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To miss it, I'd need some notion of what it actually is.

Maybe Rangers have a clause that says we're allowed to field McHugh against them, but he's not allowed to play well.

What Ashley did to wind up Rangers with forced loan deals was dodgy, but he had the power and the privilege to do that (and it wasn't illegal). That has nothing to do with Bigi's contract with Motherwell. We'd be just was well invoking our right to play Ross County's U20s in midweek.

I wasn't aiming my scorn at you. It just makes zero sense even for a conspiracy theory. The premise it that: A player was signed to Coventry City, then Newcastle Utd and then Coventry City. His deal with Coventry City came to an end. He was signed by Motherwell. The contract he signed states that a team he was loaned to (and never played for) while he was under contract to Newcastle, managed to implement a clause that states for the rest of his professional career, he cannot playa against Rangers. The club he currently plays for, not only fails to mention that clause, they lie about the reason he didn't play. The player is quite happy to adhere to a clause inserted by a team he was never contracted to, and is almost certainly an illegal restriction of trade under UK and EU law. It would be certainly be explosive. Bigger than Bosman.

I never believe any secret squirrel stories I read on here unless there are direct quotes. Everything else is just internet conspiracy BS.

What I was trying to say, but you were much more succinct!

Crazy talk.

Standard Rangers fare. They could field their U16s, and we'd find a way to lose.

Not completely surprised by the performance so far. For all the new guys, this is a big step up in quality of opposition. Hopefully, will settle down a bit in the second half.

Glad to see we're sticking to the old script. Give up soft early goal? Check.

Glad he's found a team he actually wants to play for. Hopefully he keeps it up and gets us a nice sell on fee. Although "final ball let him down" has been his weak point for a few years.

If any team that is worried about someone's weight is unable to help that player add weight, they need to fire their fitness team.

He should certainly be scoring for fun in that Division. He'll probably hit some form, be snapped up by their Ayrshire rivals to re-join his old U20s striking partner, Erwin, at Killie and be personally responsible for aneurisms of at least 3 posters on here.

Aye, The Saint was a great player, but just a bit before my time. He played in the same Liverpool team as Bobby Graham (although was responsible for keeping him out of the starters most weeks), and was responsible for bringing him to Fir Park. So that's another reason to like him.

That's the problem with trying to pick "best". Players benefit from the style, personnel and tactics of the team they played in. Higdon was at his most effective for us, and a terrific player. I'd probably end up choosing Bobby Graham/Willie Pettigrew as the best ever partnership in my time. Even though Tommy Coyne and Dougie Arnott were in a more successful team - but, then again, neither partnership won the Cup for us. The easiest one to choose is Joe Wark.

I agree with what you say from a tactical perspective. However, against Rangers, we have tried that approach over the last, what, 20 years(?) and not won a single league game. It's the exception, I know, but if we had just gone toe to toe with them over the same period, I suspect we would have won maybe a couple. There needs to be a middle ground, and I'm grateful Robinson's press conference talked about simply trying to win the game rather than the endless years of "We need to be at our best and hope they are not" patter from a series of managers. It is going to be interesting with two teams lining up with many new players. Regardless of the result, I don't think either of us will know where we really stand for a couple of months yet.

Isn't that just for domestic English transfers? Doesn't mention cross border.

Robinson said in his pre-match presser this morning he thinks he needs one more defender and one more striker. We certainly don't want a repeat of last season when we were forced to play Cadden and McHugh back there.

Plus we've had the "nothing to prove" patter about Bigi.

The benchmark is what an English team were prepared to pay for a striker who wasn't as good as Moult. How the valuation was reached doesn't matter.

Complete with Raven (and explains the "cat" ears - they're bananas)

Aye, reds and blacks aren't even money chances.

Why is he wearing a mask?

Moult's better than Erwin was when he sold him to Leeds, so that's a decent benchmark to work out a value.

Or David Ferguson playing in the last Killie game at Fir Park.