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Birmingham have confirmed the deal will go through on 1st July, so indeed… no reason not play him against St Johnstone, and would arguably be unfair on Ross County if we didn't (not that they troubled him very much!)

From the 'fishel site: http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2013/05/14/randolph-agrees-birmingham-deal/

Ross County were well up for it yesterday for much the same reason, and didn't cause us too many problems in the end. That said, with their home advantage I wouldn't be at all surprised to see us drop points this time.

First game I've been over to in a few years that we've actually won, so aye Might even be the first Faddy goal in claret and amber that I've witnessed first hand (couldn't swear to it though, I'm getting old), so that was a bonus!

Humph certainly caught the eye, but giving it to Hutch for being rock solid under some fairly persistent pressure at times.

Almost my very words afterwards, the very epitome of winning without really trying too hard. If County had scored I suspect we'd probably just have scored again. Sign of a good team Hutch was top notch again too, and Hammy kept Sproule very quiet despite giving away quite a bit of pace.

Got to be the strongest team selection for me. I don't see much point in giving those who will have to step up next year a bigger role today, it's not like they're going to get a useful run of games with the season finishing next week anyway. And they shouldn't need game time today to know whether they're in McCall's plans for next season, he should already have made them aware of that.

Higdon is SPL Player of the Month for April

Not a massive fan of black kits (including the Skippy Sunday one), but this one seems fairly inoffensive.

Ojamaa's probably been more consistent so far (though still not without his dips in form), so he'd get my vote even though his proclivity to falling over is a bit annoying -- then again, so was Dougie Arnott's when he first arrived, and he turned out not so bad.

I couldn't care less whether he's an ex-Jambo, and he is (was?) a fine keeper, but AFAIK it's not even clear at the moment whether he'll be able to play competitive football again. Unless we're in the market for a goalkeeping coach as well and could offer him that role if it didn't work out, I'd say it's too big a punt for a club of our meagre resources.

True, although I do always find the "I dont like it, it looks like a training kit" chat a bit odd. A decent design is still decent (and a crappy one is still crappy) whether it's on a training kit or a playing kit.

You can get it on Sky throughout UK and Ireland, at least. (Doesn't help in this case, of course.) Other than dubious internet streams, the BBC website does stream Alba live here if you have access to a UK proxy. I've never quite figured out their streaming rights for fitba' though… some games it tells me they're not allowed to stream, other games it works fine.

Can't entirely blame Puma, I'm sure the club have a big hand in choosing what colours to go with, if not which template as well.

Call me a bit OCD, but I do like it when an away kit is the perfect inverse of the home kit

Dunno, can't even remember where I heard that.. thought it was on here, but a search isn't immediately digging it up. EDIT: Oh, here you go -- was remembering it arse backwards, sorry Will be registered but not used, apparently.

Yeah, I didn't really understand the thinking behind it, if it's true. I suppose we'd be "keeping" it in the sense you can still buy it from the shop!

Yes, but it won't be registered with SFA (if I remember an earlier post right). So I guess it'll be for training and friendlies only next year.

We did almost the same thing the following season (2nd top to 3rd bottom), so it's easy enough given the right managerial talent

That's probably put the kibosh on us for next season, then

Quite agree, although to be fair, I presume we don't really know what we're paying him now. For all I know, maybe we could actually afford to pay him top-end of our pay scale, but only if we were we to lose another couple of players without replacement (which could happen, though I'd rather it didn't). That would still be a massive pay cut compared to his EPL days, but sometimes enjoying yourself is more important than the money.

Have to go for Faddy as well… he's the only one who's likely to produce something out of nothing once or twice a game. If Higdon does stay, and I hope he does, it has the potential to be a tricky season for him. Realistically he's unlikely to match this season's goalscoring tally even if he does maintain good form, and if he doesn't start banging them in again straight away the usual suspects will likely start getting on his back.

Something like that To be honest, all this chat about how much we'd "lose" for finishing second this year is a bit daft. We'd lose nothing because we never had it in the bank to start with, and we'll still be a lot better off than if we finish any lower.

I'd genuinely forgotten he was even there!

Nah. You can sit and play "what if" all day, but for every time we've been unlucky, I dare say something has gone our way as well. And you'd be hard pushed to find another 13 points we "should" have won to put us above Celtic. This season has brought us Champions League football, a record goalscorer, (probably) our highest league finish in a generation, and the return of Faddy. Just enjoy it!