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Sean Crighton is the interim assistant at Queen's Park, with Steven MacLean in interim charge.

Going from Davidson to MacLean says they can continue the St Johnstone trajectory and appoint Levein next.

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Stephen Welsh is currently on loan at Mechelen from Celtic. I got chatting with a Mechelen fan today, and it's fair to say he isn't super impressed with him. He asked what he was like during his time with us, but as he left us before Covid and live match streaming I really couldn't say. Was he any good?

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10 minutes ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:

Stephen Welsh is currently on loan at Mechelen from Celtic. I got chatting with a Mechelen fan today, and it's fair to say he isn't super impressed with him. He asked what he was like during his time with us, but as he left us before Covid and live match streaming I really couldn't say. Was he any good?

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2 hours ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:

Stephen Welsh is currently on loan at Mechelen from Celtic. I got chatting with a Mechelen fan today, and it's fair to say he isn't super impressed with him. He asked what he was like during his time with us, but as he left us before Covid and live match streaming I really couldn't say. Was he any good?

He was very raw and played mainly out of position at fullback, but no, he wasn't great.

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He was terrible, but that was almost entirely down to Hopkin playing him at right back because we didn't have one (having loaned Tumilty out) so spent the first half of the season rotating between Welsh and Jacobs there. He had two appearances at centre back, once moving there in the first half after an injury to the starting centre back and once starting in the middle of a back three.

In both those games he strolled through it with cigars out, I reckon he'd have been great if we'd actually played him in his real position.

Incidentally we haven't had a loanee from Celtic since. Even though it was entirely down to Hopkin being an idiot rather than the culture of the club or anything, they were apparently so annoyed by our misuse of him that they decided we were cut off as a destination for their loanees. Somewhat ironic when Celtic have done far more to harm Welsh's career, hanging onto him to play about 10 games a season to the age of 25 because they can use him as a homegrown player to pad out their European squad.

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Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake

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Seems as though no one gets as many players on loan from Celtic anymore. Either they’d rather their young talent languish in a mediocre lowland league “B” team or clubs at our level just aren’t enticed by teenagers that have proven to be mediocre at lowland league level, this season being the first they’ve actually done quite well. 

Can’t say I’m devastated over it, for every Jamie Lindsay there’s a Luke Donnelly.

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21 hours ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:

Stephen Welsh is currently on loan at Mechelen from Celtic. I got chatting with a Mechelen fan today, and it's fair to say he isn't super impressed with him. He asked what he was like during his time with us, but as he left us before Covid and live match streaming I really couldn't say. Was he any good?

I assume he’s playing centre back for them?
Like others have said, my memories of him are that he got consistently torn apart at right back. Looked much better when filling in at centre back despite not being the biggest, so was inevitably punted back out to right back at the earliest opportunity. The whole loan was a total waste of everyone’s time. 

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2 hours ago, Chicken_Soup said:

I assume he’s playing centre back for them?
Like others have said, my memories of him are that he got consistently torn apart at right back. Looked much better when filling in at centre back despite not being the biggest, so was inevitably punted back out to right back at the earliest opportunity. The whole loan was a total waste of everyone’s time. 

I'm surprised he has had the career he's had since. Although he was played out of position, it didn't even look like he had the basics to be a professional footballer. 

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Mark Russell signs for two more years at Stranraer.

McGhee needs some support, there's no-one backing him up.
Hayes playing it forward, Bell being forced to do it all alone, now forward from Marr, here's Ritchie, still Andy Ritchie, look at the control...

That is a marvellous goal from Andy Ritchie. Twenty minutes on the clock and Morton's supporters come alive. A goal which epitomises the control, the arrogance, the cheek of Andy Ritchie.

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