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I think we'll still see youngsters coming through, but you're right that a lot of the prospects will be nicked by other teams before we see them. That happens to teams much bigger than is, and isn't likely to end soon. That's why I'm in agreement with those people, like our CEO, who say the development payments need to increase. They haven't changed for a number of years while transfer prices continue to rise exponentially. The Covid seasons created a gap in development which hasn't helped, but at least we kept our academy active. Of course you can't guarantee any of the youngsters will make the step up, but if we do find any, the fact that we can offer first team football sooner still gives us some advantage. Cornelius was a Hibs youngster who didn't sign for us until he was 17 or so, so while we helped his development, he isn't really an academy product.

That's true of our entire defence. Something SK never managed to fix. I said it then, and I'll keep saying it. Regardless of what you think of an individual player, the defensive unit has been broken for a few seasons now and needs a complete rebuild. We needed to clear them all out and rebuild it from scratch. O'Donnell has his faults, but if you play him as a central defender beside a guy who has even less positional sense, you don't need to be Nostradamus to predict the outcome. I know that was pretty much our entire set of fit defenders, but even our first choices aren't exactly inspiring.

I've rated Slattery since the day he joined us. I'm happy a lot of his early detractors are seeing the light this year.

It's Kettlewell's team, we have one fit central defender and the guy SK signed to be our main striker is also crocked. There's not much blame left to assign elsewhere.

Tell me we need a completely new defence without telling me we need a completely new defence. Or just take your pick...

If I put it on my phone, will I not need a 3000 mile cord between Fir Park and the socket on my wall at home?

Fat Tony to score the winner

The most successful teams we had contained good footballers who played entertaining games, often against good sides. From my perspective, that was "best for us".

I'll gladly take on that fairly small risk (given Falkirk's footballing budget) versus multiple eye-bleeds watching Livi hoof long balls for 90 minutes.

Also applies to Jake Hastie's career choices.

Wait until you find out what year he signed for them.

I was looking at the Motherwellnet.com data

We scored 36 point in the play-off season. No point in having all these superior individuals if they can only win 10 games as a team.

It's that attitude that buys him a pass from some fans, despite his lack of basic defending skills. I get it, but I won't be disappointed if we replace him with a central defender with positional sense.

Except for "Twist and Shout"?

It was a classic case of "I enjoyed the first 45 minutes. And then we kicked off"

I take back everything I said about it being a banker for an OF player! Well done, and well deserved.

Every ground, every week, and I swear every year, in the 1980s. And at least 3 times per game at Fir Park.

Chat GPT made this a lost easier than the old days when I needed to calculate it manually. In the 12 team Scottish Premiership, our average position has been 7th. In the old, 10 team SPL, our average position was 6th. So statistically this has been a pretty average season. Wrapping up 7th spot would be a decent way to close things out.

I hope 7th was always our aim after the split. It was definitely what I was looking for. Not sure how this one will go, but a win would put a very nice gap between ourselves and the Jambos. With Koutroumbis out, we might need to go with Casey + 3 left backs as our defence.

Top class journalism from the BBC where the "reporter" obviously had trouble with Wimmer's accent. ""We spoke about this at half-time, but the second half was brilliant with certain shots on goal" He said "thirteen shots on goal" ya big numptie.

And at least 4 them need to be strikers.

Aye, I'm not a fan of VAR and would be happy to get rid of it, but while it's being used that was a pretty normal offside decision. He was active and interfered with Thompson, so under today's rules it was offside. No VAR and it would have been a goal. Likewise, no VAR and there would have been no sending off, but under today's rules it was a clear red. Dundee's form all season has been scoring first and losing late goals, so it was smart of us to go at them towards the end even with our 10 men. And still on course for 5 wins out of 5 post-split.

I liked GA as a person, enjoyed listening to him talk about the game, and happy he is doing well. I'm glad, however, we're not still watching the brand of football that led to his demise.

Puts him in good company back there. One of my frustrations in the modern game is coaches don't seem to care that full backs can't defend as long as they can get forward and cross a ball. But another excellent result.