VinnyPar

He would comfortably be our best central midfielder if he signed.

You'd imagine we'd be in for Shaun Byrne as it's a position we need to strengthen however it'll all come down to who can offer more and by the sounds of it that's Raith.

In ye come Zak

You've conveniently missed the entire point of my post, budget. Do you think we were paying 100% of his wages when he was on loan? Do you think he's on peanuts at Cove? As I said already we needed bodies in for pre season and he needed fitness / somewhere to train. Let's pretend for a minute that this conspiracy theory of the board blocking a McGowan deal is true, does it not show that they have learned from the mistakes of letting diddy managers spend their budget unchecked (see Pybus, Dorrans, Jones and even Mehmet who was well documented as being the highest paid under Peter Grant).

How do we know it wasn't McPake who decided not to spend a big chunk of budget on McGowan? Maybe his wage demands were too high and he felt he could spend his budget better elsewhere? Maybe he never had any intentions of keeping him at all but as someone who needed somewhere to train when we were short of bodies pre season he kept him in? But the really obvious answer to all of this would be we weren’t willing to pay the money he wanted, that doesn’t mean it’s just the board that have decided that, McPake had a budget to work within, who’s to say he didn’t feel like shelling out the wages gowser wanted?

How likely is Rudden to get punted out on loan now?

Wotherspoon is training with us but no sign of an announcement yet

Sam Fisher has a stomach bug, O'Halloran not risked tonight.

I think he's got a bug or something, went down the tunnel halfway through the first half. Then got hooked 10 mins in this half, wasn't in any pain by the looks of it.

That 1st half would get fitbaw stopped

Pretty sure only 3 second place teams progress now due to there being more prem teams in Europe. It's definitely still possible though so don't see an argument to put the kids out on Tuesday.

That bench is genuinely embarrassing.

We aren't entertaining anyone it seems.

More I think about it the more obvious it is that there's something to it and McPake is just playing dumb. Why on earth would David Wotherspoon take in Dunfermline Vs Annan on a Tuesday night unless he was in talks with the club?

McPake saying he has absolutely no knowledge of the Wotherspoon rumour in the courier...

We've been linked with David Wotherspoon, obviously a name I know but can't say I've actually seen him play much. What's his most natural position? He'll likely be playing just off the striker for us as we don't play with out and out wingers.

If you go to https://dafc.co.uk/squad/ there is a list but it's clearly a work in progress. The news article thing is I think because they split them across "the dugout" and "DAFC news" which I have never understood.

Unchanged team from Saturday but no O'Halloran on *that* bench

Joe Cardle ofc

Club have never mentioned if some will be saved for walk up but I'd assume all tickets in the stand were made available to buy STs.

Only 70 seats left in the north west for next season, what an effort

Home dugout is still the one closer to the Norrie