Dezz

Yeah I agree, if there is a London based L2 or Conference club in for him I imagine he'd stay put. Don't know off the top of my head but I imagine there's a fair few clubs in those leagues dotted around the London area.

Strong team out tonight. Looks like our strongest line up, except Moult obviously. Carson, Tait, Heneghan, Kiprè, Hammell, McHugh, Bigirimana, Frear, Rose, Cadden and Fisher. Edit : no Dunne tonight, presume he must be nursing an injury.

Yeah that's right. Robbo said he expected an answer from him yesterday, so it might be that the club know whether it's a yes or no. If he has agreed to join it's probably that he hasn't come back up from London yet to complete the deal. I'm not overly hopeful of him signing. At 29 this will probably be his last chance to get a decent contract and if clubs down south are after him it's likely they'll be able to outbid us. Hopefully Robbo's powers of persuasion can work again likely did with Bigi and others.

From your previous posts on the site it seems youre pretty well informed when it comes to transfers etc at the club. Should I take from your response to my scepticism of the previous posters inside scoop that you have heard something similar in regards to Moult deciding to knock back the extension?

I'm sure they do, but I'll take the word of the CEO over a post from a fan messageboard until there is evidence of a source or some info/quotes to corroborate.

Flow confirmed on twitter a few of hours ago that we haven't had an answer from Louis yet in regards to the contract extension. Maybe in the end he won't extend his deal but I doubt Steelboy or his source would know before the CEO of the club.

No Clay today. Possibly suggests he's one of the guys on the way out? Haven't heard anything about an injury.

The official team sheet has a Christopher Madden listed on our bench. Anyone any idea who he is?

They got £1.5m for Hayes and they're new investor just put in a 'seven figure sum' apparently, so I imagine in Scottish terms they've got a fair bit to spend. You'd think their board would have promised McInnes funds for him to knockback Sunderland. Regardless, I don't think Moult will go there. He'll go down to a big League One or lower Chanpionship club...next summer after he signs a new deal

I've got high hopes for MacLean but I hope he doesn't catch Don Thomas syndrome this season I.e being too close to the first team to let him go but also not giving him any meaningful game time so his development stalls. Hopefully Robinson can make a decision before the close of the window to whether he'll be involved in a meaningful way or whether it would be best to get him out on loan to get games under his belt.

Not much scope for selling on if he performs well this season with only a 1 year deal, unless the club have an option to extend.

That's Kiprè signed on a 1 year deal.

Ah right. Sorry, must have picked it up wrong.

Robinson said post match last night Carson had picked up a 'strange/weird' injury (can't remember the precise wording' but he has trained and would be involved on Saturday.

I haven't made either of the friendlies but from the highlights it has looked like Ross MacLean has been played more centrally. Can anyone confirm? I was impressed with him last season before his injury and he could be a decent option in there to add some pace and trickery with Cadden having the wide right position sewn up.

My money would be on Blyth, Clay, Thomas and Watt being those he's trying to get out the door.

Another goal for Bowman. Quite pleased for the big guy.

That's £6m Barrie McKay signed for Nottingham Forest for £500k. That should put to bed any of the rumours about them looking at Cadden.

The Cadden Derby. Hopefully the trialist get a run out against a slightly higher quality of opposition compared to Saturday to see how they fare.

Ross County owner Roy MacGregor, who essentially funds the club. Owner of Global Energy. County would still be floating about the seaside leagues if it wasn't for Uncle Roy's millions.

Agree that £500 a week doesn't seem like a lot of money in isolation but in percentage terms it could be a fair increase if Moult and McHugh are on say £1,500 a week. It's also £4,000 a month extra for the two of them, and in addition there might also be incentives based on a percentage of wage (5% goal bonus for example) that will also increase. Hopefully there's a few quid down the back of the Fir Park sofa because if these two extended their stays the current feel good factor around the place would go through the (newly re-clad Hunter Stand) roof!

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I absolutely loved Robinsons repost to the Chrissy Cadden offer question. Shot down immediately saying the offer wasn't worth discussing but used it as an opportunity to big up one of our most sellable assets and 'one of the best young players in scotland'. Exactly what we need to be doing. Yes we've got talented players and yes they are for sale but only if you're prepared to stump up the cash.

Really looking forward to this game. A 'home' tie for me and Ainslie Park is a good wee set up. If it wasn't a mid week I could see 2-2.5k Well fans coming through, not sure about midweek though maybe 1,500 or so with it being the holiday period.

I wouldn't accept anything less than £500k for Cadden. We got around that figure in compensation for Erwin if I remember right and at a rough guess Cadds must have played double the amount of games Erwin had and now has U21 international caps.

That's as big a 'Telt' I've seen in a while from Well Up For It.