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Goalkeepers 1. Shamal George - 2026 23. Michael McGovern - Loan - 2024 32. Jack Hamilton - 2024 Defenders 2. Shaun Donnellan - 2026 3. Cristian Montano - 2024 5. Mikey Devlin - 2024 (2 year extension option) 6. Ayo Obileye - 2024 12. Jamie Brandon - 2025 14. Miles Welch-Hayes - 2026 21. Michael Nottingham - 2024 29. James Penrice - 2024 Midfielders 8. Scott Pittman - 2026 10. Stephen Kelly - 2025 18. Jason Holt - 2025 20. Mo Sangare - 2025 (1 year extension option) 22. Andrew Shinnie - 2024 24. Sean Kelly - 2024 40. Samson Lawal - 2026 Forwards 9. Bruce Anderson - 2024 11. Daniel Mackay - Loan - 2024 16. Steven Bradley - 2025 19. Joel Nouble - 2024 28. Kurtis Guthrie - 2024 (1 year extension option) 33. Tete Yengi - 2026 In Mikey Devlin - Hibernian Samson Lawal - Pro Success Daniel Lloyd - Rochdale Daniel Mackay - Hibernian (Loan) Michael McGovern - Hearts (Loan) Michael Nottingham - Accrington Stanley Mo Sangare - Accrington Stanley Miles Welch-Hayes - Harrogate Town Tete Yengi - Ipswich Town Out Dylan Bahamboula Scott Bitsindou Morgan Boyes - Inverness C.T. (Loan) - Contract Expiry 2024 Luiyi De Lucas - AEL Limassol Nicky Devlin - Aberdeen Jack Fitzwater - Exeter City Esmaël Gonçalves Jack Hamilton - Raith Rovers Jaze Kabia - Cork City Jackson Longridge - Hamilton Academical Daniel Lloyd - Southport Stephane Omeonga - Bnei Sakhnin Tom Parkes - Hartlepool Brian Schwake - CD Castellon Hopefully can start making efforts to tie down the likes of Anderson now that the window has closed.

I assume Nottingham and Welch-Hayes must be gubbed at the moment, haven't heard much about them. Also had no idea Parkes was injured until I saw him in the sitting in the stand. On Guthrie, I thought he was pretty effective up against their back 3 - winning headers and genuinely causing a nuisance. When the ball is at his feet and he has time, he looks pretty limited but I can see why Martindale selected him. Anderson was a class above when he came on though. Edit: Nottingham's injury mentioned in the interview as well. Would be good if the journalists did their job and asked about players missing from the squad during the week. They would bother for the bigger teams but make no effort for us.

Daniel Mackay scored a penalty today in the reserve game (4 goals total along with a double from Bradley and a goal from Lawal).

Was that done in training?

Could just about get on board with St. Mirren going top of the table if 'Thommo' wasn't so insufferable and biased. Worse than Willie Miller.

Quality performance, we should have won by more. If you can nullify Hibs' pace they've got very little else. My stream was particularly rubbish today so will have to watch the highlights for our goals later. Thought we were very unlucky not to get the penalty before Hibs' second. Penrice and Nouble were excellent.

Referee should have given him a second yellow for the short pull on Montano and he bottled it, VAR couldn't intervene. They potentially missed a straight red with his first yellow which makes the referee's decision to not card him a second time even more ludicrous. ETA - I forgot the disgusting challenge on Pittman from their centre back which should have also been a red. The referee and VAR were horrific that night.

Sadly back to Kenny Mac and a repeat of the Michael Beale interview.

It's an interview with John Ward, I'm not clear why it being published by the Scottish Sun would have any relevancy. All of the interesting stuff has come from Direct quotes/statements, has clearly been fed to them by Ward or was sourced by another newspaper (Scottish Daily Mail).

Very interesting article: - Court of Session hearing with Carolyn Sumner next week. I believe she is Neil Rankine's partner. Rankine was listed on the hearing previously. - Two bids to takeover the majority shareholding - 1 from the owners of Barnsley (who were also looking at Partick Thistle) in 2020 and one more recently from an unnamed American group. I am not surprised that people are looking to take us over (would be certain we will sell for less than other teams looking for new owners and we are in a relatively good position) so I imagine there will be movement on this if court hearing goes in our favour. - I'm more than a bit sceptical that making top 6 would be the difference between profit and a £800k loss. Would need to see the working on that. - The talk of going for budgeting on fighting for top 6 vs. being a championship team is puzzling when Martindale goes on every season about his budget being the value of 12th place in the previous season. That also doesn't reconcile before you even get into a loss as substantial as £800k. - Consultant hired by Opcco6 to sell their shareholding.

Decent performance but as has been said, the changes that Martindale made killed us. Maybe Nottingham can fill in at RWB in some games but not away to Rangers. Lunacy when you could see Matondo coming on at the same time. Not sure Welch-Hayes is up to much but he needs to be on the bench when fit rather than having 3 centre backs. Mackay for Kelly was also bizarre but probably down to the lack of midfield options on the bench. Would have to see it again but at the time I thought Balogun was very lucky to get away with a naughty challenge on Nouble's ankle. Referee should have been sent to the screen to look at that.

Looks like he fell straight on his side following the head clash without getting his arms down to cushion his landing. Hopefully we get an update tomorrow.

MacIntyre: "HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TEAMSHEETS? LET'S GET A COMMENT FOR EACH RANGERS PLAYER TODAY... BUTLAND?" Fortunately the pundit (Steven Smith?) realised how tedious that would be and said that no Rangers player got pass marks.

Great battling performance. Duk barely in the game after terrorising us last season, full credit to De Lucas for marshalling him. Jamie Brandon was terrific down the right and I thought Pittman was back to his best when he came on the pitch. Sangare looked good in the first half. Should have won it with Obileye's free header at the back post. Would have just about deserved it over the game. Hope Anderson is ok, that looked a very nasty injury.

Think they've done really well so far in this shape, Aberdeen have been limited to very few openings. De Lucas I'm not sure about but he may be in there to combat the pace of Duk.

Martindale said he'd waived training compensation for a nominal fee and sell-on.

Unless I misunderstood, £400k sounds like A LOT of unsold advertising. That's really poor budgeting from the club if they were banking on that much and didn't sell. Similarly we knew we had upcoming £200k in costs like VAR and repaying back the government loan. Why was that not part of the budget when we knew these were coming? Can't remember where he said the remaining £200k came from. Costs relating to wage rises and stadium overheads would make that a much more reasonable number.

Welch-Hayes apparently came off injured. Another trialist.

Favourable draw but I hope the Inverness debacle last season will keep us humble before this game. Akheem Rose will have a point to prove after the trial with us and Murphy and McGeady (if fit) are good players.

8 looks like Samson Lawal. Martindale mentioned he was a trialist this week.

We lost 800k last year, we're not 800k in debt.

If he does well, it's more likely we will stick him at a part-time team in League 1 or 2.