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From the list above we know that ATS, Sammon and Newell will be gone. We also now know that Maguire, Scott and Hastie have been offered new deals. Don’t know if he mentioned livingstone. Gorrin and Grimshaw are doing well now, but who knows what their plans are, ideally i’d like them to stay. I like Frear too, but I’d imagine he’ll be after more regular playing time. Mbulu is a backup player, and probably would be next season too, so not sure what we do with him.

For the reserves - most of them.

From the top of my head: Aldred (end of loan) Def - McHugh, Mbulu, Grimshaw, Livingstone, ATS, Maguire Mid - Gorrin, Hastie, Frear, Ariyibi (end of loan) Forward - Main, Newell, Scott, Sammon (end of loan) Or you can check yourself here - https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/squad/first-team/

The only potential I can see for a change is if hastie has any after effects from is injury on Saturday or if anyone else has a knock. With us being off this weekend I don’t think there will be any thought of resting anyone.

I think if we manage to successfully fire someone who’s under contract for not being fit enough that might just open up a can of worms. Part of being in the football business is attracting players to our club, and keeping good ones.

It’s Gillespie’s place to lose. a conundrum we haven’t seen since Woods/Howie

He’s contracted until the end of next season, we’d have to pay him to let him go. I’m sure we’ve also invested a fair bit in his rehab, so unless he had to retire I don’t see why we’d get rid of him.

Gorrin was good, but I’m going with hastie purely for his acceleration for the 3rd, warp speed.

I’ll miss him on commentary when he’s back playing, he’s the best of the bunch when it comes to the color commentary.

We handled the second half well, making sure they didn’t get back into the game easily. We had a couple of breaks but were way more conservative overall, which is probably the professional thing to do. Thought Gorrin had a really good game, keeping things calm and collected in the middle and breaking things up. He and Campbell are giving the attacking mids the license to push on. Hastie, Turnbull and Campbell are players you pay to watch, hopefully we secure hastie for a couple more years soon. I think we need to consider extending Gorrin. Great to see main with the neat finish at the end of a good move, and I thought that Tait and grimmy were solid. James Scott is a unit. I’m looking forward to him rag dolling defenders for the rest of the season.

Gillespie has made some good saves, we were up against it for 2 minutes after the second.

Tanner is on commentary today, he was talking about his injury but I missed the start of it, but he talked about him and Cadden hopefully coming back in this season.

I think this must have been extended at some point, as I’m sure it was a 2 year deal when he signed.

https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/player/craig-tanner/

I think it means we’re doing a better job of enticing local talent to sign with us rather than the ugly sisters or anyone else. As per the article listed earlier, a lot of the players coming through now have been with the club for 10 years or so. So there’s a lot of folk to credit, starting with who spotted them at the age of 9, through to who signed them, then who developed them at each age level. We should keep this in mind when evaluating changes to the club structure, it could be a decade before we see the fruits of it.

He has another year on his contract and is unlikely to play this season.

There’s accommodating your Coopers and Russels, then there’s accommodating your Ainsworths, then there’s accommodating your Bigi’s. He had plenty of chances to show what he can do, and while he was a decent enough player he didn’t offer enough of anything to overcome his defensive shortcomings. He’s a great character but far from the best player we’ve let go in my time.

we made two good signings, and the players that have left would have made no bearing on the rest of our season (3 of whom were probably on decent money by our standards). I think everyone would feel more fuzzy if we had made the two signings at 11pm today though, but that’s the hype of deadline day. I’m happy they came in earlier and had some part in us getting those two big wins. With that freed up cash we should hopefully be able to offer contracts to all the young players on the fringe of the team, since it looks like hastie, Scott and maguire are all up at the end of this season. McHugh, Cadden, Grimshaw, Gorrin, Main and Frear are all going to be out of contract too (and all the loanees going back) so will be another busy summer.

Difference is he was probably playing for Dundee and they wanted to keep him.

Most likely we’ve saved on wages and no more, which is still good for us. Our attackers know his weaknesses* so it will be interesting how he does against us. * you can run right past him.

If I remember correctly the manager said that we needed someone to step up to the role of the lone striker, and didn’t explicitly say that we were going to sign a big target man. Even if he did, we’ve won two games since then and we’re almost certainly safe, so it may be that the club don’t want to spend money someone when there’s nothing to be gained for it financially.

I’m not really fussed what other clubs do. Our lineup is pretty set, save a striker and a left back (and even those could prob wait until the summer). We’re not really chasing for anything so don’t see the point of throwing money around.

Is he going to right the wrongs of the May/Kirk/McGrillen farce?

Aldred is only on loan, and Hartley has barely had a run of games since being injured and is only 30, and our captain. We can’t just punt everyone who isn’t in the first XI at the moment, injuries, suspensions and loss of form are things that happen, especially to us.

They’ll have to show us the money