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Could certainly be doing with him in the team tonight.

Perhaps, if they knew about it three weeks ago

BBC still haven't noticed that Penney wasn't interviewed at all, then: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11781_6622138,00.html

All appointments are "potentially disastrous". They're also "potentially brilliant" and "potentially mediocre". Downsides would certainly be that he'd be referred to as "former Rangers legend Stuart McCall" as often as "Motherwell manager Stuart McCall" in certain sections of the press, and it would give more ammo to the "h**s without a bus fare" sleverers.

First impressions good, notice the registration page falls into the rookie trap of requiring a postcode though -- not all countries (including the one I'm living in) use postcodes

It was always a nightmare to find anything other than the few stories linked from the front page -- too many long menus with inconsistent levels of detail, and no search box, so hopefully that's been fixed. And hopefully it has proper RSS feeds now so I don't need to maintain my own

Had he kept his mouth shut, we might have had a chance, but the club probably think there's no point when he's already admitted doing what he was sent off for and apologised to the ref for doing it.

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/de...ll-red-card-bet :

Mediocre seasons are part and parcel of being a 'Well fan... just makes the good ones even better. We had plenty of them under Tommy McLean too, and that was the most "stable" period of our recent history. The only thing that would worry me would be the prospect of relegation, and I'd say there's next to no danger of that this year.

And, for all we know, might have unleashed a string of expletives at him as well, which is technically a red card offence.

My original thought too, but this guy wasn't Brown's agent, and Brown did say (albeit later, IIRC) that "an agent approached him". All semantics I know, but at least he doesn't seem to have been actually fibbing about that, even if he was being economical with the truth.

http://www.express.co.uk/football/view/217...reak-any-rules-

Sums it up for me, game came at a bad time for all sorts of reasons. Long layoff, no manager, opposition on a roll, poor crowd/atmosphere due to cold evening and TV coverage. The diddy referee was the icing on the cake, but can't really blame him for most of what was wrong last night.

Half time. Improvement required...

1-1 Lasley !!

Arse, 1-0 Hearts, defensive mess. Reynolds OG off Randolph.

Woeful = "traurig; bedauerlich; beklagenswert; elend {adj}" => Woefully small crowd == terribly/pitifully/dreadfully small crowd...

http://www.viasattv.info/2010/11/ch-1.html also working well.

Who was asking him to do "any more"? Most of us were pretty happy with what he was doing already.

I see he's just re-instated Leighton as goalkeeping coach...

That may have been the verbal agreement that had been reached at the time, way back in February. But unfortunately we have no idea what subsequent verbal agreements may have reached that might supercede that one.

Because I'm a Motherwell fan, and I couldn't care less about Barcelona. And it's far from free to watch all that football on the telly, either, unless you like watching the fuzzy illegal version on your laptop

Think that was just the most convenient excuse to get rid of JG, to be honest. If the stories floating around at the time were halfway accurate, there was more to it than that.

Craigan was unbelievably cagey when he was asked if he would consider becoming the assistant to the new boss. My guess is this either means he wouldn't want to do it in a million years, or he already knows something-- maybe he's even been earmarked by Boyle to do a Leitch-esque "work with whoever comes in". (But given that he never wanted to be captain, either, I'd be more inclined to think the former.)

Not unusual to be honest, you usually get managers from all over the place applying when a job becomes vacant.