MelvinBragg

Continuity is no bad thing. Even if Gomis gets the last half hour, that'll help for Saturday. Hopefully we won't need to bring him on. Another couple of days training with the team before the cup game won't do any harm...

Any mentions of a link between Motherwell and this guy Rothwell, prior to yesterday (and frankly the media only mentioned it after it had been on here), were dated Sept 2015. Which suggests to me that someone got him and Grimshaw mixed up. Hard to tell because they were all in a foreign language...

Obviously I wouldn't ask anyone to spill in the know information but what position was McGhee looking at?

By my reckoning (and I'm including anyone who's started a first team game in the SPL), we have 2 goalkeepers 4 full backs (including 1 who can play centre half) 4 centre halfs (including one who can play full back) 5 midfielders 3 wingers 4 forwards (assuming McFadden stays) Now you can argue about quality or, in talking about midfielders particularly, the type of players we have, but that's a first team squad of 22 players. How many players should we even be looking to add to that? Personally, I reckon we have enough about us to stay up. In the summer Lasley, McManus, Hammell, McDonald and a few others are out of contract. Given the average age of those I've mentioned, the summer window may be a time when we need to be busy in the market. By trimming the wages bill now, we may give ourselves more room to manoeuvre then...

Indeed. Someone posted earlier the number of games those we've moved on have played. Not many. Would rather see Cadden, Leitch, Watt, McLean, Hall and Thomas get a chance than sign more Tony Strakers or Nathan Thomas'. And before anyone says that McGhee would have spent the money wisely and not on rubbish, he's not faultless. Michael Fraser, Maros Klimpl, Bob Malcolm...

WHOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHH!

According to?

Aye, apparently despite Aberdeen meeting Tansey's release fee, ICT simply refused to let him speak to Aberdeen. Mind you, midnight is still an hour and a half away...

Free agents market, it is...

After his performances last season, I'd rather sign Billy Mehmet...

If we were looking for a striker for the first team, I'd be interested in Goodwillie but no reason for him to swap Aberdeen's bench for ours. And would he play ahead of Moult or McDonald..?

Burrows on Twitter saying he can't move to a club outwith England because he's played for two clubs there already. Suggests club considered it, if only for a second... EDIT Just beaten to the punch..

You really expect us to replace our 4th choice right back? It's not Stuart McCall in charge, we don't need 6 right backs...

I'd imagine a fee may be involved and St Johnstone will have some cash lying around if the O'Halloran deal goes through..

Apparently depending on the outcome of the conversation with McFadden, it will be one or two more new faces we hope to bring in...

Where is Sow going?

Don't disagree with that assessment but if a good player looks to be available and if (a big if this one) it's within our budget then we should look at it and see if it's something that would add to our team. In this case, I suspect wages would rule us out...

Looks like it's a loan as part of the O'Halloran deal...

Moore's loan has been extended til the end of the season so I tend to agree that a striker might be a priority. Which sounds odd given we almost had too many strikers in the first half of the season, albeit not many of them produced...

Burrows on Twitter saying he hopes for "a few" new faces. How many is "a few"? More than a couple..?

No. We can only bring in players that are free agents once the window is closed..

Oh aye, I agree. More an example of how little interest the BBC or SKY has in getting their facts straight about Scottish football. And to be honest with you, BBC annoys me more. SKY have to tailor their approach to their customers. BBC is supposed to be a public service broadcaster...

And according to the BBC, it's midnight...

Sounds like it was a decent strike as well...

By my reckoning that's five wages off the wage bill (or at least whatever we were paying towards Grimshaw's and Taylor's wages and some of Clarkson's wages) but I'd be happy to just see one or maybe two new faces brought in. Given what Robinson, Twardzik and Taylor contributed, do they really need replaced? Clarkson at least has one assist to his name...