Mad Dog

Dom Thomas scored the winner for Queen's Park to beat ICT. Stuart McKinstrey played an hour. Darragh O'Connor scored two as Morton thrashed Dunfermline 5-0 away from home.

I think that he is a very tidy player and certainly good to have in the squad but as soon as he gets near the 18 yard box it all falls apart for him. Defensively too as he has cost us a couple of goals by not staying tight to his man.

Get a room you two, should be talking about the game this afternoon.

I remember SK stating that in the week before Mika left he was in conversation with Arsenal and there was no mention of a recall.

Folk were very quick to blame Arsenal for what happened but I did wonder if Mika wanted away.

Presumably he suffered that injury whilst signing his extension clause for next season....

Exactly this. I'll add the question, who's to say that Killie can afford it or that St. Mirren could afford what they offered? Motherwell didn't want to take a risk on our current finances so let's see what happens to Killie and other clubs that have paid over the odds in this window.

I think that is true but there are at least two exceptions - Stuttgart who are owned by Mercedes and Wolfsburg owned by Volkswagen.

Stephen Frail has clarified that he's still signed with us so, I guess, may feature towards the end of the season if his recovery goes well.

To be fair to MJC he just seems to be a 'glass half empty' kind of chap.

And you're giving him some.

Wonder no more....

Not interested in any of that. Just my opinion that offering any player a pay-cut to stay on for another two years is very likely to see them leave.

It was the Czech / German lad Dan Twardzik wasn't it? He actually wasn't a bad keeper, just only tall enough for 5-a-side goals.

I'm so glad that you're not our head of recruitment. I accept that he has been less consistent than usual this season but he's been capped by Scotland since his last contract was signed and that achievement can't be rewarded with a pay-cut.

Worse than Gunnar Nelson, Craig Samson or Stevie Woods?

Alan Gow must be in with a shout for the no. 9 shirt in this team.

I'm not bothered where he goes as long as he leaves Celtic for cash this window. Wherever he ends up next will hopefully be a stepping stone to bigger and better things.

Cedric Kipré having to endure English football fans on their finest behaviour today as West Brom were knocked out of the cup by Wolves.

We're going full Stuart Pearce mode and The Big Ox will save the day.

Your predictions are getting worse!

Thinking back to the furore surrounding certain signings that supposedly hadn't had a proven goalscoring record prior to signing for us - Shaw did. Not defending him as it really didn't work out but on paper he is the kind of player that we ought to be looking out for.

Nothing against Shaw at all and I agree that his signing made sense. The fact that his loan has been cut short suggests to me that there will be a forward signing up soon. There's no way that Shaw would have been allowed to leave if there was no-one coming in.

Nope, nor was Wilkinson. His record suggested that he was worth the gamble but it didn't work out. We moved him on for cash so not a disaster. Shaw probably wasn't part of the recruitment process and was very much a last-minute signing to cover injuries, which he did, although not as well as we hoped.

Yep, I'd agree with all of that. Don't like goalies as captains either and thought that Butcher could have taken it on but then he got injured.