Shadwell Dog

Lets give the guy a chance. Needs to be given the left wing role as his cross for Bairds goal that got us back in the QOS game showed. No point in giving him 10 mins here or there in a variety of different positions.

No guarantee that Craigan will be good enough to start. I'd like to see Hippolyte given a decent chance in the left wing role. Will be interesting to see what front pairing we use though as O'hara, baird and Austin are all of a similar ilk .

Its difficult to work out what type of player he is going by the mixed reports from Raith fans. One says he's got nerves of steel and another says he shirks out of tackles. We've got quite a bit of competition in that area already so I presume hes backup for Alston if he heads off to pastures new as expected.

Was the financial problems of relegation not increased by the fact that Super George didnt make sure that the players had relegation clauses in their contracts which meant that the likes of BOB were getting paid thousands for kicking a ball in the second top flight?

Holt wasn't perfect but I'd say his first season of first team management was a hell of a lot better than Pressley's. Someone else will eventually find out whether Holt will go on to become a decent manager I would presume as we didn't really have him long enough to find out . Some youngsters improved under him whilst others stagnated. Its like that with most managers I feel though.

My main issue with Pressley was his recruitment of players. Unfortunately for every decent signing he made he also made some real shockers which were the real reason we never really challenged for promotion in any single year under him. His attempts at keeping us in the top flight were also woeful with us failing to win a game in the last 5 matches against the dregs of the league. Yes he brought the young players through well but I really cant say I was sad to see him go when he did.

I just get the feeling that houstie doesnt quite trust young ohara yet. Every point is important and the young lads missed a few sitters in recent weeks including an important one against livie. Hes a fantastic prospect and will get his chance again and probably would be getting more game time if it wasnt so tight for second place.

My feeling is that if there had been teams sniffing about him his agent would've played hard ball till the summer at least . The fact that he's signed for another year says to me that there has been little or no interest. Or certainly no interest that can offer more than we can at presen

Leahy's just signed a new contract so I can't see him moving on till next year at the earliest. Vaulks and Sibbs I would expect we would be looking for a decent amount of cash for but Alston will probably be moving on if we don't go up.

And pumping arsenal into the bargain. Fulton was excellent when he came on.

Watchin the game and hes playin well. Seems to have bulked up quite a bit sincd he left.

The 4th stand will get built eventually but theres no point in wasting cash on something we dont desperately need. When the right deal for the club eventually arises it will get done. The cost of building almondvale for livie were hee haw and yet theyve still managed to go bust twice. Quite an achievement.

Neale Cooper also scored the own goal in their second last game of the season which meant we only needed a draw at Clydebank to win the title If I remember correctly.

Scobbie was still on his Premier league wage though at that point. There was no way in hell we were going to be offering anything near that or anything near what St Johnstone could at the time even if it wasn't more than what he was on. He has therefore earned a lot more at St Johnstone since he left us than he would if he had stayed.

Tam will also have earned a decent amount more over the past few seasons than he would've got with us considering the then state of our finances. I'd like to think that now we are on a decent financial keel we'll be able to compete a bit better with the smaller SPL sides. However if the likes of even Dundee come calling we have no chance. Just take Rory Loy for instance.

Not surprised really as the agent will be looking for a bigger cut as much as getting Blair a decent deal. If he was offered a decent deal down south then you couldn't argue at him moving on but it would be a bit disappointing if he ends up at St Johnstone or Ross County or something similar.

Yeah he's been playing very well recently and continues to pop up with some very important goals. Will be a sad day when he leaves.

Trialist appears to have been brought down resulting in the red card too aswell as scoring. Anyone any inside info on who he is?

Very young side out again. Still no McCann. will he ever actually play another game as a signed Falkirk player?

To be honest Arfield has surprised me by how well hes done since he went down south. Hes come on leaps and bounds since moving to Burnley and was one of their better players in the year in the top flight. To me he was worth a shot as much as the likes of Forrest and Armstrong who are struggling in one of the worst celtic sides for a long time and neither are playing at a level as good as the one he is. McDonald has never really hit the heights many thought he would when at Dundee. Arfield to me at present seems to be getting better reports than any of those three. I just feel he deserved a chance and then if he was found out at international level you move on to someone else.

You really taking the pish now. Burnley are second top of the championship. Where are wolves? Struggling away in mid table. And Armstrong and Forrest aren't even championship level.

Considering the likes of James Forrest, Stuart Armstrong and Kevin McDonald have been in recent squads then I don't see why he shouldn't have been given a punt.

You may laugh but there's been scores of players that have done well up here and been found out miserably when they've gone down south. Aberdeens got a team full of them for instance. If arfield and mcginn were transferred tomorrow I'd put my house on arfields fee been by far the bigger.

McGinn's playing in the scottish championship for fecks sake. Lets face it if he couldnt look half decent at that level then he'd be aswell packing it in. Arfield has done well at the top level in england which is a million miles ahead of the level McGinns playing at . McGinn shouldnt be anywhere near a scotland shirt till hes shown he can do it week in week out at the very top level.

Twaddle was decent the first time we had him but was poor when we paid cash to get him back. Remember him having a superb game at centrehalf against the **** at tfs which i think we won one nil.