Kingsmills

We will have a much better idea once many of our international players, playing for their various countries, return from the Euros.

Did you have a tenner on Matt Hancock still being Health Secretary on Monday ? There must be some reason for that level of grumpiness following a gentle pre season workout which, when all said and done, we won.😁

Yes. He has been part of our academy set up.

Early days but a very slight concern that we were not able to score from open play against a mid table Highland League team. Positive though that we have now gone two games without conceding.

I think it is clear that they were both out of contract this month. Given the, at best, patchy communication by the club, signing new contracts which the club is being tardy in announcing seems the most likely.

In the interests of safety, please make your tenner into a paper plane and attempt to flight it into the bucket from a minimum distance of 2 metres.

I very much doubt that it would have been the manager who negotiated the sell on clause, or the transfer fee for that matter.

A bit of a bias towards Raigmore but I entirely agree. There is nothing at all wrong with Dalneigh, or any other part of town for that matter.

It is in the nature of rumours to be unsubstantiated, otherwise they would be facts.

The magic disappeared quite some time ago.

He should feel right at home in Monte Carlo. Very similar to Dalneigh I understand.

It's Who Knows I was wondering about.

FT. 0-5. Only a bit of a workout but a clean sheet and five different goalscorers has to be encouraging.

Does anyone know who the trialist is?

On the other hand, you don't tend to have several thousand guests from several thousand different households in your living room. My best guess is that from 9th August clubs will be permitted to fill their grounds with home fans but with no away supporters allowed until much later in the season Then again, when it comes to guessing, I had a tenner on Scotland winning 2-1 last night.

It probably wouldn't have made a difference but questions need to be asked about whether there was a breach of protocol that resulted in our most creative player catching Covid and thus missing such a vital match. Not to direct blame at a 20 year old lad but to establish what seems to have gone wrong behind the scenes and why.

The course of this pandemic is, of course, difficult to predict but, subject to that caveat, the current plan is for stadia to operate at full capacity from 9th August onwards.

Of the top 50 nations in the Fifa World rankings we probably carry the least threat up front. This is a decent squad, perhaps the best in some time, and relatively young. However, unless and until we can somehow find one, and preferably two, international class forwards we won't be making much progress if any.

Just the typical experience of being a Scotland fan. Something happens to give you fleeting hope, the Archie Gemmil goal against the superb Netherlands side in 1978 probably being the prime example, and the crushing reality then returns.

Clach v ICT. Far and away the biggest game of football taking place in Scotland this week.

Entirely in our hands and we are also entirely capable, on our day, of beating Croatia at Hampden. Personally, I have got used to group stage disappointments from 1974 onwards, some older posters may even be able to add 1954 and 1958. The hoodu has to be broken sometime and what better time than this evening in front of a restricted but passionate home crowd.

Yes. Organisers can apply for spectators to be present which application will, almost certainly, be garanted at level 1 or 2 but with conditions and restrictions on numbers. My son's amateur team permits 1 spectator per player provided advance notice is given and contact details registered.

If I was the new Celtic manager I would be making every effort to keep one of my most skillful and talented players who is still young enough to develop further. If I was Ryan I might be tempted to put my negative experience under Lennon and Kennedy behind me and give the new coaching regime a chance.

You have clearly been in North America far too long. We have many more than a single 'math' here. You will be opining on who to play in offense and defense in the forthcoming soccer game.next 🇨🇦😁

Billy Gilmour out of the Coatia game after a positive Covid test. I wonder how many of his fellow squad members are close contacts and may have to follow suit ? Could be an enormous blow to our, already quite slender, hopes of qualifying for the knockout stage.