numpty

It says we keep letting the Old Firm hump us, even though we're more than a match for everyone else...

Lasley! 1-0

If that's what they believe, then they'll already have been booed enough times in their career without it having made any difference, so hearing a few more isn't going to change their minds.

It was a decent shout, but I wouldn't say it was stonewall. The fact that the keeper emerged from the collision clutching the ball probably swayed the referee's decision... had he collided with Clancy and not won the ball, we'd probably have had a better case.

McHugh scores!

Stevie Cowan says Higdon has had a shocker up front for Motherwell. Pot, meet kettle

McCall having a go at someone in the stand for moaning at Higdon...

On the plus side, when I heard it had gone to penalties, I expected us to lose long before it got to 7-6!

Sportsound only appears to be on until 8pm tonight (and only on MW), so I'm not expecting any Radio Scotland coverage. Don't think they have the rights for League Cup games.

Was never going to be an "easy home game" given their away form so far this season. Poor show by us though.

Sounding completely devoid of ideas today...

I used to do it that way, was a bit of a pain (on the Mac at least) to configure it to guarantee a UK endpoint the last time I tried, though...

Don't know of any links other than connecting to BBC through a UK proxy... I caved in a while ago and pay a fiver a month for one now.

1-0 St. Johnstone

Wouldn't say Sheridan was a "one time Motherwell favourite" exactly, John!

Nope.

Nobody, but there's always the 'contract terminated by mutual content' route. I give it about a month before Craigy Broon tries that approach.

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 !!