Shadwell Dog

I remember us looking brilliant against west ham in a one each pre season game a while ago. Was a brilliant game with loads of beefy tackles. I thought we were going to be great in the premier that season and we ended up relegated. Pre season performances unfortunately can mean hee hae.

Now thats the kind of deal that could get the fans going. We can only hope!!

Again barrowman is utter pish. Cant believe anyone would want him playing for us next season. If he was that brilliant why did dundee not keep him on at the end of the season. I'd like to think that with holts links down south we could get a couple of players in off the radar that are a bit better than the shit quoted on here.

Two decent strikers would be okay but as you say they need to be decent strikers and have some kind of scoring record at this level or above.

Sounds like an MR signing, He's scored less goals in his entire career than Taylor got last season. I can't wait.

Steven Craig would be okay for a backup but come on we're trying to replace a 29 goal striker here. Barrowman and Craig wouldnt get that between the two of them.

Andy Barrowman is brutal. First pish idea of a replacement congrats to Gav -FFC.

The issue isnt just about replacing taylor though. With him we were third and a country mile nehond Partick. We cant just sign another striker on the cheap and expect everything to be briliant. Back in the good old days we'd sell a player and replace him with 2 or 3 and we need to get back into that way of things.

Seems the bid is 200k plus add ons . A decent fee which if used correctly could get us 2 or 3 good players or 4 Tidsers. Knowing MR though we'll sign a cheap striker and that'll do him.

The final conclusion is that we're constantly replacing experienced players with kids who may or may not make it in the game. That for the second biggest club in the league aint good enough in my mind. The spine of your team should be your 3 most experienced players not a 19 year old brought in from norwich with no experience who may play a few games here or there for goodness sake. The financial position we are in is due to to MR and his BOD and noone else. Over the last 5 seasons they have made one bad decison after another on and off the park which noew means we cant compete with clubs on half the attendances we are. Are you happy with that??

Dureoyaiye is 19 for fecks sake and has hardly played a first team game in his nelly puff and yet he's replacing the most esperienced player we have in the middle of the park. Its far too much to expect him to start running our midfield at that age. You dont rate flynn but hes a centre half so thats ok. Come on surely we should expect a but more than well we've got players there. We're the second biggest club in this league and yet we'll be lucky to come midtable at this rate. Thistle signed Murray, Forbes, Muirhead, Lawless for starters last Summer and thats just off the top of my head. So thats at least 3 more then we've signed so far.

I very much doubt Hibs or any other club outside Celtic have 200k to fling about these days. As far as I'm aware even if they did have the cash he's desperate to get back down to the Londaon area so there's every chance he'd knocked the deal back anyway.

I notice again his comments that he's skint. Quite embarrasing for a club our size but the bod obviously have no shame. The likes of Raith have been able to sign a number of decent experienced players on attendances close to half ours. Can only assume that the concerts have proven to be the hopeless case the majority saw them as.

I reckon that its more to do with the fact that his agent will have told him which clubs are looking at him and he fancies one of the other options more than Rotherham.

He's perhaps looking for something a bit closer to London.

Probably means that he'd prefer to go to one of the other clubs in for him.

The chances of all 6 of these guys becoming first team regulars this season though is slim and I think its pretty obvious that some are simply being brought through as cheap squad fillers. Our only external signing is also a 19 year old with none or very little first team experience. Again its unfair to expect him to run our midfield at that age. Its a shame that having again backed the club by buying over 1700 season tickets the fans are again being let down by MR and the rest of our bod.

Thats the one negative with the playoffs. MR will now see fourth place and a playoff spot as a successful season when we should be aiming far higher.

Well i think 3 minimum. Flynns a liability at the back. We have no real experience in the middle and again if taylor got crocked we'd be lucky to make mid table. 3 would give us the playoffs but i reckon we'll need more than that to win the title.

We need a decent centrehalf an experienced head in the middle of the park and another striker whose at least played a few seasons of pro football before we'll get anywhere near competing with the likes of dundee. As i said we were a country mile behind partick last season and dundee will be at least as good as them if not better this year. If you dont think we need new signings then im very surprised. The fact that we could be starting the season with one experienced striker is a huge gamble . If taylor got crocked we'd be in big trouble.

Surely we should be expecting a bit more than just competing for fecks sake. Last season we ended up 25 points behind partick. I reckon unless we invest in the team we'll be even further behind dundee this season. 3 of 4 signings needed minimum.

Holt says in the herald today that there won't be any trialists at training on friday which is a bit of a surprise to be honest. Whilst its early days lets not forget that last season we ended up 14 points behind Morton and a massive 25 behind Partick Thistle. Now I'd expect Dundee to be a side on par with partick this season so its a lot of ground to make up and we're not going to do that with the squad we have currently. We need at least 3 or 4 signings to get us challenging for the title if not more. Yes this season we'll have the bonus of playoffs but I hope we wont get into the way of seeing 2nd,3rd or 4th and defeat in the playoffs as a great season.

Surely theres got to be a balance between paying off debt and being able to put out a team capable of winning the league. In my opinion if we dont put up a very good challenge for the title this season then it will be the last straw for a number of fans and we'll be seeing crowds on their way down to well below 2000. Selling him whilst we're trying to sell season tickets aint going to entice people along to buy them unless other signings are made using a chunk of the cash to offset losing him.

Decent sum but then is it simply going to be used to pay off debts or will a decent chunk be invested into the side so that we can challenge fro the title this season?

SFL first division player of the year.