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McGinn’s great in that he just needs to steal a single yard to be able to deliver a dangerous cross into the box, even from difficult angles. GMS seems to need at least a quarter of the length of the pitch and to run at full pelt to get past the full back and get a cross in.

Loan goalkeeper will be Freddie Woodman from Newcastle according to The Sun. Was at Killie last season. They also say Scott Wright is going on loan to St Johnstone.

I’d be pissed off at Steve Clarke if I was a Killie fan. They absolutely dominated the midfield in the first half. Taking off a midfielder for a striker at half time was idiotic on their part. Probably wouldn’t have made much difference to the overall result though.

McKenna's breakthrough, how much of it was him forcing his way into the starting line up on the back of good showings in the U21's and in training and how much of it was an aimless punt by McInnes after a 3 game winless run culminating by an absolute roasting by Motherwell? All credit to McKenna for taking his chance, but I'm not sure him getting the chance in the first place was completely down to a natural progression of his talent rather than the manager running out of ideas. If we weren't ripped to shreds by Louis Moult in that one game, I'm not sure McKenna would have even stepped on the pitch for us this season. There's an argument for giving young players a run in the first team, occasionally you'll get one who looked ordinary in the second string becoming a standout in the first team. Certainly more to gain from trying that than bringing in fringe players from lower league English teams then being obliged to give them game time.

O’Connor wants to follow in the footsteps of Ash Taylor by inexplicably turning down a new contract to go and battle relegation with Morecambe or a team of similar standing. No great loss, but with Arnason probably also going and hopefully Reynolds going, we have a bunch of defenders to recruit.

I’d rather give Harvie some game time, perfect opportunity to give him 30 minutes.

Not sure if we sorted out the work permit yet. He played in Dubai, quite well too, but obviously no UK work permit required for that.

All the spare cash will be for the stadium, it’s far from being fully funded.

Just waiting on the work permit. He’s training with the team in Dubai.

Tansey to Ross County on loan according to EE. Midfielder incoming?

I make a mean chicken & chorizo gumbo, and beef pho.

I doubt we’ll do any business other than replacing Dominic Ball with another loanee.

I’d imagine the main reason he turned them down is because they weren’t willing to pony up the cash to buy out his contract and wanted him to sacrifice his integrity by trying to resign and make his departure overly acrimonious. Either way, I’m glad we don’t have to choose a new manager from the list of likely candidates.

They’re women in their 40’s/50’s on an online dating site, they’re probably feeling extremely self-conscious about showing their faces. Especially if they’re widowers/divorcees who haven’t dated for 20-odd years and are worried about the outdated perception that online dating is for desperate losers.

Tony Docherty for me out of that lot.

He still hasn't actually said that he is not interested in the Rangers job. That I have seen anyway.

Earliest games I can remember are the 5-0 home win against St Mirren in the late 80's (the first game I went to), Charlie Nicholas got a hat trick, Paul Mason got one of the goals, and I think McLeish was the other scorer. That and the Skol Cup final 2-1 win over the Huns. Can't remember which game came first.

Play him through the middle and give him plenty of service like Hayes/McGinn did, then he'll score goals. Force him to play out wide or drop deep to get the ball or have wingers who'd rather run up the South Stand stairs and buy the opposition full back a pie instead of trying to get around the outside of him and whip a cross in and he's going to be ineffective.

Another on a (much) lesser scale, Joe Shaughnessy. Seemed to be let go because he wasn't great as a right back despite it being fairly obvious to everyone that his best position was in the middle. Not a world beater by any means but a better central defender than Ash Taylor, Anthony O'Connor and Mark Reynolds at a lower cost.

Probably not going to be a huge miss in the grand scheme of things but interesting to see 20 year old Joe Nuttall banging them in for Blackburn Rovers after we released him in the summer, probably on a fraction of what we’re paying Nicky Maynard.

I haven't seen much of Paul Hanlon in recent years, but he looked very good when we played at Easter Road a few weeks ago. Know nothing about Liam Cooper, but he's playing at a higher level than Mulgrew is currently, and will actually still be around when the next major tournament we can possibly qualify for comes around. Shame we didn't see either of them get a chance last night.

It's not simply a case of giving a player a new contract, they've got to want it. The bulk of our first team players are signing new contracts well before they go into the final year of their existing contracts, that to me would suggest we're doing all we can to offer new contracts to players like McLean and Jack, they just want to go elsewhere and would rather get a big signing on bonus in their hipper rather than allow us to get a decent transfer fee.

We have strikers that can score goals, the problem seems to be that they spend most of the game out wide putting in (poor) crosses instead of being on the end of them.

I hope if Rangers do meet the release fee/value of his contract, we insist on cash upfront.