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Edwards is like watching a school child play football. Loads of energy, but absolutely no positional sense or idea of what he’s supposed to be doing. Storey should be playing on the wing as far as I’m concerned, his main attributes are pace and occasionally being able to put in a decent cross. And, unlike the most of our team, he doesn’t immediately shite himself whenever an opponent goes near him.

Archie has, in my opinion, earned the right to try and get us out of the mess he’s gotten us into. We’ve managed before, and as terrible as we are, there’s several dreadful teams in the division. There’s a good chance we’ll be relegated, but if we can get our act together, starting on Saturday then we may just be able to get out of this. Serious questions need to be asked though, and a serious overhaul of the squad is required. Osman seems to have chucked it and is becoming a liability. Spittal, for as much as he can be great if we’re dominating teams, is an absolute passenger and can’t be relied upon when we need to fight for points, which is most of the time. Devine is the worst defender we’ve had since promotion (other than Piccolo, obviously) and needs to be moved on at the end of the season. Keown can, as we know, be a good defender but he’s not been the same this season. Barton likewise, although everyone can see that he shouldn’t be playing in midfield. Archie has had a nightmare this year. Relying on Bannigan to be the player he was before injury and to remain injury free was exceptionally naive. Playing half the season with 2 guys who can’t really play centre mid in there was inexcusable. Woods has done alright since he came in, but has obvious fitness issues. We’re still a complete soft touch. What I wouldn’t give for someone like Darian McKinnon or Keith Lasley, just a horrible cynical fucker but who’d undoubtedly improve our team. If we stay up, we need to have a serious look at ourselves for next season. Or we’ll be in the same mess next year.

That was the one for me. They were fucking garbage that season, and I'm sure Tommy Craig was still their manager at that point. Tommy fucking Craig.

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2028/29 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign Another season, another 8th place finish. Our highest points total since we got promoted, but it really isn't that much to get excited about as we're still fighting relegation, and I'd be stunned if we aren't doing the same thing next season. Stranraer were appalling. Genuinely an absolute shambles. Managed by Ryan Dow and then, bizarrely, Matt Phillips, but their relegation means they might be replaced by someone almost competent, which is a shame. We had the same struggle we have every year, we concede far, far too many goals. We managed to address that a bit by changing formations, and hopefully that can continue, but we'll struggle next season I would imagine. It took a last minute Stirling Albion goal to ensure our survival, as we hung on to a draw against Queen of the South. We're going to need to do much better, at the back particularly, to move up the league table. I don't see it coming next season, but another years worth of development for the players will hopefully see that start to happen. The Cups We actually won 2 games, for the first time. It made no difference, obviously, except a bit of prize money. Falkirk though, imagine losing 3-1 to complete shite like us. Used up our quote of wins in the cup in the league cup apparently. Fucking shambles, especially getting pumped by Arbroath who aren't even that much better than us. Ah well, moving on. Youth Intake That's more like it! Some very decent prospects in there, and all we had to do was spend a completely unsustainable amount of money on junior coaching and youth recruitment, blowing through about 350 grand this season. Hopefully a few of them can develop into solid options for the first team. Jimmy Charlesworth: I've been crying out for a left back for years now, and at long last I've got one. He needs an awful lot of work, but f**k it, the guys I've got aren't currently good enough, and never will be, so I'm going to throw him in and hope he does ok. Owen Hayes: An attacking midfielder, looks like he could develop into a very decent player for me. I've been trying to play 4-4-1-1 recently as it seems to make us a bit more solid, so having someone to play in the first 1 is ideal. He's got a bit of flair, and is pretty decent technically, so looks good. Bailey Brown: A goalkeeper which is ideal, as all we've had is Gallacher for years. In an ideal world, I'll send him on loan to the lowland league for a bit, as I don't really want to throw him into my first team yet. Ronnie Foy: A right winger, we've got a few, but he's quick and can cross. If he can learn how to dribble, he'll be ok. Daniel MacDonald: A central midfielder, a good first touch, and not much else currently, but there's potential. I'd want to loan him out as well, but we'll see what can be done. Other News New record goal scorer for us, which is nice. Not much going on at the club, no money (cause I've spent it on staff to be fair) to do anything. Also saw this, which I've never seen in any other save...

Take Two; BSC Glasgow - Season 2027/28 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign That should have been much, much more comfortable than it was. We were 6th at one point, and within touching distance of the playoffs with 9 games left, but then we completely collapsed and only managed another 2 points, including an absolutely mental game with Stirling Albion. Thankfully Elgin and Dumbarton were worse than we were, but not much. The leakiest defence in the league was always going to make the season a struggle, and I can't do too much about it as my full backs are a collective shambles and that's where the majority of goals we concede come from. Ryan Hunter is of huge importance to my team, with an average rating of just over 7 in a dreadful team proving it. John Gallacher also finally agreed to a new contract, which is lucky as I'll be completely fucked if he leaves as we've had nothing approaching a competent goalkeeper in the youth system since him. Seems mad that he'll be due a testimonial next year despite being 24. He's already on 272 appearances for the club (the record holder, unsurprisingly) so he may well make a ridiculous amount by the time we get a replacement. A lot of the former mainstays of my team are gone, or will be at the end of the season. Barry Wilson is away to Berwick, as he lost his place in the team and was causing a fuss about it, while Jordan Donnelly, Ciaran Campbell and Jamie Fraser will be out of contract at the end of the season. They're not good enough any more, but it's still a bit of shame as they played a big part in getting us to where we are. We also had our best attendances ever, with an average of 535, so hopefully we can keep building on that and not have the lowest in the division for the first time ever. I'll hazard a guess that we'll be fighting it out at the bottom of the division again next season, but we shall see. The Cups We kicked off with a win against Brora, and then did our usual by losing the other games, including our customary pumping, this time from Queens Park. An 120th minute goal won it for Queen of the South, it was pretty even and was pretty gutting to lose it the way we did, but oh well. We ended up with 10 men after Fletcher got injured after our subs were made, which didn't help, but it's only the challenge cup. I'll care when I win it. We beat Albion Rovers with our only shot on target, but we didn't let them have many chances, so I think it was a fair result really. Montrose scored in the 93rd minute to take us to a replay in the next round, which was really frustrating, but we managed to get the job done and set up a money spinning tie with Rangers. Last time we faced them, they played their youths and we held them to 1-1. This time, they played a bunch of international footballers, and we got cunted. I mean, the striker who scored a hat trick has 4 caps for England, and the guy who opened the scoring has 62 caps for Poland. Playing guys like that seems like overkill considering that we routinely get fucked by the likes of Ayr or Raith, but that's their prerogative. We made a lot of money on it though, which is great. Youth Intake The worst year yet, by a considerable distance. No one ready to make an impact straight away, and only one guy who looks like he'll ever make an impact. Lot of pish. Donald Mitchell: A central midfielder, which is ideal as I've really needed more cover there, but he's far from good enough yet. Still 15, and he'll get game time so there's plenty of time to work on that. The one big plus is that he looks decent at set pieces, which is always useful, and if he can develop his other skills, he may be a steady source of assists from those. Other News We've been taken over. The new board have put nothing into the club really, except taking out a loan to cover the debt which was mounting up at that point. As we've since cleared that debt with the Rangers cup tie, its annoying that we've now got a debt to pay off but oh well. Almost immediately they cut our tie with Motherwell, which is a shame as we were basically getting 10k a year, plus a friendly with a decent gate, for absolutely nothing at all. Ah well. Should help avoid another crap intake like this year. The board are being shitebags and refusing to improve any of our facilities despite the fact we're now rolling in it. Bit shite, but we're now into my 10th year in charge, and hopefully we can start moving up the leagues. I wouldn't count on it though, as we have pretty glaring deficiencies in the team.

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2026/27 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign Well, f**k. Looks like we fell just short of our aim of being less shite than two other teams. We had another complete shiter of a start to the season, winning just one of our games before December the 12th (a bizarre 5-1 thrashing of Queens Park, who ended up getting promoted). Our form didn't ever really get much better to be honest, two wins and a draw being our best run by an absolute mile. Fortunately, Cowdenbeath were absolutely dreadful, and Forfar weren't much better but managed to scrape together a few more results than we did. Mark Fletcher has just about cemented one of my centre forward roles as his own, considering he didn't play at all for half the season, then score 11 goals and got 3 assists in the half he did, which for an absolutely terrible team, isn't bad at all. Ryan Hunter has also developed into my best central midfielder, but Bob Dunlop has stalled completely and isn't any better than he was when he first signed. He still gets a game as I haven't got anyone better, but we'll need to hope someone pops up to replace him. Judas Scott has spent all season refusing to sign a new contract and has now decided that getting over 6x his current wage and playing full time football in the Scottish Premiership is a more attractive option that fighting against relegation to the fourth tier of Scottish football every year. There's no loyalty these days. Anyway, as you can see, we faced a playoff to try to stay up, and first up we had Montrose. The first leg was eventful, both sides missed penalties and we managed to be much more clinical, as Montrose had more of the ball, more shots (both on and off target) and hit the woodwork twice, although we created the better chances. Phil Higgins got his first goal for the club to put us 3-1 up, and that proved absolutely vital as we then went on to lose 1-0 at home in another game where we were outplayed, but managed to defend just well enough to see us through, and John Gallacher in goals put in a solid display too. Extremely fortunate, as had we conceded again, I'm absolutely certain we'd have lost in extra time. All that set us up for a playoff final against Clyde. A pretty poor first leg was a 1-1 draw, where we took the lead through an own goal with just 10 minutes to go. Our lead only lasted 5 minutes, and there was no time to do anything about it. 1-1 at home, so we went to Cumbernauld needing to get a result. That we did with Pat McManus getting his first goal in 8 games to secure our safety for next season. We were once again outplayed, and relied on absolutely cynical nonsense which would have me absolutely seething if they'd done it but it worked, and somehow, despite being absolutely terrible all season, with just a couple of glorious highlights (Cowdenbeath 0 - BSC Glasgow 5 and BSC Glasgow 4 - Raith Rovers 0), we've managed to stay up. Jamie Scott is obviously away, but we'll have the same squad next season more or less, so I expect another shitfest of a season. The Cups Cups are shite. They can f**k off until I'm good enough to not just get cunted whenever I have to play someone half decent. I mean, 0-0 with East Kilbride for fucks sake. We didn't even win the penalties. Disgusting. Youth Intake Declan Shankland: At long last, a semi-decent looking right back. I'll try to get him involved in the first team next season, but he's not particularly good. He can't really attack, which isn't great as I'd rather my full backs could, but he looks fine defensively. Paul Ritchie: Another striker, he could end being a good target man, his heading and finishing is good, but he needs a lot of work to be the finished article. I do need replacements up front though, as Barry Wilson, Pat McManus and Jordan Donnelly who've been my go to strikers for years now really aren't up to it now we've been promoted. Other News We've had our first international caps, both at under 19 level, with Chris Herd getting one for Scotland and Jamie Scott has played for the Irish a few times now. As Scott is leaving and we don't really have anyone of the same standard, I'd expect these to dry up but it's still a nice milestone. There's absolutely nothing else going on, we've still got no money to do anything. I'm absolutely desperate for a cup run and an away game against one of the bigger sides, as it's about the only way we'll make any money. We don't even have the capacity to capitalise on a home game properly, which is shite. Still, if we can stay up again next season, that'll be great. If we can start playing before March that'll be nice too.

Are you actually asking why people don’t like Celtic? Like, really?

Aye but what about the Celtic players? I’m ashamed of myself.

What exactly is your point?

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2025/26 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign I genuinely, genuinely can't believe we've not been relegated after our start to the season. 10 points at New Years. TEN. We'd only scored 12 goals in 20 games for fucks sake. I tried everything, 5 at the back, one up front with attacking midfielders, defensive midfielders, it didn't matter what I did, so I turned to anti-football, and it's kept us up. I don't know why, but it clicked. We doubled our points tally in the 5 games after that Queens Park game, which has to be considered the turning point of our season. East Fife had been struggling all season, and Elgin had done well at the start but struggled after that point so we managed to drag ourselves out of trouble. We only spent like 5 weeks out of the bottom two all season, so to grab 7th should probably be regarded as absolute robbery, but I'm not complaining. I don't know how next season will go, if we can be anything resembling a football team from the start we should do ok, but it'll likely be another struggle. Jamie Scott is the key player for me now, along with Chris Herd at the back and Pat McManus up front. Bob Dunlop is a huge disappointment, he's not really improved as much as he should have, and while he's still my best central midfielder, he should be far too good for my team. Still, we'll see what happens next season, could be ok, but could equally be horrific. The Cups Oh well, never mind. As above. I hate these cups, we're absolutely shite at them and never make any money from getting dumped out by complete dross or youth teams every year. A waste of time. We got absolutely pumped rotten. Our worst performance of the season, and that takes some doing. Considering Raith have been relegated from the Championship, it doesn't bode well. Youth Intake Crap. The positions I really need filled are my full backs, and I could do with central midfielders, but no, attacking left mid, which I don't use, and another alright centre back are great, Thanks. Here we go anyway. Leon Fraser: He's not bad. He's kinda quick, composed and plenty of flair. He doesn't play any positions I use though, so I'll try and train him to be a striker and hope he learns how to finish and/or dribble. Connor Lauchlan: A defender who can't head really, isn't good at jumping, doesn't concentrate well and is weak as a kitten. Sign me up. I'm probably being slightly harsh on him, he's quick for a defender, his positioning, marking and tackling are all pretty decent but needs to work on some pretty important parts of his game for a centre back. Other News We've had our first international call up, even if it is for Ireland under 19's. He didn't get a game, but it's still a nice wee milestone. Club Legend Scott Adams has also decided he doesn't fancy playing for us anymore and is away, which means that 100% of the players in my squad for next season will be regens through the youth system. My oldest player is 23.... A recipe for success IMO. Not much else going on. we've still got no money and are losing it every month which is swell, but we've signed a new stadium sponsorship deal worth a bit more so that's good. Sooner or later though, the board will make cut backs. I'm not looking forward to that.

Last time I encountered her, the driver stopped for a good 5 minutes at one stop and she had a complete meltdown that the bus wasn’t working or something. Absolutely brutal listening to that.

There’s a complete nutter gets the 21 in Edinburgh fairly regularly (or used to anyway, thankfully I’ve not been on it in a few months), usually gets on at the shops in muirhouse I think. Spends the whole time loudly asking everyone if they’re “going out tonight?” then shrieking why if they say no.

The loan system is vastly superior to Colt nonsense. It allows you to tailor where players go, Thistle currently have guys playing lowland league, League 2 and Championship on loan depending where they are in their development. You can’t do that with Colts.

Saying Celtic have a better team so it’s more difficult to produce players is disingenuous at best. Celtic spend many, many times what anyone else can spend on youth development, they should have the best scouting and coaching available in Scotland, and are also the biggest draw in the country. They should be able to produce better players than the rest of the clubs, and yet they consistently fail to do so.

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2024/25 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign We've stayed up! Somewhat limped over the line in the end, reliant on beating Stenhousemuir 4 times out of 4 to get us there, but we managed. It went pretty much as expected, we struggled massively against the teams at the top end of the league (apart from a 3-0 thumping of Stirling out of nowhere) and picked up 24 of our 37 points against Alloa, Stenhousemuir and Annan. A years experience at a higher level will have helped the players no doubt, and I'm hopeful that they can continue to grow into a team that can challenge in this division, as we're some way off it just now. Wilson was top scorer, as he is just about every year, and Chris Herd became a very important player at the back, looks like he's got the most potential in there. Gallacher in goals is now my best player by star rating, and apparently wants to go to a bigger club, which is problematic as we've got absolutely no one in back up. 8k and he's away apparently, which should be alright as the teams who'd want him likely won't pay for him but still. Next season will be much the same, and I wouldn't be surprised if we end up more a fight that this season, as I don't see anyone being as shite as Annan were again. We're still fucked financially, and that's something that's going to get troublesome as we really need to keep spending big to get decent youth players, but we've nowhere near enough fans to bring in the money to make it sustainable. We desperately need to get out of the seaside leagues and start climbing into the promised land of the Championship, but we're, at the very least, a couple of seasons away from that... Not ideal. The Cups Beat the team from a lower division, lost to the teams from higher and the same ones. Nothing of note happened, Barry Wilson got a hat trick which was nice. The League cup is starting to become a minor irritation, I get pumped out in the first round every year anyway, it'd be nice if I didn't have to play four matches before it inevitably happens. Another benefit of promotion is that I now enter the Challenge Cup in the second round, so I can lose my first match against some under 20's there instead of the first round. It's just brilliant. Aye the cups weren't very fruitful this year. I could really do with another run in the Scottish Cup, the money from my last one built a stadium and has kept me afloat for a few years.... Youth Intake Bearing in mind we're in a higher division and star rating will reflect that, it's not too shabby, but there's only 3 of them I'm excited about... Jamie Scott: Technically proficient, for this level, and a wee bit of pace, he should be good. Left midfield, has been a problem area all save so hopefully we'll have that sorted for a while now. Bob Wallace: A decent looking striker, I'm hopeful I can convert him into a semi competent target man, to allow me an alternative to Wilson. I have loads of advanced forwards/poachers, and nothing else really. Wilson is still banging in the goals, but on paper, he's out his depth. Ryan Hunter: Looks not too shabby, physically and mentally he's fine, needs to work on his technical skills though. Could be useful in the future though. Other News That's good. Helped unearth some decent players this time already. Hopefully that continues. That's not so good, and we have no money to make them any better. We'll need to pray for a cup run, as we're not going to make much from anywhere else... Anyway, a good first season at this level, onwards and upwards.

The only work the proposal needs is putting it in the bin and, at the very least, publicly executing those responsible for it. I genuinely don’t think any amount of money is worth the reduction of our lower leagues to little more than a playpen for Rangers reserves. There is no benefit to the national team, no benefit to the other clubs in the Premiership, Championship or League One, and other than a paltry amount of money which can easily be cut out through lack of interest and can boycotts, no benefit to the League Two clubs. The only possible benefit is to the clubs with Colt sides, and even then I’d argue that it won’t make a meaningful difference in their ability to produce talent for their first team.

So you’re saying that if Celtic and Rangers are serious, they should just up their bribe a bit? What hypothetical amount of money would it take for you personally, not Cowdenbeath as s club, to accept playing in a glorified youth league purely for the development of other clubs players?

Aye I’ve had f**k all from Thistle, despite emailing on Monday. Giving them a bit of leeway given there was a game last night but still.

Oh well as long as some guy is happy, then that’s fine.

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/baily-cargill-joins-on-loan-until-the-end-of-the-season/ Thank f**k that’s over and done with

I know you’re a troll, but how on earth will that benefit the Scottish National team exactly?

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2023/24 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign In retrospect, my use of the term scenes to describe coming 8th last season seems premature, but there you go, we've won the league and with it been promoted! Granted our points total is the lowest for any side to have won the league since the save began, and we owe a huge deal to champions elect Elgin, who were something like 15 points clear at one stage, completely and utterly bottling it (11 points from their final 16 games), but we're still champions. Whereas last season, we had an absolutely torrid second half of the season which saw us fall down the league, this time we managed to kick on, and we lost just one of our last 21 matches. Barry Wilson again top scored for us, and is rapidly becoming one of my favourite players on any edition of FM. In any case, I don't really care that a very legitimate case could be made that we're the worst side to win the league since the save began, we're getting out of this basement league, for a season at least, and the club history overview won't look as depressing anymore. I'm almost certain we'll go straight back down, as we're nowhere near good enough for that league, but then again, we're probably not really good enough to have won the league we've just won, so we'll see what happens. Financially, we're getting a wee bit fucked every month since I'm essentially overspending on youth development and recruitment, and have a pretty large coaching staff, while about 350 people turn up to watch us most weeks. Hopefully the draw of seeing giants like Ayr and Arbroath next season will pull the punters in. The Cups Put out in the group stage of the League Cup, who would have thought it? We were absolutely pumped by Elgin to begin with and then this season our only win was against Premiership side Morton, although I don't think they played their full strength team somehow... Still, beating top flight opposition in front of a sell out crowd of 428 was nice. We then limped to 1-0 losses against Hamilton and Stirling, to end up in 5th place. Yeah, losing to under 20's is a fairly regular occurrence. The main take away from that is that Celtic under 20's are officially less of a draw than Motherwell under 20's are. While a massive 13 people crammed into the stadium for our match two seasons ago, a miniscule 11 people turned up for Celtic this year. How small time. We brought back the Albion Rovers game from 3-0 down which was ideal, and then managed to scrape through the replay on penalties. Queens Park were dispatched in a fairly tight affair, and then we drew Falkirk. They were quite comfortably better than us throughout, but the Bairn pound was much appreciated. Youth Intake Well, pretty much the same as last season, some decent enough prospects but no one really good enough to make an immediate impact. Stuart Hunter: Miles Storey Junior. Very quick, but basically absolutely terrible at playing football. Hopefully with a bit of work, he'll be competent as his raw pace could be an asset in the lower leagues. Derek Souttar: The phrase "sand dancing wee p***k" springs to mind. Can dribble, has loads of flair, absolutely nothing approaching an end product. Another project player, if he can develop the ability to either cross, pass or finish then he'll be useful, if not then it'll be off to the juniors with him. Chris Herd: Another decent looking young centre half. Has all the basics, plus a wee touch of pace which would be useful. Will try to give him a bit of game time and see how he does, as no one currently has the second central defensive spot nailed down beside Jamie Fraser. Matt Graham and John Robb could also end up looking ok, but I'm not sure. Graham is much more promising, and his work rate would be useful, but we'll see what happens. Other News Now that we're a big time third tier club, we're expanding our stadium. We're also officially an establishment club, as the tax payers are, once again, paying for a huge deal of our stadium work. We're sharing with St Anthony's which is ideal because who doesn't want a day out in Cardonald. Next season will be the traditional slog, but at least this time it'll be a slog at a higher level. As I said, I would imagine we'll go straight back down but the players will be better for the season at a higher level and we'll hopefully be well placed to go back up. The only worry is that we're that terrible the board sack me, but hopefully their expectations are minimal and realistic. Considering my expectation this season was "attempt to avoid finishing bottom", they should be sound.

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2022/23 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign SCENES! We've actually managed a season where we weren't actually in very real danger of being relegated throughout. It's not much, but it's progress of some kind, so I'll take it. We were actually in and around the playoff places until about half way through the season and then collapsed/ran out of steam, but it's still the best we've ever finished a season. Our defence also managed to not be horrific this time around, which was wonderful. Brora weren't awful, and we actually took a 4-0 doing off them at one stage, but Berwick, who apparently we've developed a rivalry with what with us both hanging around the bottom of the league for the last 5 years, were appalling all season. I've no idea how they managed to get as many points as they did. Wilson was once again top scorer, this time joint with Donnelly, and McManus also got double figures. Scott Adams is now a club legend, and the leading appearance holder for the club, which is great, and he's still our most important player. At 26, he's the oldest player in the squad, so we should be covered there for a while. Anyway, 8th place is basically shite but brilliant for us considering how the rest of our seasons have gone. Hopefully next season we'll be able to get off to another great start, but then avoid falling completely apart after Christmas and get a playoff place. Cups Losing to Annan was crap, as that was the opening of our new stadium. We got our only win in the next game, pretty comfortably against Montrose, and were then totally outclassed by County and Queen of the South, which was completely predictable and expected. Still, finished 4th in the group which isn't too bad as the only League 2 side. A last minute equaliser by Pat McManus against Rangers under 20's saw us take a challenge cup campaign beyond the first 90 minutes for the first time. We saw out an uneventful extra time period and went through on penalties. We then demolished Berwick, and after throwing away a 3 nil lead, managed to regroup to defeat Annan in the third round after extra time. A terrible match against Airdrie was our downfall as they put us out. Turriff should have been much easier than they were, but we played poorly. Managed to scrape through, but then League One side Stirling were too much for us. Youth Intake Not great, there's no one there who's immediately ready to go into the first team, whereas there had been the last couple of seasons. Nevertheless, a couple of decent prospects. Aidan Canning: We do really need another centre back, and with Paul Morrison being injured for 10 months which has totally stunted his development, I have high hopes for this lad. His marking is pretty good, but the rets of his game needs a lot of work. At 15 though he should have plenty of time to improve. Jake Shankland: A central midfielder, can't really defend but could make a pretty decent playmaker with a bit of work and the right partner in centre midfield. Jack Wilson: Good delivery, but looks like he hasn't got any ability top get there. Needs a lot of work on his dribbling but could make it. Docherty and Twigg also look good prospects, but not quite as good as the others IMO. Other News Improved the junior coaching, should help with producing players. We really need another big cup game, or even better, to get out of this league as we're losing money every month. We're ok just now, but eventually the board are going to cut back on stuff. Best season so far, lets hope we can make next season even better.

More so than we would with Belarus or Afghanistan, I’d wager.

Or it could be that it’s the only other rich industrialised democracy with the death penalty in place, and by far the most similar country to ourselves culturally to ourselves to use it.