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Maybe if Jack had a greater determination to succeed he wouldn’t have been out injured for 900+ days of his professional career.

I do recognise the significant restraints, and that’s exactly why I’m so pissed off at the inevitability of the situation we find ourselves in. Kettlewell preaches these restraints on a weekly basis. Therefore, if I had such a restricted budget, I wouldn’t allocate a significant proportion of it to the same type of risk (injury prone players) in key positions. One or two risks across the squad is to be expected, but the balance of his signings is all wrong and it’s come back to bite him. If it’s a choice between the categories of risks you’ve outlined, I’d rather Kettlewell spent money on young/struggling available players and one or two quality players, instead of wasting a lot on several injury prone experienced players and then having to spend more to mitigate the impact of them being inevitably injured. The latter is always a false economy and a poor strategy, and we’ve seen it before. In the end, gamblers always lose.

This is a bollocks sweeping statement and you know it. Kettlewell is responsible for signing injury prone players. He’s not responsible for every player being injured or getting injured. Him signing risky players is a fact that many of us have pointed out and will continue to do so. Therefore, it won’t be a surprise if he signs Jack. Your statement only stands to reason for the injury to Stama, which many have argued was down to poor decision-making by Kettlewell.

With the arrival of Watt and our squad being decimated, it's formation tombola time for the Killie game. Any guesses?

I'd like to see Wells loaned out and get plenty of first team minutes somewhere. He looks like he could be a great wee player for us in the next couple of years. However, I think injuries to the squad will force Kettlewell to keep him in the match day squad until at least January.

When was this received and for what game? The WhatsApp channel is good.

I’d be shocked to see any Premiership club take a punt on Jack unless it was on an expenses and appearances based contract.

My original post was shorter, although the flippant nature of my word choice seems to be lost on some who’ve felt the need to take it literally. Google facetious next and tell the forum what that means.

I was being facetious, but it was quicker than typing out my opinion that several people on this forum would still claim it was a cat that shat on their sofa after watching Kettlewell sitting on it.

The Stockholm syndrome on display on this forum is amusing.

Because it was a ridiculous decision to risk a brand-new arrival who is our marquee signing in that game when Robinson and Ebiye, who are both fit and up-to-speed, were available. The discussion on this risk has already been done to a death on the forums.

Stamatelopoulos is out for 6 weeks. That’s on Kettlewell.

Realistic expectations =/= continually accepting signing crocks.

Yep. Watt is OOC at the end of the season, meaning he is going to have to work his arse off with us in the hope that it earns him another random but lucrative payday from another club. My rose tinted glasses in this one suggests we've got him at an ideal time.

Watt is Kettlewell’s 14th signing this window, and I certainly don’t think he had him on his bingo card during preseason preparation. It’s a good signing, but it can also be an unplanned, thus desperate, signing due to the mess Kettlewell has found himself in only 2 games into the season. I hope it works out for our sake.

I'm not unhappy with Watt coming back as he's got ability but, my oh my, that signing smacks of desperation from Kettlewell. If it goes tits up like a lot of his other signings, he'll be gone before Christmas.

Watt easily has more quality than the majority of our current squad combined. Although he probably won’t be the same player we had last time, let’s not forget that he’s the player who single-handedly dragged us across the finish line on multiple occasions during his time with us.

I gave up on the zoom feed after a while. Lots of attendees failed to mute themselves, which is pretty stupid and becomes a sensory overload, and the host laptop was also being used to type up the meeting minutes during the live feed, which was also annoying. Perhaps this settled after a while, but I wasn’t prepared to wait out the technical hitches that seem par for the course during these hybrid meetings. I appreciate the summaries from other members.

If we can afford a load of wages on a bunch of risks as well as on the subsequent last-minute signings to replace said risks, I am sure we could afford and attract 1 or 2 players in key positions who aren't the equivalent of retired Blackpool Beach donkeys. Let's not forget that Kettlewell said he'd learned his lesson after Obika-gate. He hasn't. He's taken a punt again on more than one injury prone player and now he's got himself and the club in a deep financial hole of shite.

I genuinely can't believe there are people on here openly suggesting that they believe we only signed injury prone players because there were no other players available to sign due to competition from other teams. The reality, that some seem unwilling to concede or even entertain the possibility, is that we seem to have an issue with our signing policy, and it's not just this window. It can't all be bad luck.

I like Robinson and I think he'll come good for us. He appears to have what it takes to hold up the ball and bring others into play, but we don't have those others yet. He's also likely to improve once/if he gets his first goal. I hope. On the other hand, I'm not completely sold on Moses, but he has his goals already and appears to be a penalty box chaos striker. Along with Ferrie, they'll all do as 2/3/4 choice strikers, but we need Stamatelopoulos to get fit and live up to his billed expectation of being our first choice goalscoring striker. However, if Stama is out for the foreseeable, Kettlewell should be on his last warning.

You'd like to think the CEO trusts the manager's judgement on signings, because that's the manager's job and the CEO's job is to deal with the mechanics of completing signings along with the CFO/FD, but you could also imagine that the CEO may begin to second-guess the manager's judgement once the club ends up with a significant proportion of its wage budget attributed to crocked signings. In this scenario, it would only be natural for the CEO to raise questions because the pot of cash is limited and being wasteful is not in either of their job descriptions.

Yes, because he made fewer mistakes than most of the others on the park.

We love to gift a team in need of a win.

I’d like to see how Killie do against St J today and Tromsoe on Thursday before I consider our chances, but Killie will be expecting to at least beat both St J and us.