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By all accounts Draper is pretty content and been training well so I don't think he's unsettled. The issue we have and alluded to on one of the other threads is that there have been some 'soft loans' made. As much as we all know that Draper is worth more than £100k we may not be in a position to turn down any 6 figure sum regardless of previous statements.

That's Oman Biyik's Badboys back for another go.

Worst fears re Draper about to be confirmed by the sounds of it. £100k enough to get the deal done.

As you are.

Panicky defending, stupid penalty given away, 1-0. For 2017/18 please see 2016/17.

Indeed. I can't work out why we wouldn't have agreed/broadly outlined the terms of a deal prior to taking him on trial. Unless Buckie changed the goalposts.....

Thats Connor Bell signed on a one year deal. Seemed to make a big impression on those who were at Clach on Tuesday night.

Storm in a D-Cup?

If there hadn't been a statement I'm sure we would have forgotten about it in a day or two. The minter of a statement just draws the attention of those who missed it.

Yep, that's what I was alluding to.

0 goals from open play in competitive games. That has to be a concern going into the season. I'm sure we can trot out the usual excuses e.g. the league cup group stage is a bit of a glorified friendly, the team is gelling etc. but we need to see more improvement asap it it's going to be a long hard season.

Would be slightly surprised if it's Zscusschen that's unveiled today considering he is currently in the US playing for Curacao in the Gold Cup.

4:30pm the club put out on social media that tonight's match was cancelled. Unbelievable, nothing changes.

Bit bizarre considering it was only announced at the weekend. Still nothing on the club social media feeds that game is postponed.

Tyrone Smith tweeting that Ridgers and Oakley are now confirmed as having officially signed. Wouldn't be too surprised to hear confirmation of OFW's departure in next couple of days.

This, and unless something drastic changes he won't ever be back.

It's a huge salary relative to our current position/the average person. Other than a handful of his teammates & some Dundee Utd players it will also be among the highest in the division. There's no Euro money to fund it this year of which pretty much 100% went on his salary.

I'd suggest we'll let him go for free in order to get his huge salary off the wage bill.

Tough start. Dundee Utd (H), Dunfermline (A), Morton (H), Brechin (A), St. Mirren (A). At least we'll know what type of a season we're in for early on.

That's a possibility. The boys were back training today and I'm sure I read Aberdeen were back at the start of the week. Wonder why we haven't announced any of our other signings yet?

With Robbo allegedly coming back does this signal a change in the power balance at boardroom level? Is it not true that he had a big fall out with Mr Sutherland and is very much Mr Savage's man? Surely he's back as DoF and not manager. Surely...

Not even a few weeks. They're back in 2.

So all of our rivals continue to strengthen while we sit on our hands. How can we get rid of Foran without any kind of succession planning? Pre season starts in a few weeks and we can't even begin to look at players to bolster the squad. It's bizarre.

You appear to have conveniently left out John Robertson and Steve Paterson from your list and Brewster Mk1 was a success in that it established us as a Premiership side. I've always felt that some of our best appointments have been with young, ambitious hungry managers with no link to the club. John Robertson, Brewster, Paterson all did well before moving on and earning the club significant compensation. Charlie and Foran seemed the easy appointment and neither really seemed to want to be manager at that point. If we were to go down the road of a young outsider again what about someone like Calum Davidson? I've noticed he's been added to the Scotland setup (not in itself an endorsement) but by all accounts he's a very significant part of what Tommy Wright does.

https://stv.tv/sport/football/1389791-sheerin-in-the-frame-for-inverness-job-if-foran-leaves/ Sheerin now being linked with post if Foran goes.