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We found Casey, we'll find Casey's replacement. Same goes for Goss. Time to move on.

He hasn't appeared in any of the pics, and didn't offer his opinion on who had the worst patter.

What can the club realistically say about those 4 other than what's been said already?

Don't really see the need to announce that some sports scientists have left, we expanded that department when Alexander restructured just before we punted him, so maybe were going back to how it was? Did we announce when we brought them in? We seemed to have a few sports science-y folk there when they were doing the pre season testing and stuff, so I'm sure we'll be fine. The club communicated when alan Archibald left, and I'm sure they'll communicate when his replacement is in place. We've also been announcing signings and reporting on the ore season trip, so maybe some of you have been deafened by previous silences and not noticed this stuff? Our recruitment team is still intact and the board is still there, with a highly experienced person handling ceo duties for now, so I'm not panicking about direction or managing things in the short to medium term. I'm sure we could hire a body to fill the CEO position any time we wanted, but I wouldn't be surprised if we go back to a COO instead, either way, difficult positions to fill with our budget. Our recruitment follows a similar pattern each season, with the bigger signings coming towards the end once a lot of the bigger clubs have sorted things out. With us changing our manager at the turn of the year I think that killed our chances at PCAs, especially when we've been trying to keep some of our out of contract folk, but we still made a few early singings, so we're hardly stagnant. If the season was starting tomorrow I'd be concerned, but it doesn't, so I'm happy to see how things go over the next few weeks.

I think it's a bit of a myth that Goss doesn't work hard or tackle.

I think any club that has contributed to his development up to the age of 23 gets training compensation of some kind.

Was Josh Morris the only player Graham Alexander signed more than once? I don't think it's fair to compare Paton to a one footed shitebag, we should at least give him a few games. Obika, Paton and Maguire in for KVV, Goss and Cornelius isn't sexy at all, but I seriously doubt we're done with our transfer business.

His legs are made of weetabix?

I legit didn't know Harrogate town was a team.

What has Danzaki and Oxborough done to justify being kept over Tierney and kelly? I'd like to think we're working on moving on maguire and shields.

Undisclosed fees are pretty much the norm for most teams now.

No one knows how much we paid for moult, so that's just speculation. Signing Moult and Aaron's was plain wrong, and was a result of our indecision over GA in the summer and not either committing and letting him sign folk, or sacking him after the poor, but jammy, run in. I can sympathize a little with hammell over the timing, but I have to imagine the recruitment team presented other signing options, but he went with three players that he knew and Penney. Most of us were happy to see what moult could offer at the time, but it was clear very early on that we signed him with known injury issues, more than just a case of him lacking sharpness.

We can't have Carroll or McGinley fighting for anything, their bodies are made of wet cardboard.

Yeah, normally we're clear about who we're trying to keep and who have been let go. We'll have offered Cornelius and Max deals to protect our training compensation, and SK mentioned trying to keep as much of this team together as possible, so have to assume Goss and Casey are under offer too, but who knows.

Maguire had a good spell when Alexander had him doing all the donkey work, but I don't think that position exists in our current system. I could see him being a backup/bench option if he diesnt move on, which is also something we need to be fair. I can't see Shields staying, it could be another loan if we can't find a permanent move for him. I thought Mahon was only a 2 year deal, so surprised to see him still around. I have to assume that Efford, SOD and McGinn were extended based on clauses of some kind, as it's unusual to extend them without mentioning it.

I'd be reluctant to let go a solid goalkeeper after seeing how quickly a goalkeeping crisis can send a club down. We will have our price, but I'd rather we kept Kelly for now. As for the other contracted players, I don't see them leaving money on the table, and I don't blame them. If they're as shite as we think they are, the only way is down for them, so they may as well run out their contract. I'm not sure what percentage of expected pay that "mutualed" players get, but we'd need to pay that on top of what it costs to get their replacement, and weve only just paid off two managers, so id be surprised if we did a bunch of these. We need backup players too, so I don't see the harm in keeping some of them. I suspect Morris is off though. It sounds like we've imposed a deadline for players to make a decision on their contract offers, which is good, we need time to go for other options before it's too late. Hopefully we can keep hold of Casey and McGinn.

Both Tierney and Danzaki were injured for a fair bit of SKs tenure, so we don't know for sure how they would have been used. Same goes for Efford. My guess is all three would have been bench players in our current system, with efford possibly being an option for the chaotic partner for KVV. Tierney would probably have been behind Spittal for his spot as a starter. SK kind-of hinted in a recent interview that Danzaki wouldn't be getting a game even if fit.

I like mcginn and would be happy for him to stay. However, he did have the funniest moment of the season with that ridiculous OG v killie.

Picked spittal, was a good finish for his goal and he was always an attacking threat. Thought about McGinn for having to carry bevis and blaney through, but went with the attacking choice.

As someone who is currently dealing with just Achilles tendinitis, never mind a ruptured one, I almost feel his pain. At least he doesn't have to pay for health insurance.

Oh, and because county lost and we prevented united from scoring the goals they needed, we 100% relegated them.

United were hardly all guns blazing, but they had plenty of chances to get themselves into a decent lead. When we started to turn the screw in the last 20 minutes, the result looked inevitable, as we were lining up to shoot and they were spent. Mugabi definitely kept the game interesting, and Blaney had to be dragged back into reality a few times too. Fair play to McGinn for keeping it together, he was excellent. Furlong was brilliant as well, hopefully we can get him again. Spittal had another good game, and he doesn't get the plaudits he deserves because of the form KVV has been on. Was good to see Miller start, he had some jitters but played some tidy stuff and competed well. KVV really rueing that penalty he gave to Moult. It's absolutely mental that most of us are sitting here disappointed that our striker could only get the 29 goals.

He played 40odd times this year, and only lost his place recently. They are sure to go on a spending spree, so he could feasibly be one that loses out, but who knows.

We negotiated a fee for him rather than going to a tribunal for training compensation. "Motherwell were entitled to a training compensation for developing the 22-year-old but they've also negotiated the 'addition of future economic rights."

KVV googling the slosh to learn for his 30 goal celebration.