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I did wonder when I read this if this was really the reason he knocked back Craig Brown... obviously we had our own reasons for not wanting him to go, but classy chap that he is, I can't imagine he'd be comfortable signing for them one week, very likely knowing that he'd be very publicly putting £25k our way the next. (Might that even have constituted a conflict of interest? No idea.)

Yep, McCall said on the BBC website yesterday that he can play anywhere up front.

Yes, we have... I was talking more about how this year's European representatives fared, since that's really what's sparked all the current media hoohah. I also somewhat agree with Al B that to have a decent domestic league, you just need all the teams to be of a similar standard. That's true, and we've already seen plenty of entertaining games this year between fairly evenly-matched teams. And if you're only interested in domestic competition, that's fine... but I'm not. I want to see us qualifying for major international tournaments again, and getting one or two clubs past Christmas in Europe on a regular basis. And on this year's European showing, we're not going to do that anytime soon even if we somehow manage to improve the quality of the SPL such that two or three teams are properly competing with the OF every year, which would be a pretty significant achievement in itself.

That's certainly true, but the problem we also have is that being good enough to beat another Scottish team under these conditions currently isn't nearly good enough to beat even mediocre teams in European competitions. So we also need to be finding ways to develop our players, tactics and systems to a level much higher than is currently required for domestic success, and that, I fear, is the tricky bit.

Yes, it's awful, but it would hardly be the first sick song that's ever been sung by fans about a footballing-related tragedy, and I doubt it'll be the last. All you can do is rise above it...

JB moved to Forth Wanderers after making only 9 appearances for us (according to motherwellnet)... during which time his only goal was a winner at Ibrox, with Andy Ritchie netting the other.

Gary Mac was certainly one of the best young players that I can remember watching at Fir Park (although I was only 14 myself when he left)... will never forget his goal in the '85 Scottish Cup Semi at Hampden Certainly showed as much potential as the likes of McClair, Faddy and Uncle Phil did for us at that sort of age. If you need a laugh, this short bio is well worth a read

4-2 !!

Sounds like we're doing to Dunfermline exactly what Rangers did to us last week... albeit Dunfermline having rather less possession than we had.

Half time. More of the same in the second please!

Rather taken our foot off the gas towards the end of the first half.

2-0 Motherwell, Murphy with a deflected shot!

Hateley hits the post with a free kick...

Correction: Lasley... maybe

Goal Higdon! 1-0.

Andy Russell would never have allowed those sorts of shenanigans on his grass...

Don't see why not -- I'd guess most folk are more interested in match footage than any of the other content that's likely to be on there, and especially if there's going to be any sort of subscription fee involved for any or all of the content, the sooner they can start bringing money into the club the better.

Being able to navigate straight to the goals with the links underneath is certainly a nice touch. Hope MFC TV are taking note

"1947: We're off at McDiarmid Park and Broadwood. Motherwell fans abandoning their cars and running to the ground, apparently..."

"1946: Lots of texts about traffic chaos near Broadwood. The teams are out on the pitch, so no delay to kick off."

Hibs: 1985–1987, 23 goals in 70 appearances. Motherwell: 1987-1990, 11 goals in 51 appearances. Portadown: 1990-1993, 59 goals in 79 appearances!

It wasn't. ESPN showed about three different angles, and it never touched his arm.

Can't agree with much of that to be honest... didn't see anything that resembled a penalty for us, three-nil didn't flatter them at all because they looked far more likely to score than we did every time they went forward, and I lost count of the number of even our tippy tappy passes that were intercepted or otherwise poor. Bring on Clyde!

All his career stats here courtesy of Wikipedia. Certainly a very decent player in his day, with an impressive 35 goals in 70 games for Newcastle Utd, and 9 international goals from his 26 caps.

I'd be delighted with 0-0... another point and another clean sheet.