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It's another body if nothing else and if true that we have got shaw on much reduced terms then you can see why kettlewell has went for it.the bar is pretty low on his previous showings so if we can get anything out of him it'll be a bonus.

I had my heart set on a one nil shitfest so for us to score 5 good goals,keep a clean sheet and really step up in our biggest game of the season I feel pure cheated 😂.in all seriousness that was a great night's work,it's been a while since ive felt like that walking out of fir park,some of our play was a joy at times.i didnt want halliday but on that showing I was wrong,you can tell hes an experienced player just by the position he takes up,spittal was outstanding,his first goal was quality with the build up included but his second was something else and the through ball for vale was a thing of beauty.we have a tricky game on friday but we couldn't have been going into it with anymore confidence after that so bring it on.

Exactly,it's going to take a few weeks for him just to get upto speed and killie have some decent options up front as it is so it's not like he's guaranteed to be getting 90 mins every week.by all accounts his mental health had suffered since he went back to holland and then there's theres the birth of his wean,you just wonder how motivated he will be between now and the end of the season.it may well turn out to be an expensive by killie but as you say thats there problem.on the fee we received from groningen,does anybody know if we got that in the one go or are we still owed money?

I totally agree with that,we should have been more adventurous with our subs yesterday,with miller and nicholson being the obvious ones.i think there will be a few games like yesterday still to come this season,tight games at home and we will need to start rolling the dice and going for it,it's the only way we will get out of trouble.i can't fault kettlewell for the starting line up yesterday,we got a decent point the week before so he kept it as it was as most managers would.on some of the new signings,I genuinely think we won't see a great deal of elliot or devine,I can't see o'donnell dropping out,especially when we're still struggling at the bottom for untried and inexperienced players and when blaney and casey are fit enough to play any chance of o'donnell moving into the back 3 is slim.

This could easily go the same way as raith rovers last season,anything other than the right attitude and we will be in trouble.

No I would rather we didn't sign a load of poor forwards in the summer,let half of them go and then have an even worse month trying to rectify it,it looks like we have went all out for van veen,been outbid with no back up plan in place when it failed.

My thoughts are the same,we went as high as we could for van veen and it wasn't enough.i did say yesterday morning I hope we weren't putting all our eggs in one basket in terms of bringing him back and it looks like that's what we did,which is disappointing.

We're not getting anything from turnbulls transfer,we needed it to be a much bigger fee for us to get any cut.

The only real saving grace is that livingston,st johnstone and ross county don't seem to have strengthened to any great degree but at the same time it doesn't take away from our own dealings.for 3 forwards to have left and only 1 brought in simply isn't on,were 1 injury away from a complete disaster and with our luck it won't be long until it happens.the raft of full back signings is strange,I get replacing montgomery so we can keep gent further forward but will we go with a loanee or the kiwi boy over o'donnell on the other side,I'm not so sure we will.theres free agents out there so not all is lost,i seen the likes of flo kamberi mentioned over on p&b which is a decent shout,joe efford is now a free and the way we're business the now is more likely.

To have ended january with the striking options we have is shocking,I never thought for a second when kettlewell said that he would be hanging his hat on bair when he signed would come true but here we are.

We've got numbers in central defence its just that they have all been dross this season,the level of goals we concede is embarrassing.kettlewell came in last season and made us hard to beat,it's obvious he isn't able to do that this time around,we badly needed a new centre half to try and help get us going again and up the performance of the ones that have let us down all season.

Taking the great need for a striker out the equation,to have signed yet another full back is just bizarre, defensively we need a centre half,I highly doubt that will be happening now.

He's brutal,he makes mugabi look like maldini.

Do we still have enough time for devine to get injured and find a replacement

The story of spittal to st mirren on pca is looking more likely if there outbidding us for van veen.

You would have to think we were interested in van veen,if that's the case I hope we're not putting all our eggs in the one basket,we can't afford for this to drag on all day then potentially miss out.

Aye he's definitely a right back which wouldn't make a lot of sense now that we have elliot.scott burns on twitter last night pretty much confirmed we're looking to bring in a left back,striker and potentially another defender so maybe the other defender is devine, personally I would rather we went for a centre half than another right back.

According to the times,we're one of the clubs interested in adam devine from rangers.

Scott burns on twitter saying there will be incomings tomorrow.

We were never bringing in anyone with a decent track record,it's a gamble and let's hope it's one that pays off for us.hes going to get the winner on saturday from a georgie gent cross,you heard it here first 😀.

Is brophy not quite injury prone or am I making that up,he isn't somebody I would like to see us go for but we're almost at the point where anybody is going to be better than nobody.

Now would be a good time for a joke grizzly 😂.

On that kinda money a week smiddy,he's an m&s type of guy.

There's no way we're paying our sub goalie £2.5k a week.

I really hope we bring a centre half in,other than mcginn the rest of them have been extremely poor this season, butcher's legs have gone and casey is coming back from injury.its maybe wishful thinking to get someone in that can have an instant impact like hartley or aldred did bit getting a new face in there might be enough to steady the ship and get some of the others upping there game a bit,there's no way we can keep defending the way we have been.