Foxmeister

Does anyone remember the bizarre story from the early 80s when we had a player on loan, when we were playing at Brighton (I think)? He was subbed off at half-time and a rumour went around our end saying the players had had a bath to thaw out during the break and his toe had fallen off. 🤣🤣

I used to love the Scottish Cup draw back then. 1 Aberdeen 2 Celtic or Kilmarnock 3 Rangers 4 Stranraer, East Fife, Falkirk. Queen of the South, Montrose, Falkirk, Gretna, Elgin, Dunfermline, Dundee United, Berwick or Hibernian. God knows when the games will be played, before next season’s Cup Winners’ Cup starts would be handy.

And we think things are bad now!

Man City away 1995, way below zero, heavy sleet and no roof in the Kippax, it took 2 days for my coat to dry and the supporters coach didn’t arrive until injury time! Coincidentally, the night of Cantona’s kung-fu kick.

The lack of urgency is unforgivable

Tbf, they’re not going to know the extent of the injury in the ground.

Middlesbrough did it, they were deducted 2 points and the game was replayed.

There has been occasions when we have bummed them 4-0 in the cup and the Allez les bleus game. It simply has not been the case that it's, historically, been a one way bumming but they have bummed us more than we have bummed them.

Scotland - Matt Elliott

Who I'd keep is an exact inversion of who'll be left.

I think a late turn up would be better and less of a sacrifice for us. Just wait in the concourse for the first 15 minutes.

It depends on how much we value the player in terms of his sell on value less the minimal amount we'll get from a tribunal. If he's not worth what it would cost to keep him let him go. He sure as hell isn't going to Man City to get in the first team quicker than he would here.

We could always offer him 60k a week for 3 years, it would cost 9m which is probably still below his market value.

This, nobody else will want those we don't. There's a lot who could do a job in the Championship though.

"Best we played for weeks" and "we were rubbish" are not mutually exclusive as things stand.

It wasn't actually us but crumbs of comfort i suppose.

Read the room fella

I think we've joined Scoring Anonymous

Nearly 30 but yes

xG up to 0.1

Just looking at the stats, does Soumare's distance covered include the coach journey?

Marginal but yes, he went down very late though.

Gerry Taggart would do for me.

We sold him for 4 reasons then 😂

There's a couple of things here, every player will back themselves to achieve, they've all beaten the odds just getting to be professionals. Secondly, we're going to be a Championship club next season who, most probably, won't give him a chance and the best he can really hope is he gets a loan at L1 or L2 level which is likely to be available to him at Man City. Man City don't necessarily see him as ever being in their 1st XI but more a Harwood-Bellis/James Trafford sort where they can sell him, along with a couple of others, for £15-20m each, and buy a played to slot straight in to their first team. My prediction is, by the time he's 21, he'll be at a Crystal Palace type club.