Dr.Pepper

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34389785 Joe Hormley not one of the players that turned us down or at least we were looking at him? Horrific injury, hope he makes a full recovery.

Just saw on Twitter than Jamie Murphy is off to Brighton on an undisclosed fee. Did we have a sell on clause in his contract when he went to Sheffield United?

I'm not a season ticket holder this year, but I am paying my well society membership £10 a month and I have a membership card, so should be fine for tickets? How far back does the database go back, will it only be if you have bought tickets in the last 3 seasons for example?

Ian Murray.

At least now with the SPFL and redistribution of prize money, being relegated isn't the financial disaster it would have been say 3 years ago. Whilst it's not ideal, it would mean cost cutting but not to the degree we would be severely hindered.

I must have missed Pearson scoring the winner in the World Cup final....

First interview as Motherwell manager.

By the sounds of it Malky MacKay and Dave Whelan might be leaving Wigan, so we might get a manager and owner at the same time In all seriousness, I wouldn't mind Butcher coming back provided he does what he did for us what he did for Inverness rather than Hibs.

By the board. I don't think our fan ownership model is like the myfootballclub.com at Ebbsfleet United experiment, unless I have missed something.

As long as any money made from these players, at least a good portion of it, is reinvested In the the club I'm fine with this. My fear would be they take all the money and run up debts that they have no intention of paying, pissing off and leaving the fans to sort the mess, like we have seen at many clubs throughout the years.

Be disappointed if this is closed doors tbh. Did well in the Europa last year only going out on penalties to Sevilla, but then finished bottom of La Liga.

My reason for the pitch being poorer in winter would be, say we finished our season in November and we had to relay our pitch like we do ever few seasons. A cold snap will kill off the seeds and if no then we would be lucky to get enough sunlight for the pitch to be ready in time. Agree with the plastic pitches but if we are struggling to plant pitches then plastic would need to be the way to go unfortunately. The main benefit is that we get football during our summer months which I would be happy with but would we take a break if the Euros/World Cup/Nations League is on during June and July. If so it defeats the purpose of summer football. As someone else wrote Ireland changed to summer football and have saw no real difference in attendances and European results. Russia, a country with worse winters and poorer infrastructure than us moved to an August to May league as they struggled with signing players from traditional league as players were hesitant to move basically play 18 months on the trot if they moved halfway though their season and then a full russian one.

Pitches may be poorer off in the long run, as the grass would be grown in winter months rather than the summer. This may lead to more plastic pitches, which I don't have a problem with but they can be expensive for the better ones. I would rather a great pitch over plastic, but plastic over what we had a few years back. Also iI find it easier on a plastic pitch to get tha ball down on the deck and pass it although I'm no professional so not sure how they feel with injuries etc. The main issue is really our weather in this country. Games can be called off any time between November and beginning of March because of Rain, Snow and High winds and it's easier to re arrange games that are called off in December for when the weather starts to pick up than it would be for a game at the end of the season in November to be re arranged for the end of the month when the conditions could be the same or worse. A slight bit of rain won't discourage people who really want to go to the game and overall we would probably end up with roughly the same attendance figures as we have just now. More problems in Scottish Football than when we start the season.

Obviously there would be more game postponed in the winter months than summer. Also, summer football is brought up at least once a year for many a year. My guess is the SFA, SPL, SFL, SPFL have brought up the conversation with broadcasters and obviously the money on offer wasn't worth the upheaval. Would our leagues really bring in that much viewers on sky/BT when the World Cup/Euros/New Nations League is over free on BBC/ITV for them to throw more money at us than we are getting now. Probably not. My point was that any time a Scottish team is beaten by an unfancied team in Europe, we immediately run to the answer of Summer football, when it really won't change much in the long run.

Of the summer leagues only Belarus have a better co efficient than us and no teams from the summer leagues were in the champions league group stage last season. Even today we had a game called off in this country because of a waterlogged pitch, when it was 30 degrees outside just yesterday. We got beat on Thursday as we didn't prepare enough and underestimated a team thinking we were as good as through. We got beat by at the time the 39th best team in the SPFL half way through the season, last year in the cup because of the same problems.