Uilleam

Indeed !! Indeed !!

Indeed!!!!!!

He's a threepenny bit

Fabuloso!

Harsh. But fair.

Yeeeehai !! 5 - 2. I feel it.

So you would grudge him even a loser's medal?

He'd get banned again, and surely you want him eligible for the SC Final?

He's banned, but maybe sticking a John Greig mask on him would help.

Yeeeeees!!! I hesitate to suggest it, but 'Game on?'

Goodness fucking Gracious!

Oh Dear! Oh Dear! Oh Dear!

Yours still strike thirteen?

Happens when the player is shoved off the ball all the time......

You and Kenny Miller, eh? Peas in a pod.

And, presumably, stop them getting to the ball.

Firhill for Thrills, Compo. You'll need to sit near a defibrillator.

Such a pusillanimous post that you had to put it in the wrong thread !! 4 - 0... and more in the second half.

A feast of football !! A glut of goals !! Well, a half-decent win, anyway.

Should we be worried?

We don't even steal well!!

Replacing the dross may not be a problem, even replacing them with better players. The real issue is replacing your sellable assets, ie your best players, with equally (as near as dammit) talented guys. We don't seem to have that potential replacement programme in place, so we find it difficult to dispose of valuable players, and, perforce, allow them to run their contracts down.

Ideally, you would have a 'production line' of young talent. The problem is that this, to be successful, requires an enormous operation, involving age groups from 5/6/7 yrs upwards, and, what has always seemed to me, at least, a rather harsh culling operation, telling really very young children that they are being cut. We seem, and are not alone in this, to poach players from other clubs, at c16/17 yrs, for a 'development fee'. This must be a cheaper option. Has it been successful? The aim must be to have young players to step into the shoes of your bankable assets.m, along with a comprehensive programme of potential acquisitions.

It strikes me that the vaunted 'Player Trading Model' only really works when you have gettable, already identified, replacements for the asset(s) whom you wish, or need, to sell. If you don't have this crucial part of the model in place, then you end up keeping players to pacify the manager, and the support, and risking these assets disappearing on a Bosman for free (and, of course, with no replacements in immediate view). Is it too much to hope that we move towards this slicker, more professional, m.o.? Or is it all just too difficult?

@Rousseau will be appointing the Director of Football. He's too modest to reveal this. And, he couldn't take the cut in wages to do it himself.