Jacky1990

Its nothing to do with that though is it? Team lacks quality? - Cesnauskis is their captain ffs. Having not watched any of the games, I would doubt many, if any, would get a game for a team in the Scottish Premiership Needs investment? - I don't know Trakai's finances but would hazard a guess that it is, at best, similar to St Johnstone's. Small club? - UEFA rank St Johnstone 215th, Trakai 404th. St Johnstone are officially a bigger club/team. We (Scottish clubs) need to stop making piss poor excuses like that. We continuously get outplayed technically and out-thought tactically because managers and players dont adapt to suit European football.

Well, no. You mean utter obscurity like Robert Snodgrass, Graham Dorrans, Ryan Fraser, Christophe Berra, Charlie Adam, David Marshall, etc.? Stop getting yer knickers in a twist just cause Fraser Fyvie turned out to be shite.

Jason Cummings, a player woefully unproven in the Scottish Premiership, just went to the Championship down south for a report £1million. Even taking into account strikers tend to cost more than defenders, £250k-£350k for a player the same age, who has just been named in the league TOTY, is a farce.

Because the Daily Record, Mirror, S*n, etc. are essentially click-bait journalism. Putting that he's a Celtic fan will be seen as a way to boost readership cause most of their readers will view it as "one of our own" or "one of them". Embarrassing all round.

Would be a decent signing imo. Thought for a while we should be in the market for young Scottish players from smaller, lower league clubs.

Lindsay to The Tribute Act is surely a non-starter? He's a big Celtic fan and has already stated his desire to go down south. Would be gobsmacked if he went there.

Whats Archie's contract like? How much compo would we be entitled to? If we get a fair bit, and a decent value for Lindsay, I'd happily push the boat out for Jack Ross

What are the chances McCarthy will have a prominent role in the squad next season? I would have assumed that the plan would be to send him out on loan either to the Championship or top end League 1 but if he's seen as a squad player for next season, maybe Welsh has seen that and thought his game time will be limited with Banzo/Barton/Osman/Edwards/McCarthy/Fraser(maybe) and him all competing for 3 places? Tbh if we want to be a consistent top 6 side like St J, we need upgrades on a few of our players across the squad. IMO Welsh sadly falls into that category. Decent player at this level, but no more than that and I'd be more than happy if his place in the squad gets taken up by someone like McCarthy.

Don't know about anyone else, but seeing that list of potential replacements for Hartley made me realise even more how lucky we are to have Archie and Shaggy. I'd consider us and Dundee to be fairly similar sized clubs (if anything, they would be a slightly bigger club with a much bigger budget), so those names would likely be the same names linked with us if Archie left. A horrendous list of the usual inept managers that. Lets just hope Archie stays for the foreseeable future!

Seem to remember him being very highly rated at Preston and a big fuss being made about which Ireland he chose. Div Wilson finally getting the loan spell he badly needs?

He's only been out since April mind.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36997577 This might just take the biscuit. Minute by minute analysis of Joey "the savior of Scottish football" Barton's debut. It's mind-boggling that the beeb can't find something better to write about and think anyone in their right minds would give a flying f*ck.