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I suspect the only thing we may end up wondering is whether we should just have taken Celtic's reduced offer last time and let them pay for his rehab, rather than what they offer us next time. Assuming we don't already have gentleman's agreement for a post-rehab fee, which wouldn't surprise me. (To be clear, I still think we did the right thing.)

I wouldn't like that... I quite often get home on a Saturday oblivious to the score, and used to quite like catching up 'live' as I was scrolling through my timeline. Now I have to scroll through the match thread on here instead

To be fair, a fair few fans from his previous clubs have said he would likely start really well then lose interest. Which is obviously ideal for us given he's only on a short term deal, but we'll see what transpires after that I guess.

The summer football season started here in Ireland this past weekend. Guess what...

I think Higdon possibly scored more goals one week than Stevie Cowan did in his entire Motherwell career.

Not turning my nose up at it -- would absolutely love us to qualify again. But last time we did I also wasn't part-owner of the club with so much of an interest in how my monthly contributions were being spent

These days I think we're also all more aware that most of our European jaunts have ended up costing us money... you really do need to progress further than we usually do to benefit financially.

That's what Robinson said in the post-match, too.

I'd say our track record is 50-50 at best, but fingers crossed indeed.

On what basis? It's no more their fault than it would be Motherwell's fault if you decked Leigh Griffiths outside a nightclub.

1-0 Livi, Taylor-Sinclair.

O'Hara on for Polworth.

Mugabe and Manzinga on for Ilic and Hylton for the second half.

It's allowed to be both, and that's fine by me too.

We didn't really, as we still had a home game to turn that one around if need be.

Indeed. To be honest, I couldn't generally care less what anybody on the telly thinks about a game I'm watching, however "good" the pundits are.

I suppose the other scenario is that he might feel honourably obliged to offer his resignation. Who knows if the board would accept it, but it probably wouldn't look great if they didn't.

Had forgotten this year's away top was an homage to that one. Makes you wonder why we have the amber on top this year, though...

I expect they're well aware they could loan us half their team and we still wouldn't take points off Rangers. So yes.

Have to say I've never had any problem with the new fishel site, on either my laptop or my phone. Just looked at it again now on both, and it loaded fine... maybe I just have the right combination of ad and tracker blockers to make it work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If it's only the fixture list you want, you can just Google "motherwell fixtures" -- gives you a nice list that even includes links to the YouTube highlights of previous games. (Would be nice if the fishel site did that too.) There's also the SPFL page at https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/motherwell/fixtures (but I do have to turn of some my blockers to get that to load). In the past I've also used https://fixtur.es/en/team/motherwell to add them directly to my calendar, but it didn't seem to cope with rescheduled matches very well, even though it claims it does.

It'll be no more of a "free holiday" than the rest of the squad is having. He'll be continuing his physio and rehab programme just as he would be at home.

What Scrabble rules do you play?!

Annoying it may be, but I'm not sure there's anything illegal about draping a flag over a scoreboard. (Safety issue maybe, if they flash emergency announcements up there--but not everyone in the ground can see the scoreboard anyway, so not even sure about that.) In which case, the polis would doubtless argue that trying to deal with it might have caused more of a disturbance than just letting them make whatever point it was they thought they were making.

I can't. Any Premiership manager being charged with a criminal offence is fairly obviously news, I'm afraid.

And it turns out he can smile after all.