Phone rings and the voice that matters says "very good Stephen nice try again, (conversation momentarily interrupted by a cough and a murmured cackle in the background of the caller) how about you put it out there that our great institution has made yet another derisory offer well under the £1.5m that you accidentally leaked to your little mates in the Media to take the best sweeties from your little corner shop yet again to appease your little support? Let it accidentally slip this figure is in the same ballpark as the GMS offer then we'll wait till after the last game of the Season and announce you have played your hard to prise arse open trick and indeed secured £500,000 for your mixed bag of sulky shish. "Oh no" please two seater don't do this to me, they'll hunt me down under and throw me on the barbie if i take that as my parting of the dead sea, we're talking about a player here who can divide the direction the Bosperus flows in with one flick of his leg of lamb and you want me to accept £500,000? Nope cant do it it Pedro, the lad himself would disect me into thin slices with his shawarma knife or worse still Van Honky Donkey would prise open my tight little arse cheeks, they get a cut of the transfer too!. Ok fair enough says Peter, i see where your coming from there Stephen, i wouldn't wish the latter on any of our bhoys either even if big Jock did know. (Murmured background cackling from the caller has now turned into a noise you could resemble with the opening of a biscuit tin) Right Stephen you've drove a hard bargain with us again and we understand your current plight so we will increase our final offer to £700,000 providing you take Davie Provan and Charlie Nicholas to Australia on your one way flight.

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Phone rings and the voice that matters says "very good Stephen nice try again, (conversation momentarily interrupted by a cough and a murmured cackle in the background of the caller) how about you put it out there that our great institution has made yet another derisory offer well under the £1.5m that you accidentally leaked to your little mates in the Media to take the best sweeties from your little corner shop yet again to appease your little support? Let it accidentally slip this figure is in the same ballpark as the GMS offer then we'll wait till after the last game of the Season and announce you have played your hard to prise arse open trick and indeed secured £500,000 for your mixed bag of sulky shish. "Oh no" please two seater don't do this to me, they'll hunt me down under and throw me on the barbie if i take that as my parting of the dead sea, we're talking about a player here who can divide the direction the Bosperus flows in with one flick of his leg of lamb and you want me to accept £500,000? Nope cant do it it Pedro, the lad himself would disect me into thin slices with his shawarma knife or worse still Van Honky Donkey would prise open my tight little arse cheeks, they get a cut of the transfer too!. Ok fair enough says Peter, i see where your coming from there Stephen, i wouldn't wish the latter on any of our bhoys either even if big Jock did know. (Murmured background cackling from the caller has now turned into a noise you could resemble with the opening of a biscuit tin) Right Stephen you've drove a hard bargain with us again and we understand your current plight so we will increase our final offer to £700,000 providing you take Davie Provan and Charlie Nicholas to Australia on your one way flight.

adopted..got to be
 

If any phone orders come in, they-ll be away quicker than a fast food order. Cue Jackie (Big) Mac bonus and the cash feast of Stephen.

I think we should cut our losses tbh.  Sunday we looked a lot better because we were playing as a team.  Stuff wasn't breaking down when Muirhead got the ball because he was actually looking to pass when it was on.

Got to agree re Muirhead, saw him v Hibs for dev team and was slightly underwhelmed but his performance against septic was surprising and very, very pleasing.