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Yeah, his refusing to play for Bournemouth at the end of the season has put a lot of potential suitors off him. I'll be amazed if it turns out he's pulled out of this squad because of a lack of fitness.

I could not disagree with these more. Holt was our best player IMO. Their 2nd goal was Fitz getting pulled out of position rather than Bartley being slow.

And then he goes and does that. Holy shit did not expect.

Fitzwater flatters to deceive yet again. That second goal can be shown as a quintessential 'what happens when your centre backs get pulled out of position' example.

For some reason we just can't beat Aberdeen. Even last year at home we utterly pummelled them for 90 minutes and lost 2-0. 2-0 Aberdeen

Holt's been chatting about Stokes:

Interesting. Released by a 4th tier German side doesn't exactly suggest a great pedigree. Serrano looks like a decent signing though. Let's see how they do.

Without Dykes around, I'd have 2018 Dolly as my first choice striker in our current system. Hamilton has potential but is raw, I still don't think SAL was a good signing at all and Poplatnik hasn't had time to shine yet.

Pepe ended up being a disaster of a signing, but there will always be a place in my heart for Dolly. Epitomised the chaosball we played when we first got promoted. Utterly loved him in that first year, and I'm disappointed that he clearly hasn't been into it since.

Ooft, I hope that's not true. The voluntary donations fund seems to be doing reasonably well, but income would be horribly low if those numbers were true. Hopefully the PPV numbers are doing ok to make up for it, but I wouldn't bet on that either. The uncertainty doesn't help either - I don't live in the area any more although I'd have bought a season ticket if it were confirmed that the virtual tickets were available all season. Alas not, so I'm paying the PPV every week. Hopefully numbers start to look a lot better from September 14th when stadiums are allowed to have small numbers in.

QPR are now interested so that's at least 4 championship teams mentioned plus Rangers but I'd imagine that's over with Roofe and Itten signing. Hopefully it sparks a bidding war and we can get a right good price for him. Barnsley, Luton, QPR & Boro are the ones I've heard, although nothing from Boro & Luton in a couple of weeks. I fear for us a little without him tbf. We've not exactly been at our most potent over the last couple of weeks, and he's been one of our better players so far this season.

Might just be my lack of Motherwell knowledge shining through, but it came across as a dig at DT to me?

I agree with all of this other than Dykes, I thought he won everything in the air and was back to being the perfect outball again with Pittman/Forrest/Robinson/Souda all up supporting again. Brown's injury is a real shame, there's a great player in there somewhere. Hopefully he's not out for too long. At least we have plenty backup CBs. A lot more confident about the next fixtures now, even though we're against Rangers, Aberdeen who we haven't beaten in years, and undefeated County. I'm cautiously optimistic we can pick up 4 points from that run.

Dykes has been fucking fantastic tonight. If Barnsley are watching then the 2m bid is coming any day now

Reading comments then I feel like I'm in the minority in thinking that Pittman's had a decent game so far. Looks much more like his old self than the last couple of games. Dykes has been on point as well. I'm happy with us going forward, it's the back that's causing all of the issues. Get Fitz aff, move Efe inside and put Devlin at RB. We're looking threatening enough going forward that he'll be an asset.

The away stream hasn't gone down at all, I'm swapping there whenever it does.

We look more of an attacking threat after 12 seconds of the second half then we did in the entirety of the first

Yeah, this is a shocking performance from us. Roughly even til the first goal, but since then then it's a complete heads gone. All of us can see that the 3-5-1-1 isn't working. Fitzwater does some things really well, and some things really badly. I can see why we signed him on a 3 year deal, but he's not ready yet. Efe Ambrose is somehow now a left wing back at 32 years old. Pittman looks off his best. Robinson's done nothing. Can we have 4-2-3-1 back plz

We've looked solid AF in preseason, our defence looks even strong than last year, and as of right now then Lyndon Dykes is still here. 1-11 I think we're stronger than last year, although once Dykes goes that might not be true. Hopefully Sal and Propratnik come good. This season I expect us to win 75% of away games and lose at home to everyone but Aberdeen. 3-1 Livi, Dykes perfect hat-trick before moving to Luton for 2.5m.

Odoffin to Accies would be a decent move for both tbf. He's clearly one to move on for us, but he's shown that there's a decent player in there and I think he'd do a job for Accies with a run of games.

Barnsley apparently. You'd have to assume he's leaving at this point. Glad we rejected the first bid, I'll be delighted if we get anywhere near 2m.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/st-mirren-squad-lockdown-paisley-22406745 This may well put next weeks game under threat

Just watched the highlights, a couple of things stood out: - Dykes had a few really nice touches to bring runners into play. We'll really miss him if he goes. - McCrories kicks looked more accurate than I remember, but he still doesn't look confident claiming a high ball in a crowd - Max should've kept out their goal. And Killie will be raging about both of ours, even if Forrests technique was excellent.

Delighted that Brown is back, he was great at the end of last year. I'm just disappointed that he signed a new deal at Cardiff and came back on loan rather than coming here permanently. Our squad is massive now though, got to be looking at getting rid of a couple. Odoffin, Pepe, Lithgow, Tiffoney & Menga must be the top candidates. Although I'll be heartbroken if Dolly goes.

Amazed as many people have Livi as high as they do. If Dykes goes then we're relying on KSA or Praprotnik to be up to it and that's no guarantee. Having said that, I think we're looking decent. Celtic Rangers Aberdeen Motherwell Hibs St Johnstone Killie Livi Dundee Utd St Mirren Accies Ross County