Well-Made

I am going to wish Bob like every player that leaves Fir Park all the best for the future. Have to thank him for the goals from free kicks and his goal of the season? The one he scored with his gonads of course.

Looking at that we'll be seeded for the first two rounds. Then in the 3rd Round we could get an all Amber and Claret affair with Roma

European football lasted long for him. Having said that he got onto the pitch I suppose, more than he did for the rest of the season right enough. I hear that SemiChem may have to start shutting down stores now that Bob isn't going to be in to buy a dozen tweezers every week.

I had seen one paper reporting that it would be around the £200K figure if Celtic wanted him. Once again though that's down to where the paper gets it's info from. I would imagine that Aberdeen would be hard pushed to find that sort of money, as well as at least match his wages, a transfer kitty then pay any other compo if McGhee wanted Leitch to go as well. All if's and buts' and present though and we should really be looking ahead to a few weeks time and what players we are likely to sign for the start of the Europa League.

See that the Express is reporting this morning that Coyle has knocked back the Celtic job. If true there could be more twists and turns yet. Story about Coyle is that he's worried about the transfer pot at Celtic, his family not too keen on returning North and that he'll lose out on £1Million bonus for getting Burnley promoted. Apparently the only Board he has talked to this week has been his own to start talks on a new contract. Meeting was apparently arranged before the Celtic job came up. I will be really worried for us if land Yogi as a replacement for Mark.

If he has quit it's to go North as Real Radio are creaming themselves over the fact that Celtic fans are up in arms that Coyle has been offered the Celtic job and the board don't want to talk to Bilic.

Seen that in the Sun yesterday. Still not sure if I'd want Sheridan back however if we were his main employers then we may see more of the player we've only really got glimpses of during his loan spell. Caddis would be another good shout. I think it'd be more the younger players we'd have to look at as the likes of Naylor etc would be out of our wage range.

I have heard the toaster is actually a box of matches. Miller has identified an area where it's possible to set up a wee campfire but any manager taking the job on will have to supply the wood for burning, the bread and the skewers for holding the bread over the fire.

The ting for Derek Adams is that it was only a couple of months ago he was accussed of and apologised for hitting one of his own players. He may have got away with it at Ross County but I don't think he would in the SPL and quite rightly. I don't think he has the temperment to deal with a SPL side, especially if they were involved with a relegation battle.

As above for me. If we ever get a manager that doesn't treat us as a stepping stone club then it's for one of two reasons. 1) We are SPL Champions, Won the Champions League, Won the Scottish Cup, Won the League Cup on a regular basis. Any 2 or 3 of those at anytime in a season would stop making us a stepping stone club. or 2) We've got in a manager with no ambition or drive in him other than for us to finish outside the relegation zone. I have heard folk say about us not taking on any rookie managers again. I tend to agree with that but we have survived those that have taken us on as their first role and they've gone onto bigger and better things, so the boards have been justified in their decisions. We haven't exactly fared well with experienced managers either at times. Especially when you think of Kampmann for example. So I'll take a guy with ambition that is looking at his next club being bigger and better but knows that to get that move he has to prove that he can move our club on as well. I think we can safely say that over two seasons McGhee has delivered that. Last season we finished 3rd with a squad where the majority of them were from the same team that Malpas had that nearly seen us relegated. We can put a lot of our problems this season down to the pitch and that may account for some of the weird formations we've seen this season. We also had a serious lack of fit\available personnel over November and December that also contributed. So even finishing 7th we have still moved forward from when he came in. If he stays next season will be when we really see how far on we've moved on from when he arrived. He has already stated that due to our budget he looks for quality not quantity and a repeat of November\December is always possible because of that. If he went for quantity we could have been taken part in the relegation battle this season and had folk complaining how crap some of our players were.The only good thing to come out of that was that the likes of McGarry and Fitzy might have been getting treated as world class players.

Well going by what he says on the official site and in the Daily Express this morning he is preparing for being here next season. In the Daily Express he is quoted as saying that he is trying to get things moving quickly in terms of signings for the new season and will also look at getting players in on loan from bigger clubs as a possibility to help us progress in the Europa League. None of that to me says that he has made his mind up to leave. (However I have been wrong in the past)

Broadwood for me please.

Well in JB. Now you'll have to dig into your pockets and free up some extra cash for transfers.

Or they can't afford it and want McGhee to resign first.

It wouldn't be Motherwell if we got a quiet season on the managerial front.

From the BBC

Looking at the Aberdeen boards, somebody has posted that Yogi will be their new boss while others have posted Craig Robertson who will be mentored by Willie Miller.

Just taken a look at the some of the Celtic Forums. A lot don't want McGhee or anoter name mentioned is Levien anywhere near the place as it lacks of ambition. They are happy with Owen Coyle (going as far to say that the Messiah is coming) but a lot spouting for Mowbray or Moyes as well. Some bigger names being mentiond as well. Looks like it could be an interesting few days.

Is Owen Coyle going to turn down the chance to manage in the EPL though?

Their actions even got a mention at the end of the Daily Express Match Report today. Well Done on being such a great credit to the Club!!!!!

I've seen posts in a few different places suggesting that Jim Jeffries and Billy Brown have already spoke to Willie Miller. So it may not be as clear cut as it suggests. However to temper that, another post elsewhere suggests that MM and WM met in a bar in Aberdeen last night.

At this minute in time I dread to think what our squad will be like. If McGhee stays then hopefully we'll see some of these players he has been looking at signing up. If he goes then the new manager has to start all over again and if he only has a couple of weeks to identify and sign plays for the Europa League qualifiers then we could be in serious trouble next season. Lets take Lee Beevers which was supposedly just about a done deal. What happens if he signs and the new manager doesn't rate him ie Simon Mensing OR the deal isn't done and MM wants him for Aberdeen? Or he was only moving to us because of McGhee? Too many scenarios at the minute that would need to be looked at. I will garauntee though that Hughes and possibly Buzz will follow him to Aberdeen if that's where he ends up. Stay Mark and show us what you have been working on for next season. For the last couple of months we have seen you commiting yourself to us next season and how you have been focussing on getting players in. With our new picth we can get back to playing football the way it should be played and the way McGhee likes to play it. I dread to think what sort of football we'd see if it was Bobby Williamson or any of the other usual suspects that we could be linked with.

It was a needless yellow card, especially when he had only had a talking to minutes before it but it could've been a lot worse. Not long after his booking he almost hauled a guy down outside the box with his arms around him. I think if the ref had to call for a free kick he may well have been off but the ball broke to a Killie player and play went on. That gave the ref a way out of not having to reach for his pocket. I think any other game during the season he may well have walked for two silly and needless bookings. Then everybody on here would've been on criticising him for his stupidness. I don't think yesterday was just down to the defence, alot of our players looked like they had their suitcases packed and sitting in the changing room. If yesterdays game had been away from Fir Park I wonder how many of them would've took McGhee's offer to finish up last week.

You do realise the irony is that we'll be accussed of cheating if we do pip St Mirren to the Fair Play spot.

I had 3 tickets on me that day as I'd arranged to get them for a couple of our Canadian exiles. I got offered £500 for one and then got a shout from a guy in a car asking to buy my ticket. When I replied he couldn't afford it, he offered me his car plus what was in his pocket. I replied that his rust bucket and the bru cheque still wasn't enough. He drove off with a right sulk. Wonder what he was like at the end of the day.