ShaggerG

You can look at it both ways though. Who's to say that either Blair or biabi would have been any good at 1st team level? We may just have got decent dosh for two players that could’ve disappeared without trace. Biabi in particular I didn't feel was all that good and I was very surprised that we got a decent enough fee for him. There may also be some decent add on's with them too.

You assume a lot Shadwell. (Unless maybe you're ITK? ) The fact that the board, as Dunning says, have managed to get some of the fees that they have, sometimes for players who have no 1st team track record, is quite impressive IMO. You've no idea either just how hard they've bartered to get the fee, add-on's, etc. Yes we've missed out massively on add-on's for McGrandles, ironically due to a tackle by our, now, own player but the board can't be blamed for that. I'm sure also that we did get some cash as an add-on for Arfield although I don't recall what the circumstances or figures involved were. We also managed to get some decent cash for the likes of Taylor and Higginbotham, the latter of whom's career has nose dived since!

Absolute nonsense! Sometimes it's an elbow.

More as soft as shite I would say.

Yea, I don't disagree on him not being ready for the first team and ideally he would be coming on for short cameos to ease him in. I feel he's been hung out to dry as things stand and it could affect a very promising career as teams will surely continue to focus on attacking him. We need an experienced left back, an experienced CH, a new RB and, and, and...

Was actually meaning more from the point of view of the BOD wanting to cash in ASAP (whatever the fee) rather than any slight on the boy's ability. I think he could be a very good wing back with the right support.

When's he leaving then?

I believe that Clucas has already signed for Swansea and that Kinglsey is due a medical tomorrow. I don't think then that he would be the makeweight in any deal as, in the event that he failed the medical and Hull rejected him, Swansea would be £3m or so down would they not?

Houston has brought Shepherd on when he shouldn't have, on Saturday he should have put him on instead of Harris. Why he thought a lightweight like Harris would have given anything to the team when played up front on his own is anybody's guess!

You think O'Hara is more physical than Austin?

But good when he came on against Dumbarton but you choose not to mention this! You'll never hold your hands up either as he won't 'produce week in, week out, for 90 minutes' because no-one can.

Fitness of certain players aside, I think he'll play exactly the same team that started on Saturday other than Aero in for Luca. Presumably he'll bring Sibbs on at some point though?

Ok, so let's be clear then; you're writing him off and feel that playing Langton would be a better option? We're both entitled to our opinions, I don't happen to agree with you though but, sadly, there's going to be many more that do. If Dunfermline beat us on Saturday and, let's face it there's a very good chance that could happen, he'll be hung out to dry by a large portion of our support and could well end up being anonymous for the rest of his tenure. That would be a complete waste of a wage for someone that may just have done us a turn. The fact is the guy is a Falkirk player now and we're not going to be bringing in another one in that position so we need to get as much out of him as we can in the time that he's here.

That's not entirely true either. He, along with the rest of the team, performed very well in the group stages of the LC and did very well when he came on against Dumbarton. He was poor in the shitfests of St Mirren and Livingston but so were everybody else. Houston obviously thinks he can get the best out of him and has said as much, I just think that we all need to play our part in that.

Ok, let's just write him off and give him loads of abuse. Hopefully he'll start on Saturday so that we can get a full 90 minutes at it. That should help enormously! People are all different, some need a bit of coaxing, some need a kick up the arse. IMO Harris falls into the former and I happen to think that if we want to get the best out of him we need to treat him accordingly. I don't see any point in getting on his case as he'll disappear and do nothing therefore wasting a wage for the next 2? seasons.

Well that's just not true is it? He's beaten his man on several occasions already this season, including Saturday's game and with the right coaching, encouragement and support, I believe will do so regularly. The point I'm making is that, IMO, he needs to be handled in the correct manner to get the best out of him and I don't think that pillorying the guy will work in this instance. TBH your comments re Harris, to me, just smack of you wanting to prove that you were 'right all along'.

I think that it's obvious that Harris could be a good player for us. He's certainly a far better footballer than Aird so hopefully will be the answer on the right hand side. He does seem to be a bit of a shite bag and goes missing to an extent if there's any rough stuff going on although I did think that he was getting stuck in a lot more when he came on on Saturday. A bad injury can certainly make you more wary of steaming into tackles and I believe that he was out for quite some time following just such an injury some time back? IMO he needs the arm round the shoulder approach and needs encouragement from the stands; if we make him this season's scapegoat I fear we'll get nothing at all out of him.

I suspect that he's been told not to push on to avoid getting caught out of position. He's clearly better as an attacking full back than a defending one so, unless his confidence is already shot to feck, (which may well be the case) I think this may be down to Houstie's cautiousness!

Loy just cleared the bar with a snap shot in the 2nd half. I believe that he will come good although I hope he doesn't go into his frustrated mode where he starts tying to do everything himself. We created a shit load of chances yesterday and were denied by a combination of poor finishing, bad luck and good defending. We have goals in us from all areas of the park and I'm confident that we'll start scoring regularly. Problem for me is the defence; we look very vulnerable at the moment and I think this is the area that he needs to work on.

Ya dancer! I'd prefer Harris before taiwo to give the team balance. Feel both taiwo and McKee would be wasted out right.

Well, if that's true then that's just mental! So, effectively, a club could make an offer one day, withdraw it the next and still be a due a fee?

The club have offered him a deal (that may be 2 years or the 1 year option one) which they had to do to protect the fee. They can't stop him from signing it unless they withdraw it which would mean that he could leave for nothing. It's Sibbs therefore (IMO) that wants to change the terms; or his agent more likely! I think we should give him the 1 year deal if that's what he wants because we need him ASAP!

It's just you. He's not fully fit due to injury but he doesn't look overweight to me. (At least not at Luca spare tyre levels!)

You've signed Macaulay Culkin?

Oh aye, you'd think so but I get the impression that we don't have a pot to piss in. I think they'd take a ridiculously low offer for Sibbs now.