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Positive bit of all this is that we all already knew he was pish anyway and were looking forward to releasing him in January.

There had to be money left in the budget for another centre forward already anyway, otherwise signing McGinn was a Hopkin level bit of recruitment from Imrie and by far the stupidest managerial decision he's made. If the termination of Emmanuel-Thomas' contract is without pay considering he's remanded in custody and can't turn up to work then it's an unexpected bit of money back into the budget on top of that to give us an actual centre forward who isn't terrible.

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The real culpability in this lies with those at the club who decided that this guy was fit and able to do a job for us in the Championship. Cannot imagine what those we overlooked in favour of him must be like.

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6 minutes ago, Branch Ton said:

The real culpability in this lies with those at the club who decided that this guy was fit and able to do a job for us in the Championship. Cannot imagine what those we overlooked in favour of him must be like.

Were his issues well known before signing? 

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17 minutes ago, Branch Ton said:

The real culpability in this lies with those at the club who decided that this guy was fit and able to do a job for us in the Championship. Cannot imagine what those we overlooked in favour of him must be like.

I agree that on footballing reasons alone he had already gone down as a bad signing because he's now a dreadful footballer, but that doesn't make anyone at the club culpable for this happening. They're culpable for us having a shite centre forward for two months, not for the PR situation his arrest has caused.

There was no way anyone at the club was supposed to know this would happen. It's not like they could have asked a previous club for a character reference to find out he was going to be charged with an alleged serious crime.

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1 hour ago, Dunning1874 said:

Positive bit of all this is that we all already knew he was pish anyway and were looking forward to releasing him in January.

There had to be money left in the budget for another centre forward already anyway, otherwise signing McGinn was a Hopkin level bit of recruitment from Imrie and by far the stupidest managerial decision he's made. If the termination of Emmanuel-Thomas' contract is without pay considering he's remanded in custody and can't turn up to work then it's an unexpected bit of money back into the budget on top of that to give us an actual centre forward who isn't terrible.

On the one hand, sounds like this worked well given he was utter sh1t and a dreadful summer signing.  On the other hand, you now have to scrape around the bottom of the barrel looking for a free agent striker who might be able to do a turn in the bottom half of the Scottish Championship, and who no-one else noticed or wanted when the window was still open...

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59 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:

I agree that on footballing reasons alone he had already gone down as a bad signing because he's now a dreadful footballer, but that doesn't make anyone at the club culpable for this happening. They're culpable for us having a shite centre forward for two months, not for the PR situation his arrest has caused.

There was no way anyone at the club was supposed to know this would happen. It's not like they could have asked a previous club for a character reference to find out he was going to be charged with an alleged serious crime.

What! Did he not have part time drug dealer on his CV?

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39 minutes ago, VictorOnopko said:

On the one hand, sounds like this worked well given he was utter sh1t and a dreadful summer signing.  On the other hand, you now have to scrape around the bottom of the barrel looking for a free agent striker who might be able to do a turn in the bottom half of the Scottish Championship, and who no-one else noticed or wanted when the window was still open...

We already were. We are just now doing it with a few quid extra in the pocket.

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