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Straightforward win with no drama, and we got to give some fringe guys minutes. Job done and in the hat.

Maybe they will, but they could just as easily stipulate in the loan contract that he cant play in the cup, they dont need to be sneaky about it. I think its as simple as they had a deadline of Jan 14th to recall him, or we'd have him for the season, while the window is open until Feb 2nd. So it makes sense to call him back so that they have all options available to them, knowing they can loan him out on deadline day if needed.

Mcghee was predominantly a CB for dundee. Considering how we currently play, a CB who can also play in midfield seems like a decent fit. However, he will still need to be eased back in.

VAR checked it, the ref told the players to wait.

Iredale went down saying Said back-headed him, just like he did with JT in the home game. Yeah, that celtic tackle was terrible.

Welsh is contracted to celtic until summer 2027 https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cldg6w9dg50o Like above, any club signing Welsh now would need to pay at least what celtic are paying him, or Celtic will need to give him some sort of payoff to make the difference. It's feasible that he'd take a modest pay cut for regular football, but I don't see why he'd do that right now, whether its with us, Aberdeen, or anyone else. Clubs are increasingly moving the recruitment responsibilities away from the manager, which makes sense since most managers don't even last a season thesedays. I'm sure players would prefer some kind of managerial stability at the club they are joining, but I'm sure what they're getting paid matters more.

This suggests we're not going to go crazy in January, as expected. "The strength of the squad was evident and the Motherwell manager reiterated that his focus in the January transfer window is to keep his key players. “That's the main plan, to make sure that this team gets the maximum out of this group of players, gets the maximum out of this season, and then we know in the summer it's a bigger window,” the Dane said. “So that's the main track for us and then obviously there's a few gaps here and there and we'll see if we can fill them with quality like we did in the summer.”

No one was bad, and there were quite a few strong performances all over the pitch. I went for McGinn, he was immense again. I thought we were excellent at the back, with Sparrows mistake being the only real blemish. I thought he had a good game otherwise.

AP is either half injured or on the way out. The game was there to win and we didnt bring on our only experienced stiker. While we had a couple of forced changes, I dont believe that we wouldn't have brought on a stiker for Just at the end instead of McGhee if they were genuinely available.

We definitely looked off it physically, which may just be down to Hibs having the size advantage all over the park, but even at that I'd say we were marginally the better team. We carved out enough opportunities that could have got us the 3 points, but like most, im not complaining at a point at Easter Road. Every team has to deal with injuries during the season, so looks like its our turn at the moment. Hopefully we're not dealing with anything long term. Olly Whyte scored again for Stenny today. So if we have a midfield crisis, maybe he can come in.

We haven't been at our most fluid, but have still carved out a couple.of half chances. JT and Just on the break look like our best chances to score in this one. Hibs marginally the better team so far, we've done well to stop them from playing the killer pass, but its still very scrappy.

I mean, he didnt miss 😆

He's out of contract because he had a relegation release clause.

Yep, its free money, its not as if the fans are going to call it anything other than Fir Park.

I may be wrong, but I don't think Welsh is left footed. He plays there because someone has to, as we dont have any actual left sided CBs, and thats less of a need when you play with a back 4.

We have a lot more players on 1 year options than I thought, I dont know how enforceable they are, but at the very least it gives us more negotiating power for fees. This summer Koutroumbis Gordon Connelly Robinson Nicholson SOD Slattery 2026 +1 year club option Balmer Stuparevic 2027 Hendry - paid a fee McGinn 2027 + 1 year club option Stam - paid a fee Maswanhise Watt Just - paid a fee Said - paid a fee Longelo - paid a fee Ward Ox Sparrow

This year is the option year that we triggered on his existing contract when he came back from injury.

It was a bad reaction, but the guy went head to head with him and made (soft) contact, which is very risky with our refs constantly looking for ways to make the game about them.

I went for McGinn, but to be fair, the only player that I'd argue against is Callum Ward, as he had nothing to do, and even then he pinged some great passes. Our back 4 handled St Mirren with ease, and I thought mcginn was immense in that. He and Welsh dealt with a much bigger and more physical St Mirren attack, and gave them nothing.

I do believe that we're trying, but every time we put something in front of him he turns around and falls over. * but seriously, I'd love to keep him.

We (and all other football fans) are quick to call for a managers head when results take a downturn, and in the majority of cases thesedays the club boards oblige. As such, managers need to make a move when their stock is high. What I don't like is that they can just resign and rock up to another club, which seems to undermine any negotiations on a fee. It's similar with players, loyalty sounds logical, but its their career. I always think about the sliding doors moment with Trevor Carson. We block his move to celtic, then he gets injured, and he ends up on the bench for a few years, and is now at County. It's totally possible that if he had made that move hed have had 3 or 4 years of celtic wages for sitting on a bench, then move on to the likes of County with a lot more in the bank.

You mean Groningens Monster? Don't think I could handle this team also having someone that batters people.

We talk about making sure we focus on our own game, so why not scrabble?

I'll go with either Emil Gron Pedersen, Kristoffer Odemarksbakken or Erling Myklebust, based on them being Norwegian and I like their names. KO is a winger, but he would be a great partner for AP and JT from an xSyllables perspective.

I wonder if the way we are setting ourselves up to play actually widens the talent pool we can recruit from, since this style is very prevalent in the rest of Europe. Prior to this season, our record with signing foreign players directly (i.e. not via another British team) has been woeful. Who was the last foreign player we signed from a non UK league that was successful? This season we have Fadi, Said and Just who have been excellent, as well as Priestman, who is promising. That's a crazy improvement.