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I did wonder about it being on the telly when I saw it was an 8.05 Kick off.

You remember it wrong, Clarky got the double and McDonald got a late third after coming on as a sub.

In which case the £200k we were reputedly paying McGhee is freed up to spend, same whichever way you look at it.

Actually Mr. Shiny head, you're not the only one who feels like that, he did a good job while he was here, and some of the football was a joy to watch, There was, however, an inevitability about his leaving, especially after the last game when he sat in the dug out with his arms crossed for 90 minutes, then didn't appear with the team for the lap of honour. He was good for us and we were good for him, yes, some things left a sour taste, but we had two good seasons and we seem to have had some reasonable dosh in compensation for him leaving. I don't wish him any great ill will, he is just symptomatic of the state of the game now. I just hope JB chooses wisely.

Hampden Park full on an international night was fantastic in those days. If you needed a pee you had to use the jacket pocket of the guy in front of you.

Erm, was that not Neil Simpson, Neale Cooper was the guy who managed Ross County and a few lower league English teams was he not?

Got mine in the post yesterday, ordered them a while ago, wisnae in any rush to get them.

Sounds like the retraction used in "Drop the dead donkey" 'Flow. 4 down in the crossword.

£1000 per week = £50000 per year times 20 players = £1m add in coaching staff etc and £1.3m is not an unusual amount. I would think that wage bill could be anyone of ten clubs. I would be very worried if an entire budget was based on TV finances, surely no one is that stupid

Damn, I wanted to say that.

I don't know, I know we have been linked in the press with several players (ok, I don't believe any of the shite they print either) and have apparently lost out to other clubs of a similar, or arguably lower, standing to ours. I think that is due to finance, and not McGhee's desire, or otherwise, to change jobs. It may, however, be contributing to his (alleged) desire to change jobs.

So you think that if targeted players would rather sign for St. Johnstone or Dundee then that is not down to money? I agree that if McGhee is going to go then he should go now, personally I hope he doesn't, but I don't see that the new guy, if there is one, will be any more successful at bringing in players. Lee Beevers is, apparently, going to snub us, and with us European football, for a lower league English club. That is almost certainly down to money.

We know where we stand, we have a manager who is under contract, and that will not change until and unless someone approaches us for him. Last season everyone was moaning that McGhee was touting himself at every opportunity, now everyone is moaning that he is saying diddly squat. We didn't sign anyone last year 'cos we don't have the money, we're not going to sign anyone this year 'cos, guess what, we don't have the money and whether McGhee or anyone else is in charge that isn't going to change, so calm down and wait till the roller-coaster starts moving again in July.

David Clarkson, without a shadow of a doubt.

Ah crap, I was hoping for a first round league cup tie away to Montrose.

Thanks Leeann, I think I can cope with that arrangement.

Hi Leeann, I have a question about this, my daughter is leaving school this summer and will be going to college in the autumn, how can she prove her eligibility for a student ticket in the absence of a matriculation card?

Surely though McGhee is just replying to a journalist's question regarding Mixups quotes in yesterday's papers about the pressure being on us, I agree that a better response would have been "Don't pay any attention to what Mixup says, he's a fat fud" but I prefer to hear someone speak his mind rather than trot out the usual manager speak clichés.

You could be right, my memory isn't that good. I checked back the fixtures for those seasons and we lost 4-0 to the mankies in both seasons late on. Which game had the scum in the cooper (officially) I have no idea.

I think it was 2002-03, the year we finished bottom and Falkirk's stadium shambles saved us. It was a pre split game played after the split, possibly the game when Cowan got his leg snapped by Lambert but I'm not too sure about the last bit. Oh aye, good decision at last, pity it's three years too late but hey-ho.

Whole hearted agreement from me. I've signed.

Seeing as the poll wasn't up when I first posted I'll add an amendment. I don't really fit into any of the options in the poll, my Dad was from Fife and didn't bother with football. My Mum is from Motherwell but her Mum was from Ayrshire so of my four grandparents, only one was from this area and he died before I was born, so I didn't have any family influencing my choice of team. I went with my brother to games and it didn't occur to me to support anyone other than my local team. We went all over the country following the 'Well in the late seventies and early eighties but after he moved to Manchester with his work for a while, we got out of the habit of going so it became an occasional game rather than an obsession for me. It was only when I had kids of my own and I was determined that they wouldn't be influenced by peer pressure to be old scum fans that I started going back to games with them in tow. The oldest doesn't really bother now, although she is still nominally a 'Well fan, but the younger one loved it so I got us season tickets and we still go every week. She is now old enough to head off to away games without me so she goes to even more games than I do. It reminds me of when my brother and I started going to away games. Ah, the circle of life. Great topic this

First game was a League cup game versus Clyde in about 1967, tagged along with my big brother (I suspect my Mum told him if he didn't take me and keep an eye on me he wasn't going) For years I was convinced it was a nil nil draw till I read 'Well again and it turns out it was a 2-2 cracker I remember just about none of it. I'm still going now but my brother isn't. I got him and his daughter those free season ticket jobs for the Hamilton game, I doubt he'll rush back.

Dixie Deans, until he signed for "them" then it was Keith Mcrae and Joe Wark, couldn't put a rizla paper between them.

Three curses, Ian Brines is refereeing the game.