Alternatives To Stokesy

Adam Rooney needs no introduction, I’m sure. He’s done the business this season, and no mistake.

I’ll tell you why I like him; he’s at his second club in Scotland and he’s scored goals with both.

He, like Stokes, has played in England and not done nearly as well.

But he intruiges me nonetheless.

At 26, he’s scored over 60 goals in Scottish football, and over 100 in his career so far.

That’s impressive in anyone’s eyes. With the right players around him, you’ve got to think he’d score many, many more.

Rooney is a decent footballer. Us going for him would remove a central plank of the Aberdeen challenge for next season.

Some people will cry the blues over that, and Sevco fans, who are already wailing about us signing Mackay Steven and Armstrong, will say we’re “financial doping”, because they are thick and don’t understand what the phrase actually means.

Rooney would do a job for us. No question.