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"since lawell was desperate to get the changes through despite celtic seeming to have very little at stake it is presumably him. " Steelboy, how do you get lawell to blame from the quote you posted?

The voting structure is the one thing that bothers me but if we get a fairer distribution of cash now that we are happy with then I'm happy with that. It's more to do with future changes ie 14 or 16 team leagues being blocked that bothers me but to be truthful, if the vote was 9 - 3, would expansion be voted through or would two other teams side with the OF and block it anyway?

To be honest it's better talking about good players that we might manage to keep rather than talking about shit players we can't get rid of.

Must be the bloody bookies he's talking about

Not a personal attack mate, I know exactly what you mean just pisses me off that folk can think like that and believe they are right! It's not his status that changes but the status of the Motherwell fans that would be changed in the eyes of others

A week past on Monday they could have worked out the permutations and sat down with the broadcasters to get a broad agreement as to what would happen under the various options, today should have been a rubber stamp meeting dotting the i's and crossing the t's - failing to plan ahead show a certain amount of lack of respect to the fans and a total lack of professionalism - as I said earlier sums up the SPL

Why should his status change because he signs for Celtic (or rangers)?The guys done well for us - and at times by us - anyone thinking less of him just because of a financial/career decision he makes needs to look at themselves in the mirror and wonder what they are all about!

Total feckin farce every bloody year - Sums up the SPL actually!

If we do get Celtic at home again after the split, this should add an approx £80000 (£20x4000) that the club wasn't expecting and should be put towards signing at least one of the out of contract players.

Was there not talk about the runners up not getting the euro spot a couple of years ago after Gretna and Queens were runners up?

Kind of think that all SPL teams apart from Celtic have cashflow problems and remember not all teams in the top 6 will play Celtic at home post the split.

If the result of the changes has helped save 1 club from administration this season is that not for the good of the game - or is it self interest? I for one don't want to see any club go into admin

If the above is correct then why not announce that it has been done and give the reason behind the decision rather than just slip it in? I hope you are correct but if it is then its very poor management not to explain it as such.

Like everyone else I'm not happy with this only on the grounds that the prize for 1st has not been redistributed along side the prize for second. Personally I don't think that we will finish second so don't see us losing out but the thought that the richest club in the country has managed to avoid taking some of the pain that we are all feeling is a kick in the balls to much! The SPL should be made to answer the question why this has occurred, at the moment I will give our club the benefit of the doubt but I expect them to now come out and explain their role in this, how they voted and what the actual vote was. Failure to do so will lead to me not returning to FP until our board is removed or a fairer distribution is announced - maybe a day if action is called for here where we boycott FP for a game!

Just been watching the highlights again and noticed that after his pass that led to ITCs offside goal, Hateley didn't even attempt to get back and cover -piss poor attitude

United might be shite at the back but they are good at going forward and will cause us problems, think we will lose 3-1

Can't argue with you on that, maybe I could have said that Higgy knew he was going to shoot and moved to where HE thought the ball was going to end up

Ojamma didn't even look up at the 1st goal so I'm assuming that he just put the ball into an area where he expected Higgy to be.

McCall was interviewed on NBC alba and mentioned that we had a very capable backup in Hollis, kind of suggests to me that Randolph could be off. He also seemed resigned to losing a few players in the summer

Nicky Law easy but a good few performances today including Humphey, he chased down the ball which lead to our 1st goal, tracked back well and harried the ITC defence. I'm not a great fan of his but no way was he pish today.

NWF, If your information source was only radio clyde then you should have checked the facts with another source or at least started your 1st post stating that instead of going off on one. As the meeting was only this morning we really needed to give the club time to release a statement before setting off to FP with pitchforks and torches.

Humphrey has difficulty tackling players in the SPL - what chance of him trying to tackle some of the bruisers in the second devision, they would have him shitting it every game. The guys a good player but wouldn't be able to handle the second devision.

2-2 draw.

don't really see why all the fuss over him training with us, the worst that will happen is that the young guy's at the club will have had a couple of months training beside him and might even have picked up a few tips on how to train better, mark a difficult player better or turn a defender better and maybe a few more ways to improve their game. All these thing could possibly, in the long term, make the players we have better players at no extra cost to the club. Where ever the guy goes best of luck to him and lets hope we at least see him in a Scotland jersey again soon.

more fringe players than I'd like, could do with a bit more bite in midfield and a more experienced defender to counter McCulloch but apart from that, I wouldn't be too upset to see that team play an SPL game. would be an utter piss take if that team beat seveco