MelvinBragg

Indeed. I'd also be happier if he played a bit closer to Bair...

Talk of Ryan Jack and his injury record got me thinking about a conversation had at Fir Park earlier this season. Should we be looking at our physio department? Dunne and Moult couldn't stay fit at Fir Park and now they're available for selection most weeks. And the number of injuries we've had this season seems a lot...

I think there may be a distinction there. The Society as an organisation aren't involved in negotiations. But as members of the board of directors, the society reps on the board may well be involved in negotiations or at least privy to information...

I know. Hence "I thought". Don't get me wrong, he wasn't alone in having a bad day at the office. Spittal wasn't great, Bair (although starved of supply) didn't do much other than his goal (and yes, I know if a striker scores a goal every week and does nothing else, you'd take that). For me, O'Donnell, Gent and Zdravkovski were the best of a bad bunch...

I thought Casey was atrocious...

Unlike Van Veen himself...

I'd guess that the keeper may be among them. Probably O'Donnell...

Given Obileye's performance against us recently, I'm kind of hoping so...

That name popped into my head as well. The thing is that there are bound to be a few good keepers not getting first team football, it's the nature of the position. Remember signing Carson and Gillespie in successive summers? George doesn't strike me as a terrible keeper but there may be better options out there...

Apparently a PCA with Kilmarnock. Given he's played with Accies and Livingston, he clearly has some kind of plastic fetish. Don't let him near your daughter's Barbie...

I had actually heard it was Obileye, the centre half we had a PCA with. Nothing I've see of him suggests he's better than what we have (but then I'd have said that of Bair). Maybe cheaper than renewing Mugabi if we're cutting costs?

Good to see that Vale has followed in the footsteps of Bair in being a signing widely dismissed as being shite before they had kicked a ball for us only to go on and make a valuable contribution to the team. Am I being naive in thinking that maybe people will, while being allowed to be sceptical of signings ("his statistics aren't great"), hold fire on the "he's garbage, why have we signed him" chat this summer? Just a thought...

Unfashionable as it might be, I'm going for O'Donnell. Set up a goal, prevented one with his defensive header in the six yard box late in the second half, set up Spittal's chance in the first half. I've been a huge critic of his in the past, and this is not me saying give him a new contract. But give him credit where it's due, he was good tonight...

Other than Dhanda, none of them looked up to much at Fir Park a few weeks ago...

That thought struck me as well but you wonder if we could outbid St Johnstone? Or the likes of Kilmarnock or a promoted Dundee United? On that basis, unlikely...