ShaggerG

I think you maybe need a wee catch up. There are plenty of folk who claimed that he didn't target a RB and the 30 miles thing has been reprised. (wee music reference for you there.)

Nail on head.

Aye, I think so, although I wonder if the BOD might think that he could keep us up so may give him another year?

It's clearly a failure of McGlynn's not to have managed to sign one, because he said himself that it was a priority. What annoys me are the folk that come on here claiming that he 'hadn't targeted one' or that 'he'd decided to spend his budget elsewhere' or that 'he only signs players within 30 miles' or any of that other pish, when they have absolutely no idea of what's gone on. Maybe he tried to sign Rowe, or Tumilty, or Hodson but, for whatever reason, was unsuccessful. We just don't know.

Entirely agree. It wouldn't matter what he does, he could win us promotion or the cup but it wouldn't be enough for some. Personally I think he's as good as we could expect under the circumstances and I hope he can get us up, but IMO he won't get us into the Premier, even if the budget was masiively increased.

I think most folk are saying that he's a good squad option, but that won't stop Pedro from taking the chance to twist the knife!

Fuckin knew it! Nesbitt's a pish aerial disruptor, should have been sacked for gross misconduct!

WTF are you on about? You said that McGlynn should have known that Mackie wasn't good enough. I said that he obviously thinks he is or he wouldn't have signed him. You're now saying that there was no need to bring Mackie in. Should we therefore only have 11 signed players, or would it maybe be sensible to have a few back-up options, particularly ones that can play in more than one position and that we can realistically expect to land given our current situation? There are, without a shadow of a doubt, better left backs than Sean Mackie or indeed Leon McCann out there. Maybe we should be signing them? On one year deals only of course! Were you unhappy with McGinn signing in the first place, or were you one of the thousands of Falkirk fans that were delighted to get him? Do you think signing him with an option to stay was a bad idea, when possibly that's the only way we could get him? (Of course you do because we should have been dumping him after his first season no matter how good he had been) McGlynn couldn't possibly have forseen his future injury situation so can't be blamed for that. I can't be arsed looking back to see if you're one of the guys that feels he's failed by not bringing in a RB (which he has), although I suspect you are, so why wouldn't Rowe be a good option for the position? Until his injury his form had been good, possibly our best RB since Duffy, so, bearing in mind that we play in L1, why wouldn't he be good enough? Which RB would you be happy with?

Personally I don't see anything wrong with having Nesbitt as a squad player, definitely worth having him as an option from the bench as I think he's the type of player that can have an influence. Ideally I wouldn't have him as a starter but, if it turned out that he's good enough to be one then that's a win-win. Bearing in mind that we're a L1 club I can't see that we're going to get very much better as a squad filler and I don't think he'll be one of our higher earners either.

Well McGlynn obviously thought that Mackie was good enough or he wouldn't have signed him. What about all the other players that he's signed that aren't good enough? You don't think he should have signed any of them?

So you think that McGlynn knew that those players weren't good enough when he signed them? I remember folk lauding Mackie in the LC games last season, particularly when he wiped out that Hibs player and, to be fair to the guy, we haven't really seen a lot of him since. Do you feel that only one year deals should be given to all players? Edit to say that I can just imagine the amount of whining on here from some if, for example, Alfie was only given a one year deal and he walked away for nothing when we wanted to keep him as he turned out to be a superstar!

Aye, but that's all a bit different from them having their 'heads in the sand'.

You're going to have to explain to me what you mean by 'head in the sand'? I presume you're talking about the BOD, yet I can't see how they have their heads in the sand when it's them that are telling us what's going on and trying to make some inroads into dealing with it.

Which, ironically, is not one that Queens could drown in!

Best of luck to you then, hope it all turns out well. Having said that, I hope you're not thinking of redeveloping the whole ground? Like most folk, Somerset was always one of my favourite away days due to being able to stand in a proper old football ground. Would be good if you could keep the rest of it intact.

Cheers. Who's paying for that, have you managed to find yourselves a sugar daddy?

What's happening with the terracing guys? New stand going up?

Aye, I agree, sadly. I feel we're at the point where we all need to play our part. Too many folk still don't realise that we're a League 1 team for a reason and expect us to steam roller teams in this league. We've made some very small progress but, frustrated or not, we need to get behind the team when things aren't going well. Negativity from the crowd filters on to the field and makes things even harder. The heads dropping is very noticibale now when things go wrong, the booing was ready to be ramped up at half time yesterday and only McIver's goal stopped it. (There were still some) I think if they'd been booed off it's less likely that we would have blown Peterhead away in the fashion that we did at the start of the second.

If Donaldson is indeed suffering from a drop in confidence, maybe we should try supporting the guy when he's on the ball or when he makes a good clearance or whatever. I'm sure some positive noises coming from the stands would help.

I made the comment yesterday, when we were struggling, that 'those are all good players out there, so why the f**k are we struggling to make a good team out of them?' I disagreed with folk that said McGinn's legs had gone last season but his injuries have caught up with him now and he should only be considered as cover for Spencer or Henderson if they get injured or are on a booking or whatever. McGlynn's been faced with a few injuries so far but should now be able to put a team together that can win this league. As I said before, we play Annan Athletic in our first game. At home. He must put out an attacking side!

The drum was hardly played. If they get a proper drummer, he won't be able to stop himself!

2 goals. Either of them win (Thistle probably) then best we can get is 2nd.

Any chance of a few grand for a right back Martin?

Just had a wee keek at the DU thread and most of them seem to think that they played quite well last night. Maybe we're not as far away as we think?