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That is a story I have seen mentioned on here. I have seen said-same story debunked on here. Both from people 'in-the know'.

Have you not noticed? Every other post from Kmcalpin is about how we need a midfield full of hard-tackling bruisers with good engines

Maybe we don't want to sign him permanently until we see how he shapes up. Or maybe McCall has other targets in his sights for the summer transfer window and doesn't want to tie up funds at this stage of the season.

Intuitively, that makes sense. However, there are a finite number of people who will come to a Motherwell game on any given week, and history has shown that reducing the prices doesn't necessarily attract the necessary increase in crowd to make it worthwhile. I'm all for a drop in price, btw - but realise that it is a tricky balancing act. A more even distribution of revenue would doubtless help in funding such an initiative as the reliance on gate receipts would be reduced.

Indeed. Found these figures on the web: "A holy trinity comprising match-day revenue (€424m), sponsorship receipts (€573m) and broadcast income (€594m) is the main contributor to the Bundesliga's €1.7bn turnover." Over 1 billion EUR from sponsorships and broadcast rights.

Not ever, no.

If you think the Spanish National team is the death of football, I'm not sure you're qualified to comment on a solution to our woes

Is that the truth? It sounded to me like it was certain players that didn't have the balls and went greetin' to the directors.

I doubt either of them will be playing any time soon. Maybe it was managerial weaknesses he was talking about - just a thought.

So the 2 Spanish speaking guys could understand him?

Remember it well. Wee Pat could play a bit.

Do you hate Bobby Graham for playing for Accies for 4 years and Willie Pettigrew for his 3 years at Hearts? The team Black managed aren't our rivals - they are Clydebank with different jerseys.

So it's a step up for him then. And as others have pointed out, he is an ex-Well player.

It's a fair comparison from a weather perspective which, if you believe the proponents of summer football, is going to have the fans coming out in droves to enjoy the sunshine. I don't the weather has nearly as big an impact on attendances than price and quality of product. We don't suffer the same extremes of weather as Russia, so that comparison doesn't hold up.

It's nothing to do with being negative, and everything to do with looking at other countries. For example, when Ireland switched to summer football the attendances didn't change.

From what 'Flow said, the new registration is a one step process with no email confirmation required so I expect if someone entered an email address that wasn't 100% accurate, they could still access the site.

Pure speculation on my part, but if Aberdeen were willing to pay more of Blackman's wages, he may not have even been given the option to return to Fir Park.

So ICT have a decent player - I still don't get the fear. We have a decent player too, so were eeksie peekise.

I don't get this fear of Foran. He has been there for quite some time now and we have a very respectable record against ICT (particularly on their home patch). I reckon McCall will have seen enough in the last 3 games to stick to 4-4-2, and run out a winner in this game.

Sometimes 'clever' just means balancing the books and staying out of unsustainable debt.

Don't start bringing facts into the discussion - you must be new here

141 pages of them here

Blackman was never our player, so nobody has stolen him.

I wasn't too bothered about the Porter deal as that was always going to end in pure profit for the club. Picked up him for free with the intention of selling him on for some decent cash, so the salary was a pretty shrewd investment. In general, though, I agree that it's not a good situation to rely on the chairman's deep pockets.

Because some businessmen are ploughing in cash. In the FA Cup earlier in the week, Crawley brought on a sub they had just bought for 275,000 quid. They have a five year plan to get into League 1, and there are a few other non-league teams with similar ambitions.