Wellfan1984

Spot on. If we had a Clarky or Juke playing we'd be demolishing teams. Higdon plus one of them (or both?) would be a very scary partnership for any SPL defence That makes our strikeforce looking even better. The fact we only need one chance to one goal

If Law is fit and everyother midfielder is fit that played against Celtic - I hope so. As for Hughes staying beyond the 3 January - the wee article in the Metro today made it sound more like we offered him the short-term deal to prove to us he was worthy of a full contract - so unless he does shit or does better than even he could dream off I'd expect him to stay till the summer at least..

Two totally different midfielders. But as Forbes is closer to the type of midfielder Hughes is, then it likely he will miss out. I see (and has been used a couple of times) Carswell as Jennings sub

You are correct. All were picked and played in Scotland's 1995 Kirin Cup "campaign". Brian Martin and Paul Lambert both played in both matches. While McKinnon played in the Japan game. McKinnon received all his three caps as a Motherwell player

3 goals in 3 games for their Under 21's too (according to the Official Estonian FA site).

I guess there is as much chance of Randolph playing as Samson playing for Scotland on Friday. Unless Given has picked up a knock, he'll make the bench at best. He's still young, and it is good he is finally getting recognition - and from one of the best managers in the game too.

Good news is, Aberdeen seen to play a little more adventurous at home. 4-0 Motherwell. Higdon x2, Lasley and Hutch with the goals.

What game was Las sent off in? The new crime count and suspension is much better than the old point system though

There were no two footed challenges nor over the top. There were what you would call professional fouls that should have seen yellow cards shown that didn't though.

Hooper is never in front of the ball when Stokes plays the ball.

Actually it is no an offence to be in an offside position like this. At the point of McCourt playing the ball to Stokes, Hooper was not offside as he was not/did not... 1. interfering with play 2. interfering with an opponent 3. gaining an advantage of being in that position The fact is, when Stokes received the ball he was not officially interfering with play - when he received the ball from Stokes, he was behind the ball - hence being onside. Sadly, I firmly believe he gained an advantage and he did, but in the Laws of the Game he did not (set out by the Home Nations and FIFA). As the ball from Stokes was a different phase than the ball from McCourt.

Why would it be cut off? And why would the referee not give it?

Other way around mate. We committed 20, and them 8. I think Las and Jennings committed 8 fouls between them in the first 25 minutes! The referee was very kind to us yesterday - especially the two named midfielders.

Thankfully the referee kept his cards in when he should have, as Lasley and Jennings would have spent sometime in the changing room (at least the whole second half). We got huge benefits from the referee today.

TBF that sums up the match. Although I'd add in Samaras and the boy Matthews too.

So Hammell is currently 140 appearances behind. With Motherwell playing a minimum of 40 games a season (38 League 1 League Cup and a Scottish Cup tie) it is managable for Hammell to reach that figure. If he plays every game from now for the next 3 seasons he should do it.... Excellent stuff.

Excellent post. In fact, just used the stupid green + thing for the first time on it.

Vadocz is a quality player. Get him in and we have a player that has scored at the Bernabau in our team. Good sources say he'd cost £2.7m though - although possible to loan for £1m

Great thing to go along with that is, he could easily make 500. You think he has the rest of this season, which will make him 30 - and all things going for him still a few seasons left in him yet.

Compare the Motherwell highlights this weekend. If you didn't know that the Inverness boy wasn't sent off for the challenge on Hammell, you might have thought he was going to be from the online highlights, but the Sportscene one left you in no question it was a yellow only. Not sure why they change the commentator or why they change the style either.

Glad to see I'm not the only one that can't stand MotD. Alan Shearer makes a fair few of our most idiotic special guests look like the be all and end all of football punditry.

As cambo says. We get 2 CL places, one for each pot (Champions and Non-Champions) Also the Cup Winner is the highest of the Europa League places, so will be Play-Off Round. With Third next and 4th in the 2nd Qual Round. The only time this will change if the Cup Runner Up/6th in the League takes the 5th spot - this way they all move up one place.

We get the following: 2 Champions League Spots. A Champions Route playoff place and a Non-Champions Route. 3 Europa League places - Scottish Cup winners get playoff, 3rd gets 3rd Quals Round and 4th gets 2nd Quals Round. Rangers if in Administration on 31 March 2012 WILL NOT be in Europe next season, with the next best place to them taking whatever position they would have taken - point reduction or not.

The same number that Hamilton reached last season when relegated...

Champions League Quals here we come