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I will of course give him a chance but signing a player on loan from a conference side doesn't inspire me....brings back memories of Tony Straker on loan from York. Hopefully we can sign a player called Stan and announce Stan and Ollie as our new acquisitions!! Mmmmm mmmm

I think I'm still paying off my phone bill from using club call.

Cheap option when there were probably better candidates. One for you Griz.....Jay-Z will always live in the shadow of his brother A, author of the best-selling ‘London’.

Doubt it, we're already pretty good at defending like that.

The signing of Riku Danzaki is an interesting one and of the face of it quite exciting. Whether the reality lives up to the anticipation remains to be seen. I presume the fact he has come from Brisbane Roar means that Skippy and/or Aldred have recommended him to us and us to him so at least their is some connection there and not just some random plucked off a database. 2 in is good, but need 3 more. Preferably an experienced centre half, a midfield dynamo and an out and out striker.

I would have put a like on that post but............lol

Maybe he will be outstanding for us, sign for sellik then the chants will be Ollie W**kshaw.....yer a cranker yer a cranker!!

Aye sign a pair of clowns. Usual club policy then.

its Ollie...someone on twitter correcting the official site lol

FFS, That would mean stringing three passes together…

If he drops the megaphone chat, I’ll support him ever more…

Re: van Veen, he is our best forward player by some distance. Not that that would be difficult but he is probably as good a ‘No.9’ as we could hope to have given our budget. The problem is he is surrounded by too many players who don’t/can’t support him properly. If he played in a Motherwell side with Ainsworth, Ojamaa, Humphrey or Turnbull then he would be scoring alot more and we would struggle to keep hold of him, in my opinion. He was labelled as ‘the budget Bergkamp’ when he signed. Dennis Bergkamp himself would probably struggle in our forward line right now.

Even the best goalscorers in the game miss chances though. Do you want him to convert every opportunity that comes his way? He is a goalscorer. That's what he does for us. He's also the top scorer this season for any team outwith Celtic, Rangers, Hearts and Aberdeen. The likes of Killie, Livi, Ross County and St Mirren would love to have Van Veen in their squad. He's one goal away from his tally for the entirety of last season as well, so he's on track to improve this season. I honestly don't even know why he's part of the conversation when it comes to underperformers this season. Him and Kelly are our best players by a mile.

The really good ones are being paid a hell of a lot more than Van Veen is by Motherwell. Bottom line is, he's a goalscorer. He's been the top scorer for us in the two seasons he's been here so far, including this one. If he was the player he is now and also had a great work ethic we'd never have him. On top of that, he does a lot more besides just score goals. He's constantly pulling defenders out of position, drawing fouls, and he's hitting more shots and taking more touches in the box than any other player in our team, so he's doing what's asked of him. I'll say this. If he got injured in training tomorrow and was out for two months we'd be in big trouble. We could replace him with Shields who will run around all day, but last time I checked it was goals that won games and points, not miles clocked per game.

If the job is writing for Mrs Brown's Boys, then yes.