numpty

Goal, Ojamaa!

Why, what did they do any differently to us? They just made their case at their hearing, just as we presumably did at Higgy's and the other ones we've lost.

So who's going to tell 'Flow that his job at Fir Park is "admin lassie"?

Maybe we should hire this guy.

Given some of the other refereeing decisions we've seen recently, I wish I could be so sure...

According to Mr Broadfoot on Twitter, if the referee saw it, it should have been a straight red card for using "offensive or insulting or abusive language and/or gestures", per the laws of the game...

Did anyone *really* think this would be overturned? Seriously? I'd be surprised if Motherwell pursue it any further. McCall got pretty good media coverage of his thoughts on the matter, which was always something... if other managers get the same coverage when equally daft judgements are made against their players, things will surely change eventually. if I was him I'd just consider that a small victory in a ridiculous war and move on.

From today's Express.

I'm similarly cautious, still have the feeling he might be one of those guys who, when he's playing badly, plays *really* badly. But he's obviously done enough to impress McCall in two trial spells, and he's looked the part in all the games he's played so far, which is already more than David Ferrere did despite his memorable debut

Rooney's dad and uncle re-bailed yesterday until April. "Six further suspects are due to answer their bail this week", which I'd guess probably includes Jennings. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/01/25/wayne-rooney-s-dad-and-uncle-rebailed-in-steve-jennings-alleged-betting-scam-probe-100252-30193443/

We still have two months to get everyone to sign up to the Well Society

From McCall's comments on the radio last night, albeit supposedly before having seen the TV footage or spoken to Craggs about it, he didn't sound too desperate to appeal, so I suspect he probably saw it happen and thinks there's no point.

Given Gordon Young's comments on Alba last night, it sounds like they're perhaps already expecting (or even hoping) that Murphy might be away in the summer, if not sooner. Henrik looks to be a ready-made replacement if that happens.

Just watched highlights on BBC website (after watching whole game on Alba), and looked a lot to me like Barrowman said something to Craigan after they collided that provoked a response, rather than Craigan reacting to being hit in the face. We looked pretty lucky not to concede a penalty just before that, mind you... pretty blatant shove in the back from Hutch, guy didn't look like he was going anywhere but that doesn't mean it's not a penalty. For the offside, Ojamaa certainly looked a mile on and Higdon just off, but don't think it was necessarily that easy a call for the linesman... Higdon had arguably still taken his marker (and thus one of the last two defenders) out of the game even though he had pulled up by the time Ojamaa had collected the floated pass, so you could say he'd interfered. But aye, so much for the attacking team getting the benefit of the doubt in marginal offside calls.

Tempted to vote for Craigan as we seemed to play much better after he was sent off

Interesting tweet from @PressSport about him tonight as well: which presumably explains the short term deal.

Yep, as you say, they could do that anytime they liked. Even if they managed to enforce it, though, I can't imagine the pros would outweigh the cons.

Just doing what any good manager should do, shielding his staff from anything that might divert their focus away from getting on with their job.

Of course, "SunSport understands" means "we're just having a guess that'll make us look good if we're right, but won't make us look too stupid if we're wrong", but anyway:

15 shots from us, 13 from them, according to MFC TV stats. But 11 of ours were on target, compared to their 2.

Dunno about the others, but I'm more than happy to be paying a decent wage for a good second choice goalie. You never know when you might need to call him up for a crucial game or three, and you don't want to be gambling on the cheapest option you could find at that point.

Was confirmed a couple of hours ago, club sent out an email pointing to the interview with him on MFC TV

Of course we are third and that's great, but the trend in recent games has been very much downwards, and that needs to be addressed if we're not to have a mediocre second half of the season.

Sadly they are still, on average, a lot less shite than us and everyone else other than Celtic.

They are now. Not helping much, are they...