Lobey_Dosser

As are Sydney. He gets about.

Agree with that. I suspect Erwin will have higher aspirations but McGhee would be a fine option to get his head sorted and give him a chance to fulfil his potential.

And how deluded McCall was to give ZFA and Cummins decent contracts.

According to Scott Mullen, we're keeping tabs on Erwin while Lasley, Hammell and Skippy all look like staying.

Once a rumoured target, Jamille Matt signs for Blackpool.

That is precisely my view in this. Despite his age his importance to the team is such that you'd need to be offered daft money, say £250k, in order to accept it.

Weirdly, a Thistle fan at my work was talking about an ex Motherwell player but had no name. If he's available at our level of wages, we should be all out to get him. He's worth 10/15 points a season. Laing could go to right back and Kennedy would provide strong competition. I still think bigger clubs will be interested in him though.

Fine for Motherwell but shite for the national team if some of our best prospects (not saying Leitch is) get gobbled up by English development teams and hit the age of 20 without a sniff of competitive football.

Pretty depressing for Scottish football. Good luck to the boy but you can't expect Motherwell to pay over the odds for a player who is at least a season away from 1st team action.

Doesnt look great if our head of youth can't keep his own son at the club but fair play to Robbie if he's got a move to England, he looks a cracking prospect. Still all rumours at the moment but are we starting to see a growing trend of our youth prospects getting picked up by English clubs before they've even made an impression in our first team.

Deserves his promotion and place on the Board. Good luck to the guy over the weekend.

Fair play to the boy if he can get a contract at an English championship club. We can't compete with that. Having said that, I can't see him getting a sniff of a game in the English Championship anytime soon and would expect him to be loaned out.

Wasn't aware of clubs being categorised when it comes to development fees. When you think Hibs paid £100k for McGinn though, £100k for Hall wouldn't be terrible business. Interested to see where he ends up. Strange how McGhee propelled him into the team from nowhere, he has the NI connection with the coaching staff but he's seemingly been destined to leave for months.

Brill has been out with a bad knee injury for over a year. Would be hoping for a more inspiring option to challenge the uninspiring Samson. Sad to hear Hammell is possibly struggling to get a top tier club. Years of playing week in week out while often carrying knocks and strains, possibly catching up with him.

Most folk on holiday and McGhee has been away with Scotland. Having said that, I'd expect Lasley/Hamell/Hall decisions within the next week or so.

Pleased with the outcome. Im away the weekend the h**s are in town but pleased 2 decent away trips have fell on a Saturday.

I'm happy with that too. McManus has done really well under McGhee.

I do agree that they should be offered reduced terms in line with the expectation that their contribution will taper out. I expect both players would be content with this too. The level of cuts however may be to the extent that they could comfortably get a better deal elsewhere in Scotland. If that's the case, good luck to them.

Law moving on would be welcome news given how tight the budget is. I would be sad to see Hammell and/or Lasley leave in such fashion with no farewell at the end of the season. However I can fully understand them not being happy if the offers are as derisory as the tone suggests. The joys of proposed fan ownership starting from a heavy deficit...

If Ainsworth is available for £100-200k I'd expect a few clubs to be sniffing about. I'd be very disappointed to see a player of Lionel's quality leave but if McGhee can't get the best out of him, then it's best for both parties to engineer a move.

Didn't have the opportunity to watch the draw last night but I'm amazed that there was no pre-announced transparent schedule to the home/away split and order of fixtures. Disappointing approach that will be open to conspiracy jibes. As an aside, there is scope for upsets in the group stage as most teams will be treating this as pre-season games.

Why wouldn't Ibrox be televised? It's the biggest game of the group stages.

Hopefully get Stranraer and Annan away. h**s will be avoided regardless.

Pleased to see Moore sign. He's the type of player that could benefit from a McGhee pre-season. If it wasn't to work out, I imagine he'd get loaned out at end of August. Same applies with Ferguson. I don't have any time for Samson but he won't be the worst keeper in the league. Positive noises regarding Skippy, that's the contract we need to get over the line.

This has potential to make for an interesting fortnight in July. Although a lot depends on the luck of the draw. I'd much prefer away day to QoS and Ayr than Rangers and Airdrie. Best thing about the revised format is the November final. All it's missing is a European place but that's never going to happen with the current coefficient.