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Your pre-season pessimism training is going well I see, Melvin.

Win 2 Europa ties. One good cup run to a semi. Challenge for top 6. Motherwell TV up and running most weeks. Anything else is gravy.

See, for me, asking for a transfer at the end of your contract is much less damaging to the club than being convicted for beating a man unconscious and breaking his jaw. Yet many people are less upset about the actions of our ex-club captain than they are about a wee boy that wanted to go and play for his favourite team. If his favourite team had been Raith Rovers, I doubt there would have been as much fuss. Ill-advised? Of course. But who knows what stories and ideas agents and family were filling his head with.

Nah, just a reminder that it wasn't too long ago (when they were being relegated) that Man U would have bitten your hand off for a Euro qualifier.

For an 8 year old, aye.

Aye, all these superb passers of a ball need to be eliminated from the game ASAP. They're ruining it for the cloggers.

David Beckham made a decent career out of not being able to get past anyone, but delivering good crosses.

That is pure speculation - you have no idea which games I attended last season, but regardless.. ... that was exactly my point. Judging any player in a shite game against St Mirren is pointless. We haven't turned in many decent performances against that shower in the last few seasons.

I think it would take more than one game against St. Mirren to judge.

To be fair, though, in that first leg we had a whole bunch of new players playing a new system under a new manager. At least this time around we have a fairly settled team using familiar tactics.

Lies. Because you are obviously 12 years old.

If you added showing your belly to your patter you could be the new James Cordon.

If we ground shared with Accies we might be able to charge 7 quid too.

I'm guessing we have picked up exclusive sponsorship from a major broadcaster. Motherwell TV.

Our big disadvantage is lack of match fitness (although I'm sure the team is physically fit). Our big advantage is that Broon and Knox have years of experience planning for International and European ties at the highest level. Something Gannon did not. Overall, I think we will take a big enough lead from Fir Park to carry us through the the next round.

Makes Ice Rink look like Oscar Wilde.

Neither could Johnny Gahagan. It was only the bye-line that sometimes gave him a clue when to stop running.

I also imagine that the players won't be getting stuck in too much in case they pick up an injury before their first competitive game.

Until he is signed by Accies and scores against us (and only us) for the rest of his short career.

They have Man City over a barrel too. The wealthy investors behind that club aren't running it as a hobby. They want to make a profit too, and the major source of that is based around TV coverage.

Err, aye - that's why I came up with 19 points in 13 games in my calculation and not 39 points. I even showed my working.

Sounds good to me. If he plays 39 games in a season (to keep the maths simple) that means he changes the outcome of 13 games. If even 6 of those are changing draws to wins and the other 7 are losses to draws, that is a gain of 19 points. Even using those conservative figures, a player that can contribute an extra 19 points seems like worth a punt.

Is that a new sandwich offering?

I said it this time last year and I'll say it again. It's the team we have in place when the SPL kicks off that will define our season, not the team we have in place when the Europa Cup kicks off.

That makes sense. Didn't he want to be near his family in Cambridge? That's not too far away.