Raith Against The Machine

And, of course, there are always strikers that McGlynn and Smudger already know very well indeed

To go back to the earlier conversation around trialists, I wouldn't be too concerned. If McGlynn identifies a top striking target but feels like he needs to see him in a game against Stranraer or Clyde before committing, I'd be a little concerned. Even with Duku last year, McGlynn had been tracking him for a year and a half, I believe. I don't have any sort of inside track on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if we announced a striker tomorrow (or the day after, or next week), with no prior fanfare.

At the end of the season when Ugwu and Duku were released, I said at that point that it was worth a gamble on finding better out-and-out strikers. I'd have them both categorised as mid-to-low level Championship strikers and you'd hope we'd be able to find at least one better. Now, I'd sort of hoped we'd have those replacements down by now, but time will tell. With a couple of weeks to the competitive stuff, it looks like it might've been prudent to keep Ugwu and just focus on finding one new number 9. Still have complete faith in McGlynn though.

Better all-round game than Duku, although didn't look quite as clinical and didn't go through a purple patch like Duku did. Scored five goals for us. One was a penalty, one was a great hit in a breakaway against Dunfermline in the playoffs, and the other three had a combined distance from goal that wouldn't take him out of the six yard box. That said, I don't know how many strikers in this division would've scored his backheeled goal at Tynecastle. He's not going to score 20 goals a season, but he's also not going to go missing very often. I think that's a decent enough pick-up for Morton. He's Championship quality.

And indeed it was. Leo Donnellan, who was with Finn Harps last season.

That Rovers kit looks so much better in person.

Get Mitch oan!

Some pass from Coulson to send Mitchell through there. Perfectly weighted. It hadn't clicked with me that Mitchell was a striker. I like having youth strikers around the place. They never turn out to be any good, but there's a whole load of hope bundled up in "get Bryce on!".

The third trialist has taken Zanatta's spot on the right wing.

It does sound like Leo...

Mitchell is number 26.

I was going to say that he looks like someone we've picked up from FEFA for the day. Not that he's done anything wrong, at all, he's just clearly fairly young and a little green. 16 looks a wee bit more composed, although other than one lovely ball into the channel he hasn't been too involved.

I don't recognise these two trialists at first glance. 21 is playing at left back, 16 in the middle alongside Tait. Connolly on the right, Zanatta on the left.

Trialists presumably a left back and some fashion of holding midfielder? The five attacking players there could really be put out in just about any permutation you can think of. Maybe a 4-2-3-1 with Tait in the 2, and Keatings ahead of Vaughan as the striker and the number 10 respectively?

I wonder what Gary Wales is up to these days.

A mixed reaction to this one, I think it's fair to say.

I think the sponsor goes quite some way towards spoiling that. Falkirk's is similar. Because it's just plain text in an off-the-shelf Word font, it looks very Sunday league. I do like the giant lion on the navy panel though. That's a real nice touch.

Some people just aren't happy unless they're miserable, eh? Just love having something to complain about.

I too wish Davidson well.

I'd sit in the corner of Jamie MacDonald's goal just to be back at Stark's again. (That said, I took a half one slot. Get it up ye.)

I'm still reeling that someone thinks Rylan is too camp for Eurovision. It's like accusing someone of being too good looking to be a model, or too mid-table League One quality to play for Falkirk.

Top end of League Two, with a club that's upwardly mobile and seem to be doing a lot of things right? I think that's a decent move.

Jesus Christ. I hadn't seen that one. It's worse than the highly sketchy racism one, some seriously troubling stuff there. The author has really jumped on a tangential link to football to launch into a homophobic diatribe. That's fucking appalling.

Deary me. You can feel how proud he was as he stuck his wee initials at the end of that. "That's the snowflakes told!" he says, sitting back in his armchair, comfortable in his conviction that he's so not a racist he won't even let black people dance on television without complaining about it.