Sevennil

Adding "Just Can't Get Enough" to the tannoy playlist. Also releasing a statement selling the naming rights of our ground for £100,000 to Indodrill on the same day they sold Ibrox off for £1. I'd be amazed it took them so long to figure it out......if it wasn't them!

One of the older ones I have. Got quite a few from round about this era. Not sure when Alloa actually started doing matchday programmes, perhaps Programme Contributor can answer that one. Team lists for this game: Alloa - Park, Junior, Vint, Docherty, Kidd, Wishart, Foley, Walker, Gibb, Gillespie, Murphy. Cowdenbeath: Dorman, Lindsay, Clark, Mitchell, Campbell, Buchanan, Gilfillan, Craig, McWilliams, Murphy, Shaw.

Taggart was one of our most consistent performers over the season and defenders will always make a mistake or three at this level. He supplied two perfect crosses for Spence and Mackin on Saturday however and his attacking play (including actually being quite a skilful player) has been better than most. Definitely one on the 'keep' list for me. Might not be the most popular opinion coming up but one player who I think had a gradual decline in form during the season was Kirkpatrick. Started the season on fire and admittedly no-one would be able to keep that level going throughout an entire campaign but he seemed to be trying almost too hard to make an impact or create an opening for one of his trademark screamers in the last two to three months much to the detriment of his own performances I felt. Spence has a canny knack of being in the right place at the right time and his goals tally speaks for itself but he has next to zero ball control/first touch, so frustrating at times. Obviously still a 'keep' as the guy loves the club and the supporters and will always get goals at this level. Would love to see Ben and Sparky come back, especially if Waters leaves which is likely.

True, although I think the SFA take quite a hefty cut of the play-off gate receipts.

From that list Paddy Connolly although he's always maintained he doesn't want to be top dog. Be interesting to find out his caretaker-manager record in terms of games/results with us. To hell with it, bring back Tom Hendrie, John Coughlin and their barmy army!

Fowler has been training with the Binos for a while, perhaps a player-manager role for him there to succeed McLaren. Young to stay put at Albion Rovers. I'd like MM to take a bit of time and find another eager player-turned-coach doing his badges. Worked well for us in recent times and I don't think either of the above two would take us up. No guarantees with anyone else obviously but this group of players don't deserve to stagnate after being so impressive so far this season. As Waspie says, I too reckon JR would've won the league this season had he stayed. BigMartyn to take the team in a caretaker role in the meantime.

Di Matteo

Mulraney's wee team v Alloa. Hope Celtic qualify for Champions League, knacker themselves out abroad, rest some players, we score first..... Seriously though it would be great if we could just go there, give a good account of ourselves, keep bookings to a minimum and if we scored there it'd be brilliant too. Do bookings in this cup count towards league games or just carry over to next season's League Cup? After Stranraer having 3 TV games relatively recently and Peterhead having a tie at Ibrox, this draw, however unlikely it is for us to progress, could be just what we need to keep our league season ticking along at the right end of the table should our rivals start/keep splashing their cash. Jack Ross has assembled an excellent team which I don't think needs added to, more a case of having the funds available should we pick up an injury or two. As impressive as the players are that he's brought in, I still feel two of our most important players this season will be guys that we've had at the club a while, Marr and Flannigan. Both a little injury prone but here's hoping that luck is on their/our side for the foreseeable! Really hoping I'll be able to make the Celtic game, only seen us twice so far this season (Fort William and Peterhead - 7-0 on aggregate so far) plus I'll be missing our game on the Saturday afterwards as I'll be at Old Trafford for the Man Utd v Leicester game. Excellent start to the season and the Celtic game will take care of itself when it comes around. Here's hoping the players keep their feet on the ground and put that game to one side and concentrate on the more important league games. Mon the Wasps!

'Nearly' isn't good enough.

Tries hard at times and can be quite physical if need be but I feel he falls short in his application and drifts in and out of games. His ball control is questionable to say the least as well and to be honest I feel he just doesn't quite have enough quality.

He'll get a Championship club no problem I'd imagine and his wages are probably out of our range now but himself and Doyle were both more than capable of filling in at centre half when they were with us. With Jason Marr being quite injury prone and Andy Graham being a good reader of the game (code for 'slower than he used to be') then Meggatt would've been quite handy to have. He'd probably end up playing every game.

Still includes his excellent grasp of the quote function I see!

As things currently stand, there's no gimmes in this league regardless of how strong a squad any team 'currently' has. I fully expect Airdrie and Peterhead to sign a few more soon whereas Stranraer and Alloa have both played their cards early (something I wish Danny Lennon had done last summer) and have decent enough squads right now. Brechin have signed a few as well and look pretty decent and East Fife seem quite confident with their squad from last season too. Who knows what Livingston will do next! It wouldn't be a huge surprise if both full-time teams this season fall a bit flat with Airdrie perhaps just getting accustomed to full-time football this season. The player turnover already may have even taken them a little by surprise with players opting to stay part-time and play elsewhere rather than take up the option (if it was offered to them) of playing football full-time. With the wages available for full-time League 1 football, I'd imagine they'll make more money playing part-time and keeping their jobs outwith football anyway. It may also be too late to add quality over quantity and they'll maybe need to sign shirt-fillers to make up their squad numbers. Still 6 or 7 weeks until the league begins anyway and in that time there'll be player changes to squads, odds changes in the bookies and then loan deals will be sought soon after too.

So could Alloa. I wish Stranraer were favourites!

He was a little terrier with us and actually won the ball back for us quite a lot, always seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Lost possession several times too but his regaining of possession always seemed to be the higher percentage of the two and as he was running at players and trying to create openings for himself or others then losing the ball was always a possibility we were willing to put up with anyway. Playing him out wide would mean he would always have the same player to beat who would cotton on to his traits I'd imagine whereas he has more freedom through the middle to take the ball in the direction he'd feel he'd get more success from. We'll let you know where JR. plays him.