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Stephen Johnstone,

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found his level at Bournemout­h and will go no higher than that. He was one of the worst players I’ve seen in Old Firm games, a man down every time. Jota will be a super signing for us and a level up from Christie.”

On to new arrivals and Ardentinny, said: “Liam Scales is banging on about a shirt number at Celtic.

“If he turns out to be another disaster of a signing his number will be up regardless of the figure on his back. It’s results that win games, not numbers.”

There’s another big derby this weekend and George Fairgrieve said: “I fear for Hibs tomorrow. Their transfer window was the usual predictabl­e failure. We are the 23.59 men of the transfer window, always last-minute stuff. In desperate need of another striker yet we lose out on Leigh Grffiths to Dundee, we can’t compete with Hearts for Barrie McKay, nor Aberdeen for Declan Gallagher and Ross McCrorie. It’s biscuit tin stuff.”

Kenny Goff said: “What an absolute disgrace that Dundee United had to wait so long on a work permit for Ilmari Niskanen, whom they signed a month ago. Oh sorry, I forgot it’s not the Old Firm.”

Finally wrapping up the internatio­nal week, some folk are never happy.

Andrew Lamb, Fraserburg­h, said: “I won’t take anything away from Steve Clarke and his Scotland team given the well-earned win against Austria.

“But qualificat­ion for the major tournament­s is as good as it gets as Scotland are simply ordinary at the highest level.”

Andy Adams, Kirkcaldy, said: “It was a good result and a good performanc­e against Austria. But it’s Steve Clarke who should be quiet. They’ve not done anything yet. Let’s beat Israel first, we’ve struggled against them before.”

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