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If I was to hazard a guess, it's to placate tedious, repetitive dicks.

Again, why would an explanation be necessary, as the reason for not being offered a contract is blindingly obvious to the player and his family. You're just being a dick for the sake of it now.

It doesn't really, all it really says is that at an early age he showed some potential. To be fair though, you were far from being alone in salivating over him and voicing disgust at Dougie's decision not to offer him a contract, based pretty much solely on one (admittedly sublime) pass in a meaning less pre-season friendly.

Indeed, only a relatively small percentage of youth players in clubs at our level will go on to become full-time professionals. So when you're surviving on a shoestring budget, as of course we are, there is zero room for sentimentality. I'm sure it can't be pleasant telling a young lad he's being released, but better that than spending limited money and resources on him if there's little or no chance of getting a return on that investment. And if the lad is unlikely to make it as a full-time professional footballer, surely it's also better for him to be told that sooner rather than later, while he's still young enough to pursue another career or go into further education.

Why the fuck would he be expected to explain the blindingly obvious?

Totally agree, he's proved me an others wrong in the last couple of months. Fair play to him.

There's always a worry when someone comes back from a long-term injury that they might have lost something, but in Lewis' case if anything he's come back even stronger than before. I'm sure won't have gone unnoticed by other clubs, I will be very pleasantly surprised if we can hold on to him after January.

Got lo love Robbie's goal celebrations. Guy's becoming a true Ton legend.

MODS!!!!

Great to see Jai back on the bench, hopefully he'll get 20 minutes or so in the 2nd half

For those who for whatever reason can't make it to Cappielow, the game's available on ppv for a tenner.

I have also been led to believe that this is indeed the case

He won a handful of Scotland caps in the late 60s, if I remember correctly. He was with us right at the arse end if his career though, I think only as 2nd choice to Dennis Connaghan. Can't actually remember him playing for us, if he did it must only have been a few times.

Sorted

It also mentions that Reece Lyon has been appointed team captain, fair play to him.

He hasn't played since 21 January, so in fact it's almost 11 months

Absolutely shocking that we loan out our talented young players to get valuable game experience. Imrie obviously hates him, there can be no other possible explanation.

It would indeed be ironic if I was a football defender. But I'm not

Lewis McGregor scores again for Airdrie

Fair play to the commercial department getting a programme dedicated to us aired on Belgian telly tonight

Surely somebody at the club must have checked it, and given it the OK. It was the first thing I noticed about it. If the learning at the club is that more diligence is required when when approving any branding or merchandising related to the club, then that perfectly fine. That was the main reason for highlighting it in the first place.

It's not in itself a massive issue, but it's perhaps a sign of lack of professionalism that we thought we had left behind. Hopefully not and it's a one-off.

Oh no, I can be far, far duller than that

Just did a check to see exactly what the rules are in punctuating abbreviations in academic papers, and it specifically says.... 'If full stops are used, they should be added after all letters in an acronym or initialism, not just the last one (m.p.h., not mph.)' https://www.proof-reading-service.com/en/blog/punctuating-abbreviations-use-full-stops/#:~:text=If full stops are used,initialisms (U.S.A. and R.E.M.).

Surely there should also be a full stop after the C? Poor attention to detail.