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I kinda thought a few of these guys left but wasnt too sure. Who was the dude who went to Watford and scored on his debut but never played again??

How you getting on with Newsnow Frankie?? New season approaching, if any changes wanted lets discuss. But lets try and get the place buzzing for the next few weeks, every regular post as much as possible (relevant stuff though , so Jon we dont need another 84 pages of naked women on the totty thread - well we do actually)

Wonder why BT was sacked. Seemed to be there a long time!! I know his nephew Malcolm Thomson and he is at it!!! Anyway whats wrong with Andy Goram as coach!! :cheers:

And maybe we'll pull out a Tunnocks caramel waffer soon and get a class signing

Maloney is a bit of a Chris Burke IMO. Has talent but only on a small stage and is very inconsistant.

My thoughts precisely, infact im glad we arent waisting another 1.5-2million on a suposed "SPL talent". Its time to buy proving players.

So are we in better shape than last year: I know Ive missed out someone. But there is no doubt we have better depth, as to whether we are stronger thats another question. Goalkeepers: On paper my answer would be no straight away due to Klos leaving - he was world class despite no being involved for so long. Letizi was poor but he was experienced. We now have 3 average goalies IMO, 2 with fine SPL experience and 1 with big International and Premiership experience despite him being a bombscare. Defenders / Full backs - a certain yes for me. Svensson never settled and J Rod had 10 bad games for every good game. Cuellar looks like he has been in our back 4 for 5 years and Weir is a safe name on the team sheet. Midfield: Another banker yes for me as Thomson is a straight swap for Clement while McCulloch is miles better than Gavin Rae. Attacking Midfielders: Again yes, and id be tempted to put Buffel and McCullochs names in the list plus Novo and Whittaker can fill in. We easily have more depth here. Last years first picks of Burke and Adam surely have to move down the pecking order. Forward: Tough one this! We have more depth again plus others can fill in here like McCulloch, but replacing a fully fit Prso would cost us more than we have spent all summer on our new signings. So while our numbers our better that mught just pip this to being a yes but a fully fit Prso would make it in ahead of any of that strikers.

He is also a Wrestler who tries to look like Jim Morrison

I'll need to be convinced of this signing simply because I havent seen him play 2 million for another Hibs player Are we bank rolling them or something. Welcome to the club anyway - We did need a right sided player.

On here or main site? I'll do it for main site unless Frankie beats me to it. EDIT: Frankie will have to do it, when I clicked the save tab with the changes it done it with "errors on page" display

A right winger who also plays on the left

Saw a few times playing on the telly. IIRC he is a left sided midfielder and back up to Downing. Good news that he is going to play for us.

Agreed. It is a bit of a surprising stat when the likes of McCoist were around for 15 years.

Took the words out of my mouth (or keyboard)

Was trying to find the same thing out mate. Its shocking that BBC dont broadcast abroad, they did with some games during the season depending who was playing i.e. Falkirk v Motherwell.

I thought the title of the thread was missing the rest of the sentance .....canteen staff Well done to the bears who were there, its nice to hear good words spoken about us even though its from Fat Frank. There is no doubt that the likes of Chelsea Man U etc would take the Old Firm into the Premiership in an instant.

Dont know much about him. I saw hibs a few times on the telly last season and he didnt jump out at me. Cant say im over excited if he signs at all, but its a much needed right sided player.

As high as 16.5m!! I thought it was closer to 8 or 9 million. But yeah CL is a must to get that down even more.

Pure quality. Anyone know if Jose acknowledged it?? Im surprised McIntyre let it in the stadium though. No doubt we'll get pulled up for bigotry for this.

Thats what Boyd needs - a Hateley type player. But doesnt Darcheville play off a striker? Its just a shame Big Dado's knees were almost done, he would have been awesome for the job if he had a few years left in him. If we could get another Prso type player we would be laughing.

I know we wont be getting big names from top of the ladder like a Ballack, Tevez, Henry etc but when you see West Ham signing Ljungberg for 3 million and Dyer going for 4 million you just have to think if we are putting 3.3 million in for Whittaker and Naismith then is the next level of EPL players like a Ljungberg completely out of our reach? The wages are a stumbling block but there are players out there who would find Rangers attractive. As said above the CL will be a factor. If we are in it then a higher level of player will come to us. We also have to remember Smith attracted big players to Rangers before - ok he had an open cheque book - but he has to be credited for signing Gazza, Laudrup, Hateley and Albertz. So hopefully he can pull another name like this out of the hat.

Yeah I'll go with you guys on the above and would be happy for Sebo to get a run out. The centre midfield issue is going to be interesting if we get a creative player or Buffel comes into form. Ferguson is likely to be a banker starter even though Hemdani continues to be our best midfielder. The only slight issue I see is we have a few players needing to do position swapping to do our covering. For eg McCulloch could see himself being RM then LM the following week and even striker the next. Novo could be a striker one week and RM the next. Etc etc. There isnt anything wrong with having vertisle players but its best to have players in settled positions. Ive been a fan of a 5 man midfield over the years and I still am with the right players but we have to go 4-4-2. But the options we have now are much better, there may even be a shout for 4-3-3 in certain games: ______________McGregor______________ Hutton_____Weir_____Cuellar______Papac ____Ferguson____Hemdani____Thomson____ ____Novo______Darcheville____McCulloch__

I dont want to get a debate going in here as its footy chat but I heard a total new side to this over the weekend - I heard an actual former US soldier describe his experience in Iraq telling a radio show that the US army are taking out anyone they are told and the olny people fighting back are normal innocent civilians who just want them to leave there country alone. (A natural thing - Im sure if a country invaded Scotland the public would fight back) This Ex-soldier was actually arrested on Friday following his comments and they tried to charge him with leaving the army without proper consent which he proved wrong. He was telling us the media pertray lies to the West, for instance CNN was filming his bombing exercises they were doing but weeks later they showed it on TV claiming it was real fighting with Iraqis. I can get the clips if needed. There was much more. Anyway, well done Iraq on the victory, they actually played quite well over the tournament.

Not a bad feat as Japan and Australia arent bad sides these days and they were at full strength in the tournament. But im more happy for the country of Iraq more than anything else. They deserve a bit of luck seen as they have the American troops invading there country on false evidence and killing there innocent civillians. I just hope they can celebrate this and no bombing take place like during the semi final victory.

Ive never even heard of Cousin so I wont judge him. Naismiths age makes him more appealing thought but neither are that big name Im hoping for. Is he any good on FM?