North Terrace Gazza Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 1 hour ago, wullieaufc said: Was there no some New Zealand right back we were meant to be looking at? Think he signed for Darvel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, mugen_power said: Christ, you'd wank yerself into oblivion if he signed eh? He's even SCORED for St Pauli 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mugen_power Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Just now, itzdrk said: spooky ghost 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 1 minute ago, North Terrace Gazza said: Think he signed for Darvel. There were two boys from New Zealand. One was a winger who was only 18 and then there was a right back who’d been capped by the senior team. It was the 18 year old that ended up at Darvel or something like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muZZa__44 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 i know Bullen said Musonda would hopefully be back in time for the first league game thou i just struggle to believe it and still would not throw him straight back in, so i think it's likely gonna be McAllister and McGinty and then i think the idea of throwing a 16 year old straight into the first team for a game is ridiculous, i know Hewitt is nowhere near the level but i'd be picking him over Watret any day 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruadair Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 9 hours ago, D'Jaffo said: There were two boys from New Zealand. One was a winger who was only 18 and then there was a right back who’d been capped by the senior team. It was the 18 year old that ended up at Darvel or something like that. Are you not thinking of George Stanger...he has been capped by NZ at under 20 and 23 levels and think he can play both RB and CB. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrunitedfw Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 9 minutes ago, Bruadair said: Are you not thinking of George Stanger...he has been capped by NZ at under 20 and 23 levels and think he can play both RB and CB. No, we had two players from New Zealand in at training, Ralph Rutherford a 18 year old winger and Callan Elliot a RB. Callan Elliot has been capped for New Zealand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 Elliot is still without a club as far as I can tell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Terrace Gazza Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 7 minutes ago, AuAl said: Elliot is still without a club as far as I can tell. Is he any good though? Is he looking for an English club? Who knows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, North Terrace Gazza said: Is he any good though? Is he looking for an English club? Who knows That's my thinking. I imagine he has come over for the summer to try and get trials in the UK and find a contract at the highest level he can. I think he is Scottish born (Dumfries). I assume if we had him on trial a while back and have heard nothing since then he was deemed not good enough. Edited August 2, 2023 by AuAl 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUFC 1910 Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 oh dear - this could be a 12 pager!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Aye it was mentioned on Twitter that he was signing. Bit gutted as I thought he’d have been perfect for us although I can maybe see the club being hesitant to jump in to loan deals after what happened with Chalmers and Mullin. Think they’ll be trying to get as many players in on permanent contracts and then get loans in if necessary. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum-ayr Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 "Killie kid". He is 23 at the end of the month 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 I'm glad we aren't so reliant on loans as we were in the past. I said last winter that I hoped the club didn't take as big a part in the loan market during the summer window - winter window makes sense as you have the player for the rest of the season and that can't be interrupted. Fwiw I think the big clubs will end up regretting how they behave with loan players down the line as managers will start to find it too unreliable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 1 minute ago, itzdrk said: I'm glad we aren't so reliant on loans as we were in the past. I said last winter that I hoped the club didn't take as big a part in the loan market during the summer window - winter window makes sense as you have the player for the rest of the season and that can't be interrupted. Fwiw I think the big clubs will end up regretting how they behave with loan players down the line as managers will start to find it too unreliable. Have the rules changed in recent years or has the behaviour of clubs just gotten worse? Even as little as a few years ago you used to be able to rely on loan deal for a player. When we have Craig Moore on loan in League One and he was doing quite well there was no feeling that he’d be ripped away from us at a moments notice. We were done dirty in January with Chalmers being whisked away and then we ended up bent over a barrel and forced to pay over the odds for Josh Mullin which probably impacted other potential business that month. I wouldn’t be too surprised if we avoided dealing with domestic loans this season and focused on guys like Kirk who you know you’re going to have for the whole season. Certainly wouldn’t be wanting Chalmers on a loan as he wouldn’t be able to play against Dundee Utd and they’d likely do what Livingston did if he started playing well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUFC 1910 Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 For a club supposedly on its knees, Partick seem to be doing ok it seems 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 Just now, AUFC 1910 said: For a club supposedly on its knees, Partick seem to be doing ok it seems I think the financial issues at firhill were wildly overstated. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 1 minute ago, AuAl said: I think the financial issues at firhill were wildly overstated. Or they are spunking season ticket money on players and hoping they can cover the bills later in the season with match revenue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Bullen saying they are trying to strengthen at full back and outwide. Chalmers is a target but he’s not the only one in that position so I’d imagine the club will be happy to walk away from that deal if it doesn’t suit them. If we could get him, a right back and a left back and offload Ashford, Hewitt and Ecrepont then I don’t think we could’ve asked for much more in this window. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said: Or they are spunking season ticket money on players and hoping they can cover the bills later in the season with match revenue 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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