Central Belt Caley

No one mention religion or we’ll have that County weirdo clogging up the thread with shite again

Same thing happened to me, then got a phonecall 8 months later from the estate agent asking if I was still interested whilst sat in the living room of the flat I bought a couple months later

YOGI YOGI YOGI

Good attempt at listing the clubs in alphabetical order

Why is Paddington seen to be some sort of Grim Reaper by royalists?

Are you sure you dropped it? I think you might’ve been pickpocketed after getting out the car… Similar-ish, My mate left his living room window open a fraction during the summer and someone climbed in and nicked 500 quids worth of stuff during the night and his insurer refused to pay out

I think with this new money coming into the club we need more people at the boardroom level collecting 6 figures a year

My plan would be to sign really good players and not sign bad ones. Simple really

We had a lassie from one of our clients who would send emails past midnight fairly regularly. Her boss was an utter c**t though so wasn’t surprising

Needs to be posted any time that c**t Wallace is mentioned

Cheers, I’m looking forward to getting bodied by Alloa or Montrose

Got pointed out to me ages ago that Neil Warnock doesn’t have any eyebrows and it’s all I can see now whenever I see a picture of him

How do these playoffs work? Is it drawn out of a hat for who plays who or does 9th play 4th and 2nd plays 3rd?

Don’t worry, we’ve not won at home in ages

This mob shouldn’t even be in the competition, them and the under 20s have totally devalued the competition. Sure most folk will be hoping for an Airdrie win

Airdrie is all that stands between us and real Scottish football tinpottery

On your first paragraph, I don’t know if you listen to the excellent Wyness Shuffle (I think @RiG has/had some involvement) but on their pre-Christmas pod Dodds said he had the final say on all transfers and I think his words were “ the wee man (Robbo) did bring me a couple”. Referring to Robbo as “wee man” makes me think there’s truth to the rumours they didn’t get on but that’s another story. I do think Dodds had the majority of the say over transfers if I’m honest going by his comments, but the secrecy from the club over Robbo’s actual role and what he was upto, only folk ITK will know the truth.

On your last point, the difference is that this was Dodds 3rd season in charge so that’s 3 pre seasons, 3 summer windows and 2 January windows he had and our squad was significantly worse and there still wasn’t a really a style of play. Whether that’s down to budgets or him not being able to spot a player, we’ll never really know. Dunc’s not had a pre-season and he’s only had a January window which isn’t really the ideal time to be looking for players, unless you’re splashing the cash of course. If in a years time we’re putting in similarly shite performances I can bet most of us on here will be as negative about Dunc as we were Dodds.

This was particularly annoying under Dodds when we had Samuels playing as a winger, I’m sure there’s other examples too

I feel dirty saying this but… Hope Falkirk win this

To preface this I’ve been to about 6/7 games since Dunc came in. For me (and anyone can feel free to disagree) is there’s a clear(er) style of play under Ferguson. It’s very much neat passing and if there’s no opening go back the way and start again. When it works, it’s brilliant. Last week against Raith we opened them up a fair few times (they were playing some mad 3-6-1 formation tbf). However, against Airdrie on the 2nd Jan we looked utterly hopeless and had one shot I think. There were times against Airdrie, Harper picked up the ball with space to run but he was only 5-10 yards outside our own box so in effect he has to run 70-80 yards to put a cross in. Which is probably a draw back of playing 5 at the back in that the left and right wing backs are expected to provide the attacking width but also defend. The 5 at the back probably is hindering us in some games. I think Dunc introduced it so stop shipping goals and make us more solid but if a teams playing 1 upfront do we really need 3 centre backs? The fact we’ve signed no wingers in the window says to me this formation is the one we’ll be playing til the end of the season. Some of the games remind me of Yogi’s first half season if I’m honest. I remember a game at Partick where we looked hopeless and Danny Williams was playing centre mid. However in that season we had the luxury of Butchers good start to the season to not have to worry about relegation. I’ve not been to any home games so some of the other lads can speak about those

I’ve seen some wild takes but this is a belter

Arbroath look favourites with all their injuries and being part time. I would like to think we have enough to see us through but we seem to have 2/3 games where we look like a decent side then games where we look like we’ve no idea what football is. If any one of us, Ayr, Dunfermline, QP put a run together over the next few games then could see ourselves out of the relegation fight and looking at the good playoffs

Unless you haven’t noticed, this is our match thread You’ve waded in here havering utter nonsense