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I'd argue little Fras' vote matters just as much as mine, if not more, I'm a fucking ghoul.

Anything above 5% is really good for click through rates, I think? Sport is a weird one though, but a 35% click through rate is... a lot.

I also suspect that a huge amount of WS emails go into junk, into old inboxes, or to folk who don't look at their emails more than once a week. That's not apathy, it's just not having a clue that it's an issue. Would be curious to see the open rates.

That we'll win the league. Like how when we voted for VAR then we'd only get decisions that we like.

Just FWIW, I would be very wary about sharing the Buyabu rumours online anywhere (particularly on somewhere as public as on here is) when still in the process of a police investigation.

I'd say more at games than here, tbf.

Yes yes I know I know.

Mugabi has had the 18th most Aerial Duels in the league, only surpassed by Theo at Motherwell, with a 65% success rate. He is surpassed on "success rate" by Miller, Blaney and Spencer, but then they've played less minutes. His 65% success rate places him 14th in the league, but then there's a whole bunch ahead of him with only a handful of games. If you make it players of similar minutes he's top 5-ish. Also very successful within his own penalty area, with a 63% success rate, making him a top 5 centre back in the league for that. So yeah, basically that. He is very good in the air. He's also top 10 for blocked shots and top 5 for interceptions. So yeah, RandomGuy can probably explain all that better and the value of these things, but broadly: I'd keep Mugabi, I think he's absolutely fine for us. A whole bunch of people have made up their mind and will go out of their way to blame him (See Hibs away which ended up "Mugabi's fault" despite Gent fucking it and Bair failing to stop the shot.) despite the failings of the players around him. He does make mistakes and I don't have stats for this, but there's no chance that he's been more culpable than Casey this season, who seems to escape that level of criticism.

I'm honestly so excited for Saturday. We're going to lose 15-0 and folk are going to go mental.

Not a criticism of him, but teams playing a deeper line makes him less effective. His timing and finishing have been improving throughout the season to add to his more obvious physical traits of being a good big strong laddie and hard worker. Last night Livi had obviously learned from their last visit to Fir Park when he made the same run all day and should've had at least a hat-trick. And that's fine, on the whole, just so long as we figure out a way of how else to exploit a team playing on their 18 yard line.

I do this, and I'm aware I do this, but ultimately; we're kind of exactly where we're meant to be? We're actually alright to watch. We score fucking class goals regularly. We're an absolute shit show defensively. There's a bunch of really likeable players in the squad. Ups and downs. I think I said this on Monday's pod but the infuriating thing about us is that there's just enough about us to keep you coming back with just a wee bit of enthusiasm, which is inevitably misguided, and I think that's why so many people are so fucked off at this season.

Genuinely now viewing top six with absolute desperation so I can care about five more games then write off the season like I absolutely want to.

It's funny like, because when I had a look at him on Wyscout when he signed, he certainly looked like he had that kind of ability in his locker to ping passes around, but we've barely seen it. May be instruction or may be he had more time on the ball before. I like him a lot though, pler. Agreed. As much stick as he gets, the physicality he has and Devine so far doesn't, gives us a variety around what we can do with the wing-back position, and given how critical they are to us, that's important.

Does that make it 14 points or something we've taken from losing positions now? Silly.

I dunno like, better? As much as there's been a lot of criticism of the transfers, with a couple of sore thumb exceptions, I'd say it's been pretty good? From the summer, Obika and Williamson have been busts. Souare was clearly only ever a short term signing. Shaw was a last resort because we needed a body when everyone got injured. Biereth, Spencer, Gent and Davor I think we can all say have been good? So 50/50 at worst here? Devine, Nicholson, Halliday and Vale have all been positives? Montgomery I guess you could go either way on. [REDACTED] is very much out of our control and immediately gone. Elliott we're obviously taking an extended trial on, but we'll see? Montgomery showed out but then immediately fell to bits. The sheer amount of business we've had to do I'd assume makes the job itself a lot harder, in that you're not committing the time to find the two bodies that improve us but the 6 that we need to function. The summer sees (presuming they don't have secret extensions) O'Donnell, McGinn, Butcher, Kelly, Mugabi, Gent, Devine, Elliott, Oxborough and Montgomery all departing, leaving us with Blaney and Casey as the sole members of our defence under contract. You could argue one way or another on basically all of them, but this will be the biggest concern of the summer for me, because we have been a disaster defensively throughout the season. That's the real test, IMO.

Okay mate I won't.

What a fucking turn of events this is btw.

Someone probably knows better than me, but I think this is a generational thing? Like, the Bois were the originals, then the next group of teenagers, etc. ? Each their own wee thing, but then a collective together.

Or, another way, an extra 500 on the gate weekly would take us here too.

Don't worry, I'm already very committed to this, I'm going to look mental when I whip the hair off.

Absolutely not. I've become a hat guy so I can then make the steady move to being a bald guy that wears hats. It's been working well so far.

I agree entirely with your post Joe, and that's very much where I stand as well. On this; I've on occasion had my hair cut by Lee Miller and he's highlighted multiple times that Lennon is a smart kid, looking much further down the line than he ever did as a player, and ultimately; do you want to be Turnbull or do you want to be Hastie is a fairly clear recent-day example. Miller clearly fancies the former, certainly. On buying to sell as well, I kind of agree, but then again, over the last few years I feel like we've maybe slipped away from making players better. Under Robinson it felt that we really did that on a fairly regular basis. Under Alexander and Hammell... not so much. More recently under Kettlewell? Johnston, Furlong, Goss, Spittal, Van Veen, Davor, Theo, Gent? They're all better players today (or when they left) than they were when they arrived with us. Obviously, few of these left for cash (Van Veen the outlier), but we're going to sell Theo, which is a) A good example of improving a player and b) very very funny. I would be unsurprised to see us collect some cash for Davor as well. So the chance remains there, if we get back to improving guys rather than doing whatever the f**k we've been doing under the previous two managers.

Aye. It's funny how this has all worked, but the nonsense that's gone on, alongside the changes of the Society board feels like it's reinvigorated it to a level only matched by the launch. While that's not intended as a criticism of the previous operations of it, but it does feel like a real opportunity to make a fairly significant step forward with it.

It isn't an 11-1 vote for that, and from memory there were only a handful of clubs against it. From memory; managers like it, so clubs voted for it.