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From what little I have seen of Davies, he seems to be a bit out of his depth. I'm reserving judgement until I've seen more of him but from what I've heard from others he's not really up to it (we've had similar strikers before within living memory) but if Dougie thinks Reynolds is a better option to bring on then it doesn't point to Davies improving the team much. However we'll see, and if Davies doesn't get game time then we can all draw our own conclusions. It's a pity, because these two signings gave us some hope of building a decent squad and we actually have that apart from when we get to the opposition penalty area. I hope Dougie is about to announce a decent loan signing to add the missing ingredient. We have a decent squad apart from that one flaw.

I'd love to know whose decision it was to sign Reynolds. Did they make the decision on a video of that one goal against Ipswich? He just seems to lack the basic qualities expected of even an amateur footballer. He's supposed to be fast, but I've yet to see him outrun anyone. I can't understand what marked him out as a player for us to sign. Given the club chairman seems to have another role as a player agent, surely that's not been allowed to influence any of our own signings? That would be a massive conflict of interest and I think would require the chairman to be removed from his post. I really am at a loss to understand what process we go through before a player is offered a contract. I can't really comment on Davies yet as I haven't actually seen him do anything and he even seems to be behind Reynolds in the pecking order. And still the wait for a striker goes on...

I’d love to see Fred back at Cappielow. Especially if he turned down Ayr to sign for us. We need the best players we can get. Although not sure another midfielder would be Imrie’s priority. But if it needs Broadfoot punted to free up funds, it’s a yes from me.

Yes, I intend to, as my last sentence says. Just seems a bit daft to require a minimum £5 spend. Never had a similar problem at away games.

I would have bought an irn bru but they insisted it had to be poured into a paper cup so I declined. Takes 2 hands to eat a pie when it’s in a wee foil container and I don’t have 3 hands. I’ll remember to bring cash next game.

Also regarding catering. I tried to pay £3:50 for a steak pie but I had forgotten there is a minimum £5 spend before you can use anything other than cash. I ended up just not having a pie as I had no cash. Given I can buy stuff for under a pound in Tesco using my phone with no problem, what’s the problem here?q

Do the new season tickets not get added to last year's physical card? I don't think I asked for a new card this years as I just use my phone, but it would seem daft to be asking for extra every year for a new plastic card.

Just checked the website and there is a link to "passes" where they used to sell a streaming pass (think it was about £150 for the season for league matches) but there's nothing on there at the moment - maybe email the club and ask as they've probably just forgotten about it. For the games so far that have been streamed on a pay as you go basis, they are not usually added to the website until shortly before the game.

There seem to be streams for all the games so far, so I would assume that will continue. No commentary, just the basic stream, and presumably they're doing it anyway for use at training so it's not costing anything extra to produce.

They narrowly missed promotion last season. Despite that, Murray gets emptied after just one league defeat to a team that may well be challenging near the top of the division. That doesn't suggest any job security and probably unrealistic targets set that need to be met or the new manager's toast as well. Delusions of grandeur is spot on.

Incidentally there was a listing somewhere recently that showed how long every club manager had been in post. There were a couple who had done the job for several years (one for 12 years I think) but they were from small lower league clubs. Apart from them, Dougie was the longest serving manager in the entire 4 division league set-up.

I think Raith wuld be a bit of a poisoned chalice, but money talks.

Ridiculous to allow QP to gerrymander the fixtures like that.

I thought it was an open training session, not an open day?

That really is gilding the lily somewhat. I liked Bearne as he represented something more than hoofball, but like so many players he clearly didn’t reach Dougie’s standards. I wish him well, but to say he was a key player is just not true. And does that 30 appearances include being on the bench & not used?

Whatever the reason for the 6 month contract, it probably makes sense. If he turns out to be any good, I'm sure he would agree to an extension. If he's shite, he's gone by January. I'm prepared to trust Dougie's judgement on this one, and I think we all agree we had to do something without further delay. Maybe everything will click into place now. Would still like to hear that Grimshaw is joining us though.

Sounds like a very Imrie sort of target.

Need to make sure we turn them over in that opening fixture.

With the number of players leaving and being replaced with newcomers, there's bound to be some doubts until we actually see the team in competitive action. I agree that Davies is crucial at least until we get an Oakley replacement to complement him; also Reynolds seems to be more wide player than a striker despite that TV goal which was a superb finish. My only real concern though is that in friendlies against league 1 teams, we have only scored three goals, albeit it's three wins. I take from that that it will take a bit of time to become ruthless clinical finishers. it's probably the case that we're not at peak fitness yet and there will be a degree of misundertsanding between the players. However Dougie has acted decisively during the close season and if we trust him, we should also trust his judgement. Personally I know absolutely nothing about any of the new players but look forward to seeing them in action once the practising is over and the real action begins.

I have a feeling that Muirhead, Crawford & maybe even Oakley might all turn out to be big disappointments for their new clubs.

Was Nouble not a hot property not that long ago? Not sure his position but the name rings a bell.

Just no. He was terrible, not just needing a preseason.

Ridiculous to demonise an entire profession on the basis of a few perceived situations that were almost certainly done on instructions from above. These people were risking their lives dealing with a virus that, at least in the early days, was an unknown quantity with no known cure - all they could do was try to treat the symptoms and the effects of the virus. I was told by the doctor in the ICU ward that I was in that they had no information to inform them of what to do, so it was really trial and error. At the time, PPE was in short supply and staff were taking huge risks to help their patients, and isolation was one of the ways of trying to reduce the spead. maybe your experience is based on the uSA which seems to be a fairly vicious society where life is cheap if you're not hugely wealthy, but certainly in Scotland, the nursing profession worked like trojans to help their patients, with some of the staff dying themselves from infections caught in the course of their work. Your take on this is frankly ludicrous. Maybe aim your ire at your eponymous presidential pal Donald who didn't exactly cover himself in glory with his rantings during the pandemic.

Take it he's a midfielder then? Maybe the replacement for Crawford?

That really looks like a left field signing. Looks like we're trying to improve the attack. George? George Who?