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Maybe I'm biased, but I think it's a tougher call for the oldies as we have seen the level of national excitement a World Cup Finals can generate. It's tough call though because Motherwell has been the day-to-day focus of my footballing interest for many years. If I was forced to choose, I think a successful Scotland campaign might just shade it.

The entire premise of the thread was ridiculous, but it still managed to get a few bites.

That was during his second spell (after he had been trained by Rangers). First time around he was a cracking player.

Not worried yet. I expected Stranraer to get it up us in the first half - as they should. I'm optmistic we can step it up in the 2nd period and score a couple.

You are wrong. He was on a 10 match (I believe) deal in Autralia which both parties wanted to extend. However, they couldn't agree on terms, so Jeffers moved on.

If he wasn't coming cheap he'd be nowhere near Fir Park.

I said this in a different thread, but if there are a few hundred flares and smoke bombs going off, it can look quite impressive. If there are one or two going off, it just looks like a couple of weans with a banger. Definitely not cool.

So you are open to giving him time, but judging him already? After he has had a chance to bring in a few players over the summer will be the time to judge. Right now, his job is to tie up the loose ends left by Broon (and win us the Scottish Cup

The Duke had scored about 5 goals in 5 years before he joined us too.

Because, of course, the devices are being used by people with enough sense not to do anything stupid with them. I wouldn't trust half of those guys with a Swan Vesta.

Grella. The fact that it fell through doesn't negate the point that not only did he spend a considerable amount of time looking for a striker he found one willing to join the club. Something you accused him of failing to do.

Apart from signing one, you mean.

Welcome to the world of the ex-pat/exile.

He's in the huff after his rumoured 'dream move' to Rangers didn't work out

You don't need to be Platini, no. However, if you are just humping the ball up the park to the opposition it doesn't relieve the pressure on the defence and makes it less likely you will keep a clean sheet. All the great, and most of the good, teams have defenders sufficiently comfortable on the ball that they can at least find a man in space when required. It's a sad indictment on the Scottish game when the basic ability to pass a ball is not seen as a necessary skill for a player. Of course there are times when a safety-first approach is needed, but I don't remember Joe Wark (for example) having trouble finding a man when he was setting up an attack.

Not anymore. Match abandoned!

Spot on. I was happy to see Brown take the club through to the end of his first season. Was not too happy that he came back. Harsh. But true.

Which striker, for how long, and for how much?

Bit like all the loans we brought in last January.

Really? You think all our youngsters will be the finished article by the time they hit 21?

From Gordon Young's interview: "He played against St Johnstone reserves, Hearts reserves and Airdrie and did well enough for Craig and (assistant) Archie (Knox) to agree that he was a player who had something we could develop. "He's not the finished article, he may take some time before being considered for the first-team but he has a one year contract with the option of an extension.

Given his track record for delivering exactly the signings he said he'd bring in, that wouldn't have been too big a deal. It would only have mattered if we lost 10 first team players every summer - which was unlikely given that the guys that came in obviously wanted to work with him.

I don't see 150k in either of those articles you linked. All I see is 'undisclosed'. EDIT: Plus of course we don't know how much Reynolds actually went for, add-ons etc.

So it wasn't the 'big' pressure situations he couldn't handle then. It was diddy cup games? That sounds like the opposite rumour.

Yep, and the older players that think they have a God given right be in the team every week that take the huff when they are dropped for a youngster with potential (Or because they are playing like a donkey).