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We’ve seen mentions of him and Oluwayemi so I’m fully expecting one of those two

Dycey 5 year deal

Keeper going to be announced tonight it would seem

We used a lot of trialists in those games if I remember right, including Matty McDonald, Luke Lyons and Gabby McGill who all signed and guys like Ally Taylor and Harris O’Connor who didn’t.

We only have 10 players and we pretty much need players in every position (apart from right back) so any would do, provided it’s a good player. I’d say forwards would be the lowest priority right now other than right back but we still need to bring one or two in so even that would be welcome.

Someone mentioned Mendy on twitter the other day and it was pointed out that he’s not currently in the UK and is on holiday with his family so while I have no idea if he’s a player we’re after or have had discussions with, he certainly wasn’t training with the squad today if that is true.

Going by the pictures from training Frizzell’s got the number 10 jersey and Salim’s got 7 this season. Everyone else’s training gear had the same number as last season although if 7’s went to Salim them McCabe will need a new number (staff training gear was initialed rather than numbered), so presumably he’s either got 4 or 8. Not that it’s that big a deal but with the lack of signing news this is all we’ve got for a bit of excitement for the new season.

Gal’s part time so hopefully he just wasn’t available for that training session and will be back in for a night time session

Was it not Josh Rae that was mentioned on here a while ago but signed for another club? I thought someone had mentioned him signing for an English team?

I seen the Spanish Armada having a chat with Alan Gow and Xi Jingping in the panorama video of the new pitch getting laid down

I said on here a couple of days ago I wasn’t really expecting any signings before today but I agree I would be worried if there weren’t any announcements today. There should be more than those we’ve already announced at training today surely. If not we might have an issue.

Walker’s a player I wanted to do well but I honestly wasn’t particularly keen on. I was never convinced by his actual footballing ability but he was somewhat redeemed by the fact he clearly tried his hardest and his effort could never be doubted. For someone that definitely looked a level below most of his teammates he actually made quite a lot of appearances, which I think is testament to how highly Murray thought of him and rated his work rate and attitude. Certainly not much of an attacking full back though, highlighted by a moment towards the end of last season where he knocked the ball past an opponent, beating him with his pace and someone behind me in the crowd exclaimed in total shock “Scott Walker beats a man!” It really was that rare an occurrence and usually he plays it very safe on the ball. He sometimes looked decent in games we were more dominant in so dropping down a level could be a good move for him. Definitely a player I hope does well and a player I think could do well in League Two.

Agreed but it seems inevitable with the way lowland league clubs are spending, as well as decent potential from highland league clubs too. Think the best thing would be to expand the lower leagues a bit, three 12s instead of 10s or something like that, to bring in some of these clubs and create a better cushion for the historical clubs like the rovers. Already seen East Stirling, Berwick, Brechin and now Cowdenbeath fall away. If anything it’s impressive that the Rovers have survived longer than all of those teams (well except East Stirling they were honking for years)

This is a complete guess but I think we’ll announce two or three players on Saturday when our pre-season preparation officially begins. Not expecting anything tonight or tomorrow.

Barjonas staying at Kelty

If he’s had serious injuries then it’s hard to know how well he’ll do or how far he’s fallen from the form of his early career. But if we got half the player Rangers had as they romped this league I think we’d be onto a tremendous signing. As you say though, plenty of folk out there that talk shite to make themselves sound well-informed and well-connected to a stranger.

Is this implying that other deals are basically done and just not announced? Because realistically the “player brought in” so far is Ballantyne and even though I’m very happy with his signature and the players we’ve kept from last season, it’s not really much of a squad yet from what’s been officially announced.

Training could just be eight boys (manager and assistant included) kicking shots into Davie Hutton

I think the best realistic shout I’ve seen on here so far is Jamie Barjonas. By all accounts done well last season with Kelty and was highly rated at Rangers as a young player. Seems like he would suit our style of play from last season too and could effectively replace Easton even if he’s not the exact same type of player (not many are). That’s the kind of signing that’d excite me.

Find it really odd that the club don’t tell us this. Same with Watson saying he signed his contract months ago but couldn’t talk about it until we announced it recently. I don’t really understand the benefit of keeping things secretive like that.

I obviously could be wrong and I’m certainly not ITK but we’ll surely hear soon about Gabby McGill who has been offered a contract. After him I wouldn’t expect too much in the way of signings for a week or two as a lot of players will be using this time to take holidays, but I could be wrong.

One of them did. If we sign the other one then I’ll know for a fact that we have the player that scored against us.

Think that’s what we all us expected there. A really good signing.

Hope it’s Griffin Sabatini

I think the post that announced McCabe as manager and Fordyce as his assistant implied that Fordyce would remain club captain. Which presumably means with both McCabe and Fordyce on the pitch, Fordyce is the leader ahead of his boss and Bryan Prunty can sub the pair of them off if he wants.