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Another reason I suppose, is that Gannon has already established a reputation for finding and bringing through good young players, whereas McGhee was perhaps (and I do mean "perhaps") better at finding more established players on the cheap.

One of my first favourite players, remember him and Willie Irvine scoring a barrowload between them in 81/82. Then Jock Wallace sold him to Accies, in one of his many fan-endearing decisions...

Makes a change from the usual "we're not setting ourselves any targets", I suppose!

Even still, with a full international cap and being less than halfway through a three-year contract, I can't imagine they'd let him go particularly cheaply, at least by League of Ireland standards.

Seem to remember a fairly categorical statement from the club when the pitch renovations were first being discussed that the PA system wouldn't be addressed in the forseeable future. So, I'd guess nothing's changed.

Nice... surprised to see it lined already though!

Well, taking a cue from other sports, one way would be to give either team the chance to challenge the decision the next time the ball goes dead (perhaps allow one or two challenges per team per half). In the rare scenario where the next time the ball goes dead is when the other team scores, and it turns out the original 'clearance' should have been a goal, then the first goal is given and tough luck on the other team. (But if the correct decision had been given in the first place, they wouldn't have been able to run straight up the park and score anyway. One time in a thousand they might just have done it straight from the subsequent kick off, but this way they still get their opportunity to do that.) If it turns out the original 'clearance' really wasn't a goal anyway, then the team that ran up the park and scored gets to keep their goal, and everything's hunky dory.

Liverpool line-up was: Bruce Grobbelaar, Jim Beglin, Barry Venison, Gary Gillespie, Alan Hansen, Steve Nicol, Jan Molby, Steve McMahon, Kenny Dalglish, John Wark, Ian Rush. No' a bad side.

But if we'd gone through, we'd presumably have got another shit-hot seeded team, rather than St.Pat's...?

That was a couple of days of madness in Belfast, so unlikely to have any bearing... was hardly a national vendetta anyway, and many of the Romanian families affected have started to returned to their homes there. Would certainly be an easy enough jaunt down the road to Inchicore for me though... might be worth a visit, especially as I never made it over for any of our own home ties.

We did, but let's be honest, Steau didn't really have to try all that hard last night. And despite that, they still scored with every shot they had on target, bar one save Ruddy had to make right near the end. It was certainly a tenacious performance by our guys, but I have to say I don't think for a minute Steau would have let us score three or four without reply.

We have indeed, but perhaps a more important question is, do we look like a better team after the sixth game than we did after the first one? Don't think there's much doubt that we do, so provided we can keep moving in that general direction, I'm sure we'll do alright.

Or perhaps even the Falkirk game on October 3rd, as he had a pretty good three seasons for them, too. Might be just a wee bit too late by then though, I suppose.

I've been saying that for years every time somebody moans about Scottish referees... have never really seen much evidence that ours are any better or worse than anywhere else's, on average.

Three shots on target, three goals...

2-1 Steau...

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Click the popout link, then you just get the video and don't have to read that crap!

If you mean Jim O'Brien, then aye

D'oh.. penalty to Steau. EDIT: 1-1, certainly game over now.

We're certainly getting enough free kicks on the edge of the box...

Looked like a good shout to me...

Steau have probably had more possession, but no clear chances really.

D'oh, you spoiled it by mentioning FCR Cluj. They nearly crippled half the Motherwell team in a friendly match last summer!

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