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I'm good with blaming var.

Nicholson is mainly a winger.

Tierney's legs are made of wet toilet paper tubes. Must be a name thing. It's a shame because I liked him.

I think Wilkinson left prior to the Biereth recall. It's a tricky one as well, he wanted to move closer to home, and while playing out the season with us may have made sense, as soon as another club is interested it would have been difficult to say no and risk having an unsettled player going through the motions during a relegation fight.

Nothing mind blowing there. It's a sellers market in January, and find me a team that doesn't want a striker.

Why would the manager appoint the head of recruitment? That should be the board/ceo's job with some input from the manager at best.

Is the point of a head of recruitment not to offer continuity in that area regardless of who the manager is? As such, do we really want the manager being the one responsible for hiring the HoR?

Mainly a left winger, so chances are he'd be in the spot Gent played in against Alloa. There was mention of him having played through the middle recently, but most of his games have been out wide. So 3 of our 4 signings so far are lefties, which is my favorite footedness.

That would make more sense, we tend to do a decent job keeping trialists and unsigned players out of our posted pics and videos.

No one linked us with the dundee 2, that was pure speculation in here.

We see our own transfer mistakes more than we see others, because most of us don't care about Ross County squad players. With the finances available to us, when we sign a known quantity, they're going to be flawed in some way. Blair Spittal is a good example of this, he has been an ever present for us and a potent threat going forward with a good number of goals and assists, but he isn't fast. There's a reason players drop to our level, and pace is probably his. He will make a good career hovering around mid table in Scotland, and hopefully we can keep him. Despite some of the stick he gets in here, most teams would kill for someone that produces what he does. If we were able to sign 10 players at Spittals level, we'd be in a very good place, but we probably can't afford that. When we sign an unknown, there's that chance that we unearth a gem, but that's less and less likely as every club has access to the same data and analysis as we have, and for the most part they have more money. So, we have to try and be clever and shop in non traditional markets, or bring in someone who we think we can improve, i.e. a project. Because of that, we don't want to out all our eggs in one basket, in case the project doesn't pan out, so we need to bring in a couple and hope that one works out. We already know the pitfalls of loan signings. Then you get to January signings, which at our level is picking up the scraps. We're not prizing a good player from another team that wants to keep them, so we have to rake through the cast offs and see if we can reclaim something. Then, since we don't have the chance to sign anyone again before the end of the season, we naturally panic and stock up on a couple extra just in case. On top of that there's form and injuries. We can't afford to let players hang around in the squad until they are in form, or drop first teamers when they are out of form, so we often have to move player on in the hope that we can bring someone in who can hit the ground running. Some clubs are better at this than others, but I'm sure that if someone did some analysis, the margins would be pretty small.

I think the championship is more likely.

How often have our fans legitimately been unable get a ticket for a game because they are sold out?

Turnbull has won a bunch of medals and made a fortune, and he's still just 24. He will be just fine.

We need a lot, but we don't neccessarily need to sign them in order.

I wonder how many clubs have made last minute panic signings just to appease their fan base. It would take some balls to stop after the properly identified targets didn't pan out, and just say "we will have to make do with what we have". Instead most teams will try to find *someone* Then you're left with someone you didn't really want for at best six months, if not longer. It's also a sellers market, where agents know they can move on clients for inflated prices by generating a panic driven bidding war in the last day of the window. They can hold clubs to ransom. We all fall for it too. Imagine we made 2-3 really good signings in the next couple of days, but shut up shop on the last day of the window. We'd be furious. We all want that last minute deadline day signing.

Nouble has been utter gash for a while, and anonymous the last few times they've played us. I like Anderson better, and he's shite as well. Sounds like we weren't really in for Fraser and the agent was just using us to get a move for him.

Something about the popes religion or a Bears toilet habits.

No, he said Wilkinson went to southend, instead of the other obscure team he actually went to.

Gent played well, but seemed to forget we don't have biereth anymore. Hopefully we get someone that can get on the end of his crosses. Was great to see him get his first professional goal after what must have been a really difficult time for him. Picked spittal, two excellent goals, and goals win games.

Looks like all of the premier league teams struggled today, so good to get the comfortable win and move on. Also good to get Miller and butcher back on the pitch, and debuts for the two new guys. Easiest possible draw for the next round please.

I'd love to know the actual number of new sign-ups. For all we know, we get an average of 4 new sign-ups every two months, and we got 5 from the first 48 hours of this.

January signings are generally loans, cast offs, and people that aren't getting games elsewhere. We are not paying fees, so we are limited. They are also by their nature panic signings, which means clubs are going to pay over the odds because they have no choice.

Our system relies heavily on wing backs getting up and down the pitch. Going into the second half of the season with just one lwb would be madness, as we need to account for injuries, suspensions, and substitutions. In Montgomery we now have competition/backup. We do have Wilson, but maybe we want him getting regular games somewhere? Despite it coming up so often, I don't think we have ever used a combination of two fullbacks (one strong attacker and one strong defender) on one side, outside of an in-game issue.

I have definitely chilled out to a degree after watching McMahon's interview. Some of my initial criticisms were based on assumptions, i.e. "is that it?", but this looks to be one part of a wider strategy, and we're just going to have to wait and see how that part pans out.