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Lorne or links?

Based on what he's produced so far.. no. Both look utter utter shite. Harris might actually have marginally more talent. Albeit less baws. It's quite impressive that we've scoured Britain and come up with Harris's long lost Lithuanian cousin

Bonkers that anyone is happy with Dallison being an improvement on last season, so far. He's looked woeful. Needs to get 1000% better or he should start looking for a modelling contract.

It might have some value if they threw a bit of decent cash at it. £250k for the winner or something. £100k for the runner up Might see different team selections if so.

Can the Challenge Cup get any worse? Bigot Colts despatched and the reward is a home tie against some sheep farmers. Brutal competition.

Yep, I'm not necessarily losing faith in Hartley. It depends how involved he was in recruitment, and how many of this lot are his choices and he's watched. I've lost faith in this squad of players though. They're very very poor, and I don't think you can ever recover from that, other than with more signings in Jan. Love to be proved wrong, but this squad is a bottom 4 squad. I'm not really big on tactics and "what if we just moved him from..." I just like to look at how good players are individually. Pretty grizzly when you do that. Not to say Hartley doesn't take blame even if the scout left him with a bag of shite (playing 4 CHs for example twice) but I could see him being sacked by us and successful elsewhere.

Ross County have started ominously true to the odds, including going away to one of the dark horse teams and beating them. Im not sure it really is that winnable. Playoffs on the other hand, are anyones. We'll Ross County also huffed and puffed against Alloa at home and only won with a very late goal. I think we'll find that no one in this league is very good.

Its an extremely winnable league this season too.

Playoffs perhaps, but it was impossible to finish bottom last season. Not sure many are hankering back to Houston. His time was well and truly up. Hartley's having the boot stuck in because he seems to have built a squad of dross and is making a right kunt of the job.

I think managers in general hate being questioned by fans, or the media at all really. There's a "what do you know?" arrogance, from people "in the game" I dont mind that. Not ever been interested in anything a manager says. We can see for ourselves what happens in the games,

"Too early to say" "He's carrying something" "Took a knock" "We'll need to see over the next couple of days"

I knew someone would do the "he's at Chelsea" thing. There's a whole universe of Tesco shelf stackers who were young players at big clubs. Its no sign they are decent.

If he was good enough he would stand out. I don't know what he's supposed to be good at. Doesn't look creative, doesn't look a battler, doesn't look box to box. I don't see the point of him . The Hearts kid looks streets ahead. He plays development football too.

Didn't go because this is a joke competition I hope we get punted out of quickly. A fucking win though!!

Right back

f**k me... The lesser spotted Tommy Robson starts the night

Rogers is a decent shout actually. Pretty similar in terms of ability. He probably won't pass us but we need to be careful not to join him

I know. Shepherd is the "1"

So, 1 down . 2 to go. Get accepting those envelopes Harris and McKee.

Kinda how I feel. Probably guilty of being too harsh myself . His effort was always there. Just a crazy deal from Houston for a guy we already knew couldn't cut it in the Championship. He might have got a few quid from this payoff that he can use to go to college nor something as he plays part time or juniors.

Shepps was w**k . I still reckon that two year deal from Houston was a f**k you to someone. Ultimately all of us as it turned out

Aye, I saw someone earlier saying "Sammut is clearly a very talented player" or something like that. Is he?

Where's Sheps off to? No fucking danger he played 70 games. I'm calling fake news on thag

Don't think he'd take it. Not unless he's out of work a good bit longer. Reckon he'll be first name out of the hat if a Prem team sacks their manager or a League One team in England

I'm saying that's the absolute ceiling. I don't think we'll finish 6th.