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We might not be able to buy a 15 goal a season striker but Watkins hasn’t scored 15 in the last 5 seasons.

I could see him rocking up at Livingston as I don’t think they replaced Forest who went to Hearts.

I don’t doubt Stephen will get offers elsewhere if he keeps up his good work and he’ll be off but in a recent interview he said he wanted some stability for his family after so many house moves and Goodwin’s situation must act as a warning that sometimes there’s a lot to be said for a steady pay check over a fast buck.

Haven’t seen it back yet but in real time the Motherwell player’s focus was on winning a penalty and thought he tried to orchestrate a penalty. Possibly VAR panel saw that as well. Many teams seem to be coached these days more on how to win penalties at corners than how to score goals from them. At a corner just before or after that incident Van Veen was trying a similar move trying to interlock arms with his marker ready to go down. Hate that aspect of the modern game.

In the livi game they gave away a penalty for handball (harsh maybe) but having given away the penalty, did their player get a yellow card? Don’t think he did, if not what the Fck is the rule? Several other teams have had players yellow carded when it’s a handball even when the ball is fired against a hand/arm. Where’s the consistency??

Bloody Jack Ross. Scout a bit further afield would you. (Yeh I know he had him at hibs but still)

We could have a barometer Blue Peter style which goes up on the big screen and for every sectarian chant/song it goes up. A sectarianometer if you like. If it caught on and was published weekly might shame some of them, but doubt it.

Agree, Ross has burnt his bridges and he reaps what he sows from now on in my book, I had wanted him back before he knocked back our approach. However I doubt he’ll ever think he should have stayed another season with us. He absolutely maxed his pulling power when he did. He’d have had to get us up and minimum got us into the top 6 to stand out the following year, had he just kept us up it wouldn’t have attracted such an offer. Had he stayed with us an extra year and then moved to Aberdeen or the likes he’d still have had to do well with them to get such an offer. Sunderland was a free hit for him, he was always still going to get an offer from a Hibs or an Aberdeen if it hadn’t worked out (barring a total disaster.) Being biased, I think he should have jumped at a chance to come back but not our problem now.

Are you suggesting we had to get him pissed to get him to accept

Morecambe are in the relegation zone, no idea how long he has been there but Hopefully the settlement takes that into account. We’d have loved another team to take Stubbs, Craig or Rae off us to name but a few.

You are often right, so who do they want?

Sadly this is karma for laughing at Dundee earlier this week. Barry Ferguson for assistant?

Is he definitely out of contract in the Summer? If so I agree its a strange one given the amount of clubs that we meant to be watching him.

I’m sure bigger teams will consider AInwick but I’ve not seen anything yet to suggest he’s been approached for a PCA? Also I’m sure he gave an interview where he said money wasn’t his biggest motivator and he was happier with saints than he’s been elsewhere. (Or maybe I dreamt that).

Makes me nostalgic for January signing Duckins Nuneve, as at least his highlights page included international games or Chabbi whose clips at least had him playing in a proper stadium.

Tommy was a coach at some big teams so he must have been highly thought of, but he’d never been a success as a manager which is why giving him the job, then giving him a two year contract when he’d probably have signed a one year contract was madness. He shouldn’t feel hard done by, we boosted his pension which presumably is what he’s doing now, i.e. retired.

Agree, if, and I don’t think it will happen, we end up relegated then he’d be out but if he keeps us up again I don’t see him under any threat, and I doubt the board will jump the gun with any decision. Too early to be thinking this negatively.

John Terry in as his replacement? Has more management experience than Stevie G had when he was appointed and every other team could really get behind hating him.

He’s a cert to score against us but hopefully it’s a consolation. Coys.

Did Dylan just sign a two year deal? If so, sadly one of the reasons could be to make some money off him next summer as keeping him till next season will see us get little when he moves to hibs

Agree with the slap in the face bit but most plaYers are want away players these days, if they are in the last year of their contract and they think a better deal could be offered they won’t sign a new contract until they see what is out there. Players like Flynn (who I’d like to see given more of a chance) sign extensions when offered as they don’t see an offer coming elsewhere.

What happened to steady progress or cementing a mid table position, false expectations I guess. Looks like a another year of hoping one or two teams are worse than us, brutal!!

Thought that as well but more like he’s got the start of a beer belly.

His signing turned our season around making us think we had a real find, then he was asked to play a different role and he didn’t look anything special. Not his fault that the manager altered his role after such a good start. I think United have got a really good signing, but I agree with an earlier comment, this is Cammie’s chance to kick on and if he does JDH won’t be a big loss.

Steve’s wages might be a problem, he’s hardly set for life yet the way Thompson probably was, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he stayed wherever pays the most, which wouldn’t be us. I hope he comes back one day though.