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Ashby's in the U21 squad for the first time for the games next month.

Burke signed for Sheffield Utd on a three year contract for an undisclosed fee.

I'm not keen on the idea that we lock away the elderly and vulnerable so that "the rest of us" can go about our normal business to be honest. I'd rather we all acted with a degree of responsibility, whether that's wearing masks, keeping our distance or whatever, so that everyone has a chance at some form of normality.

Marshall Tierney Hanley McKenna Robertson McTominay Gilmour Armstrong McGinn Fraser Paterson

I don't think any of their signings play in his position so unless there are more to come, which of course there could be, then he shouldn't be any further down the pecking order than he was last season.

Given that we've got two quality left backs and no decent right backs, if we're playing four at the back then it seems obvious that Robertson and Tierney should be the full backs, regardless of whether they like it or not or whether it means one of them cutting inside more often than not. Either of them with only one leg would still be a better right back than Palmer or O'Donnell.

Completely agree. You can see that McTominay and Gilmour are at Man Utd and Chelsea and the others are at Celtic and Norwich. Robertson was caught offside a few times because the guy that was trying to pass to him couldn't see it quickly enough.

Hate to say I told you so. And I mean it.

Marshall mctominay Cooper mckenna Palmer fleck McLean robbo armstrong dykes christie also a possibility.

If the general impression is that most of the games have been rotten so far you've got to think that a four month shutdown and a short pre-season is partially to blame. In a normal year most teams would have had a good pre-season behind them but a lot of teams hardly played any games this summer.

I'd say we're a bawhair away from that, if not actually there already.

With all this mention of University admissions and pass marks being shifted around from year to year to effective only grade pupils against their own year group, it seems like the only purpose of exams is to filter entry to the next stage of education. Effectively it's pointless comparing an A maths student from one year against an A student from another, yes? In that case just raffle this year's uni places off and be done with it.

For those asking why next week’s games haven’t been called off, by the time they’re due to be played the club will know if anyone other players or staff members who might’ve come into contact with “the 8” has symptoms or not and, if not, no reason the games can’t go ahead.

Maybe "shit" compared with Arsenal as per last summer's rumours, and not as good as the latest Everton speculation, but a fuck load better than Bournemouth in terms of stature and wages.

Club and sfa both say it’s going ahead.

One player confirmed, another waiting an NHS test result and another six to quarantine. Game against St Johnstone to go ahead.

Cheers. I'd seen the report piece but had missed the footnotes.

The only decent Scottish player in the premiership who you could realistically suggest has been dropped since the restart is McTominay, who appears to have fallen behind Matic in the pecking order. He'll still get games but doesn't look like starting as many as he did before lockdown. Armstrong, McGinn and Tierney - and obviously Robertson - have either maintained or increased their playing time.

Thanks for posting the link in your other post. My asking for more information was precisely to help show someone that the only sign of any involvement was post-indyref rather than pre.

I haven't seen it anywhere else, and notwithstanding your comments about it being post-indyref "interference", but has the actual content or nature of the "open source" evidence been highlighted anywhere?

It's not directly relevant but does anyone else feel that Janey Godley is only funny if you're a certain age?

Don't disagree with leaving the league cup out for the coming season if absolutely essential but totally opposed to abolishing it completely. The cups are the only way anyone outwith Celtic can win a trophy and since that's what football's all about I'd rather preserve that chance.

I'd suggest rested would be a more accurate term than dropped.

It's up to you whether you post like a prick or not, but doing so knowing that another poster is going to bite makes you equally to blame when the whole thread goes tits up. But it's a free world.

Any chance you two could avoid fucking up another thread? This is as tedious as the Rolling Hills pish.