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Did you have to mention Bobby Donnelly? A quick google search shows he's now found his level at Kirkintilloch Rob Roy after spells with Airdrie, Ayr and Albion Rovers.

That's claiming we signed Moult in a £150k deal!

If Johnson's fee was the most since Clarkson's in 2009 does that not just put it somewhere between that (£600k?) and whatever the next highest fee has been? Which could mean anywhere between £200k and £600k.

I thought Rangers raised their game to challenge them for a while but Celtic upped their game and utterly dominated the second half (similar to our game against them). I need to sort out tickets now. Is Lucas banned for the cup game?

I thought a booking was technically known as a caution. If so, then surely you have to know what you have been cautioned for.

Did he not have a family with a local girl when he was here? That may have had a bearing on any decision. Of course, it also depends on which clubs were interested.

Was the goal in front of the travelling support or up the far end?

Great 3 points. Anyone know how McHugh played on his return or how serious Cadden's injury was?

I'm amazed Samson starts going by McGhee's comments about the first two goals on Friday. Big three points up for grabs tonight. I'm out for a holiday catch up with some old friends who support Thistle and Rangers - we'll all be anxiously checking scores from time to time.

Yes we desperately need points but as we're playing the two teams below us three points should see us avoid bottom spot at New Year.

He got Jack to lose the plot and his kick at McDonald looked wild and off the ball to me - don't know how he got away with just a yellow card.

Strange situation as although we might not have budgeted fora cup run we kknow we're going to get a good payday out of the cup. On the other hand, attendances continue to fall away.

Looking at the BBC weather app for Motherwell the rain is going to go away and the wind will be around 15 to 17 mph. We'll get light rain showers later on but heavy rain and 40mph+ winds are due again after 10pm. We may be really lucky and get a little window of relatively decent weather for the game.

There will be limited finances available for any proposals so the clubs expecting to be involved will resist any attempt to dilute their expected cash by making the scheme available to all to try to come up to the required standards. As always it will be a case of clubs looking out for their own interests rather than looking at the desired outcome (that could be argued both ways).

It's a long way from balancing out but Hearts had a perfectly good goal against us disallowed for offside recently. Have to agree, that was never a penalty on Saturday.

Burnley were in the Premiership when he first signed for them and he's now in the Championship so he is in the lower leagues. Also, he's been on loan to Birmingham since the end of August and scored 6 goals so they're spending £1m based on that,not on his record at Burnley.

Wow. Looking forward to seeing the highlights on the club website.

I'm sure his agent is aware that there are more clubs than Motherwell that might be interested in signing him. Let's hope loyalty (sympathy/soft spot) counts for something in this day and age.

Fair comment and I'm happy for this discussion to be separated and put in a more appropriate thread. There's a few comments regarding what may or may not be the situation regarding Robbie Leitch's departure but I'd like to think that Scott Leitch is fully aware of all our young players' contract situations.

Is Scott Leitch still in charge of youth development?

It's great we are giving young players a chance but it has to be said this is a fairly recent development that fans have been calling for for years.

Whether we are one of the clubs chosen or not, there's something fundamentally wrong with placing clubs at a disadvantage in the future because they've not been allocatedone of the eelite academies which receive the lion's share of resources.

You can see the stadium from Ferniegair but don't know about those streets.

I see the Herald is reporting confusion over suspensions. McManus and Considine managed to pick up yellow cards in the 7 minutes that was played and these stand but they don't think McGhee served his suspension.

John Higgins