numpty

With a bit of luck our new sports scientist is also a bit of a sports psychologist...

I'm sure he'll be getting dealt with as the club see fit. Fines alone won't necessarily change his behaviour, in the heat of the moment you're not (and shouldn't be) wondering how much the tackle you're about to launch into might cost you this week.

Looked to me like he was just giving the foul until Ramsden kicked the ball away.

It's certainly the only time I can remember actually leaping out my chair while watching a Motherwell game live at home on the telly.

I have this one, still a bit fuzzy and there's no sound: http://youtu.be/wsy_st-sCDM (still processing at time of writing...) Think the newsreader at the end must've been a Celtic fan

Not sure how I feel about this until I see him play, to be honest. Don't doubt he's still a capable player, but needs to be deployed correctly, and hope he doesn't feel he has to try and win games on his own the way that Faddy often did on his return.

That may be true, but at the end of the day MFC TV is an official club channel and you're not going to be hearing anything other than sanitised questions and answers on there no matter who we get to ask them.

I'd be more than happy if all he did at Fir Park was get his minions to work hard.

The short version, from the 'Well Society website:

Anything I've read so far says it's an interest-free loan.

McCall's vision and tactics were the least of our worries. Basic player incompetence seems to be our biggest enemy this year, and that's a lot harder to coach out of people when confidence is low -- hence the 'ship in as many new players as we can and hope they turn it around before they get dragged down themselves' gamble, I guess.

Have only just realised he's the Steve Robinson I used to watch playing for Bournemouth in the mid-90's. (In a squad which also featured John O'Neill, Matt Holland and loanee Rio Ferdinand...)

Cracked rib, so not much he can do other than wait until it stops hurting. (Or ignore the fact that it's hurting and play anyway.)

Not so I'm afraid. "Denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity" is explicitly a red card offence according to Law 12. http://www.thefa.com...misconduct.aspx

Dreadful? I thought it was a Triumph...

Told him to get on his bike.

Plymouth fans on Twitter certainly seem disappointed about losing Nathan Thomas. Sounds like he could be just the man to land a few crosses on Sutty's head.

Indeed it might. A closed-door friendly or two in our near future perhaps?

There's also part of me that has the slight fear about trying to gel so many new faces into a squad when we don't really have too many games left in which we can afford to get it wrong. But I suppose we can't get it much more wrong than we've already got it this season.

For long?

* Eating

Can't say I've got my hopes up. Trying but failing to sign folk still means you've been "busy"...

Odious as he is, if teams objected every time they didn't fancy a referee we'd never have any games on at all. You never know, he might even do us a favour for fear of being dropped again...

Seems a bit that way sadly, immediate thought when I read he was involved in the penalty shout was "it probably wasn't a penalty then". That said, Dougie Arnott had a bit of a propensity for falling over when he first joined us, and he turned out not so bad.

Thought he already had a pretty reasonable dig at the ref (not about the drop-ball incident) in his post-match interview, when he explained very carefully how easily confused the words "play" and "goal" can be.