Yngwie

The readers' comment underneath the letter are worth a read. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1feecc2c-6bb4-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea034f.html#axzz4J2nQdvrk "I'm afraid the esteemed professor is missing a rather basic point here: North Sea tax revenues are generated by taxes on production profit, not revenue. It is a source of some concern to me that a member of the SNP's Fiscal Commission Working Group would be ignorant of such a basic fact ... and of even greater concern that he leaps to the conclusion that the accounts must be wrong rather than checking how these taxes actually work" And another: "If this guys a Professor of Economics at St Andrews University, the Scottish higher education system is truly in dire straits." Quite.

Closes at midnight.

Courier yesterday, interview with Foran about deadline day.

Foran quoted as saying out for the season.

I see McKay as a straight replacement for Devine in terms of quality and reliability, whereas McNaughton would have been an upgrade on Devine.

As were Led Zep.

Worth a read. I wonder which English club were interested in him?

They may have a choice on that whilst Scotland is part of the UK, but after a splt they wouldn't if they wanted to benefit from the UK's superior funding, facilities, coaching etc

Sportscene said that our players held their own team meeting this week. Seems to have helped!

Foran said post match that he is hoping to bring in 2 more identified targets.

There's nothing better than an injury time winner, especially after a run of 4 bad defeats! Well done to the players and manager. It's good to see us move up to, erm, bottom place in the league, but well within sight of mid table.

The Sun report that Doumbouya negotiated his release due to financial problems at the club, but I've just read a Belgian article saying that he had simply fallen out of favour and had been dropped to the B team. Regardless, he does seem to have had offers from all over Europe, and chose to join us.

Did he have a trial with us first? I hope Foran has actually seen him play, and not just the "best of" videos.

That website was simply estimating his market value at the time, as they somehow do for all players. It's now 255,000 for today's transfer! He joined Cercle when his deal with Tubize expired, having turned down an extension. So no fee. Cercle signed him for 2 years with a further year option, but were obviously happy to let him move on after just 1 year.

Definitely a striker. Of more concern is that he's always played at a lower level than this, steadily progressing up the leagues to Belgium's 2nd division, which I think is generally a lower standard than our 2nd flight and often has crowds of a few hundred. Scoring 9 goals a season there when you are in your prime hardly has a wow factor, but at the end of the day it's all about how the player's attributes can be used in our set up. I read an interview from earlier this year in which he made clear his aspirations to be capped by Guinea, having apparently got onto their radar. Hopefully he scores enough here to achieve that. (Today's BBC article describes him as a Guinean born Frenchman, but he was actually born in Nice to Guinean parents)

If you want a song for him, there's a ready made one - "Doumbouya, my lord, Doumbouya......"

Perhaps. But 2 hot-headed Dubliners being placed together in a highly pressurised environment.....?

The Sun now reporting he is indeed with us. Their description of Foran being "desperate" to bring in players seems apt.

As is gender these days!

Stats = facts. What you should have said instead is "According to a flawed and unreliable survey......"

Was he naked, by any chance? The reason I ask is that he's probably still waiting for JD Sports to get his red and blue kit in stock.....

Presumably you meant a Desmond "2-2", but in the end we got Storm Desmond - blown away, floodgates opened, landslides etc etc etc

You seem to be absolving the manager of responsibility for the most awful, embarrasing month in our history (and it's not over yet!). Was it lack of money that made us lose to part-time Alloa? Or to be well beaten by Partick and County, whose budgets can't be significantly different to ours? Was it lack of money that has caused our experienced, established defenders and keeper to suddenly leak soft goals all over the place, with some seriously amateur defending? Was it the board that chose the summer signings, who, so far at least, seem to have very little to offer? I feel sorry for Foran just now and hope it is just a case of a rookie manager finding his feet, working out the best way for the team to play, and learning from his mistakes along the way.

At this point I'll be surprised if we stay up! We are clearly the worst team in the league, at this moment in time. Big improvement needed, I'm just not sure where it's going to come from.

But which has the higher fat content?! I just dug out my replica kit from the same season as the one above to check the size - at 6ft and slightly overweight I was a mere XL!