Archie McSquackle

Is that supposed to be him signing his loan deal? A bit odd when surely it's just worked out between the clubs. There was talk before of English clubs being limited to 5 cross-border loan deals which made me think 'fair enough, Mika potentially prevents a deal for a first team player from Germany or Spain'. But no, this deal shows I was being too kind in giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Are we allowed to play triallists in the cup? Any chance of the German boy making an appearance as Tony Riallist?

I've just come home and my wife is watching Sunshine Getaways With Amanda Lamb. SUNSHINE GETAWAYS. It's in Edinburgh!

I can see him getting a loan deal with a Scottish club but probably not us. My money would be Aberdeen, particularly if someone comes in with money for Miovski in the last week of January and they go for the lazy option. I can see Aberdeen being precisely the sort of place he could go in the huff.

Other than the last paragraph, is that not his statement from around Christmas time?

Not going to lie, would have been happy to sign Stewart.

Remember, this time last year, Hammell brought in a whole stack of players but wasn't able to improve the performances or results, despite some of them going on to be good signings. We need to hope Kettlewell can get a tune out of whoever he does bring in this time around as well otherwise we're looking at a repeat of changing manager again.

I'm assuming I'm a bit older than you as I have a vague memory of my dad taking me to a Scottish Cup game at Recreation Park which we won 2-0. My only memory is that you paid in to the terracing and then there was a separate entrance inside the ground where you paid an extra 50p if you wanted to go into the stand. I gave up expecting to win against any team long ago so no shaking in my boots from me. I'll just be watching the game through my fingers, if I take my boots I might make the bench.

That Hearts trackie top nearly saw my lunch come back up.

If Wilkinson is the answer, I'm not sure what the question is. There has to be someone out there we can get in at least on a par.

Agreed he'd be an improvement on any of the other forwards we have (assuming the Mika departure rumours are correct).

I know it's highly unlikely we're going to sign KVV anyway but am I the only one thinking he possibly hit a purple patch with us and he's more likely to be the slightly off the pace, huffy bugger version?

Going by recent events (at other clubs as well, not just the Biereth rumours), it's looking like season-long deals aren't worth the paper they're written on.

I don't know how reliable The Star is but they also have other Championship clubs interested in that article. I didn't realise Biereth is London-born, just assumed he'd come over from Denmark at a young age.

Come on, you know that's not how it works

My memories of seeing Halliday is that he's quite good at scoring from late runs from midfield but not much of a midfield presence. Could be quite tidy with Spittal and Miller/Paton but we'd need Davor or Butcher to be doing a lot of donkey work behind them.

That's good to hear The one thing I'm taking from the Andy Halliday chat is I'm amazed the amount of people that say they listen to Super Scoreboard.

Didn't know he was into Harry Potter. He might have an appropriate scarf already I suppose.

You've certainly got a point. It would hopefully avoid the formation tombola through necessity but, as we saw in some of the recent games, we don't have subs to change things when the legs have gone.

Yeah, it's difficult not to get carried away with rumours when there's nothing else happening transfer wise. That's all they are at this stage - rumours. Biereth and Slattery.

Or they saw some of the games where we continually launched it over his head? There have been times when I've come out of games thinking 'Surely this isn't what Arsenal are looking for for his development '?

That's quite impressive actually. I suppose they hold all the cards and can do whatever they want.

I've read (well, listened to audiobooks in the car) the first 12 books and found the last two (this was from book 11) to be a downturn in quality. They are very formulaic anyway but there's a definite feeling of clues being presented when required as someone mentioned so i was surprised they chose this. I've not watched any of series 2 but will give it a go as I enjoyed the first series.

Did Arsenal not do something similar before with a player on loan at County who they recalled and loaned out to Hibs in January (presumably for more money)?

The club won't announce anything until there is something to announce. One of the normally trusted journalists (Burns or McGarry, can't remember which one) posted we had nothing to worry about regarding Biereth. We'll just have to wait and see.