Nat Weederburn

Deniz Mehmet - £10 million for when Man City lose Ederson to Saudi Arabia money, bargain at that price. In all seriousness for us it would be Ewan Otoo after laughing Crawley Town out the door for a £100k offer. Matty Todd if he didn't pick up these freak injuries would be up there as well. As for other sides in the league Stephen Kelly must be the highest value in the championship, terrific player at this level

What's happened with Kerr McInroy? No way the club would actually go after him because it makes too much sense, but just interested.

Can this club do anything right? You'd think there would be some form of positivity after the end of last season but Cook and co have given nothing but excuses for their poor performance. Anything can happen in football but honestly I can't remember being more negative going into a season

First thing for me is to move away from the wing backs, it clearly doesn't suit Comrie or Ngwenya or any other player currently at the club. Edwards was clearly up to it given his goal contributions last season but he's gone and McPake should've adapted accordingly. Benedictus if paired with a mobile defensive partner would be absolutely fine I think (Fagan-Walcott please come back). Stop forcing Mehmet and the defence try to play out from the back when they clearly can't do it at this level. I really think we are another starting Goalkeeper, defender, central midfielder (a better deep playmaker than Chalmers.) and Left Winger away from having something resembling a capable squad to compete at this level. It requires the board to give more backing and McPake to adapt and move away from what is clearly a failing system with the personnel at his disposal. I am concerned neither of those will come to fruition and it will be another tough season of blaming injuries for our woes rather than failing to prepare adequately.

Just a continuation of this pedestrian style with players that can't actually play possession football. McPake has either signed or extended all of these players, and I don't think the system he wants to play suits them at all or how he positions them on the park. I hope this is just a particularly bad performance early on in the competition and it can be remedied in the remaining two cup games but all too often this is how the team played at home in the championship last year. Really looking like we need 3 or 4 quality players to come in and help lift the standard but that is looking unlikely at this point in time.

I think it's certainly something that needs to change for home games especially. All too often last season it felt pedestrian starting games and it allowed the away side to get comfortable and often led to a pretty boring match. I don't think the fans will be too happy if it's more of the same and inevitably it will lead to a more toxic atmosphere if we are passing the ball around the back 3 endlessly with no real intent. I hope that with the addition of Wotherspoon and Kane here permanently we'll see more of an attacking threat from the off if they stay fit. I was really pleased for McCann who I thought played well on Saturday, albeit against league 2 opposition. Any chance a goalkeeper is brought in before the game tonight?

I thought we started pretty brightly the first 10-15 minutes then became passive and massively relaxed which let Spartans have a couple good chances. Didn't like the starting formation leaving McCann isolated (who I thought had a pretty decent game), 2nd half was a definite improvement with KRH on the right and Spoony linking with Kane and McCann. Positives: Ngwenya and Wotherspoon looked very comfortable to me and are good additions albeit playing a weaker side. McCann was much better scoring with a great strike and made some terrific runs including setting Chalmers up on a plate... Taylor Sutherland continues to impress and should definitely be pushing for a starting spot. Negatives: As McPake said, I thought the team was a bit ropey at the back at times, Breen especially looked off it, was he injured or was it tactical at HT? The playing out from the back is going to cost us a lot of goals this season with the players we are trying to implement it with. We absolutely need an upgrade on Chalmers to start games in midfield.

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Six figure bid from Crawley Town for Ewan Otoo has been rejected

It's coming tomorrow, thanks for asking

Rovers have had a shocker there. Much like the pars hoping the away kit improves things

Never understood the O'Halloran signing at the time nevermind giving him a 2 year deal. I've generally been a fan of the permanent signings McPake has made but that's one that hasn't worked out so far

Delighted that the saga is over after a year We were crying out for a creative attacking presence and he will do the job if he stays fit. Obviously we still need a goalkeeper but I'd argue a defender and another midfielder should still be brought in

Fairly certain it won't be Ngwenya as both him and McPake said he wouldn't be playing until the Cove game on Tuesday. Otoo and Kane are on individual programmes, a little behind the rest of the squad. Hopefully someone there figures out who the trialists are!