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If anyone wants to go on a spying mission, Olly Whyte starts for Stenny on Alba in a few mins.

Killie tried their best to do something about that.

From what we've heard from the Chairman, CEO, and JBA himself, they all have a good working relationship and are in constant contact, so I dont think he needs to send messages to his own board through the media. I took what he said as making it public that the club is aligned, which means it would take a ridiculous bid for a player to change anything. We will have our price, like anyone else, but there's definitely a premium in January.

This weeks presser with JBA will be a fun one if the JT stuff comes up again. I'm not a huge fan of open goal, but Halliday has been a positive for us and generally speaks well about the game. As said above, he'll know what he's not allowed to talk about, and there's been a few times where he has refused to go into detail about certain things. The rags are desperate to make something happen with JT, and we've seen them run with tranfer links for literal years, so you just have to ignore it. I'm very sure that even bin fires of clubs dont take transfer advice from hacks wo are desperate to fill up column inches with AI slop. A large factor in a transfer fee is the length of contract and what the players current terms are. Think of it as compensation for the selling club to replace the player. There's other market factors that come into play, as well as how desperate a club is to sell, but when you see a club like Hearts or Hibs get bigger fees than us for similar players, the length/value of their contract is a big part of it. The player is also going to be more expensive the further up the food chain they go because they've proven themselves at a higher level. On our players, we will have our valuation, and when that's met, we will sell them. That's the model we're trying to follow.

We probably do need to trim the squad some, but we need 3 keepers. We're only a year removed from a goalie crisis, and you jist need to look at killie for an example of the downside of not having decent backup keepers.

The headers section was what got me. Yep, those were headers 😄 He might turn out just fine, or amazing, but that video just needed to be 2 mins.

International signings take time. It was rumored a few weeks ago, which makes the timeline seem longer that it is, but all we actually know is that he was at the game on Saturday, everything else has been rumour and paper talk. On top of that, there's always the slight chance that our due diligence, such as the medical, flags something up. I'm not convinced hes that good either, but time will tell.

Has there been a player+cash deal lately? I cant think of one, as they're generally just paper talk. The outgoing player would have a ridiculous amount of leverage, as he'd be holding 2 clubs to ransom.

The fact that he's still hanging around there at 25 is crazy, as he's never had a look in. They just keep these guys around to meet quotas for European games.

If you're going to get horsed off of the OF, you might as well get a decent pay day and set your club up for a few seasons. Not very romantic, but the brass at Auchinleck would have saw pound signs the second that draw was made.

The rule is that you cant play official games for more than 2 clubs in a season, so if there's a transfer he'll be on the sidelines for his new club.

I think Mcglynn has been excellent, and I'm guessing his age and scottishness is what's keeping him under the radar. You can also argue that he has had the benefit of building his team up through the lower leagues, but that's an achievement in itself.

I would love if if Bannan came to us, and he would be an excellent addition, especially with how we play, but he can make multiples of what we can offer at one of those boring lower league English clubs.

He could have just been there to watch the game. The media are really keen to make a Maswanhise move happen.

Results are all that matters in the cup, and we got what we needed without having to give up much. The lineup wasn't very inspiring, but it was good to see Connelly pretty much slot right in. He played a little deeper than Ward, but still looked more than capable of starting more games if needed. Ross didnt do much but it seems that the instructions are very clear to our full backs not to try and bomb past their man and get crosses in. Which is good, because we're still pretty had at them. When we brought JBA in, a big deal was made about how many minutes he gives young players, so it's good so see him start doing that for us. It was easy for the club to gloat about academy player minutes when we had Lennon Miller available to us, but hopefully this is the start of a new crop coming through. I think if we had got the goal earlier we'd have scored a bunch, but they were ultra defensive, and didn't even commit much in attack when we did score. I liked how patient we were, giving them very few counter attack opportunities, which is essentially all SKs teams do. Good to see that Cornelius still likes running around. How nice was it to celebrate a goal and not immediately have to worry about VAR. Also, are folk trying to make TJ a thing despite the players and multiple managers calling him JT sonce day one?

Straightforward win with no drama, and we got to give some fringe guys minutes. Job done and in the hat.

Maybe they will, but they could just as easily stipulate in the loan contract that he cant play in the cup, they dont need to be sneaky about it. I think its as simple as they had a deadline of Jan 14th to recall him, or we'd have him for the season, while the window is open until Feb 2nd. So it makes sense to call him back so that they have all options available to them, knowing they can loan him out on deadline day if needed.

Mcghee was predominantly a CB for dundee. Considering how we currently play, a CB who can also play in midfield seems like a decent fit. However, he will still need to be eased back in.

VAR checked it, the ref told the players to wait.

Iredale went down saying Said back-headed him, just like he did with JT in the home game. Yeah, that celtic tackle was terrible.

Welsh is contracted to celtic until summer 2027 https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cldg6w9dg50o Like above, any club signing Welsh now would need to pay at least what celtic are paying him, or Celtic will need to give him some sort of payoff to make the difference. It's feasible that he'd take a modest pay cut for regular football, but I don't see why he'd do that right now, whether its with us, Aberdeen, or anyone else. Clubs are increasingly moving the recruitment responsibilities away from the manager, which makes sense since most managers don't even last a season thesedays. I'm sure players would prefer some kind of managerial stability at the club they are joining, but I'm sure what they're getting paid matters more.

This suggests we're not going to go crazy in January, as expected. "The strength of the squad was evident and the Motherwell manager reiterated that his focus in the January transfer window is to keep his key players. “That's the main plan, to make sure that this team gets the maximum out of this group of players, gets the maximum out of this season, and then we know in the summer it's a bigger window,” the Dane said. “So that's the main track for us and then obviously there's a few gaps here and there and we'll see if we can fill them with quality like we did in the summer.”

No one was bad, and there were quite a few strong performances all over the pitch. I went for McGinn, he was immense again. I thought we were excellent at the back, with Sparrows mistake being the only real blemish. I thought he had a good game otherwise.

AP is either half injured or on the way out. The game was there to win and we didnt bring on our only experienced stiker. While we had a couple of forced changes, I dont believe that we wouldn't have brought on a stiker for Just at the end instead of McGhee if they were genuinely available.

We definitely looked off it physically, which may just be down to Hibs having the size advantage all over the park, but even at that I'd say we were marginally the better team. We carved out enough opportunities that could have got us the 3 points, but like most, im not complaining at a point at Easter Road. Every team has to deal with injuries during the season, so looks like its our turn at the moment. Hopefully we're not dealing with anything long term. Olly Whyte scored again for Stenny today. So if we have a midfield crisis, maybe he can come in.