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I wouldn't want any of the players Ross County have signed. Daal was a disaster at St Johnstone, Scott morrison has flattered to decieve his whole career, Steven Craig has a very poor record, Richie Hart never performed consistently in the SPL and Richard Brittain did nothing in two seasons at St Mirren, albeit he suffered from injury. With regards to the Barrowman wait, that's the nature of football these days - out of contract players can pick and choose who they sign for and when they go there, especially if they are negotiating from a position of strength, like Barrowman. Regarding signing lower league players, that's the market we are in and it's the market we have been in since promotion to the SPL. We are basically in a position to sign players who have been let go by bigger (or more established) clubs (Dargo, Black, Wyness) or we can take a chance on players from lower leagues (Bayne, Dods, Rankin, Cowie, Imrie, Paatelinan). I don't think we've done badly out of this in the last five years or so.

He'd be a great signing. However, if he was interested in coming to us and we could afford him, most other SPL clubs could and we'd be outbid.

The moments after the winner against Hearts at Tynecastle were amazing, a good old fashioned bounce about. Someone from the row above barrelled into me, knocking me on the deck, Mixu and Markus were going mental in front of me, that ginger Jambo in the main stand bursting a blood vessel :001:

Why do people rate Bamba, he's garbage.

Our current youth players come up playing against a better standard of player than our Under 19s did when we were in the lower leagues. Also, of the young players mentioned by CaleyD five have been selected by Scotland at either Under 19, Under 20 or Under 21 level (Dale Gillespie, Guy Kerr, Zander Sutherland, Iain Vigurs and Rory McAllister) - this suggests that they are being judged as among the top players in their age group in the country. It's also pleasing that several of our young players have gone out on loan to get experience in the lower leagues, which we haven't really done before. Zander Sutherland and Garry Wood will hopefully have developed a lot by playing in a more competitive, physical league. Also, Ian Vigurs played for Elgin in the 3rd Division when he was 16 so has that experience under his belt. As well as this, although reserve football isn't as competitive or beneficial as first team football, you can't argue that our young lads don't play at a reasonably high level in the SPL reserve leagues. A lot of the players in these games have a lot of first team experience - I watched a game on Celtic TV once (get it as part of Setanta package along with Huns TV) and Celtic's reserves had Derek Riorden and Steven Pressley in it, both internationals!

It's a disgrace - why weren't you studying you skiving wee git? :018: :016: I don't know much about this side of things at the club as I haven't been to a home game in a while but what is Mike Smith's job, what value does he add to the club? I think taking a 'Brewster Out' banner is stupid but for an employee of the club to behave like that is poor.

Rory has not made 30 starts. :017: Did Darran thomson make 33 starts for us?

No-one has scored more than four against Gretna this season and they had been on a run of three draws. Obviously they are a rancid team but it's a good result for us. Six different scorers as well - always good.

3600 odd the crowd - very surprised, I was expecting around 1000 less than that.

jay7, I'd imagine that Wood will be spoken to after Montrose finish up the play-offs. I am pleased that we have given these guys a chance - all have represented their country and have shown promise. Rory McAllister takes some ammount of abuse considering he has been a fringe player at best during his time in the first season picture. He has only made eight starts in the league. In all his sub appearences the vast majority have been for short stints at the end of games, always a hard situation to impress in. He has a pretty decent scoring record in the SPL reserves as well.

Agree with that, he was superb. Moravcik was a great player as well, especially when he was scoring goals for us :015: Larsson, obviously. Celtic signed Henrick Larsson and Lubo Moravcik for a TOTAl of one million pounds, the same that Aberdeen paid for Paul Bernard and Hibs splurged on Ulysses de la Cruz. :010:

Barry's Robson and Wilson, both brilliant.

Surely it's a case of 'he who pays the piper'? Alan Savage would ahve known that most of the shares in the club are owned by David Sutherland/Tullochs before he took the job. What else is being said in the interview, for us South based types?

I'd imagine that the loan agreement specifies a date, which will probably be the date of the 3rd Division Play-Off final. Wouldn't be hard to agree an extension or early return either way. This would mean that Garry Wood can play for Montrose in the play offs but Zander can come back after Saturday.

-------------Fraser------------- --Tokely--Proctor--Munro--Hastings --Wilson--Cowie--McBain--Imrie--- --------Wyness----Niculae----------- Subs: Zibi Kerr Vigurs Black Gillespie Paatelinan McAllister

Does he speak enough English to say "Excuse me nurse, but your patient appears to have accessed the ward computer again. Please return him to the rubber cell and tighten the restraints".

Accies were very nearly out of business about five years ago - for them to make it to the SPL is a REAL fairy-tale, living the dream etc. Forget that Gretna pish. I think they could do OK. Offiong is a goalscorer, tjhey have some good young lads through the team and a few old heads (Mark McLaughlin etc).

I'm very jealous of Marius - he can't speak English so doesn't have to read this ****!

Hamilton Accies just took the lead against Clyde with a penalty - Clyde defender Neil McGregor was sent off for handball. If it stays like this Accies will be promoted ahead of Dundee.

Team from Sky sports: Michael Fraser Ross Tokely David Proctor Grant Munro Richard Hastings Barry Wilson Don Cowie Roy McBain Dougie Imrie Dennis Wyness Marius Niculae Subs Rory McAllister Iain Vigurs Markus Paatelinan Richie Hart Ian Black Guy Kerr Zibi Malkowski Kilmarnock Alan Combe Tim Clancy Ryan O'Leary David Lilley Garry Hay James Fowler Gary Locke Iain Flannigan Danny Invincible David Fernandez Gary Wales Subs Paul Dalglish Paul Di Giacamo Paul McInness Jamie Hammil Grant Murray Simon Ford Damien Rascle

Financing the wealthy? How much money do you think Romanov makes out of Hearts?

:022: I'd love to have seen Marius and Dargo up front together and think that we should sign a pacy forward to play alongside him if he's here next season. Our problems on the pitch this season are that we concede goals far too easily. We have conceded around 1.75 goals/game thsi season. In 2004/05 we were at 1.23, in 2005/06 we were 1 goal/game and last season it was 1.26. That translates to conceding an extra 19 goals a season.

What did Charlie say to Bone? Would we really have gone bust if we hadn't beaten Celtic in 2000? Did John Robertson really threaten to resign if we didn't sign Jim Hamilton?

I thought Blackie was suspended, so sub Vigurs for him in my XI.

The ever-reliable Highland News says today that the progress of Sutherland (nominated for Division Three PotY) and Wood (eight goals in twenty-four games) hasn't gone un-noticed and they could get new deals.