of a risk.

Stenhousemuir have appointed Marvin Bartley. Hopefully goes as well as his previous jobs and they're a distant 10th, would be good to have the cushion.

Much better for having white shorts than blue, though it'd be better still if they were plain white without the blue side panel. The socks are quite ugly, but the top itself is a cracker.

We were signing what appeared to be dregs who'd flopped in League One four years ago and rejects from other Championship clubs but still had an excellent season with our highest points total in a decade. It is entirely possible for a good manager to build a competitive squad and get results, which is why we've been better on the park since fan ownership than we were in the decades of Golden Casket throwing money around and writing themselves an IOU. The club appointed a better manager. I am worried about this season and expect a relegation battle, but that's due to Murray's dreadful performance so far rather than it being impossible for any manager to get us competing.

Aye Ryan Mullen also hadn't played many games at Clyde and turned out to be terrific for us but we all know Mullen's fitness issues which were the reason he didn't play much there, and he was only there for a season after leaving Celtic. Kinnear has been at Clyde 3 years and was legitimately second choice there while being fit. He's clearly not going to be as good as Ryan Mullen so I hope and expect he's being signed as second choice to allow Murdoch to go on loan, with a first choice still to come.

I've never seen McLuckie play but if you're going to have some cheap gambles on teenagers being let go by Premiership clubs, on the face of it one who's just scored 8 goals in 17 games in League Two is about as good a pedigree as you're getting in that category. If we're making comparisons with previous young cheap signings to pad the squad out in the same position, that's more goals in considerably fewer games at a higher level and younger age than Zak McKay.

That'll be Gillespie, he's on 142. Hope Murray is going to be a bit more realistic about what you can get from him at 35 and isn't expecting him to start every game.

The absolute brass neck of that big lump to expect Morton to be chasing after him when he was consistently hopeless.

Considering that something like "big chances" can only be a subjective measurement and a stat like that is considerably less likely to be accurate for our level of football than the Premiership, hence the discussion about the credibility of "fotmob", probably the only way we could really make a reasonable judgement of this would be someone sitting through the highlights of all 36 games, seeing how many missed sitters there were for how many chances were missed and which player it was who created them for judging which players have been unlucky with their teammates' finishing. Even then you'd be relying on the editing of the highlights to actually include everything that could be considered, and the subjective opinion of the person watching it on what constitutes a big chance. Above all else, even a statto bore like me frankly cannot be arsed with the extensive effort that would take just to find out that Moffat and Garrity would have 5 more assists each if Adeloye and Main weren't shite.

The East Fife game is also clashing with a World Cup semi-final, to really add to the appeal. Another example in Fife as well, as we've had previously with Dunfermline and Raith, of a train schedule where a 7:30 kick-off would allow making it back to Inverclyde by train and 7:45 doesn't.

Absolutely terrific news. I could make flippant jokes about him demanding a never playing at centre back clause in his contract, but it's surely not out of the question that he's had a conversation with Murray about wanting to play in midfield and been happy with the answers he had. The thought of a fit Iain Wilson in midfield makes the season ahead a lot less scary, we've seen already how big a difference he makes to results.

Easf Fife away on a Tuesday really adds to the thrill of this draw.

The thing with giving Moffat a pass because everyone else is missing chances he creates and poor finishing from other players isn't his fault is that the same could be true in reverse. How many more assists might Garrity have had in the last two years if it wasn't for Moffat's own poor finishing? Ultimately none of them have done enough.

If it follows the usual format they've always had of home/away based on seeding, that's St Johnstone & East Fife away and Inverness & Linlithgow at home. Two boring away games that we've had recently and the worst possible pot 3 opponent for our chances of progression. Season ruined already, sack the board for not showing the ambition to get a better cup draw, sell to Angelo Massone.