Kmcalpin

Kipre for me. Dunne and Aldred also did well.

Like many of you I've recently received an email from the Society. Its running a survey on ticketing which as many folk as possible should participate in. Apparently the club is intending to update its ticketing system and this will cost money not surprisingly. It will be of particular interest to those who don't live near Fir Park. Nows your chance to speak up.

Apart from a lack of creativity and pace in the midfield, I worry about our 2 strikers in the coming week. Main has done well but given the hectic schedule just now can we expect him to charge about effectively for 90 minutes, three times in the coming week? Ciftci - until now he hasn't been match fit and has not been able to play a full 90 minutes for us yet. Neither Tanner nor Sid are strikers. It doesn't leave much cover for injuries or even tiredness does it?

These days its impossible to tell.

I think its now becoming clear that our midfield needs a revamp in the summer. On paper we're not short of bodies but the mix seems to be wrong. We're badly short of width, especially with Frear being out, and of pace especially in the middle. I had hoped for example, that our seemingly defensive and combative midfield would have kept Hibs at bay last night but that certainly wasn't the case. I was particulalrly interested this month to see if a midfielder or two would move out given comments on these forums a few weeks ago but this simply hasn't happened. Still we're only a short way along the path of rebuilding and its only natural that more changes will follow.

We're crying out for creativity just now so with Frear being injured and Cadden being nursed carefully I'd like to see a starting slot for MacLean somewhere. He may not be the answer and I'm not saying he definitely will be but we do need his type of player to add something a wee bit different to our play. We are in the midst of a very tough schedule just now with Hibs last night, Partick on Saturday, St Johnstone on Tuesday and Dundee the following Saturday. There's no way we'll win all three. Given our injuries just now Robbo will have to rotate the squad a bit but how he'll manage our only two "fit" strikers I haven't a clue.

Overall I'm happy at the result of the transfer window but am very concerned about our strikers. As it stands, we are unable to field 2 first pick strikers for 90 minutes. It looks like Bowman will be out for 5/6 weeks minimum and its not beyond the bounds of possibility that either Ciftci or Main could get injured or suspended. I know though that we lost out on one at the death today and these things do happen. Maybe Robbo can procure a free agent now that the window has slammed shut.

I wasn't at the game tonight but have watched the highlights and the defending was awful at both goals. We did seem to lack pace and the midfield looked unbalanced; not being able to shield the defence nor service the strikers properly. Today was always going to be an uphill struggle to take even a solitary point and it wasn't helped by selection problems. We have more important games coming up.

Certainly a very cautious and defensive line up. No obvious outball. Still if we take something from the game it will have worked.

I think £180K would represent about 2 league places. As long as Robbo is left with some cash from transfers to reinvest in the team, I'm comfortable paying off Les and JB. Debt reduction is no bad thing and when they're both paid off that will leave us debt free for the first time in decades. As far as I know if JB has not already been paid off then we are not far from doing so.

Surely not? It was just a few days ago that Neil McCann did a Walter Smith and categorically denied that he would be signing any strikers.

Ah its in the Rancid. Why couldn't they have waited until after midnight to print this story? What was the source?

I think thats as far as it'll get as he seems to be Aberdeen bound.

It'll be interesting too to see the transfer activity of our rivals as they start to panic. No doubt the likes of Ross County, Dundee, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone and Partick will add last gasp signings. I'm not so sure about Accies as rumour has it that they offloaded Donati to cut costs.

With a 1400 hours deadline. The offer is being reported in the red tops as "almost doubled". Wow that was generous of Celtic not!

He was red carded in a League Cup game against us.

Agree wholeheartedly.

No it shouldn't be anywhere near our valuation.

A good interview. Robbo was quite clear that we'll decide Carson's value and if and when he goes.

Agree 100%. You're not being petty. For starters, the overall coverage of Scottish football, outwith the gruesome twosome, is shocking. However editing can completely change the nature of a game for viewers who weren't at the game. Editors can pick and choose what incidents to include and cut out which gives a false impression of a game. The standard of commentary and punditry is shocking. Yes, we all know why its biased. I watch the 5 minutes or so tv highlights on my pc and listen to the radio as little as possible.

I don't doubt his agent is involved; possibly by leaking the story, but its not just down to the player to knock back the move as I said earlier. As his employer we also have a say.

I don't know either Greg but there are ways of dealing with unsettled players as we've done in the past.

Given that Carson has 2 1/2 years left on his contract I'd hope that we have some say in the matter. The bottom line is that he's contracted to us. Our support will be up in arms if our player and Celtic agree the deal and agree what fee has to be paid to us. Whilst our Directors have a duty of care to their employees, including players, their first priority should be the club. He will be difficult to replace at this stage in the window. If Celtic aren't prepared to offer a ridiculous fee then our club should say he goes nowhere.

Maybe, maybe, but we also had his services for a few months longer.

Absolutely. According to the Rancid, we've rejected the offer and rightly so.