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Don't Listen to the Radio - The Vines

I think we should arrange to play our pre-season games in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife.

While Dross C*unty have made an interesting managerial appointment in Leitch I think that they could very well have blown their chances of promotion for a while. The seasons of abject pish under Alex Smith have eaten up money - Roy McGregor et al pumped money into the club over this period so that Smith could sign up such luminaries as David Winters, Stuart Taylor, Gary McSwegan, Jim Hamilton, David Hannah etc. Now that the useless fan-dan Smith has been removed the money has run out and there will have to be swinging cuts in the budget. No one would be surprised to see John Rankin and Don Cowie moved on in the summer, Martin Canning has already been sold to Gretna. What are the chances of bringing in players of a similar quality? If County had had a good manager in place when they were putting in money then they could have won the First division in the last few years. Unfortunately they had Smith who, despite his erse being kissed by football journalists nationwide, pissed their money up against a wall. I went to see County play St Mirren last season (the game had been cancelled at short notice and admission to the away end was free) and they looked a broken, nothing team. They tipped and tapped the ball about in their own half but as soon as they looked remotely threatening, ANdy Millen, Kirk Broadfoot and Kevin McGowane stepped in and COunty couldn't do anything about it. Anyway, finish on a song: Let's all laugh at County Let's all laugh at County Ha ha ha ha ha ha Let's all laugh at County Let's all laugh at County Ha ha ha ha ha ha Let's all laugh at County Let's all laugh at County Ha ha ha ha ha ha Let's all laugh at County Let's all laugh at County Ha ha ha ha ha ha Let's all laugh at County Let's all laugh at County Ha ha ha ha ha ha

I see that Iain Vigurs, ex Elgin City, scored for the Under 19s. I'd have thought that he'd be in line for a move up to the first team, he has already played league football at Elgin. Also, Guy Kerr has experience for Scotland U-16s and is getting regular games in the reserves and U19s.

I don't think that Pele would have won the First Division in 2004. His teams were fantastic to watch but would we have hauled back Clyde playing his way? It's doubtful. Having said that, the first half of the 2002/03 season was the best football I've ever seen us play - I think we won 13 out of 15 games in the league, with one defeat and a draw where we came from 3-0 down. Apparently there will be an annoucement on the County job at noon today with Pele one of the names linked. Also in the frame, according to todays Sun is Motherwell captain Scott Leitch :shock:

From the Evening Times: I'm pretty sure I've seen Sutherland in a couple of youth/reserves games and he looked not bad. Is he the wee wide player?

Nice one Pedro.

Alan Gow would cost too much and isn't any good anyway. We should try and sign Don Cowie from County, he is a decent wee player apparently. Rankin has gone off the boil since the transfer window and if he does move it'll be more than likely to St Mirren or a team like that, ie from the South. Perhaps we could look to England, we did not bad getting Ian Black and Alan Morgan from Blackburn. Edited to say: I see in teh press Gordon Strachan wants to put some of his younger players out on loan for next season. This could be worth a look at, a player like Charlie Mulgrew would be a good addition.