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Trials work both ways. It's just a like a job interview. He checked us out, we checked him out. He had other offers on the table too, and decided to go with a different one. On the flip side, it seems that a couple of guys we did sign had better financial offers available, but preferred us.

The one thing a move to England would do for Moult is to bulk him up. It did wonders for Murphy and I expect Louis would get the same benefit. I know what you mean about 1 v 1 though. Skippy is the same. It was rare to see him finish a chance like that.

Arsene Wenger reckons it takes 6 months for a new player to get up to speed in his team. Our experts in the stands expect that to happen in pre-season.

We both know the answer to that.

Robinson said he was man of the match.

Boro' paid 5 million for him. And nobody wanted him when we were touting him around.

You know Moult is weeks behind on his pre-season after his surgery?

Aye, I'm hoping prospective suitors for Moult are just waiting for him to be 100% fit. I can't see him being a Motherwell player after the window closes. Just hoping he is around long enough to score his farewell hat trick in the season opener. Sounds like a straightforward win today. 9 goals in two games and top of the group.

Suddenly he's gone from "shame he didn't fulfill his potential with us" to "he's worse than ISIS". He's moved on. So should we.

I was only being half-serious, but there are very few formations than can be described in such rigid formations unless the "3" in a 4-2-3-1 aren't allowed to run past the 75 yard point on the pitch.

Is 4-2-3-1 not just a hipster 4-4-2?

Manager's choosing players that fit their personal philosophy and tactics is hardly a new thing. Manager's being upset because a player in their team plays well, sounds like a rumour spread by either someone who is friends with the player or someone who dislikes the manager.

Two things you should never believe: 1) A manager talking about transfers 2) See 1)

The number of U20s that make the step up to the first team in any club is minimal. Given the massive intolerance fans have to mistakes even the youngsters make, I'm not surprised Scottish clubs across the board struggle to integrate them. I constantly read people on here saying they want to give youngsters a run out - until they get a run out and then it's a case of posting about how useless they are. The issues run deeper than that, though. Our entire Scottish Football model is set up for short term survival and high financial penalties for failure. I don't see that changing soon.

Thomas was around when McGhee was playing his continually-rotating-front-three with Moult, Skippy and Johnson (or Ainsworth). That was pretty much a "play where you like" approach, and he still didn't impress when he got his chance. All water under the bridge now, though. Good luck to the boy.

We were mince though. Everybody played to win against us.

Standard stuff when a player changes teams. Of course he's going to say he likes it better. I'm sure he'll find plenty of Killie games where they are playing not to lose, right enough. He won't be playing Clyde very week.

Price has just gone up (or it would if I was in charge).

Mixlr will likely be your best (or worst) option. But audio only.

Got to love the way the press reports this as "Former Celtic Midfielder". The guy has played something like 325 professional games of which exactly ONE was for Celtic.

Aye, losing Davie Hay turned out poorly for both parties. We lost an excellent manager and his job in the US never materialised.

Cheers. It's good to know I haven't lost all my faculties yet. Note to self - don't believe Wikipedia over my own memory.

You know, I could have sworn it was Steve too - but wikipedia has it listed as Stuart, so I thought my old memory was playing tricks. He was a pretty mediocre striker, but was a revelation when he stepped backward into defence and won player of the year in that position.

That was Bruce (Brucceeeee) Cleland who was a striker we signed from Albion Rovers. Chic McLelland was a defender. And Stuart McLelland was a striker we converted to a defender where he had more success.

He was also a McCall target, but he said we dropped out when Dundee Utd were able to offer twice the wages we could.