Baird of the land

Yep it is. shea got a very nice assist for the n.i goal.

Not great news for him that shankland and Adams have been scoring.

The echo previously said there was an extra year option, no clue if the club actually got round to activating it though.

why not both

Given the club need to raise i'd be content for edozie to be a means to do so. On an expiring contract, still barely plays and still lacking real end product.

No just a reasonable assumption when talking about a 24 year old who scored 30 goals with a contract through to 2030.

Vipotnik, off the back of one stellar championship season would be a massive overpay. Dragan can be as serious as he likes, he still needs to balance the books

Not really interested in that sort of massive overpay, especially after we've screwed up and lost stewart for free.

Guess I’ll be cheering on Canada, with current saint larin and former saint Alfie jones.

The option to extend the existing deal by a year would surely be at a set contractual rate.

Players are going to back themselves. Barring a serious injury he’s likely to get at worst a similar 1 year deal based on this season’s performances.

It’s completely imprudent. If we got promoted we’d have a tonne of money to improve the team and Stewart has shown ability to produce at that level(when he’s been fit). Not extending him means we’ve now down a key player when our finances are very constrained.

Hope the idiots didn’t screw up the Charles extension option too.

There was no reason to wait that long to trigger the extension.

Quite sensible approach by Ross. Will probably get a premier league opportunity, especially if he does anything in the World Cup. utterly stupid by saints to take a situation where we had control to extend at least a year, instead were either going to in a bad negotiating position to get him back or more likely having to stump up yet more money to buy a replacement.