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Ruddy signed a 4 year deal with Everton at the end of the 2004/2005 season. So, if my arithmetic skills are still up to snuff, that should mean he's available on a Bosman at some stage this season. Of course, that doesn't mean he comes cheap as there would typically be some sort of signing fee going to the player himself, but I imagine it opens up more realistic possibilities. Especially if he is keen to stay.

Saw this snippet in the Times Online match report today. Hopefully we have the funds to make this a reality.

Neeskens scored in the 1974 WC Final (although it was a pen). The Dutch 74 and 78 squads were arguably the best teams never to win the World Cup.

Aye, it's been said 1000 times now, but credit to JG. He brought in the players he said he would, and they all seem to be shaping up well.

I understand the concerns about our cutting edge up front, but I think JG got his priorities right. The defence had been a bit of a bombscare and he has obviously worked to address that. With a bit of solidity at the back now we can focus a bit more on fixing the striking issues in the coming weeks.

Off the top of my head it seemed like half the Dutch World Cup squad. Krol, Neeskens, Rep (I think Haan, but that could be me misremembering). Oh, and we cuffed them 4 - 2

The Ajax team that played in a friendly had a good showing of legends (including guys like Ruud Krol), as did the Liverpool team in the Centenary game. Of course George Best played at Fir Park too, but was past his best by then.

Aye, well played boys. Not just a good result, but a good performance.

Magic. There is an upside to being a geek - and not just fast cars and hot women.

Absolutely. That clown is likely to give up a goal with any kind of shot at him. Just keep hitting them in his general direction.

It looks like that will be the case. The myp2p site is listing it, so it should be available on the usual sites at 3pm on Saturday.

I notice that the Wishaw Press also has an RSS feed for Motherwell stories. So for the non-tweeters (like myself) you can subscribe to RSS here.

So it's okay for us to 'poach' Ryan Scanlon from a smaller club like Ross County earlier in they year, but Celtic poaching a player from us is worthy of criticism?

I'm interested to see the tactics JG has come up with for this game. I wonder if he will try and keep things tight, or have a go at the central defenders that have been giving Celtic all sorts of problems recently. Hopefully, he will persist with the possession-football approach that the East Stand moaners enjoy so much

Do mid-week internationals count, or just ones on a Saturday?

So, do you mean, you had to win all of your caps while playing for Motherwell or just some of them? Because if it's just some of them, it would be Tom Boyd.

Alex McLeish with 77, would be my guess.

When I was student, during the summer I worked in the M74 services down by the Mausoleum in Strathclyde Park. Must have been 1984. A few of the 'Well players used to come in on their way back from training. I remember serving Johnny Gahagan and Alex Kennedy and not having the 1p in the till I needed to give Gahagan his proper change. He said not to worry about it and I was going to say "You might need it after the way you played last week", but I wimped out and just said "Cheers".

Knew Ian McLeod's dad, so spoke with Marshall a few times - top man, if a bit quiet. He was good mates with Bruce Cleland, and Brucie was one of the nicest and funniest guys you could meet. When I was a kid, I ran into Bobby Graham in a Hamilton supermarket (Fine Fare, I think ) It was just after he had joined Accies, and I remember being suitably impressed by his John Motson style sheepskin coat and his cigar. Classic 70's footballer look!

It's the price you pay for playing at a club like ours. You get brought in at an earlier stage in your career when you are a teenager and if you aren't a regular by the time you are 20, people are branding you a failure Take a look at the Scotland U21 team today and see how many are regular first-team starters in the league.

Maybe that's not considered "making it up" in media circles, but to create a quote beforehand for a story where none existed and then have it confirmed by the victim with a yes/no is pretty close to fabrication.

They do create their own quotes though, by asking leading questions that only require a yes/no answer. The editors send out the journos with a brief to get a specific angle on a story. In the Rancid's case - make sure to include the OF wherever possible. "So, Mr. Gaag, at some time in the future, would you like to win a satellite on Pokerstars and take on the WSOP main event?" "Aye, that would be nice". GAAG SAYS HE'S READY TO QUIT DOMESTIC GAME FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Like I posted earlier, it's most unlikely he actually said he wanted to move to the OF etc. The journos ask targetted questions such as "So, after 6 months, would you be interested in a move to Rangers, Celtic or even the EPL?". All the guy needs to say is "Yes", and then it is reported as a full quote along the lines of "I would be interested in a mover ot Rangers, Celtic or even the EPL" says Motherwell's Yass. It's just another reason why you shouldn't believe what you read in the papers - even if it's an attributed quote. Don't get sucked in by the tabloids scuzzy reporting.

See, we're back to this Martin Rose thing again. I still don't get why everybody who hated him didn't just vote him off the Trust. An EGM or similar would have taken care of that. It sounds like a case of people preferring to moan than actually do something about it. On the share front, it's nothing to do with number of members. If the Trust wants shares they have to buy them in sufficient numbers to get appropriate representation. However, if its a well run Trust, they can have influence over the board without voting rights.

Indeed. Or, knowing our OF obsessed press, he could well have been asked a leading question such as, "Would you like to move on to Rangers or Celtic, or maybe even an EPL club when your loan deal expires?" and he answered "Oui". That then becomes a quote.