bobbybingo

Rumours on injuries have been on the mark up until now. If it's 3 months, surely he'll be back to Parkhead and the loan cancelled.

True. It's not the fans' job to pick teams or decide on tactics either.

He's no main striker, but he is a striker who's scoring goals and a player who's giving his all, so I'm fine with him being here for now. I'll judge him at the end of the season.

Ah, right. Two of our strikers on that list doesn't sound too catastrophic.

His previous record means nothing to us now, and the fact he is our sole fit and available striker tells us absolutely nothing about him. He's a striker who is scoring goals. I thought that's what we're looking for right now?

In the league, I count 3 non Old Firm players above him - Shanland at Hearts, Miovski and McGrath at Aberdeen. Who do you have as the 4th? The comment I replied to specifically referred to our summer recruitment. The only one of the guys I've listed who was signed during that window is McGrath, so I think we've done ok so far with Bair. Maybe folk expect us to sign better players than Celtic, Rangers, Hearts or Aberdeen. Fair enough. If I was criticising Kettlewell there are certainly sticks to beat him with - Bair isn't one of them, unless your argument chooses to ignore the number of goals he's scored this season and focus solely on his lack of them elsewhere in previous years.

Bair's previous record again? In the here and now, could you list the non Old Firm players signed this summer who have scored more goals than him?

I think Ferrie's back.

He's always been fuckin rotten?

Shaw could well have been on his way out anyway but he's obviously still injured, as he's back at Barnsley to 'continue his rehabilitation'. His signing made sense in as much as he was a last minute panic buy who Kettlewell knew from Ross County, but he hadn't scored in a year when he arrived and you could see he was totally devoid of confidence.

If his contact is Spanish, they'll either give him a chair or call the police.

1-1 St Johnstone v Aberdeen, so we're level on games played & points and 5 goals better off going into Saturday.

Four, assuming Obika stays. Zdravkovski, Gent and Bair are doing ok for us. Biereth and Spencer did well enough to be recalled. How does that confirm the entire summer window was a waste of time?

Don't mention Sky Glass....

I think just about everyone is. That's why some of the complaints about signings don't seem based in reality. I don't believe for a minute the guys we're bringing in are at the top of Kettlewell's shopping list. It's one thing having an eye for a good player, it's another thing entirely having the funds to sign them.

I think it's me you're really replying to, since those were my points. Yeah, we got Biereth. He was a young guy who hadn't scored many goals at our level, but it worked out great for us. As soon as he proved himself, Arsenal recalled him and sent him off to a higher level. Repeating that success is the trick, and not all of the young players doing the rounds on loan will end up making it. Halliday is far closer to the end of his career than the start and we'll see how it's looking once he's played a few games. If he was a few years younger we wouldn't have got a sniff. Hearts offloaded him to us, then go after Scott Fraser, a player a lot of us fancied when his name came up. That's where we're at.

None. The folk who expect us to bring in top quality strikers given those restrictions - which I think reflect our current state pretty accurately - might have their heads stuck in a bong, though.

If strikers are meant to score goals, why has Bair been a bad signing?

Fingers crossed Kettlewell can find some strikers who have good goal scoring records, are surplus to requirements at their current club (or even better, don't have a club), and are attracting zero interest from anyone with more money than us to spend - which seems to be any club at or above our level.

If/when Daws gets binned, I'd be interested to know how that would enable Kettlewell or A.N. Other to bring in the players they want.

Results in the St Johnstone, Killie and Ross County league games will determine whether there's any chance of another Raith Rovers.

Who linked us to Jack 'Harry' Vale?

Bet it isn't him.

If 15 games without a win resulted in automatic dismissal, we would've waved bye bye to '91 and the best Motherwell side I've ever seen.

Nein, nein, nein.