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Clarke had to contend with striker issues given Eamonn Brophy was injured and Kris Boyd snibbed after an appeal against his red at Dons was lobbed out.

The pair were running mates for eight years and it doesn't look good when your pal is snibbed for taking a tasty backhander.

He'll be too busy wheeling and dealing in the transfer market with all the enthusiasm of a modern-day Del Bhoy Trotter as he tries to brings new faces to Parkhead before the window is snibbed shut next Friday night.

by scent and splendor: glass cabinets snibbed in brass,

Every call more urgent than the previous one obviously, as the clock ticked down and the window inched its way ever closer to being snibbed shut.

Derek McInnes again proved what a shrewd operator he is as he squeezed in former Rangers loanee Dominic Ball, who became the eighth player to arrive at Pittodrie this summer on a year's loan from Rotherham, just as the window was being snibbed.

He has decided that a Yale lock should be snibbed on an institution by the name of Boyce who boasts a distinctive hairstyle, a Wild Bill Hickok swagger and a range of V-neck sweaters Val Doonican would have killed for in his heyday.

The transfer window has been snibbed now and won't reopen until January 1, thankfully.

West Ham have had one offer for Jelavic rejected and McCoist would love the window to be snibbed on Tuesday night with the Croat still on the inside.

German internationalist Andreas Hinkel has arrived, Japanese superkid Koki Mizuno is on his way and others will follow before the transfer window is snibbed shut.