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If successful, how long do you think he'd hang around at Fir Park? Longer than McGhee did? Fair play to Motherwell for looking outside Scotland and trying to get a biggish name but I think most of these guys are at it. People said McGhee was a mercenary but what makes anyone think any of these 'final four' wouldn't be back down South in a flash. It's a gap in their CV and we could be going through the same tedious process a year from now. It'd even surprise me if some of these guys aren't even interested in the job if offered, it just gets their name in the newspaper.

Why should Llanelli give up home advantage on what is probably a tight little ground and rent a 15,000 seater stadium just to accommodate maybe an extra 1,000 - 1,200 'Well fans? £15,000 minus extra policing, stewarding, stadium costs, tax etc. Doesn't make much sense from a Llanelli point of view.

Looks like the 2nd Qualifying round is made today as well - didn't know that. What chance Falkirk?!

Going by past European form Inter Baku would be the toughest of those options. They played four matches in the Champions League qualifiers last season and only lost one of them. They have also beaten Austrian and Finnish teams in the Inter Toto Cup.

I'm not worried too much about the squad and manager situation, that will get sorted out before the league campaign starts. What I will say is if we lose Clarkson it will be a bottom six season again and probably not one where we are way ahead of the rest with no real pressure. He's the player that separates us from being a Top 6 challenger rather than relegation battlers.

Three main contenders win percentages as managers Gary McAllister 47.16% Steve Staunton 35.29% Lawrie Sanchez 28.38%

No one has ever had a dead manager before. Thinking out the box, I like it! In all seriousness of the candidates named so far I'd go for Gordon Chisholm or President Putin.

Kevin Christie had a couple of good games...

Before we played in claret and amber we played in blue and white. I'd like to see us have a 'Scotland' style away strip. It would be a nice change from recent efforts. I'm not a fan of reversing the claret and amber colours because more often than not when we wear a change strip its against Hearts or Aberdeen and its too similar to their colours.

At top form McCormack is a better player but Clarkson is more likely to reach his top form than McCormack who is a bit moodier and can fall out of matches. As a striker I'd pick Clarkson over McCormack. Out wide I'd pick McCormack over Clarkson. So I guess going by your rules I'd pick Clarkson.

Based on their performances at Fir Park I'd say Clarkson is a better goal scorer than McCormack but then look at how many goals McCormack scored at Cardiff. Clarkson is more team orientated, a more consistent performer and a harder worker. McCormack has better pace and is better on the ball and has better techincal skill. I would be very reluctant to sell Clarkson for anything less than £750,000. He's the best player at our club and one of the better players in the league, an international, and is experienced but is still young to learn and develop. I think selling him 'on the cheap' simply to get some money for him would be a big mistake. We've already saw what happened when McCormack went. He was the player that provided our offensive spark, that got the rest of the team playing and when he went we lost something, especially when Clarkson missed a string of games mid season - surprise, surprise that was when we went on our run of bad form. If Clarkson, who took on that role this season, was also to go we'd have virtually no punch up front or creativity and without goals we'd be struggling along side Kilmarnock, St.Mirren, Falkirk etc. The difference between them and us is really only that we've had goalscorers over the past few seasons McFadden, McDonald, McCormack, Porter, Clarkson, even Sutton to an extent, if we keep selling them will come a time when the goals dry up and then we will be in trouble. Clarkson will score 10-15 goals next season for us, contribute more than a few assists and generally cause a lot of problems for the opposition. Selling him for less than £750,000 might well be a false economy if we finish well down the league, get knocked out of Europe, do nothing in the cups etc. Unless someone is prepared to stump up a realistic fee then keeping him for another season is probably going to be worth more to the club than selling him for some measly amount.

Just back my hols but I'll make two points. First, the era of long term planning at managerial level, and indeed first team level, are gone. Clubs should and do operate season-by-season. You can hardly lay much blame then on McGhee for leaving us at a stage of transition. I'm sure any new manager coming in anyway will be pleased if he has more or less a blank canvas to work with and isn't tied down to the previous managers plans. Secondly, it's McGhee's fault that no youngsters have come through from a certain age bracket? I'd content that point in the first place (surely that is down to the people in charge of the youth set up) but youngsters usually come through at time of crisis (rebuilding after relegation, administration, poor performances from 'established' players) so young players have had few opportunities to come through under McGhee, not because McGhee was a bad manager, but because he was a good manager who managed to get good performances and consistent team line ups from a relatively small squad.

No rookie managers! I'd be very disappointed if Pressley was given the job. As for Craigan, I'm sure he sees himself as being a player for a few years yet.

Not necessarily who I'd want just people I think might be interested and would be within our price range and who have done reasonably well recently. Ian McCall, Derek McInnes, Billy Reid.... ...then you are struggling.... Calderwood and Hughes will both be looking for clubs down south and Craig Brown is more or less retired now (he's 68) and can't see him wanting to take on a senior position.

How do you squeeze a 10 month season into 'the summer' and what do you do when there are World Cups and European Championships every two years? And then what do teams in the Champions League or the Europa League do in November, December, January etc? Also, I've said this before, but in the summer people have better things to do. You would be lucky to get people into the stadiums in good weather never mind get 'The English' to sit indoors during good weather to watch Kilmarnock vs Dundee United.

Michael Doesburg.

Christian Dailly has been released by Rangers. I think he could do a job for a team like us but wages might be a problem...

Oh! I remember that one! The whole stand was laughing its head of. We also, I'm pretty sure, beat Aberdeen 2-1 that day as I think Eion Jess scored but I can't remember the 'Well scorers. Aberdeen were still a 'top' team then, it was a big win for the 'Well back in those days!

I'd take Hartley in a heart beat but I reckon he could still get a decent sized club in the Championship and therefore get a contract worth 5 or 6 times what we could offer him. I'd be happy to take him but surprised if he did arrive at Fir Park.

If you think Fir Park was bad last season take a look at FC Okzheptes pitch! http://www.okzhetpes.kz/rus/foto/

They should just appoint me then, I'd have the club at heart and I'd be cheaper. And LMA stats show the win ratio between former international players and managers who have no experience as players at the top level is only 1% in favour of the former internationals, i.e virtually insignificant. So it's decided, I'm the new Motherwell manager

Seriously, people are turning their noses up at the prospect of European football now?

We didn't bomb. We bombed before McGhee joined. Yeah, I'm sure his reputation has really 'suffered' from finishing 7th in the SPL with Motherwell! He's just not the hot ticket item he was last season since Coyle has won the play-off down south but when McGhee leaves he'll go to a bigger team than us.

Can anyone see McGhee wanting a player like Foran or Foran wanting to play for a manager like McGhee. I'm saying they'd both be keen to avoid one another.

Not true. For a start he's given a regular game to Jamie Murphy. He's stuck by Mark Reynolds who was only 20 when McGhee joined the club and selected him for virtually every match. Secondly Steven Saunders played 3 games on the trot in mid season. Thirdly McHugh has played 3 times for McGhee over two seasons.