Season Diary 53

Entry #53: Wednesday 28th January 2009

flicked through yesterdays paper this morning eating my breakfast and noticed that Jim Jeffries might be missing from the dugout for Saturdays game at the new St Mirren stadium. He will under go a routine operation today (which i suppose was now yesterday) and its up to the doctors whether he will be even at the game. Get well soon Jim i say, actually, given my thoughts on having an eye in the stands at games this could be a blessing, JJ can see what a pigs ear we make of many things during each and every game froma more elevated position.

Anyway this news i have which is now a day old seems weird considering i was told at tea time that Kevin Kyle was in talks to sign with us. How if JJ is ill and in hospital can this be happening when he has been fit and on the go for the first 27days and we signed no one? I’m not complaining however, were crying out for a striker. Watching the League Cup semi final between Celtic and Dundee Utd (it could have been us! well if we werent so crap in our earlier round game that is) i decided to get my phone out and spread this news text style and score some opinion to pass the time.

21.00 RK: word on the street is that Kevin Kyle is having a medical at Killie.
21.14 D: heard he’s on the verge of an 18 month deal with us coz he got released early from Coventry. He’s better than nothing.
21.15 RK: Thats not very positive.
21.18 D: After sunday i’ve lost a lot of positivity and faith in those at rugby park. By all means i hope this guys a roaring success, after Simmonds i’d take anyone
21.21 RK: You not think that him and Simmonds would make a good partnership? him playing off Kyles shoulder?
21.23 D: I dont think anything involving Simmonds would be good. I’ve personally sen nowt from that boy. He’s pish.
21.26 RK: Fair enough! At least we might see a bit of brawn in the shape of the big Stranraer baggage handler, cannae see him as a shitebag. Though from what i remember of his Scotland career, a goalscorer isnt exactly his job description.
21.31 D: Nah what we dont need is someone who creates goals, we need someone in the box. too many times Fernandez and Russell come deep and there’s noone in the box for them to aim for as thats where one of them should be. Hopefully Kyle will be an aggressive forward for us. Better than Burchill i will also add.
21.34 RK: Have to agree there, i do fear for him amongst the Killie faithful however. Kyle doesnt rhyme with pish like Nish did though. I’m sure there are haters already!
21.41 D: Everyone should have a clean slate, in a ideal world that is. too many will rmemember his Scotland career, which is a few levels above us anyway. he’s played the majority of his career in the top half of the championship for the bigger clubs. He’ll have plenty of haters i agree but thats the joys of football fans , sure willo flood will have th same problem
21.44 RK: you wonder what goes through these guys heads, not getting a game at man city, to not getting a game at cardiff to getting a game at DU to not getting a game at Celtic. Weird, thats the way it goes i suppose. You think if we get Kyle that’l be the close of business at ruggers?
21.46 D: Aye. I’m surprised we’ve signed anyone at all. BB basically said in his column in the record today we’d be signing no one.
21.49 RK: Were playing like fucking coo’s and we have freed about 6 or 7 players, we had to sign someone, surely we should be getting more. A full back, a centre half? Some loans?
21.52 D: It would be nice but i’m not holding my breath. Is that idiot Morgan still on the books we signed form ICT? what a pointless signing.
21.58 RK: Er, im not sure, if he hasnt been freed then he has been told he can leave. A panic buy of this time last year. Surely the whole point of these windows is that you pick the guys you want and go for them. Man Citys youth set up gets rave reviews on talksport, why doenst JJ contact ol Leslie Hughes and see who wants to come up for some fitba? Though he doesnt want to play our own yins so why play someone elses
22.03 D: Hes playing Coventry’s young wans’s. Dunno why we never went for the old firm pair that Hamilton got. How come falkirk get Arsenal youth players and we get Simmonds. I’m picking on him i know. I’m getting angry the more i think about it.
22.07 RK: Never thought about that. We have to remember that he is carrying an injury, dunno whether that makes it worse though. Hope if Kyle signs we get a picture in the paper of him wi the strip or something, love all that stuff, nae doubt we’l get a wee soccer shorts wi 4 lines though.

Celtic won the semi 11-10 in penalties, never seen anything like it. Everyone hit one and Willo Flood missed on his second time round. Hoped agaisnt hope that Boruc would be the sinner and his big coupon would have a haunted look on the back of the papers the next day, alas he hit the best penalty of the night. Checked our fixtures to see if the Old Firm final would affect us, were away at Inverness though so it wont.