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@Scottydog - you're not helping.

People are way too hung up on Hardie - as well as way overstating how good he is. He did well for us, had a couple of very good games in particular - as well as some quieter ones. The idea of him being the ultimate answer to any perceived deficiencies up front is a bit silly, even if there were any chance of him coming back. That's not to say I don't want him, or anything. But I rate Vaughan higher.

I don't think there's been a single season since I first came onto p&b where pretty well everyone hasn't thought the squad was too small at the start of the season.

You're always in danger of looking light in centre-mid if you want to play two forwards and two proper wingers. I thought Matthews and Callchan did okay.

He looks like he has the potential to make a considerable nuisance of himself, yeah. In more ways than one.

If he wants to sign the player he can't pretend he doesn't have that knowledge - what else is he meant to do? Based on what's in the public domain (which may not be full story, granted) I have no issue with what he or Toshney have done. We move on.

Sure that was 2012? I remember us beating them in 2010. The website doesn't list a game against them in 2012 (and doesn't go back any further than that, at least as far as friendlies are concerned).

Cheerio, Toshney. Clearly you can't blame him for wanting to go to a bigger club - if he'd been out of contract and moved on he'd have gone with best wishes like two or three other players and no-one would have thought anything of it. Any talk of disloyalty or the way he's handled it is a bit daft. As it was, extending his contract during the season so we ended up getting some money for him in the summer turned out to be a very good bit of business by, uh, Ray McKinnon. sold? If you're talking about first-teamers rather than kids we got a few bob for, I'm really struggling to remember. bought - I think we paid a token fee for Joe Dunbar, which would have been a year after Winter.

If Toshney wants to go he's as well going. Sure, we can and should hold out for some sort of fee - that's our prerogative. But in these days of freedom of movement, any money we get for him is just a bonus from the fact that he signed a contract extension during the season. He could as easily not have done and left as a free agent just as Craigen, McKeown and Connolly have. As for Laidlaw, I've probably said all the same stuff numerous times on the thread, but I still think he has the attributes of a good 'keeper, and again he's still quite a bit younger than McGurn was when he moved clubs and became a long-term first choice for the first time in his career. It wouldn't the least surprise me if Laidlaw does similar and ends up becoming a good 'keeper somewhere, over the next few years. Be a bit of a pity if that's with someone other than us, but there's no point in us keeping him kicking his heels as a third choice if we don't have more confidence in him than that.

Sad day, but inevitable. Just rewatching his triple save against Ayr on youtube - I'd completely failed to realise, until just now, that it was Chris Mitchell who scored Ayr's goal that day.

That's a bit boring, was hoping for a good day out at one of the Highland League grounds. Cove Rangers have signed Mitch Megginson, incidentally.

McGurn was playing at Stranraer until he got injured.

Liked him a lot, and sorry it's ended like this. Never quite as good a player as he sometimes threatened to be, though.

Is someone slagging Allan Walker? He did well for us. No thanks to Falkinkham, anyway, just 'cause I never liked him and don't want to have to change my mind.

Sure, might have been reasonable at the time. Just amused me that it was the first post that came up, now. (I'm easily amused.) What became of Wallace, anyway? ETA: I see he's just been released.

You know how p&b has this thing where you can click on the button next to a thread and it takes you straight to the first post on the thread since you last looked at it? Well I just clicked on it and it took me to this ....

According to Inverurie's website they've already arranged a home friendly against Aberdeen on the 16th - http://www.inverurielocoworks.co.uk/club/290371/News/view/918187 So Cove are going to have to persuade them to change it or use another venue that day.

As far as I can find out, this isn't actually confirmed yet. The Highland League website says "The grounds to be used for Cove's home games are still to be announced. Once again, the Aberdeen-based club will play all of their matches on the road as they wait for a new stadium to be built in the Granite City. Cove's official home ground is registered as Harlaw Park. They will play most of their fixtures in Inverurie, but will still take some matches to other venues to try to help preserve a pitch that is also used by the Locos." ( http://www.hflhub.co.uk/index.php/1928-cove-s-betfred-cup-matches-confirmed )

Apparently the final is on Sunday 27th November.

Probably sooner have been away at Montrose and home to Ross County, but otherwise that couldn't have worked out much better.

Wombles!

That game against Dumbarton was his best, and some of the stuff being said about him is distinctly ott. But yeah, of course we'd love to keep him.

We still owe them the friendly that was rained off last year, the gate receipts for which were to be our payment for McKinnon.

Clark is talented enough but supposedly he's a zoomer.

Craig Barr has signed, Bobby Barr has confirmed his commitment, and Johnny Court has also signed a year's extension. All good news. http://www.raithrovers.net/25096/player-news.htm