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I think someone did notice it earlier in the thread, but that doesn't really matter because none of us are paid to notice these sort of things. Our club gets more embarrassing by the minute. A lot of people on here were crying out for more communication from the club, but maybe it would be better if the club just didn't say anything, ever.

We probably had to pay something for him, as he was under 24 at the time I think. Maybe in that case we also paid for McCormack? I like that we don't pay fees anymore. Just think of all the money we spent on McSkimming, Thomas, and Spencer.

Why don't we do this anymore? Hearts and Dundee Utd have got a lot of recent success out of this in recent years. I guess Steve Saunders is one example of this, coming from Queens Park, and we beat a lot of teams to Derek Adams back in the day, but we seem to be avoiding this avenue altogether. Is it the transfer fees? Or is the talent just not there anymore?

Did we pay for the shite left back Murphy? Edit: No we didn't. We paid for Hammel didn't we?

We lost Blackman and Gow, and there has been rumours of Sutton, Casagolda and Murphy all leaving. It seems like a no brainer that we should sign a striker. If we didn't sign one and then we lost someone on the last day of the window most people on here would be livid.

These new signings have no impact on next season's budget. We lost four players, and so far we have replaced them with two short-term replacements. Most of these young guys are out on loan getting regular games away from the east stand, and when they're ready they'll get their chance in the first team. The plan hasn't changed for them since the start of the season, and it shouldn't. Losing a couple of players doesn't make them more ready. Relying on the youngsters to suddenly step up halfway through the season is a huge risk to take and could shatter their confidence. For every McFadden, Hammel and Clarkson there's a Fagan or a Ramsay.

As said above, it's fine to say that the young guys could fill in, but with only one window to make signings between now and the end of the season it makes sense to ensure that we're covered in every area. If we stand pat and go with what we have, what if one of these kids gets injured, or turns out to be shite? We lost four players from an already small squad, and we should be looking to replace all four. We are still in two cups, and have some fixture congestion coming up so we'll need a squad.

He's a dick.

Personally, I'd take Hughes back in a heartbeat. He was as responsible for our excellent play as McGhee was when he was here.

Unless he was recruited specifically for being a dirty Airdrie c$$t, and not a good coach, I'm indifferent to this appointment cos he's only the number 2.

Casa is Spanish and played most of his football in Belgium. So theres a good chance he could be able to translate for the Spanish and Belgian guy. He still may be shite at football though.

Also on the kind of bright side, with Caley's away record this year, our current form, and the daily boots in the balls we're getting, at least we didn't lose! It will be interesting to hear what the guys at the game thought of hutch, and also Meechan when he came on. I think we need to rest murph for a couple of weeks to keep him under the radar! Seems like he's our only spark right now.

Pretty disappointing. A point isn't the worst possible result, but we really needed the 3 points today. At least we kept a clean sheet with our new defense.

Does anyone have the link to the game on sportsound, I seem to be having trouble finding it.

Best of luck to him, I hope he does well down south. £100k is not bad considering his contract is up at the end of the season. We have Page, Hutchison and Saunders all ready to step up, so we're in a relatively good position to move him on. At the time the Rangers bid was shite, but Reynolds didn't really kick on from then and if anything took a slight decline. It burned us this time, but we can't be selling guys off at the first offer we get.

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Makes sense. A £30 sky sports subscription means I can watch everything that's on Sky Sports. A £30 raffle ticket giving me a 1/3000 chance to win a car, which is probably going to be relatively shite, doesn't appeal to me as much. Now, adding such an incentive to a season ticket, without increasing the price may sway some folk who were thinking of giving the season a miss, but I doubt it would attract many new season ticket holders. The club is doing the right thing by keeping the playing budget proportional to it's income and they certainly shouldn't be taking risks to move us up a couple of places in the table. I know some people think we should speculate to accumulate, but the reward just isn't there. A few spots higher in the table and a couple of European games would probably only recoup the initial outlay anyway. The best thing they can to is to try and get more people through the gates whether through reduced prices or convincing them football isn't shite. Our best players should be coming though the youth ranks, giving us a couple of good seasons, then moving onto bigger things.

Isn't Blackman the only legitimate 1st XI player we have lost from the team that did so well in the first half of the season?

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We should be living within our means, and if that means we end up playing in the first division or going part time so be it. The important thing is that we have a club to support, not putting our future at risk for a top six finish. Also, the fans already pay most of the player's wages, so I don't see the point in this idea.

He came on for about 20 minutes in the St J game and looked clueless and clumsy. At one point he just ran into another player, sure it was a Motherwell player as well. He reminded me of that guy that Souness gave a trial to at Southampton on the back of a recommendation from his uncle George Weah. I don't buy this "he wasn't given a chance" stuff either. As said above he had plenty of opportunities in bounce games and training to show that he was worth a place in the starting line up. He's also in the way of our own promising players, so I'd be more than happy if he moved on during the window.

The difficulty for the young guys is the lack of a reserve side. I'm sure that if any of them had been performing well in the reserves they would have had a couple of 1st team appearances this year, but we're not going to recall them from a loan spell to fill in for one match. Hopefully one or two can make an impression in the second half of the season and force themselves into the managers plans, taking away the need for new signings and allowing us to use the funds to keep the likes of Jennings and Sutton.

How many contract extensions has Fitzpatrick had? I'm sure it's only 2, with the first one being when he was playing for us week in week out under Butcher, and then he got the six month deal to give him a chance to prove himself after being out injured a whole year.

At least McCall has got to see him in a couple of games. He may not have had this opportunity with all of the loanees, and he wont get much of a chance to look over any new signings before getting them in. Therefore it may be that the manager is keen to keep him on as the squad player that he is and at least have a known quantity that can cover a few areas. He's not a great player, but he's also not as bad as some people are making out. He's left sided, can cover centre-mid, left-mid and left back at a push, which I'd say is pretty valuable for a squad player. He was a regular under a few managers, and more than one manager has chosen to keep him on, so the guys in the know obviously see something in him. It wouldn't be the end of the world if he went, but I wouldn't be offended if he stayed either.

Hard to choose between Sutton and Murphy, who were both excellent today. So I picked Murph since he's winning Having Jenno and Las together in the middle makes a huge difference as well.