This is what I had read.
Seen in the journalistic bible that is the Daily Record, we were going to be getting Mark Beck on loan from Carlisle but he has a broken bone in his ear. Would have been a decent signing as a completely different option to Spence, Buchanan and Fearns.
On the duffle forum http://www.alloasupporters.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2877