Well-Made

I have deleted posts here referring to Delboyd. It was that or bin the thread to HOTD. If we're calling heated arguments in the dressing room a tiff, then what was Derek Adams at Ross County over the weekeend? Papers reported yesterday that he landed two punches on one of his strikers.

If I was the owner the one person that I'd want to stay is McGhee. Porter, Hughes, Smith and Malcolm would be told that they had until the 31st December to sign a new deal. If they don't, I'd take the best offers for them during the January transfer window. McGhee would then get this cash and the wages that have been freed up to get new players in. It's unlikely to be freebies as it's January. The only problem with this is that it means that we may pay slightly over the odds to get someone in. I'd also be asking what players he is looking for in July. Bearing in mind that some of these players may be out of contract then and if a pre contract is signed it might be easier to deal with their clubs for a January move. If no bids came in then funds would have to be found to allow loan moves, first one would have to be Lappin. Possibly one or two permanent signings.

Closing this thread as pointed out there are threads on this.

Well Done to the U19's. Hope they can beat Rangers in the next round.

The thing with playing Boab in midfield is we have cover when his pass goes astray to one of the opposition. If we're going to play Boab at CB then we need to find another free kick expert as he isn't the fastest at getting back into position. In fact during the Hibs game he was still halfway inside Hibs half when they had the ball in our box.

Obviously Crags has been out long enough for you to forget how many times he has to recover. Or how often his headers end up in our own net

I can't say I am against O'Brien BUT he made us worse last night when he came on, I know would that have been possible? But yes it was. Once he came on we had nothing coming in from his side and we lost the crosses from Saunders on the right when McGarry moved over.

Reading through this thread and I can see where some people are coming from reference McGhee and the performances being like a Malpas team. However I believe it's the players that need to take a look at themselves here as much as if not more than McGhee. I believe McGhee will turn things around but it has shown how thin our squad is. Is this down totally to McGhee or are the Board at fault here. I can't honestly see McGhee taking Kennedy to Austria with us unless he had assurances from the Board about backing him with the funds to bring him in. Then you look at the players he did have on trial, fair enough a couple of them may not have been up to the job bu what demands did the others have that Board wouldn't match? Is it possible that Boyle was happy to renegotiate McGhees contract to keep him because he thought there'd be offers fo players during the Summer and the only one that seemed to transpire was for Reynolds. Of course McGhee knocked this back and may have lost any chance of having any cash because of it. However we were all of the same mind at the time, that a) the offer wasn't high enough and B) we'd be losing the best one of our central pairing. How many of us now would have taken the cash and ran? Reynolds hasn't been the same player this season and I'm not saying he's the only one but he was one of our most consistent performer last season. I have to admit I expected to see more of Hughes and Porter especially as they are really putting themselves in the shop window at the minute with their contracts due to expire. Folk have been going on about McGarry's performance last night but him and Saunders were the only ones that were getting decent crosses into the box and still our 2 tall strikers couldn't get on the end of any of them. There was a commnt earlier about McGhee's substitutions, can I ask who else could he have brought on last night? O'Brien for Malcolm - I believe he was right to take Malcolm off but he should've brought on Fitzy or Dairylea. As soon as McGarry moved to the right side he never got another cross in and O'Brien did hee haw. Murphy for Sutton - Don't think it mattered which one of the front two he took off it would've still been the same result. Dairylea for McGarry - I'd have taken O'Brien back of and shoved on McHugh and went 4-3-3 with Murphy and McHugh running at the defence and Porter as the target man for them. Anyway c'mon McGhee show that you can turn this lot around.

I actually thought he done quite well last night and should definitely get his loan extended. He may not be tall and able to win a lot of headers BUT he let their attackers know he was there on more than ne occasion. He knows when to hoof the ball out of defence and when to play it out. He also showed that he can pick a pass as well. His ball juggling is also good and actually provided at least a bit of entertainment last night, however his overhead kicks are a bit dubious I think him and Craggs might make a decent pairing.

So anymore news on this "Irish Consortium" or is this just another rumour without substance?

The hint was dropped last week. Hopefully it was taken, they look really smart.

Killie and Hamilton are reported to be interested in Winters according to the Express today. It reports that Winters is on trial with accies this week.

Can you not just arrange the meeting to take place in the DC?

Was looking at FPC during the downtime and was glad I didn't have to post on there for the last few years. Folk moaned about these boards being full of moaning sods, FPC isn't much better. However I will give them the fact that we had 2 bad results as a reason for it. Anyway back on topic, the Hibs game I thought after getting to halftime on level terms that MM would've put a firm boot up the players backsides but that failed to materialise. Can't say anything about the Aberdeen game as I wasn't there.