Al B
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That's still not true, though, for the reasons I posted earlier.
Even if exactly the same events occured in every game for every team, as soon as you have a human making decisions you are adding a bias. Unless that human chooses between pen/no pen, goal/no goal etc. exactly 50/50.
So until every game for every team contains exactly the same set of events and the ref consistently makes yes/no decisions exactly 50/50, some teams will benefit more than others.
At no point have I mentioned other teams or other anything. All i'm saying that "things even themselves out over a season" doesn't relate to a "one-for-one" scenario. It just seemed that some people were waiting on us getting a penalty that shouldn't have been, because we were on the sore end of that scenario (for example), when it doesn't work like that. It can be evened out by something that's got nothing to do with a penalty.
Much in the same sense that if you lose a £10 note in the street, it doesn't mean that at some point you are due to find a £10 note in the street. If you then win a tenners worth of petrol in a Tesco competition you can't still feel that things haven't evened themselves out just because you didn't find a tenner in the street.
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So do you think that we get the same amount of luck as Celtic over the course of a season then ?
That's not what it means either. It means your own positives and negatives will balance themselves out over a long enough period of time. For example, in one game we might have a goal disallowed when it crossed the line, but in another game 4 months later we might score from a corner that should have been a goal kick.
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There surely aren't people who think that "things even them out over the season" relates to a one-for-one basis, are there? It doesn't mean if you get a dodgy penalty awarded against you, then you are due one for you. It just relates to your overall luck evening out.
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It would be nice to see a decent away kit next season, the last two have been pretty strange colour wise.
The current away top is my favourite one ever.
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I'm half intending on becoming a broken record with this, but I still believe McHugh and Kipre are playing in each others positions.
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My goal is pretty much the same every season. I look for us to win more games than we lose, and score more goals than we concede. Over the years I've found that if you hit those two you've had a good season, and it's a good base to begin from to have a great one.
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Curtis Main's problem isn't that the ref's are continually giving fouls against him, it's that 80% of them are actually stupid, niggly wee fouls that he's trying to get away with. He's an absolute unit of a boy so he'd have much more success in actually contesting every 50/50 ball, as opposed to an arm across here, a dunt in the back there...
Reminds me of Scott McDonald in some ways, in that his main goal was often to try and win fouls at the edge of the box as opposed to taking advantage of already actually having the ball in a good position. The amount of positions for potential on-target shots he passed up in favour of trying to win a foul that we either didn't get or put into the stand was frightening.
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Kipre absolutely strolled it. Caught too high up the park for Hibs' second but in fairness, someone's got to look like they want to go forward.
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I'd be increasingly tempted to start training Kipre into the McHugh role when Hartley is fit enough to play. He's a great centre half but he's also got tools we aren't using, whilst trying to find them in other players that don't.
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I would move Rose back to right wing back. Tait on the left.
Back 3 of Kipre, Aldred and Dunne.
Central 2 of McHugh and Campbell.
Tanner in behind Ciftci and Main.
Hartley?
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Also a big fan of Jake Taylor marking himself out of a game.
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I help run a boys club, and from time-to-time, we'll ask a boy to 'man mark' an opposition player...its generally the less talented boys that carry this role out
You surely must concede though, that this depends on the quality of player you're man-marking out the game? Additionally, It might well be the less-talented boys that carry it out, but someone has to carry it out and if you've got someone that's happy to do it and can do it with the desired effect of removing an opposing threat, then that's as much of an asset to the side as the "more talented" boys that can then enjoy the resultant chance to play. In my opinion of course. There's much more to it especially at professional level, than the old managers cliche of "if he goes for a pish son, I want you in the bogs next to him". Talented players can lose a marker that doesn't have the ability to do it, without too much trouble. (I'm not putting Dougie Imrie in that talented category btw....just a general point).
I like Andy Rose, and if someone's going to be asked to do that role i'd rather it was him than someone that does have attacking qualities, as we'd then be down an attacking player.
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On a related, but also unrelated note...one of the best man-marking jobs I've ever seen at our level was Jonny Page on Merouane Zemmama against Hibs at a time when Zemmama was bossing games. I genuinely don't think he touched the ball up against Page and was eventually hooked.
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He has scored literally, physically, metaphorically and actually 4 goals this season
Somewhere in the UK, Jamie Redknapp's head is exploding.
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You can look/ask for however much you like. it doesn't matter if no-one's willing to pay it. There's no way we will get anywhere near 7 figures for Chris Cadden, and that's not a slight on the guy at all, it's just not the market we're in. We'll be focusing on sell-on percentages as opposed to the fee, that's where the potential for making money is. Sacrificing a couple of hundred grand in the short term, to play the long game.
If we can't deal in big fees as part of our small pond, drop our assets into the big pond and then make sure we get a cut.
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My thoughts too. Cue the usual patronising outrage from Richard Gordon & Willie Miller that we're thwarting Caddens' development. I reckon we're looking for something like £700k + and he'll move south in the summer.
Disagree. Think it was estimated that our development fee due would be circa 650k and most seem to assume this means we'd be looking for more than that as a result. We'd be more looking at 4-500k with significant sell-on percentage in order to boost the total gain. If we take the development fee then that's our lot.
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I generally follow players that play for Motherwell because you can get wee snippets of info you dont get elsewhere- how many of the rumours on this site are attributed to Twitter, for example?
I usually unfollow players as soon as they leave us- not through any wild hatred or anything mental like that- purely because I dont need to see them posting stuff about their new clubs. I tend to continue following players I have a particular fondness for- Moult being one and Murphy being another. However, seeing Murphy post up photos of himself in Rangers strips as a kid and the gushing over all things h*n put me off him. It also made me realise that I could expect to see that sort of guff on a regular basis as he plays for them. I dont hate the guy but the memory of him playing for us has now been sullied somewhat.
I don't blame you, I unfollowed Kylie Jenner when she started going out with someone, and physically blocked her when i'd heard that she got pregnant. Boiled my blood that she'd let someone else touch her and the fact that she has meant that my thoughts of her have been sullied somewhat. Cow.
Did the same with Zayn when he left 1D and I'll always blame him for splitting them up. Defos his fault and every time he comes on the radio it gets switched off cos I hate remembering what he did. I just don't need to see the whole "oooh your new solo song is so great Zayn....when will you do a solo tour Zayn..." from all his new "fans". I bet they don't even know all the words to his verses in 1D and I don't want that stuff popping up on my feed every day.
Stick to your guns sister, don't let the grown-ups tell us how we should feel...they just don't get how hard it is being a teenager these days. PM me if u need 2 talk bbz xx
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I'd take Ciftci in a second. A great player who hasn't played well for ages....ticking that first box is the bit that's difficult, the second part is what coaching is and Louis Moult is evidence that we can get that bit right.
I think a part of our striker problem is that we've been trying to coach things into players who just don't have the raw tools. Moult is the example of where we can take a striker that does, and for me Ciftci falls into that category.
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noticed Jake Taylor
First time for everything.
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It's sad that Stevie's retiring but it's probably the right move. He was outstanding against Aberdeen in the cup so he definitely contributed at least that this season. None of us will ever see another player make 600+ appearances for the club, he is an all time great.
21 year old Cadden is our longest serving player now.
Very, very well said. It's bizarre to think how high the percentage of Motherwell fans will be, who have never known us to have a long-term regular left-back that wasn't Stevie Hammell. Unbelievable service and the best first touch i've ever seen.
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I'll never forget the two-second silence at Ibrox as his shot rasped delightfully down the knots in the net to make it 1-3 after that great counter attack.
Maybe you don't remember it as well as you think...
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This is a game that's got Craig Tanner all over it
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As much as there's been comment surrounding the issues being minimum wage staff getting underpaid, I've heard from a few Falkirk fans that their involvement in this revolves around Will Vaulks playing for digs when he first arrived at TFS.
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Nobody had a clue who Moult was when we brought him in.
All we need to do is the same again.
(This scouting lark is a doddle).
That's not true, I did. Got a text from my mate from Stoke saying "I hear you've just signed a guy I play 5's with?"
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‘Well fans who have played for the team
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Cadden and Reynolds are definites. For some reason Stevie Saunders sticks in my mind although I might be completely making that up.
As an interesting aside, there's a couple of 'Well fans who haven't played for us. Rab Douglas and Lee Miller. Big Rab has a Motherwell tattoo, and back in the first McGhee era there's a photo of Lee Miller celebrating a goal for Hearts with a "Live The Dream" wristband clearly visible. Anyone know of any others?