In consideration of our failing season, thought an update to our contract situation might be worthwhile. Apologies for the length.

GK

2023

• Woods (31) - Is he Injured? noticed the boy Ritchie was on the bench Sunday.

2024

• Lewis (34) - Been off form but capable of getting that back made some good saves yesterday. 

No real issues here. Lewis has been out of form, but not really a problem for January or even next summer. 

Defence

January 2022

• Devlin (28) - Injured needs to be released.

Summer 2022

• Considine (34) - Injured and aging but should be given another year extension.
• Gurr (26) - not of the required standard.

2023

• MacKenzie (21) - Injured will be fine once he recovers from injury.
• Gallagher (30) - Injured looked off form when he has been fit.

2024

• Hernandez (24) - Loaned out hopefully Atlanta repay us for the fee paid out on their behalf and the whole sorry mess can be put to bed. 
• McCrorie (23) - arguably a midfielder been OK at the back and we have had little option. 
• Ramsay (18)- Injured could end up receiving offers for him, maybe his current injury will delay them till next summer. 
• Bates (25) - improving. 

I'd hope we are looking to start next season with MacKenzie, Gallagher, McCrorie (is he a midfielder), Ramsay (unless the right offer comes in) Bates & Considine (depending on his recovery). In January, Devlin must be off the payroll, attempts made to get Gurr off too, and fingers crossed Atlanta buy Hernandez (for everyone's sake). Should be planning on 4-6 of the current lot being here next season. Assuming recovery from injuries and no more occurring;

MacKenzie, Gallagher, McCrorie, Ramsay and Bates till end of the season, that are good enough, scope for additions.

Midfield

Summer 2022

• Hayes (34) - can see him signing an extension if offered but is he as effective as first time around? Can we get better and younger for the wage?
• Hedges (26) - will be off, decision is balancing any money offered and what player(s) can we bring in against what little Hedges playing within himself brings for the remainder of the season.
• McGeouch (28) - Injured? (again) imagine he's looking to see what offers he gets and will be trying to minimize injuries to his fragile body in the meantime.
• Ojo (30) - Also seems to be looking to see what offers he gets and we should be able to do better. 
• McGinn (34) - Past it.

End of Loan Summer 2022(If possible cancel them all in January)

• Jenks (19)  - Not good enough
• Samuels (21)  - Not good enough
• Longstaff (21) - Not good enough

2023

• Campbell (20) - Doesn't appear as if Glass rates him that highly.
• Kennedy (27) - Injured (allegedly) tried to get rid of in the summer depending on how true the back injury is, will likely try again.
• McLennan (22) - Injured he's got strength, pace, skill all let down by decision making and consistency. Should be at a higher level if he's going to make it at his club. 
• Brown (36) - Injured? Will give his all and probably been our best player, but he's 36. 

2024

• Ferguson (22) - doesn't want to be here will push for a move to england again in January. 

Next season would be planning on Hayes (to sign a new contract), Campbell, Brown, McLennan maybe Hanratty. Potentially for remainder of the season we have;

Campbell, Brown & Hayes who will give their all all, albeit Brown is 36 and probably will need a rest at some point some & Hayes who is 34 and has 6 months left on his contract. Hedges, McGeouch and Ojo who will be playing with one eye on a signing on fee elsewhere, won't care where we finish and play accordingly. Jenks, Longstaff and Samuels none of whom are good enough and none have a vested interest in our success.  Kennedy and McLennan who are not good enough and Ferguson who is trying to get a move elsewhere. 

Forwards

2023

• Watkins (31) - Hopefully stays injury free for the remainder of the season.
• Ramirez (30) - Possibly Glass's singular piece of good recruitment
• JET (30) - wrong type of player for battling at the wrong end of the table

An aging strike-force. Can't see any of them being here after summer 2023. JET too much of a luxury but can't see anyone taking him off our hands in January. Ngwenya to join them next season?

Youth on loan

• Ngwenya (18) - contract till 2024
• Ruth (19) - contract till 2022
• Barron (19) - contract till 2022
• Ritchie (18) - contract till 2022
• Duncan (17) - contract till 2022
• Hanratty (18) - contract till 2024
• Mykyta (19) - contract till 2022
• McIver (18) - contract till 2022
• Gallagher (20) - contract till 2022
• Milne (18) - contract till 2022

As far as I can find only Ngwenya and Hanratty signed for longer than the end of the season?

Following Sunday it appears we may only have 15 fit outfield players fit. 3 defenders (1 is Gurr and McRorie will be banned for hibs), 9 midfielders (Longstaff might as well not be here, Jenks and Samuels aren't good enough, McGinn has made 2 starts from 7 appearances ), 3 forwards (1 is JET).

7 games till the break and opening of the window. 

Recruitment has been a shambles for a while now, nothing we saw in the summer points to improvements and this must be the most unbalanced & incoherent (almost as bad as this post), uncommitted and aging squad we've had in a long time. Hopefully our DoF has been making several plans based on any number of scenario's.

We have to;

• Mitigate the effect losing Ferguson and/or Ramsay would have
• Take into account the lack of commitment from the 8 midfielders with no contractual obligation beyond the end of the season.
• The imbalance inexperience and decimation through injury of our defence. 
• The age of our attack. 
• And the lack of players in their "prime years" throughout the squad.

And this has to be balanced against;

• how shit January is as a transfer window
• that we have enough to ensure we don't get dragged into relegation worries
• not make rash decisions that fuck up future season with more aging or not good enough players all playing the same positions on high wages. 

8 minutes ago, ayrshire_don74 said:

if fit thats a game changer

My thinking was more that there's an even better chance he's injured now playing here if Scotland face Wales in WC qualifying. 

Fuck off with this pish.

Just change our name to Celtic B.

5 minutes ago, Jute said:

Fuck off with this pish.

Just change our name to Celtic B.

Fucking ridiculous.  I don't doubt he's talented, but what in the actual fuck.  We got burnt before, but I guess this is how the club view themselves now.  We're Atlanta's bitches, why not the tims. A(DP)FC.

3 minutes ago, manc_don said:

Fucking ridiculous.  I don't doubt he's talented, but what in the actual fuck.  We got burnt before, but I guess this is how the club view themselves now.  We're Atlanta's bitches, why not the tims. A(DP)FC.

If he was ready for our league the victims would not have originally been happy to loan him to Kilmarnock in the championship. 
 

As with much of the last 18 months I just don’t get it.

I see the club are holding Christie up as a success story. Was it fuck. He couldn't play in the games we needed him most, left and scored against us in the cup final. Fuck. That.

11 minutes ago, manc_don said:

I see the club are holding Christie up as a success story. Was it fuck. He couldn't play in the games we needed him most, left and scored against us in the cup final. Fuck. That.

Just shows level of disconnect between those who work at club and Fanbase. 

13 minutes ago, Jute said:

Just shows level of disconnect between those who work at club and Fanbase. 

To be honest, it is seriously worrying that those in the corridors of power can't see just how unpopular a move something like this is going to be.

Cormack should be hounded out he is a lying prick! 

16 minutes ago, BigAl said:

To be honest, it is seriously worrying that those in the corridors of power can't see just how unpopular a move something like this is going to be.

If they couldn’t see before the reaction in their social media channels will enlighten them. 

McGrath saga concluded

Off to Wigan.

If a player makes our team better while he's here then he's worth having. The only question with this Montgomery boy is whether he does that or not and you've got to say that's questionable at this stage.

Ryan Christie didn't score against us in a cup final because we had him on loan: if he hadn't been loaned here he'd have been loaned elsewhere anyway so it's completely false complaint. We were a better team when we had him than when we didn't so of course it was worthwhile.

Could be worse, we could be spunking tens of thousands a week on a 31yo crock.

30 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

If a player makes our team better while he's here then he's worth having. The only question with this Montgomery boy is whether he does that or not and you've got to say that's questionable at this stage.

Ryan Christie didn't score against us in a cup final because we had him on loan: if he hadn't been loaned here he'd have been loaned elsewhere anyway so it's completely false complaint. We were a better team when we had him than when we didn't so of course it was worthwhile.

Could be worse, we could be spunking tens of thousands a week on a 31yo crock.

But another club didn’t develop Christie for them we did. There is no way we should be developing players for them. 

It's shut for us according to Scott Burns

We were working on a couple of deals but they aren't happening apparently

I'm off to my scratcher and will reflect upon this window in the morning as right now struggling to take too many positives from it

Well, if it means anything, read he was a forward until recently, and also plays left wing. At least we can say we need that. However, is he better than Kennedy and McLennan? We have those two plus Hayes and the dutch guy, but still no #10, which I have said for maybe 4 windows now, that's the key to our team, and attacking creative central player. Tough player to find on our budget but ffs.

Very disappointing window.

Better pray nothing happens to Ramirez as the thought of Emmanuel Thomas being only cover is a truly frightening prospect. 
 

LA is spot on about lack of a creative central midfielder as well. Been a need for a while now. 
 

Utterly shite Glass.

Is it Glass’ fault? We have a Director of Football and a Head of Recruitment on the payroll. Glass is as much at fault for failure to sign any of our targets as our Assistant Manager is for not being able to turn Connor McLennan into Harry Kane.

4 minutes ago, Slim said:

Is it Glass’ fault? We have a Director of Football and a Head of Recruitment on the payroll. Glass is as much at fault for failure to sign any of our targets as our Assistant Manager is for not being able to turn Connor McLennan into Harry Kane.

It's all their faults. 

But Glass is responsible for building the team.

Nobody wants to sign for us as we are a mediocre middle of the league team.

 

dreadful window , we are bottom 6 team , and have a threadbare squad 

9 hours ago, HaarDon said:

It's all their faults. 

But Glass is responsible for building the team.

Nobody wants to sign for us as we are a mediocre middle of the league team.

 

Apart from the guys that did sign for us. Didnt look like we tried too hard to sign anyone else.Were we maybe expecting to sell someone this window?

I'm sure it's a very difficult job dealing with players , agents and timing.

However, surely you crave success as a manager and look months ahead as to whom might be available.

It seems Glass and DM leave things to the last minute having been content with beating Hibs to some signing a few days before the window shuts.

It's shit management.

All these promises.

We haven't moved on from decades ago.

I used to think we were the 2nd, 3rd best team in Scotland.

What saddens me is the reality that we aren't.

 Hearts are better than us ffs and we are competing with the likes of Hibs, Motherwell (again) and even Livingston.

I'm not expecting Glass to make us a far better team in his 1st season but  all this talk of great football, goals, excitement is just bollocks.

We have a good winger (hopefully), a teenager on loan from the same league and a dude from college.

Wtf?

 

 

Been thinking this morning about the whole transfer window thing.

Obviously hugely disgusted disappointed about the lack of players coming in but also have had a think about the lack of interest in what appears to be our two most marketable assets i.e Ferguson and Ramsay.

The grand total of zero bids for Ferguson and only one club actually put money on the table for Ramsay despite all the bluster coming out of the club about how we were going to facing a deluge of offers for them. This begs the question, are they as good as we'd like to think or have we over hyped the pair of them ?

9 minutes ago, HaarDon said:

I'm sure it's a very difficult job dealing with players , agents and timing.

However, surely you crave success as a manager and look months ahead as to whom might be available.

It seems Glass and DM leave things to the last minute having been content with beating Hibs to some signing a few days before the window shuts.

It's shit management.

All these promises.

We haven't moved on from decades ago.

I used to think we were the 2nd, 3rd best team in Scotland.

What saddens me is the reality that we aren't.

 Hearts are better than us ffs and we are competing with the likes of Hibs, Motherwell (again) and even Livingston.

I'm not expecting Glass to make us a far better team in his 1st season but  all this talk of great football, goals, excitement is just bollocks.

We have a good winger (hopefully), a teenager on loan from the same league and a dude from college.

Wtf?

 

 

Aye,its the pace of upgrading the side versus trying to maintain our interest for the rest of this and next season. You'd think theyre as aware of our deficincies as we all are.Some sort of statement re near to mid term plans to let us know why were at where were at

Won't be back untit the charlatan cormack has been removed or has left

Was going to post a rant but you know what I can’t be arsed. Club have clearly written off the season so why shouldn’t I.