MelvinBragg

Flaw in that story is the fact that he played against Dundee United after the Celtic game...

Certainly sounds almost like an identikit replacement for McManus...

Stalker!!!

Wondering if the next thing will be Scott Allan to Dundee United now. Apparently knocked United back but now Fyvie in, who knows...

The New Firm helping us out, nice...

What kind of medicals do we perform at Fir Park? ;-)

Positions of the two having medicals?

Good question...

Rangers better hope that there's no limit on loans from one club...

Fact is though, Baraclough extended O'Brien's loan and signed Laing so at least two of them are technically his signings. How many centre halfs does he need to sign?

Where's he landing?

Andreu to Norwich..

Anyway, three and a half hours to go, still nothing other than a keeper confirmed. Leaving it late...

Aye, not enough right backs in the original lineup...

True. Two of them have either just been brought in or had their loan extended so Baraclough must think at least two of them capable... I notice St Mirren have signed a player on loan from Tottenham. Cue implosion on here...

I know I'm repeating myself, but I really can't believe we're signing another centre back. McManus, Ramsden, O'Brien, Laing, Kerr, Reid. All capable of playing there. Baffled...

This I agree with. But another centre half?!?!?

I don't actually have a problem with the level these two Plymouth players are coming from (Keith Lasley couldn't get a game for Plymouth, Scott McDonald knocked back and released by more clubs than you can list, many others), it's more the fact that it's another centre half...

No more rumours doing the rounds as to who else we are looking to bring in?

I meant, as I suspect you know, the young players that are actually our players, not here on loan. If Long (or Laing) does well, will we explore getting them back either on loan or permanently? I'd imagine so. But that's a question for the summer...

This. Tie up the young players and rebuild in the summer. The number of players out of contract in the summer gives us the perfect opportunity to do this...

Wouldn't be overly concerned with the summer. Let's get to the end of the season, hopefully still in the SPL. Few of our bigger earners are out of contract, opportunity to reshape the squad then. Only thing I'd be focusing on for next season is getting the young players that Baraclough thinks have a future on longer contracts...

As weeyin states, I reckon Twardzik came in as we found form rather than his being the reason behind it. Never been convinced by him. As someone else said, he struck me as an impulse signing. He's available, we know him, let's sign him. Jamie McDonald was available and to me looked a better bet. No one is saying the back four has been blameless. Obviously Baraclough isn't saying that as he's brought in a centre half. But he's the manager, he's looked at our goalkeeping options and even though money is tight, he's chosen to strengthen there. He obviously feels Long will be a significant improvement on Twardzik. At the end of the season, it'll be more clear whether his transfer dealings have worked out or not...

Referring to Ramsden and Sutton as dead wood kind of undermines anything else you say. Scorer of most nearly half of our goals this season and someone in Ramsden who, while not great this season, has been no worse than some other players this season...

Says on the club website that he's here to compete with Twardzik, Nielsen and Stewart but have to figure that one of our goalkeepers will be on their way...