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[RossP]

Originally Posted by Clav Divs

Season acca placed today:

SPL - Celtic
1st - St Johnstone
2nd - Raith Rovers
3rd - East Fife

ICT for the drop (sorry Ross!).

Its ok, just seeing those other bets made me realise you must know nothing about football Ross County or Peterhead for Division 2- mark my words!!

Gretna or St Mirren for the SPL drop.

[Scorge]

Originally Posted by RossP

Its ok, just seeing those other bets made me realise you must know nothing about football Ross County or Peterhead for Division 2- mark my words!!

Gretna or St Mirren for the SPL drop.

Has Nicaule actually got his work permit? Seems like a big mess that one.

Got a horrible feeling Gr£tna will somehow stay up, so will Midden.

Ross County for the second? Now I KNOW you're on the wind up .............

[delboy]

nah i reckon celtic or rangers will be plying their trade in division 1 next season

[RossP]

Originally Posted by Clav Divs

Has Nicaule actually got his work permit? Seems like a big mess that one.

Got a horrible feeling Gr£tna will somehow stay up, so will Midden.

Ross County for the second? Now I KNOW you're on the wind up .............

County have brought in some sensible signings. Andrew Barrowman will be the league's top scorer. Tony Bullock has provided their first solid goalkeeper in years. Excellent youth players, and if they can sort out their defence they'll do well.

Peterhead have some absolutely fantastic new signings, thanks to the player spotting skills of Pele. Couple of Poles that'll probably get snapped up by SPL teams in xmas window.

Niculae will have his permit after this weekend. Players like Alex for Chelsea and that boy that Arsenal (Mendes?) were ahead of him in the queue for work permit acceptance. We will get it, but it'll be next week.

There is no way Gretna will ever stay up. Their team is bollocks apart from that Uruguay player, McMenamin, and that former English youth player. They haven't got a decent keeper, and Davie Irons is their manager!! They're fucked.

[RossP]

Originally Posted by delboy

nah i reckon celtic or rangers will be plying their trade in division 1 next season

Its possible if the SFA get some balls with that empty threat about fining clubs for sectarian chants, followed by points docking and relegation.

Stuart Cosgrove had an excellent column in the Daily Record today about it (you can read it on the dailyrecord online). He made some excellent points about how the SFA/SPL will never do anything to harm the Old Firm, despite the threats. Expect Motherwell or Hearts to get a rap on the knuckles though

[Mr.Mike]

Originally Posted by Murrr

Heard that too, assumed it was internet bullshit .

Signing Alan Smith tomorrow apparently, not sure what to think...

normally i'd agree on the internet bullshit but this guy's connected to the club and he's usually spot on about this sort of thing. Guess we'll know in time.

Smith/Viduka combo could be a winner for the toon but it still won't help that abysmal defence will it?

[Scorge]

County will not win Division 2. Not a cat in hell's chance. It doesn't matter how good their squad is (Darren Brady FFS), they'll be played out of position and be the most tactically naive unit in the league because of their manager (it still makes my blood boil when I think about how much that c**t was on when he was in charge of us.......).

Think Peterhead have already had their best chance go up, and blew it. Not that I was complaining, haha!

Suppose we'll know in eight months time.

[Murrr]

Originally Posted by Mr.Mike

normally i'd agree on the internet bullshit but this guy's connected to the club and he's usually spot on about this sort of thing. Guess we'll know in time.

Smith/Viduka combo could be a winner for the toon but it still won't help that abysmal defence will it?

Fair enough. I'm pretty cautious about the whole thing, it's difficult to understand why the hell he bought Newcastle in the first place... oh well, we'll see what happens.

Viduka and Smith... christ, that's a slower frontline than Wigan's deadly Sibierski/Heskey combo. I reckon Big Sam will use Smith as a mildfielder though, because we're pretty stacked up front. Decent enough player, lots heart & grit, but is he productive enough?

Defence needs to be sorted out ASAP, it's a joke at the moment (not that you need me to tell you that). Taylor is a decent prospect but is far too rash, don't know anything about Rozehnal, and the rest (Carr, Babayaro, Ramage, Huntington, etc...)? Pffft. I don't know too much about this Brazilian lad from Lyon we're bringing in but he seems like a canny player; has captained Lyon for the past 5 years, plenty of CL experience... could be just what we need.

[Stichman]

St.Johnstone for the 1st Division? Pffftt.

I actually think Dunfermline are going to nail it. Which is a strange thing for a Dunfermline supporter to say. We still have a great squad and we're all over it.

[Jesus.H.Christ]

Originally Posted by Sam L4

I hope Smith comes in, but saying that, he is anotehr player who i wouldn't be surpirsed if he got injured for the whole season. Don't know much about this defender we are looking at but i'll take him as we need to boost the squad numbers.

Capaca - great player. Lyon captain for the last 5 years.