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I work in estates management and I can assure you Ive seen a number of contracts signed 6 months ago that have been cancelled , delayed or renegotiated during this crisis.

I realise that but i thought the financial uncertainty might have kyboshed alot of things. A few English clubs owe us quite a bit of dosh and who knows if they will have the ability to pay it when this is over.

Bit surprised given the Covid situation how quickly we've been able to get some of this business sorted. A good sign.

Hope Tait gets lined up with a club. Was a really good servant to us and a lot worse places to go than Kilmarnock. Still curious whether we offered Richard a contract or whether we merely released him. Id be surprised if we didn't offer him a contract I still think he had a usefulness to us.

The first goal was just as bad as the second, Campbell sold the Jerseys . Two goals that would shame a pub team. Once you give Celtic a two goal start they can just start taking you apart. Same old story against the OF we match them for long periods shoot ourselves in the foot end up getting horsed. Campbell , Donnelly and Polworth all simply awful tonight. We cant afford a midfield playing as weak as they did tonight and expect anything against a time like Celtic.

If my memory serves me right the fee was for both McCulloch and Steve McMillan

From Steven Robinson “His arrival will also allow us to move Mikael Ndjoli into his more natural position as a central striker, instead of playing in wide positions.”

You think 1 million quid for a 19 year old who still has a way to go is disappointing ...we sold Marvin Johnston for half that sum.

exactly James took his chance did well and could very well become a top player. The money offered frankly is ridiculous for a 19 y/o but that the way the game is and good on Motherwell for starting to get fees we could only dream off a few years ago. James at his age and development is replaceable I genuinely thought wed lose Gallagher in this window and that would have been a huge blow and very difficult to replace. Good move for all parties.

Seriously people think losing James could blow our season apart, that defies belief for me. Hes scored 3 league goals in 22 games , Im not having a go at the guy far from it I do believe he will become the real deal given a fair wind but my god youd think we were losing Messi the way some folk are going on.

Where did I suggest he wouldnt go on to bigger and better things, I think I quite clearly acknowledged he may well do. Hes a good talent nothing more at this stage in his development he may well become a fantastic player but at his stage just now he is replaceable

Frankly I cant believe some of the comments and sour faces. You'd think the loss of Scott was gonna kill our season. For fuck sake get a grip being offered £1.5 million for a guy who is very very raw and still with a lot of rough edges is too good a chance to miss. I hope James makes a success of his new role but god almighty hes not critical to us , Frankly I am more worried at the loss of Gallagher now that could derail our season. James is replaceable and frankly Robinson has more credits than debits when it comes to signings.

Lafferty would not fit the type of character Robinson would like , hes too much of a Billy Big Bollox

its a free hit a them, just get stuck in , that said I expect out usual insipid result against Rangers to continue. Plus officialdom owes them a penalty after the Aberdeen game and they can't allow them to fall to far behind Celtic at this stage

our set pieces from corners are woeful ... if the taker puts one arm up it means this will be pish, if he puts two arms up it means it will be over hit pish.

Thats not really the point I've been making but as I said earlier Im starting to bore myself with this now so will leave it as it is

never mind though next time we go there we aren't expected to win.....

i would agree but i still stand by my view defeat is easier take with the Scottish Footballing mindset. Anyway plenty will disagree with me im actually boring myself now so offer no more comment on the subject

i dont really buy into the learning curve from one game to another , no two games are the same the amount of different variables from each game are enormous. If that learning was as effective as people think Scotland wouldn't be looking at 20 years of failure on he international stage. i remember two season back we blew 7 or 8 games out of 12 the last 3 or 4 minutes ... if wed learned anything that shouldnt happen

im perfectly chilled thanks my observations as you will see in my posts are not restricted to Motherwell

I don't think for one minute Robinson or the players set out to get beat but there is no question in my mind they subconsciously realise defeat is expected and people will give them plaudits as long as they don't get pumped, so its OK. That mindset is endemic in Scottish Football so if you never really expect to win you rarely will. You hear many fans of all teams write the OF games off saying these games don't matter cos we are not expected to get anything out of them.

Im well aware of Celtics budget its the mentality of Scots that irks me , we revel in making defeat palatable. Defeat should be unpalatable and painful in competitive sports thats how winners become winners. I fully accept resources will have an impact but so does mindset and expectation. . Maybe if defeat wasnt so readily made palatable the mindset might change and just maybe we might see Scotland and Scottish teams improve their standing. Frankly once we lose I couldn't give a flying fuck about all the positives it has absolutely no bearing on the next game. Same as the bollocks that we learn from defeat, if Scottish teams and players learned from defeat we'd have one of the most well educated prepared players on the planet. If we lost or are unlucky or brave I couldnt give a flying fuck, we move on and try not to bask in defeat. Never mind how many corners we got , how many throw in we had. Fuck me Craig Brown once said his team had won the game in corners. That entire mindset sets my teeth jangling. Look at Iceland Scotland could play for a 1000 years and never achieve what a country of 300,000 did at a major tournament, that's not down to resource. Though I accept the premise resources will always be a factor but so is an accepting get you excuses in early losers mentality.

i wish the Scottish mentality was there are NO positives in defeat, our game might not be so piss poor from top to bottom if we didnt so readily console ourselves in continual defeat

no offence buddy but so what when you give away two goals to a poor performing Celtic team. It means nothing and achieved nothing. No one will look back on this game and say remember the amount of possession and long throws we had.

afraid it amount to a whole load of nothing