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The 800k bid for AP in the summer was as much made up paper talk as all the JT stuff this month. Completely unsubstantiated but some folk are taking it as gospel for some reason.

Another 80 minutes played, another win.

i suspect we're hoping he hits form and we can recoup what we sold him for the fact we turned down 800k for him in the summer baffled me doubt we'll get anywhere near that come the summer

I'm surprised we have not moved AP on

I suppose you could look at it as we brought in Bjorgolfsson who strengthens our existing attack, Nicholson coming back creates competition for Just who has been our best player so far. He's also in the sort of 10 mould I felt we lacked at the start of the window in that he can score from range so another potential threat for opposing teams to think about. Mcghee is an upgrade on Balmer and has had time to settle in. We could definitely done with another LB but we're stronger than when we started. Squad for the season now looks like GK - Ward, Connelly, Oxborough RB - JK, Sparrow, SOD CB - McGinn, Welsh, Mcghee, Gordon LB - Longelo CM - Watt, Fadinger, Preistman, Halliday RW - Maswanhise, Just AM - Slattery, Nicholson Lw - Said, RCC St - Bjorgolffson, Hendry, Stama. Robinson 25 senior players with Ross, Mcallister, Mccolm etc on the fringes probably the strongest squad we've had since the 2011/12 squad so hopefully this 1 delivers a trophy.

Overall, I'd say its been a decent to good window; probably rating around an 8 out of 10. It could have been much worse, for example if we'd failed to secure another striker, lost a centre back and lost TJ. It could have been slightly better if we'd signed another LB. To add to the mix we have McGhee and Nicholson back now. I always believe that the time to strengthen is when things are going well and if we want to hold onto 4th or even drop to 5th place then more of the same simply won't do. To clarify, I mean the personnel not the system which will continue to work well. Ostensibly both Aberdeen and Hibs have strengthened and even if only some of their new recruits hit the ground running then they'll threaten us. Fortunately we have a decent cushion over both. We mustn't ignore Falkirk either as they are a credible threat and may have strengthened slightly. If we fall to 6th I'd still be delighted. If we drop to 5th place I'll still be over the moon and if we can hang onto 4th place I'll be ecstatic. Finishing in the top 3 whilst theoretically possible is pretty much beyond us. A Scottish cup run? Not so sure this time round. I really think we can achieve something next season though, with or without JBA.

The team will be 100% focused. It's the fans and the media that get caught up in the feeding frenzy.

This is true. I’m a numpty 🤦‍♂️

The game’s on Wednesday.

Great news..

Excellent, welcome bsck Stephen

You were spot on. I tip my baseball cap to you sir.

Happy if he is available, I’m not sure how the signings work in practice- does Welsh need to be about waiting to sign a document? ie not in bed dreaming of how to beat Dundee 😀

Welsh confirmed

Indeed and just need to look at Ross County deals to see what we’re “missing”

I don't see any reason why he wouldn't be able to play, if the manager wants him to. It's just like he's been out injured for a couple of weeks.

Not Wells fault. The deal was dependent on Celtic getting player in. It was 11;20> when SSN announced they had signed the guy from Brentford

More of an option, than a headache though, probably planned to not have him, or had been told he would have him.

As others have said, I'd have liked a left back but given our performance against Celtic with Koutroumbis at left back, maybe we're saving a wage. It's often been a case of scrambling around in January looking for players to dig us out of a hole so this kind of relaxed window with a 'if nothing happens we'll be fine" probably feels odd as a Motherwell fan...

probably true but then presumably not including Welsh in his plans so another game where he is unlikely to feature.

I think he’s a big part of our team who know exactly how JBA wants him to play and yes it means changes for cup games but JBA has been making changes for numerous games so I’m not too worried about that.

Only a circus for us, I'm sure Jens went to bed tonight thinking how to beat Dundee

Only misstep we’ve made this window. if/when SW returns it’s ridiculous that it’s not sorted much earlier in day to concentrate on game tomorrow and not this circus.

With Welsh coming back, I'll take that window all day long. We've got the players here - hopefully, Hibs and the rest have just thrown mud at the wall.

Getting done now 👍