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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.

I wouldn't argue with any changes to the team, no one is deserving of their place right now. Penney's performance yesterday softened the blow of his potential return to Ipswich. He was more responsible for two of the goals than any of the center backs were. Sol is the weaker of the two, but it is a case of choosing which bollock to be kicked in when choosing between him and lamie.

I wonder what the general success rate is across all teams in our division, and whether we're above or below that line. Hibs must be the worst, they've thrown a whole load of shit at multiple walls to get that first XI, so sometimes moreoney doesn't equal better recruitment. You don't tend to look at other teams dross, instead you see they signed a couple of decent players and assume they're good at signings. I also think there's some rose tinted glasses with Foyle, he signed some good ones, but also some dross squad filler. Daws is the head of recruitment, so he has to be the one accountable for who we sign. I thought the idea of having one of these guys is to ensure there's consistency and forward thinking in our recruitment, and to take the responsibility away from the manager. Unlike Foyle, he hasn't signed anyone good yet. Maybe KVV?

He got sacked because they were adrift at the bottom, then Hughes came in and kept them up.

Kettlewell? The man that nearly got county relegated when he was no longer co-manager, then got sacked for John Hughes?

We don't have the players to play the way Hammel wants. We need to either sign a bunch, which it looks like we're struggling to do, or change the way we play. Shields isn't good, but we're killing him by running him out there every week. There were good bits here and there, I thought Spittal played well in the advanced role, and we did manage to score twice and hit the bar twice, but we make way too many basic mistakes then just shrug the shoulders and move on when they cost us. Hibs brought on two defenders to hang onto the lead, and ended up walking the ball into our net. This is the softest motherwell side I've seen.