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Keep the warchest primed, it's happening.

I for one btw would pay good money to watch Scott McLaughlin's wee, glaikit, rodent features twitch uncontrollably when Irons walks into the Stenhousemuir dressing room and empties him from the team again in favour of a six foot three hammer-thrower. What a terrible, wee shame this is for his final career prospects.

Gretna decided ‘to go in a different direction’ than Sir David halfway through last season and are sticking to that pledge right now by being sent spinning into the South of Scotland League, never to return. Sad!

I see that we're back to using anecdotal 'evidence' to desperately affirm that Belgium is something other than a boring, pointless bin of a country with a diddy league that nobody cares about.

TFS did not - Linfield were cruelly knocked out on away goals by Qarabag. Which is a terrible, wee, shame for them.

AEK make it four eliminations from four by slithering out at hated trans-Bosphorus opponents Trabzonspor. Tinpot league found.

Greece is making a fine bid this season: two of their entrants lost to Polish and Norwegian opponents early doors, and PAOK have just made it a third by getting papped out on away goals by Slovan Bratislava.

Wasn't bagged but rather left as he's joining the fire brigade, according to their junior (lol) thread on P and B. They don't seem too upset by that development though.

Why on earth would Millar agree to go on loan to some utter dugmeat nothing club like Alloa, Raith, Falkirk etc.? He’s here to finish his career, not to scrabble to keep it going for another few years.

Adding yet another attacking midfielder to this team would break football.

Get it right up that mercenary, Judas, badge-kissing snake Tidser.

Jonathan Page has signed for soon to be Highland League cannon-fodder Brechin City, also scoring for them in their most recent defeat last night.

Jim McInally leads his plucky, wee Peterhead side to a home defeat on penalties to a Highland League rabble two levels beneath them.

The fact that his ‘business empire’ is clearly a shadow, Walter Mitty claim is key here; if he turns out to be a nonce as well then that’s just gravy. Let him take over and let them fold.

100% and 71%. The Churzow badge is 'outdated' to say the least.

I'm sure Livingston will be delighted at receiving an actual transfer fee again for another batch of totally useless haddies.

I certainly agree that threats to rip up direct debits are hysterical tantrums of the worst kind.

Anyone mind the last time that we signed a bunch of cheap ringers in the summer, only to try and make good the damage later in the season by rummaging around the rejects' bin mid-season for replacements? The agreement between MCT and the club is already in place and payments have been taken. The most effective use of those funds involves the club acting now; I'm not demanding that we sign players tomorrow, but any additions should be made before this transfer window closes. Sitting on our hands for a few months and only diving into the notoriously bad January market is a recipe for disaster.

That the contribution rate will remain significantly above zero percent by August 2020 is an assumption that I'd be quite comfortable for both the club and MCT to make. So long as that is the case then whatever funds are pledged to this season's first team budget will find their way from the pledges to the club. The idea that the club should be sitting around to check how many individual DDs are coming through every month before doing anything in the transfer market is nonsense really. It is MCT's task to monitor that and to deliver the financial support that it has already committed to the club.

The club and MCT could agree to a set sum being transferred in each of the next twelve months; if there is any shortfall in that sum then the MCT can make it up through the ongoing contributions that it will receive from August 2020 (and so the leftover sum added to next season's budget is reduced instead). With a two year scheme in place and the short-term cashflow support of GC it's really not difficult to resolve that issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpYW_w5pgo 'Wright represented Northern Ireland 31 times as a player.'

That the club had so much money back then (relatively speaking) but squandered it all employing dud wasters like Keenan and that incompetent tool of a manager never fails to generate seethe. That period of perennial, 'glorious' failure from 2004 through 2007 did far more to leave the club where it is now than either the collapse of the previous season or all the terrible management of the last decade.

I think you've forgotten just how truly terrible Adam Coakley was, as that's not a valid comparison at all tbh.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dallas goes on to have a reasonable career, it's hardly damning that a 19 year old proved out of his depth when thrown into the Championship halfway through the season. Plus English football has a track record of taking even completely useless, haddy forwards from Scotland and making them look good in their dung setup (see Akins, Lucas - English League One stalwart and occasional Championship hotshot striker; also Clayton fucking Donaldson).

The terms of the deal are good enough and setting up the DD was surprisingly a piece of piss as well (makes you wonder why the club is using tinpot providers for its ticketing and online content instead).