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Wasn't backup for Stokes either - certain his last game for Hibernian was the 2016 Scottish Cup final. Take out the beginning part of his loan at St Johnstone and he hasn't shown enough at the top level.

Is this common practice? Doesn't seem like the most professional...

Poor Xanda, he was a real diamond.

Show some respect - he's "been places, and done 'hings"...

As an aside, mind when Graeme Souness went to Benfica and signed all his pals?

That's some nice accessible material.

Beginning to seem like the end of an era at Pittodrie. One wonders how bad things at Sunderland must be.

I really like it. I'd have preferred white socks, but I think the top looks brilliant

Every time I hear the manager speak I gain a bit more confidence in him. Really looking forward to the start of the season now.

Disappointing to hear that about Lewis Morrison - I worked with his grandpa a few years ago, and there's been such excitement about this boy for so long. Hopefully he does well at St Mirren. Being released at developmental age isn't terminal. It's not long since Craig Slater made the opposite journey, and was first team within the year.

And so ends what has felt like the longest transfer saga since Gareth Bale to Real Madrid....

Any idea what our allocation was? Got two over the phone yesterday.

"We'll certainly be fitter than last season..." Said every new manager. At every club. Ever.

Exactly the same at the club AGM. There were a lot of atrocious questions raised and he was totally respectful and gave a genuine answer to every single one. Scheduled for 15 minutes and stood for an hour, I'm really impressedwith him.

Hmm, great statement of intent from the club - but I'm not sure we should have been quite so hasty to publicise that. Bit early to essentially stick a value in the supporters' minds for the boy to live up to. Was it volunteered or was it in response to a direct question?

With Higgins and Power, The League's sure to be our..........s.

I know - armed forces week (!) into the bargain for greater heights of orgasmic bawbaggery!

To my shame I can't seem to stop reading the comments attached to posts on a Facebook page called "I am British and Proud". Unbelievably appalling Brexit fuelled, monarchist, army loving c**t bags uniting to complain about how fictitious Muslim offence constricts their right to express how much they love old Blighty - while decrying the number of mosques in places they've never been to. There's a constant rhetoric of being under threat that I don't think any of them can substantiate.

We're worryingly light on right backs. Hoping we pick up three or four before the season starts.

Hold the press. We're apparently looking to sign Calum Waters - Alloa LB...

Should fucking release that wee Gilmour c**t.

Good plan, some kind of takedown-centric tactical approach seems the best fit for the unpaid pugilist Paw. Move on to a clean striking attack for the weans.

Not sure what's funny about it, now you genuinely have to do something or he'll think he's got the better of you. Has he got a pet you can cook?

What I was commenting on, fairly obviously I thought, was the fact that football clubs don't automatically consider this kind of behaviour - and much worse besides - to be terminal in the career of a young footballer. Evidenced by the fact that we - by which I mean Kilmarnock Football Club (such is the way that people in the UK colloquially tend to describe the team they support...) signed a different footballer with a worse record than this - before this incident occurred... The morality that you and I exist in was not in the context of this discussion, and I think it's pretty baffling - not to mention total bawbag behaviour - to try and portray me as some fucking domestic violence apologist purely for bringing to your attention that football clubs don't give a shit.