Ex Machina

With previous attempts from our fanbase for players with the same surname being Gando and Sando and also the confusion with similar surnames such as Mullen and Mullin, I'd be intrigued (and probably horrified) with what we'd come up with for players with the exact same name.

Perfect.

Ballantyne joined Airdrie a few days after Murray left for us so you'd imagine he was somewhat involved in his signing. I'd be happy to have him in a Rovers shirt next season. I noted someone put this in the Partick thread not long ago. Not sure how up to date it is.

Knew I could count on you! List has been amended.

Might be of interest to some in here but the 2 Promoters, 1 Pod podcast is excellent. Done by Gav from Damnation and James from ArcTanGent and 2000 Trees. Gives an insight into behind the scenes of festivals and working with bands etc. Can be found on Spotify, YouTube etc.

For next season, I'm sure Tx will be along to correct me if I'm wrong on anyone but we're currently looking at: Out of Contract Robbie Thomson Andy McNeil Keith Watson Dylan Corr Adam Masson Liam Dick Ross Millen Ross Matthews Aaron Arnott Scott McGill Dylan Easton Ethan Ross End of Loan Lee Ashcroft James Brown Shaun Byrne Kyle Turner Zak Rudden For me, I'd keep both goalkeepers and Matthews. If McGill is on a relatively low wage, I'd keep him around as a useful utility player. With Watson, I rate him but it's hard to look past his injury record this year. If another experienced centre back is available, I'd be inclined to look in that direction. I imagine Easton is already away. Of the loanees, I'd offer Byrne a contract. I think Turner would have something to offer but I don't think we'll ever see him in his best position with Stanton available - he's also under contract for another season at County. One positive is we have a very real opportunity to rebuild the defence this summer which has been the weak link this season imo.

Both Stanton and Vaughan are already signed up for next season, I'm sure they were referring to those out of contract.

I'm sure there's a plan in place for upgrades in both the full back positions. I'd like to think Stevenson and Strapp are two we're looking at for left back and Kerr and Megwa for right back. I'd imagine Strapp will be looking for a Premiership gig though and Megwa will be given the summer to prove himself for the Hibs squad so neither would be available until later in the summer if at all. Logan Chalmers is another I'd hope we're looking at. Would add something different to our attack.

It's Euan Anderson. Done our 2-2 draw with Arbroath and 0-1 win over Partick. Don't think he did much of note in either game which is what you want to see.

I was a big fan of Dunfermline last Friday.

GHiyjBk6kZRPbDcDAAve2ZoVBMg1bmdjAAAF.mp4 Sliding into this thread to say the Dundee United board are absolute diddies.

The man himself said he was offered 'life-changing money' to join them. At this level of Scottiah football, you can't begrudge someone for making a move for the money, they're not earning millions and I wish him no ill will. It does make their League 1 losses less surprising though. On the highlights, what a boy big Kev is. Excellent save, glad to see him put last Friday behind him.

I used to live in West London and have a Brentford season ticket. If the Benham rumours are true, it would be a very exciting time to be a United fan. He literally saved Brentford from obscurity and transformed them into a Premier League club without spending ridiculous sums of money and making them a steady profit in player transfers. The chat within Brentford circles just now is that he is looking for some major investment to push the club on now rather than give up his entire stake, still uncertain if he'd look to give up his controlling stake in the club or not with the new investment. Obviously outside of Brentford, he's proved himself as a very capable owner of a football club with Midtjylland as well. On the Brighton owner also being interested, him and Benham apparently have a bit of a rivalry going back a number of years so it could be a case of looking to one-up each other.

Not a great performance but luckily you don't need one when you face such a poorly managed bunch of diddies. Nice to finally win a league game by more than one goal this season.

Despite shitting the bed yesterday, we're only a point behind still. This league is utterly batshit and I love it. Doesn't get much more entertaining than the Scottish Championship.

New website looks great. I didn't mind the last one but it is now far more compatible with smartphones. I still mind the website before the last iteration - now that was outdated.

On a positive note, our first clean sheet since December.

It's video and audio for UK and Ireland tonight.

Can't remember the last time I've seen a football club so rattled before a ball has even been kicked in a run of the mill league game. If Morton win this I can't help but feel there'll be an open-top bus celebration.

1-0 Raith. Vaughan (P) after diving for the penalty and a taps aff celebration in front of the away end.

That's fair enough, my memory was probably tinted by the scoreline. Don't remember much of the game itself outside of the goals and sending off - which is probably becau we didnt do much of note up until then. I'd still count a 3-0 loss as a battering regardless, especially against lower league opposition in a competitive game.

My lasting memory of Ashcroft is the game we battered the Pars where Vaughan got his hattrick and Duggan got Ashcroft sent off in the process. Sure that was just an off day though as none of their players looked up to it. Done well at a team that won this division last season, and also seems to have done a decent job recently when called up last month in the league above. Happy enough with this signing, especially with Watson coming back that'll hopefully help us shore things up at the back. Not sure there's many better centre backs that would have been available to us.

There's not any rules about the league they can move to, they just obviously can't be loaned to the Premiership as they don't have the extended loan window. For example, this month in the league below Joe McGlynn has gone on loan to Kelty from Hamilton.

Must be triggering for a Pars fan to watch a player with a bit of fight given you're currently having to watch Joe Chalmers and Paul Allan masquerade as Championship level footballers each week right enough.

Our Scott Brown would batter your Scott Brown.