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The way McCall set us up, any decent striker should have been picking up double figures every season. He had his faults tactically, but he typically set his team up with pace and width to supply plenty of crosses for Higdon and Sutton. Baraclough likes his wide men too, so I imagine any new striker should be able to capitalize on that.

An asterisk shirt? That would be a real sign of the times.

Did Sutton not score goals under Baraclough? Regardless, the McDonald / Erwin combination worked quite well from the perspective of developing our youngsters (and winning the play off), and I expect to see more of that in the next couple of seasons. So be prepared to be disappointed if you are expecting to see a barrel load of the finished article being signed over the summer.

As others have said, it's really a diagonal rather than a sash because it doesn't continue round the back.

Sorry, didn't meant to get anyone's hopes up or be all secret squirrel; just meant Pearson extending his contract.

Well, we have one new signing and one re-signing already. But most players and agents are away on holiday this time in June and decisions don't start getting made until after that.

Porter was probably the most recent. Edit: it's early here too and I didn't notice the 3,456 other people that beat me to it. I have no idea if the Johnson rumours are true, but our past transfer dealings are irrelevant now that Les is running the show. He has a complete different business model in place and I expect to see a few more money making deals over the coming months,

He just signed a new contract with Partick Thiftle

Skippy

A youngster had one bad game. An experienced forum member has multiple poor posts. Which one should we punt?

Aye, it was a great interview - complete contrast from the "We need some luck and hope Rangers aren't at their best" approach we typically got from McCall. The fact Baraclough had experience of competing and winning in these situations, I think, is something that was overlooked in the pre-match. His enthusiasm and positivity definitely rubbed off on the team and helped them rise to the occasion.

Better players like Billy Sharp (33 games, 5 goals)? Skippy could get a game with that Leeds team no problem.

MFC Twitter, in response to a question, hinted Skippy was one of the individuals we were speaking to.

Sheven PM, Shurely?

It's not that it won't happen. It's that it will more likely be slower and higher risk.

At the Q&A the club said the Development Fee formula includes a % for each future transfer.

Well he won't be playing against St Mirren, but he will develop from playing first team football as opposed to sitting on the bench or playing-non competitive reserve matches. That's why we'd rather have our youngsters play competitive games for Alloa than U20 games.

I think it's far too soon for the boy to be moving on. He's still very raw and needed the old head of a Skippy to keep him on the right track. He'd have been much better off with first team football for another season at least. Add to that that the current Leeds ownership is pretty sketchy and there will likely be a new manager in there 6 months from now who might not take a shine to Erwin, and it's a big risk. Also, as I mentioned in other threads, disappointed he bolts at the first opportunity after we stood by him through 2 long term injuries. But, we'll take the money, move on and see if he's one of those rare early transfers that makes a name for themselves.

Would be good for us if Big Lee keeps moving as the development formula means we get a cut of future transfers too.

To be honest, I wouldn't want to give a penny to the current bunch of crooks in charge at Leeds.

That's an interesting point. Does the development fee include VAT or would someone like Leeds have to pay VAT over and above the formula so we don't get penalised?

The half million from Big Lee will be a nice down payment.

For anyone that only wants confirmed signings MFC Twitter (which also posts to Shoutbox) is the best resource. This thread was always about speculation and discussion, and often best left unread until August each season.

We supposedly have 50 - 60 targets on the radar as part of our new scouting system. Hopefully, that covers this market, but it will be interesting to see what where our signings com from (and more interesting to see if any of them involve transfer fees).

It certainly was a classic case of a Rangers side we should be able to beat. That was also true, however, in the Cup game where we just didn't show up (and a few other times in the previous 18 seasons). If we had been facing a Raith Rovers or Falkirk with the same quality of players, we'd have expected to win over the 2 legs. It was just great to see us adopt the same attitude against a team from Ibrox.