caleyboy

Very likely but we need to know how many players we went for and why we didn't get them. I can quite easily understand that we may not be that attractive to some but it's our ACTIVITY I would like to hear about.

Great chairmen make money for the club. Too easy a job when the team is settled and doing well on the park but you need to be pretty smart and know what you are doing in the transfer market.

Wouldn't blame Yogi for this one. He can only deal in his allowable budget. Cameron started all this contingency blarney so let's hear from him as to why his plan failed desperately.

And if we had done the job properly and moved Shinnie on in Jan we would have had a few more quid in the transfer pot and another £1500 a week to cover wages. Correct me if I'm wrong but Shinnie seems to be the only player in Scotland to sign a PC in Jan and still be with the same club. Poor, poor business IMO.

If we don't sign anyone in the window we better be getting our out of contract players on new deals now and stop the faffing about.

Fekin depressing reading about every other spfl teams transfer activity. Time to be toldvexactly how many players we attempted to sign during the window, how many refused our contract terms and how many clubs turned down our offers?

We await the contingency plan with interest Mr Cameron.

Just hope you are right!

I agree with you Alex. He will only get better with first team game time so I don't think Yogi has an option but to put him out on loan.

So how old is Shinnie and do we get any compo from the sheep?

BBC Scotland quoting Yogi as saying the Wigan offer was just too good to refuse!

I hope they have been on the lookout since long before that as it seemed somewhat inevitable a few months ago albeit we expected him to go at the end of the season not now ... The scouts should always be on the lookout for players who can enhance or improve our team .... I expect we will muddle through on Saturday but agree we would ideally need someone in place asap Our chairman is quoted as saying we have contingency plans in place so I would expect a signing in the next couple of days.

I totally agree PerthICT but the annoying thing is that we never seem to be part of the handouts

Opinions, opinions, opinions. All I can say is that I respect the opinion of others but nothing has been said so far to change mine.

Why the very different attitude to Graeme Shinnie who served the club as well and for longer and who is at least staying until the end of the season ? 1: He's isn't moving to one of our rivals. 2: He's showing a bit of ambition and testing himself at a higher level 3: He's helping the cub financially by not signing a PC. Pretty obvious don't you think!

Yes those were the days. Hopefully return before I pop my clogs!!

Good luck Billy, you were a treat to watch. I'm looking forward to see who's going to fill your boots!

Maybe Shinnie isn't as good as many think - Stephen Hendrie, Hamilton Accies seems to be going to West Ham on a PC with £1m compo agreed between clubs - WOW!

Cheap on the face of it but I'm sure our negotiators will have built in a sell on clause.

If Billy goes I wish him well. He has been a very good player for this club and we will make some money on him. Far better way to do business - well done ICT

Likewise, I would like to see us get these boys on board as soon as we can afford to but again it's down to how Yogi sees it and how much we can afford to pay: Billy Mckay (Highly unlikely unless his agent fails to find him a better deal) Marley Watkins (A must) David Raven (A must) Danny Devine (Good to have in squad but if he gets a better deal elsewhere we could replace him) Nick Ross (Done well recently and has earned a new contract) Josh Meekings ( A must) I think Yogi has proved to his doubters that he is a very capable manager and I'm sure he knows what areas he needs to boost. Hopefully he has some irons in the fire already.

I agree with you DD and I think we may hear from the dandy dons before the end of he week. However, I don't see the reasoning behind our board wanting a substantial fee mainly because of the following reasons : A fee, no matter how big or small is better than nothing at all - and we need the money! we have ready made replacements at FB and MF so we don't need to spend on a replacement. IMO can afford to let him go now without any major weakening of our team

Maybe so but unless we double their salaries we will not keep them .The money is the motivator -particularly where we have been over the last 3 years as we are a successful top 6 club To pay them what they are being offered we need an extra 2/3000 coming through the gate at home games Much as we enjoy where we are at present keeping our top players isn't going to happen in the near future and at least we keep them for 2 or 3 seasons now instead of the 1 year contracts we used to have Rocky I take your point But the playing field is not level, when we are up against a club which was living on borrowing to a massive amount now living basically on unearned income due to a bail out by a local benefactor. They were taking our players before the local firms cash injection. Where is the morality in that? Sorry to say morals don't sit well in football Laurence

The issue here is not the fact that the boy has decided to move on and better himself - he's quite within his rights to do so and if our contract offer was not good enough to keep him - that's our fault, for whatever reason! The issue is should Yogi continue to play him? Yogi will make that decision and time will tell if the decision is right or wrong. IMO the club has players (still in contract beyond this season) who don't get much game time- players who will never improve without it so should we not be giving them a chance instead of playing someone we won't have next season?

We have one Laurence, he is already playing left back.