craigkillie

Bell was a Killie youth product, was with us for a decade, won a trophy with us and was a very popular player. O'Donnell was also popular and played the last time we were in Europe, it's hardly like they've picked a couple of guys who were with us for 5 minutes.

I'm sure I saw that Weir was back in training, so surely there's a chance she'll be available for these, which would be massive. No idea about Watson, think she is a bit further away.

The Welsh league runs at the same time as us, they don't play summer football. The reason smaller Scottish teams have struggled in qualifying rounds is more about losing a fair chunk of the team that was successful the previous year and then not having their replacements in place yet. That's not been a problem for us, and wasn't for McInnes at Aberdeen either, and they generally got through their ties against smaller clubs. For every example of a Scottish team losing to a smaller summer league team, you can also find an example of them losing to a smaller winter league team (as you have in your post above) and also of them beating fairly decent summer league teams (eg St Johnstone & Hearts v Rosenborg).

An absolute disgrace that Israel are being allowed to compete here, given that Russia and Belarus have explicitly been banned because of their involvement in the war in Ukraine.

Personally don't really think he was overhyped at all, he is an exceptional talent who has already proved himself capable of playing at the top level despite being in a role where players tend to peak a fair bit later. The likes of Xavi, Pirlo, Modric, which is the style of metronomic passing midfielder he is, all flourished much later in their careers. For him to have 30 caps for Scotland and nearly 100 games in the Premier League/Europe having just turned 23 is an excellent start to his career, particularly given that he had one major injury and a fairly unpleasant off-field experience.

OK. No idea who you are but thanks for your concern.

They do a radio show, that was a TV show, I don't see how the two are connected. Cowan had his own TV show at one point and as much as it had its moments I wouldn't say it was exactly a roaring success. No idea how good the Smart and Compston thing was because I didn't watch it, partly because I was in Germany for a lot of the time, and partly because I don't really find either of them likeable or worth watching.

He played a full 90 minutes in just 14 league matches last season, and that's in a team that usually dominate possession. His fitness is clearly his biggest issue, but is also something that will come with time.

It's part of Spain, why shouldn't it be able to host games?

The decision to play at Hampden came from the players. You could understand it but in hindsight I don't think you could argue that it has worked. Obviously the team being fairly terrible in that period hasn't helped either, but maybe the results from this campaign and the buzz from the play-offs could help. I hadn't actually realised the play-offs were both two-legged, that is hopefully good news for us, I had thought we'd be guaranteed an away final if we got through which I wouldn't have fancied us in.

The world doesn't revolve around cars.

The Gretna stuff was when you were buying your way through League 2, and to an extent League 1, with a full-time squad that the club size clearly couldn't support. There's no suggestion that's what's happening now. I also went to great lengths to note that lots of your fans were skeptical and critical, but there were also many being very obnoxious about any suggestion that Simon Murray wasn't simply playing in the seaside leagues for the love of the game.

From the outside looking in it seems to me that it's possible Haughey has been basically working on behalf the SFA all along, and that Queen's Park have just been a pawn in that. He appears to have secured them the ownership of Hampden, and a handy nearby training ground, and is now making sure they get the maximum possible rental income too. In fairness, unlike some other fanbases, there have been a lot on here who have been critical of how the club has been run since the start, and I sympathise massively with those. On the other hand, I think the ones lapping up the Southside Gretna act might have a big fall coming soon. Hopefully the club gets through it all and still ends up with a ground to play at too.

They always do that with their youth tournaments, and it's definitely a big part of why most people in Europe don't really pay much attention to them.

Let's just decide the entire cup by penalty shoot-outs, no need to play actual football at any point.