AlexJones

Filipe Morais seriously injured Bradford City's Filipe Morais has been ruled out for up to nine months with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. The 29-year-old former Oldham and Stevenage man suffered the injury during pre-season training on Monday.

They're a very diminutive, skinny team. Even their keeper looks like he would lose an arm wrestle with Willie Collum. Foran could do some damage with the right service. I would even consider sticking Gary Warren up top.

Steady on. What about Daisy Ross?

Starting to feel a bit concerned that Yogi is going for style over substance. Agree on Hooper. He looked a very untidy player, but one who would score you goals.

The better team lost. Wasn't impressed by Astra at all. They looked like a bottom 6 team to be honest. In retrospect, we gave them far too much respect. If we were really on our game, and fully match fit, I could see us absolutely thumping them. They definitely deserve a doing in the second leg after the way they conducted themselves tonight.

There are advantages to keeping transfer dealings secret.

Astra manager warns Inverness his alien playmaker Constantin Bedescu is out of this world Hopefully Gary Warren marks his card early doors, before delivering a classic 'welcome to earth' putdown, like Will Smith in Independence Day.

Sounds a lot like Pele Paterson!

He'll be our fifth Spanish player IIRC. They've all been pretty good. Spain is the Marks and Spencer of international football - quality guaranteed.

I can't see anyone being foolish enough to fork up the ludicrous £60 million asking price for this lad. (except perhaps Man City Lol) Rogers is probably loving the whole saga. Sterling is the scapegoat now, not him.

Latapy played a role in the most successful season in our clubs history, how big a role only those behind the scenes will know. Hopefully the other coaches have learned enough from him to carry on the work he was doing. Seems like he wants to be a manager in his own right rather than just an assistant. Can't fault a man for ambition.

Nothing special. He has a lot of caps for Canada and is solid enough but not a standout. Depending on your viewpoint you might call him a 'journeyman' or a 'workhorse'. So basically he's Richard Hastings.

I would take a 4-1 defeat with Astra fielding an ineligible player.

I don't do red dots, but suggesting we sign Lee Miller definitely tested my resolve.

Some harsh criticisms of Hooper IMO. You've got to be a decent player to have a moniker. I'm guessing he used to be a Jay Jay Okocha fanboy. Imagine the disdain in Willie Miller's voice when he has to announce that 'JJ Hooper' has scored against Aberdeen. And the 'Hooper sinks Hoops' headline writes itself.

Rickie Foster signs for County He certainly wouldn't have come cheap! Thought he looked decent playing for the real Rangers in the Champions League. Still only 29. Didn't have the best of times last season, but that could easily be attributed to the toxic environment he was working in and the dross he was playing alongside. A solid top 6 player IMO. Looks like County should be challenging at the top end this season, on paper at least.

Feel bad for Greenhalgh, always thought he looked a decent player. Could definitely do a job for a bottom 6 SPL team IMO.

Interesting that Yogi seems to be looking to add some physicality to the squad. All 3 are over 6 feet. Wedderburn looks more like a rugby prop than a footballer. Think we could be onto something. We were bullied at times last season. The SPL is still a very physical league. Sounds like the plan is to bring in guys with good athletic attributes and coach them into well rounded footballers. It won't always work, but we have an exceptional coaching team so I'm optimistic.

Would anyone doubt that Stuart Armstrong, Ian Vigurs, Graeme Shinnie, Nick Ross, and Ryan Christie are 5 of the best young players in the Scottish Premiership? Don't forget all the ICT youth products who are currently playing in the lower divisions of the Senior leagues. (Shane Sutherland, Michael Fraser, Gary Wood etc etc) It's a very odd criticism. Surely ICT, the most successful 'pound for pound' club in Scottish football, are a model of a how a small professional football club should be run. Mr Gray might have preferred that we signed a bunch of young Scottish duds and struggled to survive in the SPL. ICT's fortunes are of no interest to him. It makes no odds to the SFA what division we're playing in. I hope we continue to sign as many Warrens, Meekings, Drapers, Vincents, Tanseys, Dorans, McKays and Ravens as we can and challenge for honours.

Tune!

He's a good footballer for sure, but for an attacking midfielder he contributed very few goals and assists so he was never quite the finished article, despite some good spells. We've been waiting for him to 'bulk up' for about 4 years. Perhaps he wasn't pushing hard enough in the gym, perhaps he's just a hard gainer. I always rated him as a decent, honest player with good vision for a pass, but who never quite fulfilled his potential for whatever reason. When he first broke into the team under Butcher as a winger he looked fantastic. The archetypal 'nippy' youngster who took men on and dribbled past them. Laterally I can't even remember the last time he dribbled round an opponent. Maybe it's been coached out of him, maybe just a lack of confidence. A change of scene and a bit of new stimulation might be what he needs. Dundee is a good move for him IMO, Hartley teams play the same way as us so it should be an easy transition.

Phil Roberts had some excellent games for us when he was first introduced into the team and contributed some cracking goals and assists. IIRC Butcher dropped him harshly then started bringing him on as a striker late on in games (rather than his natural midfield position) and his confidence was completely shot. He was never the same again. It's also worth re-iterating that he was only 18 at the time.

Some goal this. Oddly, it's only the second most entertaining moment of this clip after noticing that Corby Town have a player called 'Viera'.

Our clubs success is built on signing under-appreciated players from the lower echelons and giving them the coaching and platform to develop. Just because we've finished third and won a Cup doesn't mean we should start acting like the 'big' clubs. A classic mistake. Rather than competing for players who are the finished article (a competitive, inflated market), there's much more value in searching for players with work ethic and potential. We have a great coaching team, have faith in them!

I wonder how Shinnie will react when McInnes informs him of his masterplan to play him in midfield so as to accommodate Considine at left back. Won't do his international credentials any good.