Kmcalpin

No card for kicking the ball away?

It struggled with Campbell in it too.

O'Hara in for Magloire in central defence?

Two other options for those who are so inclined. You could just make a straightforward donation to the club, with no strings attached. Also, you could buy shares from either the club or from the Society. Each to their own though.

O'Donnell's screamer for me.

Just watched the TV highlights. I wouldn't blame Kelly at all for United's first goal. He had the shot covered but then Shankland got a glancing header to send him the wrong way. For both their goals, our midfield looked less than clever, failing to track a runner, standing off attackers and sitting too deep. I can't fault our defence. Great goal by Devante Cole to earn us the point.

We could also achieve it with a draw, if St Mirren and Dundee United also draw with each other.

Playing 2 wingers in a 4-4-2 set up is commendable but risky.

Get the deck chairs out. Send Hastie for the ice creams.

I see Stephen Glass is spouting forth about us complaining about his club's handling of Declan Gallagher's PCA. He says, in essence, that we had no right to complain as we announced prematurely the player's PCA with us 2 years ago. Thats not wright. it was in fact, a third party, Tom, who made the public announcement.

A marvellous gesture by our club, which has kept its word on season tickets and I echo everyone else's praise on that. However I have one or two questions on the detail. I would have liked a tick box option to donate either directly to the club or to the Society. That still doesn't prevent me, or anyone else of course, from making such donations. The option to help buy season tickets for those who are unemployed or on low incomes. Very commendable and I hope that helps a few in that position. However would such a donation, if covering the full cost of a ticket, be seen by HMRC as being a commercial purchase and therefore liable for VAT? I wouldn't want to think that season ticket holders who want to go down this route would lose a fair chunk of their donation to the Treasury. How would recipients be identifed? Would they have to have some link to the club or would any economically eligible person in an ML postcode be entitled? What happens to donations if all eligible and interested parties are given their tickets - does the surplus money just go to the club? I would have preferred a simple tick box set of options but thats just me. As I say, these are all questions of detail not principle. I'll 100% be donating my season ticket cash in some form or other depending on answers to the above, especially as I'll have had a season back in person and a season't free TV coverage. The video is top class.

I have it on good authority that our club , along with others, expected fans to return to stadia after 4 or 5 games. Looking back that was entirely unrealistic, but then again who could foresee the exact course of the pandemic?

I think you're right, but a few weeks ago I saw some figures on this and was quite surprised. Accies and Hibs seemed to have been successful in claiming back some £30k and we benefitted from a £20k sum. Maube these were interim or initial payouts?

Although not necessarily examples of two tiered stand stands, new structurse can be crammed in or built over another landowner's property (with their permission of course). We just need to look at Firhill, or Celtic Park to see examples of that.

In cold financial terms you may be about right. However if you ask the occupants of the Cooper, Hunter, and POD Stands if they would welcome our friends from Parkhead and Govan beside and amongst them you might receive a somewhat different and franker reply.

Aberdeen's big chance now. They could get him for nought. We'll see what Richard Gordon advises.

It was Andy, but the difference was that it was announced by a miffed 3rd party (Tom Wright) who wasn't involved in the deal.

Absolutely Ropy. What harm would it have done? Another classless act in this sorry saga.

Not really in favour of naming stands after ex players. What happens after all 4 have been named? Anyway, players like Ferguson, McFadyen and Stevenson must be top candidates.

I don't know about that. Gallagher and his lawyer would have been very well aware of this clause before he put pen to paper. I suspect it was a fairly run of the mill condition used in many football deals. The club will not be pleased at how things turned out but probably feel they've made the best of a bad situation.

He's certainly upped his game under GA but is still prone to a couple of blunders per game. I will be uneasy if he's a first pick next season.

I wouldn't disagree with most of that. Lamie has improved but is still a bit of a bombscare at times. McGinley has come on a ton, maybe through getting a good run of games.

Sam Foley is open to a new deal, according to the Rancid. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/motherwell-star-hoped-remembered-how-24027927 Interestingly, he says "I have never made a decision based on money in my life". It just goes to show that not all footballers, like the population as a whole, are driven by squeezing an extra penny out of somebody or organisation.

Scotland on Sunday reports that we are hoping to retain the services of Devante Cole. Also, do posters think that we should evaluate Sam Foley in our final 2 games to decide whether he's worth retaining for an extra year? He was impressive yesterday, but one swallow doesn't make a summer.

Was it not mistaken identity or have I got that wrong?