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True, but you could link to the news reports as match reports, and/or write 'Bounce game' or 'Closed doors' instead of friendly?

Mr X, is there any chance you can put the closed door friendly results on the OS fixtures page? They are clearly a staple in our pre-season programme and it would be nice to be able to give them all the once over on one page.

But can he stick it in the net?

Mr X I am also often not at games and I am quite satisfied with the level of coverage. Fact is between home team and away team, every game gets some sort of indepth Twitter coverage, so if the club is shorthanded then providing live commentary should not be a priority.

@officialkillie So that's no bad.

Tonight's teams (borrowed from the Killie thread) Jim Atkinson still second choice in goals, and with all these development fees you'd have thunk they could afford a new ink cartridge for the printer!

Fair enough, it seemed a lot less than discussed for other players.

For the princely sum of, er, £40,000. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/football/dundee-united/dundee-united-new-boy-mark-durnan-keen-to-make-impact-1.885529

unsure if you think I am Scottishyeltz, but if so: can confirm I am not. It would be strange though for Oldham and Barnsley to be in a tournament with each other... I can't think of any other examples of teams from the same league playing each other in pre-season (maybe I need to think harder?).

Can believe it since someone on the Mad site has heard the same, but a bit of an odd one since Oldham and Barnsley are in the same league.

You should have signed a striker in January like we did.

Looks like Bob McHugh. Just need a striker now.

The team has been playing well apart from the performance against Cowdenbeath and, for some players, Alloa. No evidence to suggest there has been disharmony for a long period. Kerr's behaviour became a problem the minute he had a go at the coaching staff in the dressing room. The next question was how does Fowler respond? The answer was: swiftly, and ruthlessly. Some may think it is too decisive but it is much better than keeping Kerr there. Two questions now: how does the manager deal with the underlying problem re: coaching staff? how do we replace Kerr? If the manager continues with Jim Thomson then others may become restless, too, since he would appear unwilling to accept criticism - people may begin to sympathise with Kerr. But if Fowler brings in an experienced assistant and an adequate replacement for Kerr, then this could be a master stroke in Fowler's development. He would show he is a manager willing to learn, but not willing to accept disrespect to his authority or disruption to the team group.

Yes but you see our 'competent yet nothing special championship players' are by and large young lads who have (or had) an awful lot of potential. They were beyond special in League One last year - actually brilliant - and how they are playing right now is a step down from where they were last year. Do not mistake this for me saying that they are achieving less than last year (though obviously they are). Achieving less can be attributed to playing against better teams. Playing at a lower personal level cannot (at least not for this group). Our wingers are less inspired, our forwards less energetic, and our defenders less confident. It is not that our team has maintained its prior levels but is up against better sides; our overall levels have dropped. So that is a concern, and then we recall that these are mostly young players who should be bounding forward, and even against better teams they showed last year that they can step up a gear and then another gear again, and yet under Jim McIntyre they have withdrawn into themselves. In terms of the squad this is the main problem. There are other arguments against Mr McIntyre to do with team selections, his personal conduct, etc. but someone else can take these.

Heard the same thing, pretty awful man management, and even after the conversation moves away from Reilly's "glaring chance" he comes back around to mention a second time the "all important chance". For those who want to avoid the interview, McIntyre is also "getting sick of saying it" on missed chances and warns "the personnel might change, simple as that because you can't keep accepting it", before telling Sandra that the forward line is a place "where I don't have a lot of options, put it that way".

Yes, he is under pressure not to squander the opportunity of a generation.