bobbybingo

If you've no idea how good or bad Alloa's players are, how can you possibly judge the outcome of the game? Unless you just want to say we'll lose, obviously. The 'we can't score' patter just isn't true - we've scored more goals than Hearts, Kilmarnock and St Mirren - but I suppose it suits your argument.

Why would it be no shock whatsoever for a team halfway down League One to come to a Premier League team and win? Which of their players are the biggest threat to us?

Luckily for us, there are other teams in this league.

Have you got Shelter's number?

If he's gone, he's gone, bugger all we can do about it and the club will just need to get on with it. I certainly wasn't implying he's terrifying to face or it would hurt more to see him score against us, but he's already proved he can score in this league, so I'd rather he didn't continue doing so against us.

If he's off, fair enough, as long as it's nowhere in Scotland.

Is it Everton?

Gies a clue.

Wouldn't surprise me. Wednesday's new manager is picking up loanees who've done well at a lower level. It's a good move for everyone involved, except us.

Scott Burns saying we're not interested in him.

Stories doing the rounds that Sheffield Wednesday want him, but haven't seen anything definite yet.

He seems to have been playing regularly, 6 goals in 16.

Never bothered me who our signings used to play for, but I'm not overly keen on us bringing in someone who seems to have spent more time talking about who he used to play for than actually playing.

Knowing us, it'll be a no hamstrings attached contract.

A shower of shit, probably.

The 2 guys Wednesday have already brought in were on loan elsewhere and had those deals terminated. There's no doubt they're playing at a higher level, so you could understand why Arsenal would think it's a good move, and I doubt we forced them into a watertight season long arrangement.

Plumbing new depths.

Is that because he played with the Ranjurs?

Think it was a 3 or 4 month extension for Tanner and he rejected a further extension.

It leaves us a midfielder short of where we thought we were, which is less than ideal given our options. Crisis is pushing it, though. Miller supposedly back 'involved' in training.

Turnbull struggles to get in that team and the national side, Taylor doesn't. There's no accounting for taste.

The problem I have with Slattery is his habit of 'initiating contact'. He was clean through in the recent game against St Mirren but seemed more intent on making sure he was brought down than getting a shot away. Later on, he shrugged off a couple of their players who were trying to foul him and went on a run. He's got that ability in him but appears content to take the lazy option too often.

Hopefully it's just a rumour, but it would seem a strange one if there's no truth to it.

I thought that's what we pay the head of recruitment to do? Either way, it would mean the manager has another first choice player he can neither play nor move on, so I don't see any positives.

No idea, but they seem sure he's picked up a serious injury. Suppose we'll hear something during the week if it's true.