Magic Monkey

If you could combine Morias' strength, speed and application with McAllister's talent, you'd have one hell of a player on your hands. Shame.

Good. I hope Mason is enjoying himself. I think that's the biggest issue for loan players in the current climate: can't be easy being away from home for a long time while you can't socialise (even if he can't socialise in Coventry, either, I'd imagine it'd be tempting to conflate the two.)

Looks like we've acted properly since discovering the problem: we alerted the relevant authorities asap while we investigate. Given that it doesn't concern playing or management staff, I have to imagine the sums involved will be relatively minor; we can settle up and move on.

He'd be an upgrade on Magennis, to be fair.

He reads the game well, is great on the ball and is deceptively mobile. Great signing. Be wonderful if we could extend his contract but we're going to have some major competition for that, sadly. Erhahon and Doyle-Hayes now first choice in the middle, for me, with Cammy not far behind. Nice problem to have.

Yep, absolute gutter for him, that. And, tbh, I take a little bit of pride seeing former Saints doing well. I don't subscribe to the "they don't play for us any more, f**k 'em..." school of thought. I was quite looking forward to seeing McGinn and McLean, and potentially Morgan, playing next summer. Someone needs to warn Norwich not to get sucked into that gentleman's agreement stuff. Their fans will never forget it.

Imagine having Scholes firing in shots at you in training. I bet he could probably still do a job at that level.

Makes you wonder what the hell happened to him. Looked like such a player at Motherwell; it's not like he's lost pace or gotten particularly old.

To be fair, it already hasn't... Erwin took about three minutes to get off the mark for Saints. He was poor last night though. As I put on P&B, the bit when he failed to slide the ball in to the overlapping Connolly was basically a crime against football. Instead he turned the other way and thumped it at a defender.

Morgan now has Gonzalo Higuain as a teammate. What a move that's turning out to be for the lad.

There's a young centre half at Ayr with top flight experience. I've heard we might be in for him.

Fair play. He's actually been playing for Killie so I thought it would have been an odd one.

Just tagging @djchapsticks so I can see the reaction if this transpires 🤣

Fair play to him. Probably making an absolute killing there. He's 29 so probably his last chance for a big-money move.

He's got 92 pace on FIFA '17 - just ignore his other stats.

Is that true? Jesus. I know times are tough, but that's League Two stuff. Even more laughable is the fact they've priced their PPV games at £20 (presumably) to protect the perceived value of season tickets. It makes you even more proud to see the ST numbers we've posted this summer.

Mor-I-as. Morr-ee-ass. Three syllables. Say it to yourselves as you type it. Apologies to those who've spelt it correctly, @Sonny

League Cup winner Sam Parkin?

23 years! I'm old enough as it is without folk slipping an extra decade in there!

This. They're not trying to develop him: they want rid altogether.

Celtic about to bring a West Ham striker in on loan. Wonder if that could prompt some movement our way. Probs not, to be fair 😂

I remember thinking last season that they appeared to be splashing the cash, obviously in a bid to go head to head with United. That got them nowhere. They'll never learn.

Agreed, that';s an issue, but my point was more that we really can't splash the cash on someone who doesn't necessarily fit our system.

While it's odd to see him rocking up at Dundee, the sequence of events that @djchapsticks has outlined seems pretty clear. There's no way we should be pushing the boat out that far for this guy. Or, put it another way: if we were going to cough up well in excess of £3k a week for a striker, we could do much better than Jakubiak. I'm happy to see what the loan system throws up because the fact remains that we only usually play with one striker anyway.

His club made a successful appeal to increase the ban to nine months.