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4 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:
In that instance, Christie walked off the pitch injured but was then promptly sent back on to lie down to waste time as the sub wasn't ready to come on. I've never had the impression, maybe wrongly, that he's a dirty player but 4 red cards may suggest otherwise. I do however recall that he has previous for diving and that annoyed me.
That was his 1st for Celtic, but the bar for getting sent off is a good bit higher if you’re wearing a Celtic shirt.
I suppose a lot of good players have a nasty streak.
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You don’t tend to bring on a centre half unless someone is injured, so probably reasonably unlikely he’ll feature.
Will let Clarke see him up close along side Devlin and Findlay though.
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8 minutes ago, dennyc said:
Steven Saunders ....and he played.
Yeah, mentioned that one further back. He wasn’t even our 1st choice right back at the time.
That was a bit of a freak as he was with u-21s and they had late call offs for a friendly at Pittodrie IIRC.
No massive issue with Shankland call up, just find the lack of consistency bemusing. Remember as far back as the days of Paul Lambert (as well as Martin and Mckinnon) being overlooked, so it’s not a Steve Clarke thing.
Just think you’d really need to be pulling up trees at Motherwell to get noticed.
Declan Gallagher isn’t Colin Hendry or Alex Mcleish, but I think he’s on a par with Devlin, Souttar, Halkett probably even McKenna.
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1 hour ago, MrBeee said:
He has no chance of getting picked this is a manager that said Turnbull wasn't just ready yet for Scotland selection.
1 hour ago, Welldaft Mk1 said:Lets face it if he played for Kilmarnock he WOUlD have been in a squad by now.
Every bit as good as Devin if not better in fact.
We are just not fashionable or Clark does not like us. Example calls up Shankland but not Turnbull !!!
Yet has picked guys like Brophy...
Shankland is a surprise, he’s playing in a league that has part time teams. Big step up.
Has there ever been a surprise Motherwell inclusion in a Scotland squad?
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I don’t think he’s far behind (if at all?) Souttar, McKenna or Halkett. Charlie Mulgrew is a utility player.
Scotland aren’t blessed with options at centre half.
I don’t think he’ll be picked though. With the exception of Steven Saunders cap, Scotland managers have only really looked to fir park when they’ve had to, don’t ever remember a manager taking a gamble on a player from us.
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3 hours ago, superward said:
Combine Tait and Grimshaw and we have an A1 right back.
I have wet dreams about the Hylton Seedorf hybrid.
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7 minutes ago, wellwell91 said:
As much as I like Grimshaw he is at best a squad player never a right back in a million years
Yip we all get excited at his headless chicken runs forward but can anyone tell me of one that’s had an end product
Tait is the best right back that we have at the club but I fear like Cadden were messing him about with continually playing him out of position to the detriment of the player
Carroll’s red card at the weekend likely means the return of Tait at LB.
Id like to see him get a run at RB, but it would be at the expense of Grimshaw who has been playing reasonably well there.
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1 hour ago, Joeboy said:
I actually think our squad is a bit on the heavy side, numbers wise.
I'm not convinced that the O'Hara or Mugabi signings were particularly necessary. I'd like to have seen us have a bit of faith in Maguire, Devine and Semple to cover those positions through injury.
I would agree with that. We do seem to have a lot of midfielders that we don’t really need.
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A lot of Nike teams seem to be going for retro nineties kits, spurs and PSG were two I saw tonight.
Only ‘well kit of that era I could see being resurrected is the flouro yellow away....
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So Levein is head hunting his replacement while also trying to cling onto the job?
Sounds believable....
And now for the weather, after our Indian summer, we’re due the beast from the east 2 and next summer we could have a 2 month heatwave...
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25 minutes ago, Andy_P said:
I don't think it was unreasonable to pose the question how Hastie's career would progress after his whirlwind start. Nobody really knew if it was going to be a Ross Forbes style three months of excellence then fade or whether there was something sustainable after that initial burst. He certainly has got off to a good start in his loan spell though,
Yeah, it’s been pointed out plenty times before, but of the many players who have left Motherwell for bigger and better things, how many have gone on to bigger and better things? (Especially those that have left under a cloud..)
Jake Hastie looks more Stephen Pearson than Paul Slane at the moment.
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44 minutes ago, steelboy said:
Hastie scores his third in 3 games at the Stadium of Light.
The stuff on here about him falling down the leagues was laughable.
Good luck to the boy. I thought he might end up at Alloa or Dumbarton, but happy to be proved wrong.
On a side note, Sunderland draw 1-1 ridiculously often. Cost them promotion last year.
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Great result and performance.
Only black mark would be not taking our chances. Was the same against Hibs. We could’ve been 3-0 up at halftime in both games had we finished better, and feel this inability to punish teams will cost us points against harder working sides.
Compare to Celtic who were utterly ruthless against us at fir park.
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2 hours ago, steelboy said:
That's harsh. He looked dangerous in almost all of the games he played which can't have been a fluke. I don't see him playing below Scottish Premiership level.
Probably a bit harsh. I’d say he made a bigger impact in less games than Ryan Kent...
2 hours ago, AlmostFrazzled said:I think this is very much the case. Once teams had rumbled him he became much less effective.
But also this.
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6 hours ago, Yorkyred said:
It will have been a huge increase in wages so think an offer many of us would have taken if we’re being honest. Taking the money out of the equation though he was very predictable and teams soon sussed him out, stop him cutting inside and you nullified most of what he did. He struggled with us last three or four games and was subbed, maybe by then his head was turned but i’m still not convinced he was the real deal.
Yes, that was the subtext to my point. I’m not convinced he’s any better than guys we’ve let go and have slipped down the leagues.
I think Motherwell and Jake Hastie got the best deal they were ever going to get.
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10 minutes ago, weeyin said:
A number of the law updates have been sensible changes. It just seems to be the handball "improvements" that have been misguided.
They are well intentioned, but they’ve made a pigs ear of it.
I think the intention was to remove the possibility of gaining a big advantage from an accidental handball.
To be honest, the way the rule was being applied before was ok. Perhaps changing the wording to replace “deliberate” with something like “avoidable” was all that was needed.
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Maybe Tanner does need a fresh start.
Not been the best time he’s had at fir park.
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Hylton needs to learn to be a bit more direct.
Seedorf needs to bulk up a bit although he grew into the game on Saturday.
A hybrid of the pair would be some player.
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I thought Cole looked a handful when he came on at the weekend. Long got in some great positions and could see him scoring a few when he builds a bit more confidence.
James Scott been impressive too.
The resurgence of Hartley has negated the need to add a centre half.
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I’ve got a small amount of sympathy for Hastie. The contract Rangers will have given him will have been a once in a lifetime opportunity. He would’ve been crazy not to take it!
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It’s the inconsistency that’s frustrating.
I’ll stick my neck out and say there is no way the SFA will open the can of worms of citing Ryan Jack.
I thought Carroll was wrong. Wasn’t bad enough to warrant upgrading a yellow to red in my opinion.
We played Celtic without Carroll.
Also guys like Donnelly, Hartley, Gallagher and Campbell will miss games later in the season for picking up 5 yellow cards, none of which will be as bad as Callum McGregor’s challenge on Sunday, let alone the Ryan jack one.
The old firm have enough advantage over the rest as it is.
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3 hours ago, steelboy said:
National League South. You would have thought he could have got a better level than that.
Depends if a scout watched one of the handful of games he tried a leg...
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14 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:
Our pricing/pricing structure is honking as well as the rest of fitbas. (Unless you are bringing a child. Then it is good value for them.)
Agree. Although at least we are fair on the family pricing.
Although that throws up weird anomaly’s like it being cheaper to take my kids to St Johnstone than leave them at home.
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18 minutes ago, weeyin said:
It is going to be a terrible game, though. In the history of the SP(F)L, there has never been a good game on plastic between any two teams.
While I agree, there have been occasional outbreaks of football on the Rugby park surface. I think part of the problem at NDP is that Hamilton have a great ability to drag teams down to their level, particularly on that surface.
Whilst I love seeing a healthy Motherwell travelling support as I’m sure do the team. I hope the Motherwell fans vote with their feet and there’s a noticeable drop in the attendance as a result of trying to squeeze a few extra quid out of us.
At least it will avoid the farcical queues to get in and folk spending the first 20 minutes being ushered into a full stand before the gazebo opens.
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Which club will take our Manager ?
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Managers stock can rise and fall so quickly.
Mark McGhee was touted for Celtic, Hearts and Scotland jobs while with us, look at him now.
McCall was attracting all sorts of interest at various points too.
I like Robinson, and bear in mind he’s relatively young, he’s still learning on the job. There’s no doubt he’s a better manager now than when he took over at fir park, or when it didn’t work for him at Oldham.
He sounds ambitious, but I agree, I don’t think he’d dive straight in to the wrong job at a basket case club. Which could describe basically any club from mid championship down.