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We must have, by far, the biggest wage bill in this league and will be making a loss of hundreds of thousands of pounds this season. We have players all our rivals would kill to have. Savage is funding this to get us to where we can be sustainable as a full time club. Much as we all love Kells just now, the harsh truth is that if he doesn’t get us promoted this season he has failed.

I'm a bit concerned about all the high expectations for this season. We have come from a bad place, and whilst we are on the road to recovery, it will need a lot of hard graft to get back into the Championship. For me, the most important thing to happen this season will be things off the park. We need to develop a sustainable business model which will allow for longer term player contracts in the future with the potential for transfer income in due course. Obviously it will be great if we can win promotion with the squad we have, but I think a solid mid-table finish will represent positive progress on our journey. We would then look to push onwards and upwards the following season when we would probably have a more solid foundation to ensure we don't go straight back down again. I've predicted we will finish 4th, which, at the time of writing, is lower than everyone else has predicted. If it turns out I have been too pessimistic, then I will be delighted, but if it turns out most people have been too optimistic and we don't win the league or gain promotion via the playoffs, it would not be good for the club if it was generally regarded as a failure

Dominant performance until we eased up after the third. Kelty were poor and their defence contributed to each goal, but we had to score. Mckay’s opener was the pick, curling the ball in. Longstaff scored the second with a header, whilst Wotherspoon juggled the ball before calmly netting the third. Chalmers ran the midfield and MacIntyre looked good at left back. An enjoyable afternoon in the sun but we will have tougher tests ahead.

A lot of those "highlights" are pretty rubbish, that could easily have been Billy over the past 2 or 3 years. But as people on here like to say, the proof is in the pudding 😉

With three more new signings yesterday I hope we can get a few more to complete the second shirt, it would be good to add some new sponsors.

We know about Alfie, what about Chanka>>>

Payment for Matthew Strachan sponsorship has now been made. We will continue to collect names for a while to see what else we can sponsor and all names will go into the hat at the end of the season to be drawn for any goodies we receive from the club in return.

A classy and composed performance, at least until the substitutions. Hard to conclude on how good we actually are given that Kelty were a shadow of the side we have seen before, making loads of errors, lacking physical presence and generally seeming a bit aimless. But we certainly played a lot of lovely football and didn’t do much wrong. Great start to the season but many tougher opponents lie ahead.

Sounds a lot like the kind of thinking that put us where we are now.

We'll be swapping places soon dont worry

3-0! Wasn't sure what to expect today, but it wasn't this

Aye, its 2-0. BBC reporter was shot dead.

Ah well, I had 2 minutes to realise the latest video was 8 years old.

Pessimists are seldom disappointed.

That pretty well sums up my feelings. Alan Savage isn't going to finance the club forever, and it is therefore imperative that some other investors come in. (I am sure that he will be working on that.) I think that a playoff spot is a reasonable aspiration. Someone may well run away with the league, but I don't think it will be us. But of course I am looking forward to every minute of a season that we very nearly didn't see!

A serious statement of intent from Savage. We now have a squad which should be strong enough to dominate this league. We need to be putting down a marker at Kelty today and wiping out the points deduction by next Saturday.. Massively up for the season ahead. Time for folk to back the team in numbers home and away.

I never make predictions, and I never will…

Disappointed in the lack of an option for invincibles to be honest. 1st will have to do.

For my annual League One reviews, I've tended to assume that full-time sides (the ones that are not financial basket-cases) are likely to beat out part-time ones over the course of a whole season. Of course Arbroath put that particular theory to shame last season, but I'm not going to let a small thing like that stop me. Of this season's four full-time League One teams, INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE are the bookies' favourites but start with a five point deduction courtesy of last season's administration adventure. Five points isn't a huge amount, but it's the equivalent of nearly two wins and may make this tougher than many think. Caley Thistle have also lost loanee striker Alfie Bavidge plus excellent keeper Musa Dibaga and midfielder Charlie Gilmour, though they've replaced the latter two adequately with Ross Munro and Joe Chalmers respectively. They also did well to retain Paul Allan and get Alfie Stewart back on loan. They unquestionably have the best midfield in the division and wingers Luis Longstaff and Liam Sole could have big years; however at the moment their starting attackers are Billy McKay (36) and David Wotherspoon (35). A new striker (or a Bavidge return) is required if they really are going to be the team to beat. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH finished last season strongly and so boss Peter Murphy has largely chosen to run it back, signing three loan players permanently. Jordan Allan and new striker Kurtis Guthrie (who played for Livingston in the top flight a few years back) should be a threatening pair and mitigate the exit of Adam Brooks. They've also used the loan market well to get St. Mirren defender Callum Penman and exciting Killie midfielder Cole Burke, while Kai Kennedy is hugely talented if he can stay fit. This looks like the best squad the Doonhamers have had in the last few seasons and could take them far. In contrast, COVE RANGERS went down a rebuild route; Paul Hartley has lost a number of players, including goalie Nick Suman and club legend Connor Scully, and is operating a very streamlined squad at the time of writing. There is plenty of quality in striker Mitch Megginson and midfielders Fraser Fyvie and Declan Glass but new keeper Robbie Mutch will be a downgrade from the terrific Suman (who joined Aberdeen) and the lack of depth - and, surprisingly, the lack of loan signings so far - will be a concern unless Hartley is very busy in the market in the next month. And then we come to the aforementioned basket-case. HAMILTON ACADEMICAL were relegated after a points deduction and now, having had to move to Cumbernauld for the season, they have been hit with a transfer embargo until next summer as well. Whilst they held on to a pretty solid core - including forwards Oli Shaw and Scott Robinson and midfielders Barry Maguire and Steven Bradley - they seem to only have around 13 senior players; just to add to the chaos, at least two veterans who had been kept on to join the coaching staff apparently can't be re-registered as players due to the embargo. They feel like the obvious answer to the question "Which Scottish club is most likely to end up in administration this season?". Which of the part-time clubs could emulate Arbroath's success? I'm not sure any jump out for me. PETERHEAD could well carry momentum from their League Two title triumph; guys like Craig McGuffie, Peter Pawlett and Cammy Smith have been round the block and Oliver Colloty really impressed up front after joining mid-season. Jack Newman should be a good signing in goal, though I'm not sure veteran forward Niall McGinn has much left to offer. It'll be strange seeing them without Rory McAllister up front though. The other promoted side, EAST FIFE, have only made one new signing at the time of writing - Lewis Latona on loan from Livingston - and it'll be a huge ask for 39 year old forward Alan Trouten to repeat last season's ridiculous goal tally. He and Nathan Austin should give them enough firepower but neither the defence nor midfield look of League One standard (as it stands, their only goalkeeper is youth product Matty Rollo, who made his debut in the League Cup groups). They need reinforcements if they are to show they belong here. STENHOUSEMUIR did remarkably well to make the promotion playoffs last season but admitted afterward that their finances had sailed rather too close to the wind for comfort. The exit of Blair Alston is probably a sign they are cutting their cloth. Striker Matty Yates has also gone (though his expected move to Accies fell through and he's still a free agent) and most of their signings are short-term ones to deal with an injury crisis. Finlay Gray looks like a great addition from Dumbarton and boosts a midfield area that is probably still a strength, and Gregor Buchanan and Ross Meechan provide experience at the back. However they look very unlikely to challenge for top four again. ALLOA ATHLETIC just missed out on that fourth spot and there was perhaps a feeling that Andy Graham's side underachieved a little last season. With the exception of loan keeper Liam McFarlane most of their newcomers feel like depth pieces though medical student midfielder Andy Clarke looks worth taking a punt on. They'll need McFarlane to prove an adequate replacement for PJ Morrison between the sticks, but otherwise the backbone of last season's team is still here and still looks strong. I don't think League Cup form holds much weight but the Wasps were very, very good in the group stage. Last season was quite a turbulent one for KELTY HEARTS, who lost manager Michael Tidser to Dunfermline and then endured a nightmare period under Charlie Mulgrew. Tam O'Ware took the reins after Mulgrew's exit and kept them out of a relegation playoff; he was rewarded with the gig permanently and has only retained nine players. If he can gel the newbies quickly, he could be rewarded; midfielders Innes Murray and Alex Ferguson look like particularly smart acquisitions. But top scorer Ross Cunningham is away and they're looking to former Stirling forward James Graham for goals. And finally MONTROSE are heading for their eighth consecutive season at this level, which is some job. It does seem to be getting gradually tougher for Stewart Petrie's side though. Keeping Kieran Freeman and Craig Wighton permanently after loan spells will help, and Ewan Loudon scored a lot of goals in the Highland League last season. And the defence, marshalled by 42 year old Sean Dillon, isn't short of experience. But they're another team who could do with bringing in a few loans if they are to avoid a relegation scrap. So here's my (inevitably wrong) predicted table: 1. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 2. INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE 3. COVE RANGERS 4. PETERHEAD 5. ALLOA ATHLETIC 6. KELTY HEARTS 7. STENHOUSEMUIR 8. MONTROSE 9. EAST FIFE 10. HAMILTON ACADEMICAL Lawrie Spence has whinged about Scottish football on Narey's Toepoker since September 2007. He has a life outside this blog. Honestly. View the full article

Peterhead, goal difference +3 - top of the table. ICT, goal difference +3 - bottom of the table.