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Nathan McGinley says hello.

It would be nice, but I would imagine Turnbull would have some higher level loan options if that was what he wanted.

Spittal is at least creating stuff, he must be up there for us in terms of assists. Goss hasn't put in a decent cross since God knows when, and can't remember the last time he's had a shot.

Whether he's not fit, not up to match sharpness yet, or shite, we don't know. However, you also have to pay the guys that are on the bench, and ideally the bench players aren't children. The window isn't over, and we have no control over the order players come in. As mentioned before, we have to wait for other dominoes to fall before our targets become available, and I'd rather we did that than get impatient and sign Michel parker and daragh o'connor types. If we haven't improved our defence by the end of the month, that's when I'll be having a go.

SOD has been fine at lb when used there, but Lamie is not the answer there, he got roasted out there when Robinson tried it, and sticking players completely out of position isn't going to be the answer, especially when they're enough of a liability in their preferred role. I don't think Blaney is a fit either, as he doesn't have the oace. Shifting to a back 3 could help in the interim, but I don't see that happening. I'd prefer we got another LB in if Penney is gone. It would definitely be another loan since we have a couple of lbs on contracts right now. Who's our u18s left back?

Mccart operated almost exclusively in a back 3 with St J, and dropped off a fair bit when Kerr left, but he's a Scottish prem level player and would be worth a look if available. Shaughnessy seems to be getting a game with st mirren now, so I think we can eliminate him from contention. I'm wondering if a competent defensive mid would make a bigger difference than a new CB. Decent ones are rare though.

Yeah, nah. This is a shit show in waiting.

Lamie and Sol know they're in the team regardless, and I'm not getting a strong feeling of either of them giving a fuck about our situation. Keeping them in the team is going to cost us a lot of games, so I'm for replacing them with whatever two warm bodies volunteer first.

Max put in a couple of half decent crosses, which our other full backs are incapable of doing. So he gets my vote. Spittal is nowhere near as bad as some folk are at pains to make out, and for me isn't even on the first page of our list of problems.

He did the interview with sky

Fuck me, we went up a place. We've found a glitch in the fucking matrix.

Extraordinary that we managed to only concede one goal and a couple of half chances with that absolutely woeful defence. Penney was piss poor at the back again. We did not deserve 3 points from that game but we were in prime position to steal them and we fucked it.

We've been poor, but by gawd is this referee awful.

I'm leaning towards this being a case of pushing McGinn into midfield. Would be weird for hammell to switch shape when he has been so strict with it until now.

Scott Burns suggesting on twitter that we're working on adding to the defence, so that's nice.

So far we've replaced the injured Mugabi with Blaney, then we've brought in Mandron and Crankshaw for Moult and Aarons. I wouldn't be surprised to see another winger since we still have Efford's spot to fill. I feel we're short in midfield though, and not particularly versatile there.

The other thing Hammell was very clear on was that the player must want to come here. We've seen plenty of premiership and championship loanees completely phoning it in up here, we need folk with something to prove.

Some players might not want to come to Scotland if there's a comparable option in England for them.

I think I'm still paying off my phone bill from using club call.

Falconer was a great signing, from back in the days we're you'd find out about a new signing when they walked into the park! We can't completely abandon our long term strategy either, so if we've done our due diligence and think this guy will make us better, fair enough. Don't know how his height makes a difference.

The problem with being publically desperate to sign folk is that the selling clubs and available players know that, and can use that to try and get extra out of us, or start a bidding thing. As burrows mentioned, we're at the mercy of other clubs making their moves first, and we're hardly in a position to speed things up with more cash. I'd like to hear the sales pitch to join us right now.

Have we figured out what Alexander's philosophy was?

His brother George just left a gig a couple of weeks back

I heard he already stopped doing jokes.

My guess is that Spittal will come back into midfield and some other guy goes into the front 3, probably McKinstry, giving shields another start. Not what we want, but barring any signings or resurrections, what we're likely to get.