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Being born pedantic does not make one a paedo.

Is watching it not 'remotely attractive'?

I know what you mean - he does have some vic-ish qualities.

Which goes back to my earlier argument against the posters who were saying "We don't care if the football is crap to watch, as long as we win". It's possible to play decent football and win; you don't have to choose one over the other.

Opening and closing paragraphs from Scotland On Sunday give a nice summary.

The fact is we lost to Hibs at home, lost to Celtic at home, lost to Odense (twice - once at home), drew with Aberdeen at home. There's not a lot of 'winning games' in that list. Again, it's ok to win playing good football, and we have the players to do it. I don't see many that would outclass us if the players we have keep it on the deck. What was the point of signing a player like Gow if all we want to do is lump long balls up the park?

You do realise that playing good football and winning games aren't mutually exclusive?

Regardless of whether it was strong or not, it's no reason for not keeping it on the deck.

Could have been any Scotland manager in my lifetime. As mentioned on other threads, Joe Wark suffered the same fate for many years.

A couple of weeks ago, Brown said he was wary of overplaying Murphy with all the Euro and U-21 matches he was involved with, and wanted to give him a break. I presume he sees tonight as a chance to rest him - especially as we're not short of options up front.

No thanks. I don't expect us to win the league any time soon, so if there isn't any entertainment on offer, what's the point?

Poor attempt. At least put a wee bit of effort in.

That's the real problem, though. 10,000 Ultras + 50 flares = atmosphere. 5 kids + a packet of bangers = a bunch of weans with bangers.

From today's Scotland on Sunday. If the latest harebrained scheme from the SFA is enforced, Fir Park would need to be made level.

Nah, they even changed that rule to make sure Driver got in. It started off as 5 years in schools, but when they discovered that he had spent less that 5 years there, they changed it to "in the Scottish education system", so some cookery classes that Driver took at night school, or whatever, when he was a player at Hearts suddenly made him eligible.

That wasn't my point. I was responding to your comment that if he was international class, why did Swansea only offer 200k. The answer is because they thought they could get him on the cheap - a bit like Accies with their offer for Murphy last year, or Rangers when they tried to get Skippy on the cheap. Motherwell obviously rate Reynolds higher than that (maybe even international class) so won't sell him cut price.

Surely, if he wasn't international class, we would have accepted it.

By a country mile. "Scandalous" is an overused word these days, but it was absolutely scandalous that he never won a cap.

But from a season ticket perspective, don't Man U make you buy tickets for all the diddy League Cup games and the like, even if you don't plan to attend?

You might like good football, and I certainly do, but I have been at Fir Park often enough to hear a fairly substantial portion of the crowd scream at guys like Gary McAllister and Brian McLair for not running fast enough and not tackling hard enough. Any skilful player we field will attract a thread on here 5 mins after kick-off about how lazy/slow/blowing-out-their-arse they are. It's not everybody that does this, but if it's a minority it's a fairly substantial one. McGhee was taking pelters during his second season for lack of Plan B and tactical naivety.

That doesn't endear you to the substantial number of 'Well (and Scottish) fans who favour the 'in aboot them' style of play and turn beetroot at the very thought of making consecutive numbers of passes in the double digit range.

No pelters from me. While I'm generally not in favour of Directors of Football or whatever, I think Gannon at the helm with a Craig Brown figure to advise along the way, might have worked out well for us. (If Gannon's ego didn't get in the way). I said at the time Brown was appointed that I thought it was an excellent short term idea, but wasn't convinced it was ideal for the longer term. It's still early days in this season's SPL, so I'm still pretty open minded about it. Open minded, but not yet convinced.

Aye, I had a tour courtesy of Russell and he took good care of us.

The day we start playing like Hearts is the day I stop watching.

Motherwell fans (and neutrals) did not have a 'duty' to do anything. They were paying customers, not conscripted squaddies. The Main Stand as always been where the less vocal members of the crowd sit, wrap their tartan rugs round their knees and drink soup from their Thermos flasks. They pay their hard earned like anyone else, and if they want to spend the game nattering about Charlie Aitken, then that is their right. Alienating any fans because they don't conform to a particular way of thinking is a shortsighted view for a club of our size to endorse.