MelvinBragg

Paul Scholes' assist numbers weren't fantastic. I think it's only one way of measuring it. You have to ask who is playing Johnston, Furlong and Spittal into the positions where they can cut it back to the strikers..?

Not sure about Goss. I wondered if the fact he has been away with Northern Ireland might have delayed any announcement one way or another...

He had worked with Van Veen before. Whether he had signed him before, that I don't know...

I think (and this applies to Max Johnston as well) wherever he ends up, if he wants to develop then he needs to be playing regular football. Could be that he'd develop more playing for Harrogate Town 30 times next season than sitting on Preston North End's bench (or in their stand) and making 7 sub appearances...

And my opinion is that that's nonsense...😉

That last statement is nonsense. Carson and Gillespie were both better...

Given so far his contributions are only better than Ross McCormack Mk II and Holm Kraska, we'd need to see a LOT more.. But we know that in a choice between Paton and him, Kettlewell will go for Paton so hard to see how Danzaki even gets a chance to make an impact... I think he'll be away in this transfer window...

Logan Dunachie signing for Clyde in the same close season as Stuart Carswell and Ross Forbes.. Who do they think they are? St Mirren..?

Pretty sure Aitchison and Efford are out of contract. So when we sell Van Veen, we will only have one striker on the books and he's been on loan at Queens Park...

Please tell me that Mark McGhee is an exception here...

Fair point about Aitchison offering nothing but in his defence, I don't know how much he could offer given he never got off the bench...

If this isn't a night to give Miller and Ferrie minutes, when will be..?

I did just see that and laugh. Took a penalty to be fair though..

Ross County on Saturday looked like a team that could play for days without scoring...

Where are Goss and Cornelius off to?

That I did not know. Cheers. Then Arfield to Hearts makes sense. Although as Dave pointed out in another post, it has that feeling of a signing Dundee would blow a large chunk of their budget on...

The obvious clubs would be Hearts, but they already have Snodgrass, or Dundee United if they stay up, but they already have an unsustainable wage bill. Hibs? Maybe.. Aberdeen, I suspect are going younger. Would I sign him? Not sure. Spittal has been doing well as the most advanced of our midfield three so Arfield might seem like an expensive luxury. But I don't think he'll be outwith our price range...

Like it or not, our Premier League status is precarious at the start of every season. Therefore our main attacking threat should always have a reasonably large price tag...

I find it hard to see Van Veen ending up at another Scottish club. If the rumours are true that we turned down around £700k for him not long ago, you have to figure that's the kind of figure we're looking for in the summer. Who in Scotland can pay that? Neither Rangers nor Celtic will be interested. Hearts? May have the money after European football and may have the need if the rumours are true that they're ready to cash in on Shankland? But if you're Hearts and you're going to be spending that kind of money, I highly doubt it'll be on a 32 year old with little chance of recouping any of it. Aberdeen? Aye, very good. Similar story to Hearts other than the fact that I'm not sure they have the cash...

And even that wasn't as good as the first time back heel pass into Spittal's path. That was ridiculous...

Butcher is contracted for another season...

Don't be tempting fate now...

I do wonder about this. It feels to me like we've had quality attackers more often than the other clubs of a similar size like Killie or St Mirren. Our list is impressive McDonald Higdon McFadden Sutton Moult Murphy Van Veen McCormack Porter and there are others I've probably forgotten (Jutkiewicz and Blackman suddenly pop into my head) over the last 20 years. So we've seldom in that period gone without at least one good attacking player...

He's not in the matchday squad because he's rubbish. Do the club need to announce this every week? He probably wants to leave, we want him to leave, he's under contract, the transfer window is closed. The 'silence from the club' is because there's nothing to say...

Every single one of those clubs has had relegations in the time since we beat Rangers in the league. So I'm tempted to say that I'll settle for beating the other nine teams more consistently as it's worked out for us in the long run... And we did beat them in the two games that really mattered...