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If there's some place in particular you'd like to visit, much safer just booking it for your next holiday.

Seeing as safe-standing is off the table for now, I have put an order in for one of these:

We need a McGinn replacement too, unfortunately, given his current injury prognosis.

Raskin's a better player for Belgium that he is for Sevco. Not worth 20 mill - although transfer markets aren't always logical - but I wouldn't judge him purely on his dysfunctional employers.

Nooooooo! The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Non-negotiable 🙂

Sometimes you need to separate the art from the artist. I watched Tom Boyd lift the Scottish Cup, and everyone involved in that campaign should be a candidate. I give zero stuffs what he did after that.

I imagine Roger Hunt will be number one on Liverpool's list, although recency bias can skew that type of list. I have no idea who would be number one for us. Of players I have actually seen, Joe Wark, Wullie Pettigrew, Bobby Graham, Peter Marinello, Garry McAllister, Bobby Russell and Davie Cooper would be up there. Players I never saw like Wilson Humphries, Ian St John, Johnny Aitkenhead etc would be on the list too. Technically I did see St John and Humphries play, but it was for the "Motherwell Old Boys" against the Radio Clyde DJs at Joe Wark's testimonial.

Ian St John will be in both lists.

Very true. Brighton, who have a decent amount of success recently, just appointed a 31 year old manager, Andre Villas-Boas manged the Porto team that won the Europa League when he was 33. Kieran McKenna was 35 when he took over at Ipswich in League One and and won promotion to the EPL with them last season. I'm sure if you spend 10 minutes googling the ages of some of the other managers in Europe you'd find similar success stories.

He's an absolute dinosaur.

I very rarely hear him mentioned while others like Coyne, Pettigrew, Cooper, McAllister, Faddy, Miller etc. are often discussed.

Russell often surprisingly overlooked by Motherwell fans, but was a great player for us - and even better when he was reunited with Cooper.

Everyone's in the same boat when it comes to the window. My 10 week calculation was correct though, and that's the most important thing here 😎

Transfer window closes on 1st of September. That's about 10 weeks from now, no?

Plenty of people enjoy it, and I have no problem with that. I've always preferred a keeping the ball on the deck style, and players with a pass in them, but it would be a boring game if every team played the same way or fans all had the same tastes.

Does any team ever have a fully fit squad. With the schedules and the high intensity of the game these days there are always injuries. Even with "load balancing".

Luckily we have a new manager a few quid in the bank and 10 weeks to bring in some new players.

Would be funny if he ended up at Toulouse.

You can enjoy beating Rangers in a semi final without enjoying the style of football. Give me a JBA Celtic domination any day of the week. Much like I was glad Scotland beat Haiti, but found most of the football on display to be pretty turgid. And if I never hear the tired old "have to earn the right to play football" again, I will be a happy man. A lazy justification that football playing sides laid to rest years ago.

100% Also, from the "guys that know the game", Tommy Wright came in to save Kilmarnock and they were relegated, Stuart Kettlewell can in to save Ross County and they were relegated, Mark McGhee came in to save Dundee and they were relegated,, Terry Butcher came in to save Hibs and they were relegated etc. etc. I'm delighted we have moved away from that and taking a different kind of risk.

I'd just add that most successful teams these days play the JBA style, so they don't have to be mutually exclusive.

I don't know him to look at, but I'm assuming that's him because he was leading the introductions.

Daws, presumably - in his new Head of Football roile.

I'd have hated to see any McInnes style manager at Fir Park. We want to try and build on last season, not revert back towards Kettlewell's approach.

He's like one of those people who "works out" the twist in The Usual Suspects right at the end.