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The worry now is that Dundee hand McIntyre a wad of cash and he repeats his success at Ross County in the 2014/5 season in the January window. I think Accies will finish round about us. The pressure is definitely mounting on Martin Canning who didn't go into the season with an awful lot of goodwill in the bank with the Accies support. Although the consensus is Accies back their managers and view avoiding relegation as a main aim the run of results in 2018 makes dire reading (staying up on goal difference last season and outside of the head to heads against us have been even worse against the rest of the league than we have been). They are down to about 700-800 home fans at home games now.

We have a tough run of games after the break where we will do well to add to our 12 points over the first 3 games back.  Hopefully we do manage to offload most of Stubbs signings in the January window and add 3 or 4 decent signings for the second half of the season. One concern would be if we finish breaking up last year's team would Cammy Smith, Adam Eckersley, Gary MacKenzie end up at decent Championship clubs with the likelihood  they could be facing us next season and with us needing to do the 4th squad overhaul (Jack Ross - May 2018; Alan Stubbs summer 2018; Oran Kearney January 2019; St Mirren manager summer 2019) in 12 months. I'm not sure it would make a lot of sense to punt many of last year's squad to free up wages when we know they can do a decent job at the level we may find ourselves at in 6 months time.

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Worrying won't help. As the thread title says..we are not detached. Our third manager since last season has managed to keep us in touch, review his squad and make plans for both outgoings and recruitment in January. The BOD have restructured the club and strengthened the management team. We have funds available. What's not to like?

 

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While Oran has assessed the current squad for the last few months and given most players a chance (other than Eckersley?) and has a list of targets we seem to be preparing to lose a few of our better players (Hammill and Ferdinand) during the window, it is hard to imagine with a squad that is already too large that we'll begin bringing in many new recruits before we get unwanted players out the door.

While Josh Heaton might be wanted at his previous club (potentially) are the likes of Bolton going to want to snap up Jeff King or the string of clubs who mutually consented Cole Kpekawa taking another punt on him. We're then looking at seeing if the likes of Alloa and Dumbarton might take Kirkpatrick on loan but I can't imagine we'll save much on wages on those types of deals... there may also be the option of loaning some of our better Championship-winners to the likes of Ayr, Morton or Partick Thistle. I can't see any money coming in to snap up any talented youngsters this window, when in the previous couple of seasons the sales of Jason Naismith, Kyle McAllister, Stevie Mallan, Lewis Morgan was used to underwrite Jack Ross signing up gazillions of players in every window.

It is also one thing to identify a list of targets and another to get the deals over the line.

Jim McIntyre has been over this course a few times previously and did well enough to keep Ross County clear of the play off places every time and it would be hard not to see Dundee splashing more cash they don't have to boost their survival hopes, while for all Canning's faults he has also been over the course three times before and done enough to keep Accies safe.

We are pinning our survival hopes on clearing out the bad signings from the last year and landing some proper premiership-standard players in key positions to transform us  from a team who in almost 50% of our league games haven't scored a goal. In 10% of league games so far we have scored more than 1 goal, we've had many games this season where we have managed less than 5 shots on or off target in the whole game... not great reading if we assume to survive we will need to win more games in the remaining 17 matches.

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15 hours ago, Dibbles old paperboy said:

While Oran has assessed the current squad for the last few months and given most players a chance (other than Eckersley?) and has a list of targets we seem to be preparing to lose a few of our better players (Hammill and Ferdinand) during the window, it is hard to imagine with a squad that is already too large that we'll begin bringing in many new recruits before we get unwanted players out the door.

While Josh Heaton might be wanted at his previous club (potentially) are the likes of Bolton going to want to snap up Jeff King or the string of clubs who mutually consented Cole Kpekawa taking another punt on him. We're then looking at seeing if the likes of Alloa and Dumbarton might take Kirkpatrick on loan but I can't imagine we'll save much on wages on those types of deals... there may also be the option of loaning some of our better Championship-winners to the likes of Ayr, Morton or Partick Thistle. I can't see any money coming in to snap up any talented youngsters this window, when in the previous couple of seasons the sales of Jason Naismith, Kyle McAllister, Stevie Mallan, Lewis Morgan was used to underwrite Jack Ross signing up gazillions of players in every window.

It is also one thing to identify a list of targets and another to get the deals over the line.

Jim McIntyre has been over this course a few times previously and did well enough to keep Ross County clear of the play off places every time and it would be hard not to see Dundee splashing more cash they don't have to boost their survival hopes, while for all Canning's faults he has also been over the course three times before and done enough to keep Accies safe.

We are pinning our survival hopes on clearing out the bad signings from the last year and landing some proper premiership-standard players in key positions to transform us  from a team who in almost 50% of our league games haven't scored a goal. In 10% of league games so far we have scored more than 1 goal, we've had many games this season where we have managed less than 5 shots on or off target in the whole game... not great reading if we assume to survive we will need to win more games in the remaining 17 matches.

Despite all this -  all we need to do is better Hamilton by 2 or 3 points and be at least as good as Dungdee.

I don't think the later will splash more cash than us either...

And Hamilton have survived for a number of seasons - just like we did until we got relegated - that is how it works. I think they will finish bottom if we get the right players, and don't get too many injuries.

We cannot afford to be cautious - we need to go all out for it...

But you are right - we need to score and create far more and have more clean sheets too.

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