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Faddy too. Wouldn't actually be surprised if Hateley was the only one who ended up staying, but certainly entirely possible that none of them will.

And also injured, which is why Hammy got called up in the first place Obviously he's not going to become a regular, but as a last-minute replacement he makes a lot of sense. Aside from being a natural leftie, McGhee and McCall both know him and his strengths and weaknesses well.

Presumably the complete site revamp 'Flow mentioned a couple of posts back will be addressing that. If not, you're right -- time to find a different web design company with a better CMS.

Can't imagine they'd stop selling them first week of the season, so you should be fine. If you want the early bird discount, you can apparently just phone them before this Friday 4.30pm to reserve at the discount price when you do buy, though whether they'd hold it for you right through to August at that price I dunno.

I dunno if he has or not, to be honest. He said during his twitter meltdown episode that he'd signed a pre-contract, and a couple of folks on the Killie forum picked that up, but I've never seen anything official anywhere.

I like your steelworks modification (the original never did fit that space very well), and a more modern-looking font isn't a bad idea either, though pick the wrong one and it'll date quicker than you'd like. But to be honest, the rest of it still looks fine the way it is to me… the extra detail on your fir trees just makes them look a bit fuzzy, and I always did like the black and white hexagonal/pentagonal panel footballs best

I guess for an 'exiles-only' scheme they could use IP detection to only allow the exile member accounts to log in from outside the UK. That's not perfect either of course--could be worked around with proxies, and folk in England, Wales and NI could rightly claim they were missing out despite being 'exiles' too. And if they didn't already have any geo-detection code in place, I doubt they'd want to add it just for us. Simplest solution, perhaps, would just be to allow members to choose their benefits when they join or renew. Either you choose the 'local' package with discounts on tickets etc., or you choose the 'exiles' package with MFC TV membership. Though that would require a little extra admin of course, which doesn't strike me as the Society's strong point so far.

I'm predominantly absent minded.

Alison told me they can't do that because the £45/year subscription cost would pretty much use up people's entire annual renewal fee of £50 (for the Steel membership, which I'd guess is the most common one). Which is fair enough if true, but poor show from the company who run MFC TV (Perform Group, IIRC) if they can't give a significant discount to the club for guaranteed volume subscriptions.

True, forgot about that. Latest one should be a belter

You mean your MFC TV subscription? It only lasts for the first year, unfortunately… at least you received an email, it just stopped working for me! TBH I thought this was a bit mean as well, would have hoped they could at least offer us some sort of discount after the first year, or give two years membership to those who paid in at the second tier. It's pretty much the only tangible perk overseas members got for our money, so now a year in we're not getting any at all.

Me too. Helpfully, though, I pointed out in the next paragraph what my own position is Nor have I said in any other post that I'd rather McCall was leaving, because (if I didn't make it clear enough last time) I'd rather he stayed.

I guess some people think that now his head has been turned once, there might be some question mark over his future commitment so it would have been better to let him go before it had the chance to waver again (and while we'd have made some cash out of him into the bargain). Can't say I see it that way myself, though especially if his staying turns out not to persuade any of our out-of-contract lads to re-sign anyway, you could argue that it would have been as good a time as any to part company.

The cost of living would doubtless be more than compensated by a much bigger salary. I don't recall if he has kids; if he does, that's certainly a big factor, but if not I'd have thought moving back closer to where most of your friends and family still are wouldn't be the biggest upheaval in the world. But anyway, he's made his choice. Onwards and upwards

Here's the interview, from January: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/motherwell-manager-stuart-mccall-says-1544203

Somebody (forget who, sorry) did point that out on here a couple of days ago, but nobody seemed to take any notice

If it came with the associated grief of being an Old Firm player in the fishbowl of the west of Scotland meeja, and meant I was practically guaranteed to achieve nothing of interest for the next three years -- 15% or more of my professional career? It certainly doesn't strike me as massively appealing.

I also paid by bank transfer, didn't get any confirmation until I emailed Alison to check.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't think it's that unusual for clubs to both invite applications and make a short list of their own of people to approach, is it? (If not, what if all the people they approached said no?)

Interesting to note Lawson's comment that Stuart McCall is "probably the main reason why I joined". Could just be the usual spin of course, but hopefully a good sign that what McCall's been saying to players in private is no different to what he's been saying in public -- that he has no intention of going anywhere anytime soon.

This, really. Will always take a few games for a goalie to gel with his defenders, and other than (presumably) in training he hasn't really had a lot of game time to do that yet. Jury's still out for me.

Too early for me to be worrying about it either way, really. We don't know who (else) is leaving, we don't know who's coming in, and we don't know who we'll be playing. A few weeks without fitba', one half-decent signing and an attractive draw and I'm sure we'll all be gagging for it

You'd hope, but I haven't really seen much evidence of that in recent years, at least in terms of keeping players. We've probably been a victim of our own success in that regard; anyone in or around the first team has already been there, done that in the Europa League, and of course a good few now even have Champions League experience.

Plus of course he's from Aberdeen, which although it isn't exactly next door to Dingwall, probably means he's got friends and family in the vicinity and won't be in any great hurry to move south again.

Very nearly voted for that one myself, to be fair -- all of the above, plus it was a winner against Celtic to boot (Even my wife picked it out as her favourite, and she knows nowt about fitba'!)