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Tremendous to see the squad shaping up nicely at such an early stage - almost unheard of in these parts. A full squad pre-season might see us getting a couple of good results in the Cup games.

That's more like a small tent signing.

...until this season.

On the downside, they are in a very strong position to attract championship quality players...who hasn't accepted our contract offers yet?

Why did you feel the need to donate to 'them' ? Surely easier to plead poverty and walk by?

I've heard the 22nd May date has been pushed back to June...any confirmation??

Apart from being well bankrolled for the past decade or two, the County system had decent preparation for the time ultimately when the kid was told they're not going to make it, they used to have education programmes in place so when the County starlets failed to break through ( highly likely) then the transition path to highland league was already there. Not sure what we had/have in place but I know of a lot of unhappy endings in regards to players in the system for ten years just getting shown the door. And this wasnt a recent thing, this was in the 'glory' years under Sutherland and Fraser. In reality the County system is more of a community engagement vehicle, as they buy in all their players so the chances are less than slim for the youths. We, on the other hand have a more realistic pathway below Premier level so should and have had more success than them. Being skint all the time contributes to this as well, of course.

Ifs and buts have provided a defining narrative to our season for the last 3 or 4 years. We must change this.

Talks about a lack of strikers, plays Mckay on the halfway line, benches Brooks and puts Bray out on loan. Then begins signing centre backs. Tops it off with signing a player no one else would touch - his son. Total balloon.

Yes, you may keep the certificate of ownership of shares in a liquidated club.

It's going to be a very different squad again next year, regardless of who we keep and who we add to it, in whatever division. I suppose I'll just be happy the club will be there.

Thing is, most of the future development will already be sketched out. Alan Savage is usually two steps ahead of the rest, no reason to think its any different now.

Interestingly, on the news coverage tonight the reporter at the stadium also stated that one of the previous four or five interested parties was now looking at possibly coming on board with the new regime. We shall see.

As good as done. Hopefully this thread will be too.

Kelty have been poor for long enough, getting hammered at home might provoke a reaction next week...especially as we'll be expecting great things.

Interesting to see how, as the game goes deeper and its still 2-0 if our game management improves. In control of things right now, need to maintain that.

At this rate we'll be saving legs for the playoffs.

Next week away to Cove while Annan host Queens...

Well before AS got the ball rolling in the last week there wasnt any offers at all. Where were the competitive offers then? Part of his deal involves purchase of the sub lease for the land, which I doubt anyone else who accessed the data room would bother with. But we'll see who, if anyone comes out of the woodwork now the dirty work has been done.

Think our purple patch lasted about 25 minutes, been under the pump since then. Do we continue with 10 men, in the vain hope of equalising or maybe protecting our goal difference?

Well, who'd have thought this would happen...

I was thinking with their exorbitant fees, they might have got this addressed at an earlier point in the proceedings, rather than wait until we are washing our dirty linen in public (again) and an ex-chairman does it for them. I mean they have been 'running' the club have they not?

Getting all the bigwigs together at the same table, revolutionary concept!! Why wasn't this done last year? (Did BDO not think of this??)

Bit of a reality check all round, our defensive line didn't cover themselves in glory for the calamitous defending ( not defending?) which led to the corner and again for the goal. Everything that followed was fairly pedestrian stuff giving the Annan team plenty time to pack the box whenever we were trying to break through. Plenty saves from their keeper, but I wouldn't say he was particularly over extended - simple stuff really. The ref wasn't of a decent standard at all, not much worse than Tuesdays but we won that didn't we. Well done Annan. Pick it up next week. Hopefully Macleod is back.

Although I agree that Longstaff has shown improvement this year I felt that last night with Macleod in midfield we had a much better balance, with play going down both flanks regularly, as well as freeing up Mackinnon to push further forward more often. As the debate continues as to when and how to integrate our younger players and we get closer to a safe league position then its surely beneficial to increase game time for those that are good enough as this is more crucial to their development than availability and quality of shower facilities , toilets and training pitches. We'll need to have a better indication of their capabilities come next season when our loanees dissappear and other established first teamers move on, otherwise we will be in the same position with 'inexperienced' players with potential that require development. Kellacher has balanced the team well so far, but expectations will be higher next year, and to win the league a good start will be vital so squad building and player assessment over the summer must be spot on.