Why It Makes Sense For The Club Celtic supporters wanted a player who could boost their chances of performing in Europe. Is Leigh Griffiths that man? On first glance the answer would appear to be a resounding “no!”. The highest level he’s played at is the Scottish Premiership and his previous club didn’t want anything […]
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Why it makes sense For The Club This is the best PR move Michael Johnston has pulled off since, well, probably ever since he took charge of Kilmarnock. Numerous home fans (including our very own Craig Anderson) have deliberately stayed away from home games this season in protest of his ownership. It’s very possible that […]
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Why it makes sense For the Club Tommy Wright has done a decent job of keeping the side in the top six without striker Steven MacLean since the middle of October, though it is clear St Johnstone are not as strong a unit without the veteran playing alongside Stevie May. This was evidenced by the […]
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Why it makes sense For The Club It’s a testament to the work of Derek McInnes and the ability of many players within the Aberdeen first team that they’ve managed to put themselves into the position they are in without a reliable striker. Calvin Zola was signed to perform such a role in the summer […]
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Why It Makes Sense For The Club Christian Nade may have been injury prone the last couple of years but before that time he was reliable in the sense that he was healthy enough to feature regularly – you see how we avoided saying “match fit” there. If he can’t repeat his Hearts track record […]
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Why it makes sense For the club While we like writing these transfer blogs – their quick, easy and get people reading – we don’t always feel the need to force them out if we don’t know enough about the player coming in. This guideline was ignored when we were still able to form a […]
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Why it makes sense For the club 17 months ago the striker helped Hearts to win the Scottish Cup. His appearance in the final was an unnecessary cameo presumably enforced by the manager to extricate the striker from his own jealousy at watching his teammates stroke the ball about with carefree fun. For when he […]
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Why it makes sense For the club Based on Saturday’s game at Motherwell, Allan Johnston appears to be moving away from the direct, two-up top style of the previous three league games. In the 2-1 defeat, the new manager’s side were patient in their build-up and elected to start Rory McKenzie as the link between […]
Read MoreWhy it makes sense For the club They are refusing to waver from the signing policy and it’s hard not to respect them for that. Fans called for millions to be piled back into the team after the sale of both Victor Wanyama and Gary Hooper. The board have so far resisted. It’s the smart […]
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Why it makes sense For the Club If Pat Fenlon is going to go with two up front, which at the moment seems likely then another experienced striker was probably needed. Hibs have James Collins, Ross Caldwell, Rowan Vine and Daniel Handling who could all be called forwards, but in truth only Collins and Caldwell […]
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