MelvinBragg

WHOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHH!

According to?

Aye, apparently despite Aberdeen meeting Tansey's release fee, ICT simply refused to let him speak to Aberdeen. Mind you, midnight is still an hour and a half away...

Free agents market, it is...

After his performances last season, I'd rather sign Billy Mehmet...

If we were looking for a striker for the first team, I'd be interested in Goodwillie but no reason for him to swap Aberdeen's bench for ours. And would he play ahead of Moult or McDonald..?

Burrows on Twitter saying he can't move to a club outwith England because he's played for two clubs there already. Suggests club considered it, if only for a second... EDIT Just beaten to the punch..

You really expect us to replace our 4th choice right back? It's not Stuart McCall in charge, we don't need 6 right backs...

I'd imagine a fee may be involved and St Johnstone will have some cash lying around if the O'Halloran deal goes through..

Apparently depending on the outcome of the conversation with McFadden, it will be one or two more new faces we hope to bring in...

Where is Sow going?

Don't disagree with that assessment but if a good player looks to be available and if (a big if this one) it's within our budget then we should look at it and see if it's something that would add to our team. In this case, I suspect wages would rule us out...

Looks like it's a loan as part of the O'Halloran deal...

Moore's loan has been extended til the end of the season so I tend to agree that a striker might be a priority. Which sounds odd given we almost had too many strikers in the first half of the season, albeit not many of them produced...

Burrows on Twitter saying he hopes for "a few" new faces. How many is "a few"? More than a couple..?

No. We can only bring in players that are free agents once the window is closed..

Oh aye, I agree. More an example of how little interest the BBC or SKY has in getting their facts straight about Scottish football. And to be honest with you, BBC annoys me more. SKY have to tailor their approach to their customers. BBC is supposed to be a public service broadcaster...

And according to the BBC, it's midnight...

Sounds like it was a decent strike as well...

By my reckoning that's five wages off the wage bill (or at least whatever we were paying towards Grimshaw's and Taylor's wages and some of Clarkson's wages) but I'd be happy to just see one or maybe two new faces brought in. Given what Robinson, Twardzik and Taylor contributed, do they really need replaced? Clarkson at least has one assist to his name...

Baraclough signed Samson...

Stevie Hammell at Motherwell: Over 400 appearances. 2 cup finals. Twice part of teams that finished second in the league. Aye, he's a low SPL/Championship defender... If all our players were as good and consistent in their position as Hammell is in his, we'd win a lot more games...

Or Hammell won't be fit and Chalmers is getting game time to get his fitness up..? EDIT Good to see McLean back..

Theo Robinson contributed little. He didn't get many chances but his performances didn't really justify the manager giving him another chance. His time here frankly wasn't memorable enough for his name to even come up in years to come when we talk of worst ever Motherwell teams...

McGhee's predecessors did try and address the issue, however unsuccessfully. Baraclough signed a left back, McCall persevered with Angol when Hammell was unavailable. McCall brought through Carswell and Baraclough signed Grimshaw. To say that these managers have ignored the problem is wrong. The problem is that the guys they've earmarked for replacing Hammell and Lasley haven't been up to the job. What this tells us? Despite their flaws being pointed out on here, Hammell and Lasley aren't that easy to replace...