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Of all the myths surrounding our club, this is one of my favourites. Ojamaa, Higdon, Sutton, Vigurs, Lawson, Reid, Ainsworth, Josh Law, Twardzik, McFadden, Anier, Neilsen (off the top of my head) make this sound ridiculous.

I'd wait for the annual audit of accounts before assuming Utd. have paid off their debts. They have had other supposedly big money transfers in the past that haven't put them any place near that.

If that's what he expects, it's not bollocks - just different from your expectations.

I agree McCall isn't exactly Gannon-esque when it comes to youngsters, but guys like Moore, Carswell and Leitch aren't exactly old timers. And Hutchy was the ripe old age of 23 when he left.

As long as we keep Las away from the penatly box, we'll be in with a shout.

Not that I'm happy with our recent Cup performances, but if big teams in the EPL struggle with squad size and rotation to stay competitive in European, League and 2 Cup competitions, then we really have no chance. We play a style that generally works well over 38 games, but can be exploited in a one-off. Changing style just for Cup games is unlikely to work, so if we are to succeed in that area we might need to change our entire approach (and, I imagine would basically mean being more defensive). That is a high risk strategy given the potential downside of less league wins and still getting papped out the cups. Striking the balance between league and Cups is never going to be easy given our financial constraints, but I'd rather see league success than Cup success in the long term.

Starting point for me, as always, is avoid relegation. Our league position the last couple of seasons has been impressive and, given the amounts our closest rivals have been spending in recent years, to be in the mix at the top end again would be quite an achievement. A decent run in one of the cups would be very welcome. Would also love to see guys like Erwin, Thomas etc. establish themselves as first team regulars.

Youtube can geolocate (which is why I can see SPFL highlights earlier) and they support live streaming, so in theory live video should still be possible. The idea of making access free to all sounds like a good idea - as long as I get the refund for this season's subscription.

Why? It's competitive games we need. They are as well playing shirts vs skins as strolling around Morecambe in a friendly and using 10 subs.

That's just Confirmation Bias at work. You don't even need to look that far back to see a counter-example. We had to win our last 3 games to finish 2nd, and we took 9 points.

We have the same playing budget as last year and Faddy and Hutch (both higher earners I presume) have moved on. Why won't we be making any more signings? And if we do, do we get to point the finger at people on here jumping to conclusions?

McCall was talking about bringing in players on loan a few weeks ago. I doubt that will have changed given that his budget is the same this year and we have already cut a couple of high earners. However, assuming our loanees are from down south, we need to wait until the English clubs have finalised their squads.

The deal is if we win a Cup this year we can play crap elsewhere and finish in the bottom 6, right? So on track for that

Seems like a dodgy one according to MFC Twitter. Icelandic boy kicked Lasley's leg from behind and fell over. Regardless - need to start converting a few chances and we'll be fine.

I use the Dolphin browser on my Android. If you are running Kit Kat, you need to install a custom version of flash. Lots of info on how-to if you google it.

I'd stick to Photon or Skyfire etc. for now. It's non-trivial to jailbreak your device and install xbmc. You don't want it bricked 10 minutes before kick off.

Aye, for non-jail broken iPad/iPhones I have used the Photon browser. I know lots of folks use skyfire too, but you'll need something along those lines.

Aye, I know what you mean. I'm a subscriber too, but only see the updates via (free) MFC Twitter.

Does something like YouProxyTube.com work for you?

If they do defend deep, then hopefully our ball players like Vigurs and Law, coupled with ZFA and Ainsworth out wide, will be able to crack them open. Be interesting to see how both teams react if we get the first goal.

I guess nobody is in place yet (as 'Flow is still conducting the interviews), but all the pre-season and Europa highlights, interviews etc. are available on Official Motherwell FC youtube channel.

Because he had been with us long enough to know how many sensitive wee petals we have in the East Stand? Football would be pretty boring if you had to censor your goal celebrations against any club you had a connection with.

Pure speculation from both of us, but I found his contribution underwhleming last season and not worth his top earner status. If we had paid someone else less money that could have played 30 games, I think we would still have finished second. Two seasons ago, he was definitely worth it.

Unfortunately, he wasn't worth it last season.

Not ideal, but not as bad as when we used to sell our best players directly to the OF. Having said that, the worst I remember is seeing Wullie Pettigrew line up against us.