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No murmurs at all, but since the club media are in lockdown, not surprising. I'd tend to agree that it'll be later next week or beyond when we see movement, purely on speculation that we need loans from English clubs that have yet to decide who is available not sure about the negative , as any other' may step in and contribute. McFaddens contribution is clearly underrated by some Ojamma, Anier and others highly praised, for similar contributions, yet James was a failure according to them. sure he was injured, pre-season, in a very open interview explained he basically lied to himself about the extent of that, but when he recovered, he was a great asset when used. and since, we are shit? and only team spirit got us second place, I dont see how anyone can readily write off his obvious contribution to that. I dont know the financials surrounding it, I know McCall didnt value him, I dont feel the need to write him off, I would take him back into the squad immediately given the option, I'd sit him down to watch videos of Cooper, over and over again, he has the same skills, but Coop knew that he didnt need to do the running, as thats what, Boyd and O'Donnell etc were for. Faddy wasted his good by trying to do even more, that we all could see the running might not have been what it was.

post, mainly for info , for those that follow the games from far and wide Bauer Radio including, Radio Clyde appear to have cut a deal to cover matches I'd imagine Glasgows buttholes will get most coverage, but Motherwell v St Mirren is the first game to be covered in this area. I have not seen any online declaration, DAB is listed as available, EDIT: heard this morning that match coverage will likely go out on CLYDE 2, so clyde2 live player is a possible option http://radioplayer.clyde2.com/live/ slight chance it fall on http://radioplayer.clyde1.com/live/ usually is a direct copy of the Clyde one, so hopefully that gives some an option, if we are involved

just playing some real games, with a squad resembling the first team squad, normally does it well enough. a little bit of planning goes a long way.

dont worry you dont have to engage brain just bash away at your keyboard as normal, but if you even want to consider the pish you spout, go read about things and piece together some facts then come back and give yourself a score out of ten http://mfccommunitytrust.org.uk/?cat=1

Miles oot

The tweet being yesterday , that he was to sit down tomorrow so if he prepares it today we'll see it some time after

So five prep games, and we get caught out in competitive fixtures, massive effort to recover from poor advance planning and get an additional fixture arranged for today, then the entire 1st defence and 1st defensive sub are not even listed to get any game time The defence that were too soft in the competitive games I can usually find some reasoning for what goes on, but right now I'm just baffled as to what is happening

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On that issue I agree WeeYin, Prep work may? Have been enought to let us reach 3 goals in each match or hold out just a minute or two longer. But for this thread, the pre-season just hasn't been structured enough Even the claim of five games is fanciful, over how many days was that? Around ten my guess,

No, a decent wee trip to Brechin, Clyde or the likes, would not have done the squad any harm, when we have 5 or 6 kids who are lined up to sit on the bench all season are you saying the club are operating in an amateurish manner, ignoring historical results and taking success as granted? you should have been in Reykiavik, on Wednesday no where near 99% of fans or officials thought we were guaranteed to be going through as a last minute arrangement/request, Police Scotland may have had an input, Irrelevant when it should have been organised weeks/months ago very good, are buses not an option anymore? No, we started after our main two rivals and the champions and Utter bollocks about pre-season, when you look around at when clubs all over Scotland started their prep', go look back, plenty commented at the time, how lower league clubs and top six clubs alike were all back, many before ours. not really fussed on a personal level, but since the very essence of the club is to attract and retain support for it to exist as a business, it seems rather daft, that only one match was organised, to showcase this years team at low cost to punters Yip, I'll bet one or two people had to put hell off a lot of effort into getting this sorted, that worries me the most, when we have very little resource, all the hours firefighting instead of boxing clever weeks ago, will no doubt have added stress to a small team, and led to other tasks being sidelined putting income at risk. I watched my team destroy the opposition in both games for around 30 or so minutes recently, I then watched the opposition slowly but assuredly enjoy more and more possession and gain encouragement as our boys retreated, so much that they were well on top in both games beyond the 90 minutes: fitness?, lack of match time? tactics? whatever it was, we lost through lack of preparation. I can accept that, what I dont understand is the need to mask the situation?

its a shame Stuart McCall is

Boss man Stijgcky (sp?) is Stjarnen, had volunteers all around him preparing the club for the game, trusted each of them to do their job, whilst he sorted all the extra jobs UEFA throw about, even took time out to call us a taxi to get us back to the city after buying match tickets. was the one guy, I genuinely felt pleased for at fulltime.

Reading the offical blurb spin that we prepared with 5 friendlies this season, got me thinking against who? since it was announced the U20's were playing bounce games with Stenny and Albion Rovers who were these five games against? is someone trying to imply the U20s games are prep' for 1st team squad starting the season and Europe? can anyone name the squads which lined up for these 5 games?

so you believe they would be signed by Wednesday coming

I think you are being a bit of, with this, most of the team that played actually made effort to acknowledge our support at the end of the game. As uncomfortable as it was other than that, what are you wanting a refund? Social media is off limits due to quite a few idiots , who can't control themselves in our support in such circumstances

you'll be one of Gordons many chums then, youth systems very rarely deliver in less than one year, there would be a huge element of luck in that. Ive not had the spin from either party on his departure, but looking back over his time, he was not exactly a roaring success was he? now the managers, over the period , were not exactly known for bringing youth on, but equally very little of his boys have actually progressed beyond divison one football.

some of the team are the fittest/healthiest Ive seen them on return from summer break Competitive games are not available for preparation, only friendlies/bounce games and they become as competitive as the effort put in, some desire and competition for places would help in that department. McCall seems to prefer them having a longer summer break and do fitness work, his choice. it has never worked , in the sense that the first part of the season we have had some shockers, that often has the reactionist element on here, launching virtual season tickets away, it could be argued that his method has paid off over the longer season, which would be fair discussion. but, Financially, Motherwell football club, need cup games, these Euro games should have been treated as such, you would think after the Rovers cup game , that nothing would have been taken for granted.

not quite sure why you want a charter travellers perspective, over anyone else but, It was great trip, this season we even started out with first team players and striking options, hell, we even got goals to celebrate, and I've not noticed anyone commenting on all the other near misses that had us off our feet. so in both games we had enough chances to easily be into double figures aggregate. and despite the fact players look healthier than the last couple of summers, it was once again clear that the simply have not been playing together enough to be ready But, in saying that, imho, the ties were lost by, switching from a sluggish but reasonably well balanced team with attacking options to whatever the fek the setup was after the same double sub in each tie. it was a horrendous decision last Thursday, to make it again was insanity by definition. PS Stjarnen in their current form and with the mentality they have, of not surrendering to anyone, would romp any of our lower divisions, hell they probably sneak a top six. edit: actally no but they would take enough points in the SPFL to embarass past teams like Hamilton Falkirk, Dundee etc but for what is was at stake, we should have been back together and playing matches, long before we were and we would have hit that double figure goal tally PS. I've no idea what your 'mrs' was saying when you listened , but if she stopped you going on the charter, she's a legend

Reid

What difference would that make, when the police u describe are all from police Scotland , and all areas are down on available resource

provide the required segregation. we have been stopped from using the tractor seats, which rules out the POD, the only other options would be losing large sections (probably two full sections) of East or Cooper. unlikely to encouraged by our forgiving fans. the fulham game, was PATG, Id guess the South was used , with respect to potential of visiting support

to prevent a UEFA sanction its rules, do you really think the club would do it, for any other reason? a club that chooses not to open it for any other low crowd event. we have a stadium registered as a certain category and as such have to comply , with rules that others do not have to, like tractor seats, sitting empty

prices will start to rise as soon as the sites detect increased traffic looking at routes, and as soon as bookings get made they'll rise more steeply. but then who would book on the basis of us going through, when the home or away legs have not been confirmed as yet?

It wasn't Devlin , think it was K McDonald?

I'd be thinking the plane will be bigger than that, what with the squad, management team, physios, doctors kit man, staff, press & media etc