Coventry Saint

Necessary negativity only, lads.

Not sure what our Ultras will do tbh. Those guys in the picture have already had their drum nicked.

Wonder if there's any chance of a stream of the game. Would definitely like to watch it.

Aye, it's based on quotes from Imrie. He's entitled to try and talk his team up. Will be interesting to see if they do anything this season. Should be a fairly weak Championship with no obvious 'big' team for the first time in a long time, so they should be looking to mount a proper challenge IMO.

That's a fucking big-name signing.

He's fucking shit and we really should be aiming for better. Get Robbo chased.

Fucking hell I might actually. Not the garden bit.

I can sort of see why they've changed their arm with the higher ticket price... Make more from the people who will 100% go rather than risk a low attendance at a lower price point. (Edit: I don't agree with it, but can see why they've tried it.) I don't think any of us are fans of the derby being cheapened by it being made a friendly, tbh. BUT it does make sense for us and our preparations: we need to get up to speed and quickly. Playing a team that will be properly trying to beat us, on a grass surface, will help a lot with finding some edge and fitness.

It's all good: I was doing a very obscure film reference

Sick of always being linked with The Usual Suspects.

That's a shite excuse. A lack of hands never stopped Jack Hamilton getting a game for Dundee, did it?

Fucking hell, if I've just posted something that *you* find boring it might be time to leave P&B forever.

Was going to say something about brown rhyming with down, but Encycolorpedia says it's 'a dark shade of pink-red'. So you'll have to settle for something about being marooned at the bottom or something like that. https://encycolorpedia.com/591e1f (It does list some 'closely related' colours, one of which is 'chocolate cosmos', which sounds like a bumhole euphemism if ever I've heard one.)

Yeah, we have every position pretty much covered and our scouting network is clearly better now. We don't need to splash out on taking some total unknown to Spain.

Fully away or staying as a coach? I did wonder if S McGinn's arrival was linked to Flynn perhaps knocking back a youth coaching position.

And our first choice midfield hasn't changed vs the end of the season. Obviously Baccus was either injured or out of favour, ad Kwon was injured, but CBM and O'Hara were undeniably our first choices. Will be interesting to see how the new lads fit in around that.

That's very kind of you.

100% this.

I think we can all agree that the words of random fans on the internet are largely meaningless. I mean, there's been guys on this very thread slagging Ryan Strain. Robbo's signing record is frankly astonishing at this stage so I'm unworried.

Sortmeout tapping into that 2015 zeitgeist and pulling out a real zinger there.

Smyth can fill in at the back when Gogic is filling in in midfield.

I'm with Ric. I'm not about to start in with the 'never fancied her anyway' chat. Strain is a great player, held back by injuries and fitness. If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't have signed him, and Dundee United wouldn't be signing him. I will say that when he dropped out the team, and we lost form, that was as much to do with the total lack of first XI-ready cover available, as it was the team specifically missing Strain. Elvis did a job, and I hope he will improve next season, but he wasn't a patch on a fit Strain. Does give me the fear somewhat for these Euro games when Rooney is serving his suspension.

It's almost as if the highly subjective views of partisan football fans on an internet forum aren't a solid basis for player valuations. Madness.