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I can’t be bothered checking the stats but it seems to me like liverpool do far better when Robertson is on the pitch.

You could tell by the Livi boy’s reaction that he was seriously upset by something. Hopefully thought he heard somethintg rather than actually heard it but that’s maybe blinkered, wishful thinking.

That’s a tremendous blast from the past

If he's pacy and "unpredictable" maybe he'll at least give us some Shady Mo-esque chaos off the bench?

Olusanya's record doesn't exactly scream "prolific" but if we feel we're lacking in grafters who will run all day and generally be a nuisance then he should at least bring that? Kinda in line with Pfannensteil's comments about having a squad of good footballers who don't fit together to make a team. That's the optimistic Friday morning viewpoint anyway.

The big question mark over McGlynn is how he'd fit into the sporting director structure we've got now. Strikes me as the kind of old school manager who thrives when wheeling, dealing and bringing in players he finds. That's not how we're supposed to be working.

Rumours of a £1m offer for Graham from down south so I'd be surprised if we end up getting him. Stanway's a centre mid. Seems to be on the defensive side but does seem to score once every 8 or 9 games so must get near the box on occasion. Regarding the culture, hopefully that's something the sporting director role is here to fix but it's not going to happen overnight.

I just don’t think registering players and picking a squad while knowing who is available and who isn’t should be that complicated at any level, especially now that registrations are done via Comet. A fail safe system would be nice to have but I don’t think the sfa deserve criticism for not having it.

And yet Karlsson is still our top scorer, so if we’re glad he’s away then I assume the rest of our attackers must be even worse… In all seriousness, it started off ok but as the team has got worse since November so has he and if the £10k rumours are true then he was definitely a luxury we couldn’t afford.

I don't think you should have to idiot-proof what should be a fairly simple rule. If your role at a club is to administrate then it should be your responsibility to know the rules, whether you're part time or not. Especially when other clubs at a similar level have been burned for making the exact same mistake in recent seasons. There are hundreds of clubs under the SFA auspices, it's unrealistic to expect "head office" to take responsibility for every single player.

And so they go an accelerate a deal for a striker they'd already got on a pre-contract. Hate them as much as you like but they're certainly running well this year.

If you ask me - which nobody did - there's a wee bit too much "forward planning" in the way some folk are thinking about this window. Absolutely the club should be looking to the future in terms of signings and player development but there's also the here and now to consider. We've hovered between bang average and rank rotten this season and that's absolutely got to improve between now and May. Jack Milne, as referenced by Rico above, is a case in point. I think we'd all love to see a homegrown Dons fan excelling every week but he's been struggling a lot recently and we don't have the scope to take him out the team just now even though that might actually be better for his long-term development. Bringing in a loan player to challenge for his position for a few months might push him on but if it doesn't, it's another player we can use to give Milne a break. If Cameron and Morrison - and Olusanya and anyone else who comes in - improves us enough to get up the table and have another run in the cup then that's better than ploughing on with mediocrity just to hypothetically develop our own players.

Other accounts now saying mcglynn is the leading contender so probably safe to say that no-one has a clue.

That I can get on board with as a rational explanation.

Well that would be completely contradictory to the setup of the club. The sporting director makes the signings, the coach coaches them. Not making signings just because we don’t have a head coach doesn’t make sense. But then not a lot is making sense these days.