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get him to sign an extension to his contract. It's pointless us putting a value on him, as the club will punt him at the first offer. Given the amount of time he's been at the club, could be 10-12 years, i would hope we are more than suitably compensated for his developement. say £50k - £100k for each year aint unreasonable.

why is he (bonnar) even there. In anycase why listen to the sportsound old firm love in.

when they said having a go, was it a square go??

i think our problem with the old firm, is that we do change tactics. Keep the same shape, and play the same way.

either that our they are all lying down in a dark corner

we aint good enough to sit back and hope for a nil nil. lets just go for it.

brilliant result against our bogey team. We cant afford to start slowly against celtic tho.

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so what did we do with the £500k?

romanov might be more interested now, and let jambos play kello in goal.

Does anyone think we should offer an extension to Murphy's contract? He comes accross as someone who would rather stay amongst his friends, family, and play regular football at club where is happy. Remember he is still a young guy, and staying with us for another couple of years, still ensures a bigger move, assuming he wants it and he starts to perform consistantly. Perhaps if Murphy actually had more belief in his own ability, it would be a step in trying to get consistancy. I am not saying he would actually sign an extension, but if you dont ask...

yes i understand that, but do the club already not have the funds after last season to reject pathetic offers?

maybe he was being loyal and feels he can help our club to do better than last season, or maybe he was going to spend time on the bench and get paid more or less the same wage as he is currently on. either way i am happy he is staying, because when he is on form, he is our best creative player.

I know it's been said many times but are our directors already holding back monies for a rainy day? We've been reducing our squad every year to enable us to offer better terms to first team players. Thus, ensuring the wage budget more or less stays the same. Another example being the release of Steve Howarth (I know he was probably on peanuts, but was his money given to Carswell?) Our cup exploits generated alot of money that surely was not in any way budgeted for. I am sure our chief executive said when we reached the final that we would be financially secure for the next 3 years. So taking on board what i have said, why is our club prepared to sell probably one of our most talented players, and key players for peanuts (ok he has not been on the best of form, but his very presence in the team probably creates more space for others etc etc) , especially when he has 1 1/2 left on his contract. Surely, with Murphy in the team we stand a better chance of progression in the cup and europe finish this year, which again could generate more income. Over the years we all have accepted we are a selling club, but have been often angered by selling players for peanuts, when lesser players, even in lower divisions get sold for considerably more monies. The club have stated they were trying to move away from those actions, but yesterday acceptance of peanuts and add ons would say something totally different. It's all very well getting add ons, but there is no guarantee it can help the club in the future, when a higher fee just now, would be far more beneficial. Perhaps it was our club that offered Murphy to Blackpool.Would not be suprised. Whilst, i can understand there aint much money about, it again seems other clubs senior management can negotiate better deals. Our club want us to donate monies, because that is what it is, to apparently help the club out in times of difficulties. Is anyone confident they can manage our monies properly? Our club cant continue to apparently fail to generate decent transfer fee income, and expect the fans to dig deep again. Our loyal core of 4000 have been doing that for many years. Yesterdays actions i am sure has raised a few doubts about contributing amongst some of our support, especially on the back of financial mess this country is in. We appointed a director to generate more money for the club. It seems his only contribution is to ask the fans for even more money! Yes, it would be nice to ensure our club continues at it's current level, but i am sorry families come first. The club needs to lead by example and show us it efforts of raising income, without asking the fans yet again.

£250k your having a laugh. we would get more if he goes out of contract in compensation. Maybe the lad is showing abit of loyality,maybe he's happy at motherwell. Not every player, like individuals in every walk of life, want to move away from family and friends.

just because they watched him does not mean they want to sign him. Perhaps just like we do they are scouting the opposition team, prior to playing them. Given that we've slightly changed the shape of the team, it makes sense so see whats what.

i am sure if he keeps this form, he will be with us next year. The player has already said we wants to settle down and play football. Sometimes certain clubs suit certain players, and perhaps he's found his perfect match for now.

i think our club should take Celtic's approach, i.e. get some lawyer to kick their arse.

it's not very hard to find clips of games where gestures have been made. Perhaps we should be helpful to the SFA and supply such clips! Perhaps like an old firm game where passions run high!

sfa press officer criticises motherwell fc, yet the clubs are not allowed to criticise referees and if they do are punished, i.e. managers have been banned for long periods I would hope that the club go after this indiidual, especially if the process was started as a result of a complaint by a journalist!

Has Celtic been done by the compliance officer? Not as if there has not been any incidents to merit the officers attention. Lack of consistancy is bound to lead to accusations that their is a bias at work. It's time that the clubs got together and raised their concerns about officials in the scottish game. Remember these officials are making a good money, whilst dragging the game down. Given the amount of bans being issued every week by the compliance officer, what does it say about the standard of refereeing? Is it now time for the referees of each game to receive punishment for missing obvious incidents and apparently dealing with them in accordance to the rules that the compliance officer adheres to?

maybe higdon should have said it was a religous gesture, much like crossing themselves. Is there any difference between what Higdon did than someone running towards the opposing supporters with a finger to their mouth, or what brown did to Diuof. overall these actions were little more than banter and trivial. As someone said how can it be that if the referee acts the player is booked, yet if he misses a trivial matter it suddenly becomes a one match ban at least. The way the compliance officer works needs to be publicly explained. Mind you if the abusing fans had kept their traps shut, and Higdon had not responded then none of this would have happened. Overall pathetic, and sums up the direction the scottish game is going. The compliance officers punishments are as random and inconsistant as the referees performances. with no explanation or come back. Perhaps a mass get it up you gesture prior to an old firm game, so that they all receive a ban, is in order. This might then get the matter discussed properly.

griffiths gets offered a 2 game ban.

aye, no mention of Griffiths one finger salute to hibs fans yet again and resultant ban? perhaps our clubs should question the consistancy. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4081001/Hibs-bad-boy-Leigh-fears-month-out.html#ixzz1kKe2GYiv

one other thing if a player can get banned for apparently diving which is cheating, then how come a defender who hacks someone down so stop a goal scoring opportunity and gets away with it at the time is not banned? is that also not cheating?