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GA said last year he's not worried about teams passing it around in areas where it doesn't hurt us. And Dundee certainly fell into that category. Having said that, we were a pretty makeshift team ourselves at the weekend,so I'm not reading too much into it other than "good result".

Wouldn't make my top 5 of worst Motherwell keepers. (Although to be fair, John Gardiner is in there 3 times).

That page also says "This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items" - although I can't think of any that would fit the bill. Unless there was ever someone like Richard Gough who had Swedish credentials.

I think GA has an idea, but with so many new players, injuries, illnesses, unfit personnel it's been difficult to put it in action. I doubt today's starting lineup is his first choice. The positive is that we've been picking up points while we try and put it together. Arguably, our best performance was the game we lost. Fitba' eh?

Jim Leighton made a successful career out of never coming for a cross. He just let Big Eck or Rougvie take care of them.

10 men. Clean sheet. 3 points. Room for improvement. OK.

A False 9 means a player that sits somewhere between a traditional centre forward and the playmaker at 10. There's no truth to the rumour that it's more recently become shorthand for Curtis Main.

I'd be interested to see Watt playing a False 9 and getting our width from the wing backs.

3 - 1 to us.

The black ash one in Hillhouse was more forgiving than the red ash - I still have the scar on my left knee from my first attempt at a red-ash-sliding-tackle.

If he nags the players as much off the pitch as he does on it, he could do OK.

The lack of money means we can't sign world class players - so that seems about right. Although our 2 capped Scotland players and our Ugandan international draw the same amount of abuse and complaints, so it doesn't seem to matter what level of player we sign.

Woods made 143 league appearances for us. It's possible that he fooled every manager that he played for into thinking could play, and that we couldn't find a replacement for him during all that time. It's more likely, however, that he was regarded as good enough by professionals whose job was dependent on results.

Was thinking the same. I can't see us standing in the way of a player getting an international cap, so let him make his own decision and make sure all the protocols are followed. Amd with all due respect to Bevis, he's not as important to us as Salah is to Liverpool.

I'm sure the guys at the CERN supercollider were happy to stop their supercomputer physics calculations to work on the Premiership algorithm for the bookies.

It's just a different skill set. Lots of naturally gifted players couldn't even tell you how they do something, whereas a good coach can break it down and figure what you need to change and how to change it. Or, how to make the most of what you have.

Spiderpig gave a few good football examples - and others off the top of my head: Butch Harmon (one tour win in a satellite event) was Tiger Woods coach when he was at his peak. Bill Belichick's height of American Football playing achievement was playing for Wesleyan University just down the road from here. Glen Mills wasn't even good enough to compete at High School athletics so gave up and became a coach, eventually for Usain Bolt. Thomas Tuchel was a lower league level player before he turned to coaching.

Most top coaches in any sport were average pros at best.

Curtis Main doesn't score even when he scores.

Not sure why a professional football player being switched on in the right place at the right time is "dumb luck". That's literally what they train to do. It was Gary Lineker that said "It's not about being in the right place at the right time. It's about being in the right place all the time".

While I understand the attraction of the EPL and signing for your boyhood heroes - not to mention the large sums of cash involved - I still wonder if guys like Gillespie regret not playing more games. Newcastle have a goalkeeping issue right now with their number one and number two out injured, and I see Gillespie made it to the bench today as number four. I guess keepers are more used to sitting on the bench, but going from first team regular to fourth choice non-starter must be tough.

Not surprised.

Hope someone had a punt on Grimmy as scorer today.

Commentator mentioned Maguire and Donnelly both injured (likely short term) which certainly explains Mugabi's new role.