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3 hours ago, Michael W said:

Bo'ness Athletic play at a very low level. The fact that Kelty, who are unlikely to make the playoffs but are in absolutely no danger of being relegated are leaving him there for the time being, tells you that he isn't ready yet. They would have been as well bringing him in and getting him familiar. 

He might end up doing well, you never know. But I don't think he'd have solved anything for us. 

Agree that they have signed him and allowed Bo’ness to retain him for mutual reasons. He’ll be able to continue developing in the relative comfort of LL for now, and then will have an entire preseason with Kelty to see what the step up is about. It’s more about proactively signing a prospect to lock him up before someone else takes a flyer…and having the money to be able to take  guy a year before anyone else outwith Rangers or Celtic can.

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16 minutes ago, TxRover said:

Agree that they have signed him and allowed Bo’ness to retain him for mutual reasons. He’ll be able to continue developing in the relative comfort of LL for now, and then will have an entire preseason with Kelty to see what the step up is about. It’s more about proactively signing a prospect to lock him up before someone else takes a flyer…and having the money to be able to take  guy a year before anyone else outwith Rangers or Celtic can.

Bo'ness Athletic aren't in the lowland league, they're in the East of Scotland league

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6 minutes ago, Jack Rae2 said:

Need a striker and realistically defensive cover. Nope, sign another midfielder. Baffling

No disrespect to McGill and Hearts but why are we bringing in a midfielder when we have just let Arnott got back out on loan, makes no sense when we need forwards.

5 minutes ago, CoveRangers1922 said:

Another midfielder, what is going on?

No idea whatsoever when we require a forward after all we are the fourth poorest goal scorers in the championship yet the fourth best for shots at goal and on target.

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20 minutes ago, Raith69 said:

No disrespect to McGill and Hearts but why are we bringing in a midfielder when we have just let Arnott got back out on loan, makes no sense when we need forwards.

No idea whatsoever when we require a forward after all we are the fourth poorest goal scorers in the championship yet the fourth best for shots at goal and on target.

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Why not just keep our own young player in Arnott?

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23 minutes ago, Raith69 said:

No disrespect to McGill and Hearts but why are we bringing in a midfielder when we have just let Arnott got back out on loan, makes no sense when we need forwards.

No idea whatsoever when we require a forward after all we are the fourth poorest goal scorers in the championship yet the fourth best for shots at goal and on target.

Expected Murray to go to Hearts for Euan Henderson not for McGill. I remember seeing the latter for Airdrie in L1 last season. Scored a peach against Motherwell in the league cup group stages. Decent player for L1, interested to see if he's kicked on and how he gets on in the Championship, if he can get game time that is.

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Assume Stanton and Matthews aren't fit, and won't be for a while. Assume he thinks Arnott needs proper game time to develop rather than being a bench warmer for us.

That gives us a grand total of two specialist centre mids in Spencer and Brown. Easton can play in there but he's needed to cover for Ross, who's also injured. 

So, actually a relatively low cost centre mid who can sit on the bench as cover and is likely to see some action is probably needed. It might not be the priority but it's not necessarily a pointless dalliance either.

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