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Easy. You go the manager of the other team and buy him for 5mill. Seriously though, I think the players wages and the time remaining on the contract are major factors in the transfer fee. We shouldn't be gambling on one player over the course of 6 months to get us the prize money to cancel out the small fee, we need the guaranteed money. I hope it works out for Jamie, he has done great for us and deserves the move.

Shame to see clancy go. Hopefully a fully fit Saunders can step back in with hutch (if we can keep him). Would love to keep Jennings, but he's put in a good shift for us over the last few years, so wouldn't grudge him a move to a bigger payday. I don't think European football is going to be a big factor with these guys deciding to stay, as if they can get more money elsewhere due to the form they showed last season they should probably take it. However, I think the euro games may give us an edge over other clubs when were looking at out of contract guys. Over the last few seasons I've learned to not worry about losing guys, as we've had the knack of finding some gems out of nowhere.

Letting rangers away with breaking the rules the way they have sets a dangerous precedent, particularly when there are other clubs in financial trouble. Living with the old firm is bad enough now, so imagine how it's going to be when we flat out tell the world we're their bitches. I don't envy the decision makers here, but if they apply the rules to rangers any differently than they would to any other club then Scottish football is a joke.

Hope it's what finlay said, and not that Celtic or rangers are interested.

The commentary is pretty good, and beats having to use a vpn to listen to pishy radio Scotland. I agree regarding the links to MFC tv, there should be a more obvious login/signup link.

Motherwell > Blackpool > Edinburgh > Falkirk > Memphis, TN > ?

Hammell has been our LB for something like ten of the last twelve years, and is on pace to surpass Joe wark's games played total. Both have played in great and dreadful motherwell teams, so I could see why hammell may be regarded as "this generations wark." I kind of have a problem with the fact that corrigan has had more comparisons to wark than hammell and seems to be held in higher esteem. Also, the "best ever" and the "best you've seen" can be two different stories.

Screw the 'experience'. If regular euro competition and the best start to a season in years isn't going to persuade more people to part with 20 quid plus every other week, a frickin dancing robot certainly won't.

It's the same coping mechanism our fans use when we lose a player. i.e. Sutton was slow and shite, Foran only scored penalties etc. We normally start getting stuck into them when the contract is almost up! As far as I'm concerned Higdon has been brought in to do the same job Sutton did, and McCall pretty much spelled that out. Similar ages, similar styles of play, and similar goals record, so I'm not complaining. It's great to see us address a need almost immediately. With the slightly longer close-season this year it would be nice to have our squad settled before the pre-season training starts for a change. However, I'd be surprised to see more than a couple more new faces.

My grandad (Jim Frame) passed away this week. He was a big Motherwell fan, and took me and my brother to the '91 final. When I found out he took a turn for the worst I managed to sort things with my work (who have been immense this week) to come back over from the states in the hope of getting to say goodbye. I got in on Tuesday and went straight to the hospital, and he was still hanging in there. He was totally made up that all (10) of his grandkids were there to see him, and finally passed away on Tueday night. One of the last things he said was a prediction of 2-0 to the 'well. I was fortunate that someone in my family had a spare ticket for the game, but It's hard to gear up for it considering what has happened this week, and I'd gladly trade for watching a live stream at 9am if it meant he could still be here. However, it does bring a smile to my face that in his own way my papa has a 100% record of taking me to cup finals!

In a strange twist of fate, I'm back in Scotland for the week and going to the game. Still hasn't hit me. I'm expecting the "holy fuck!" moment to arrive soon though.

Can any of us exiles fly a plane, or are rich enough to have their own plane? I know that I'm not John Boyle's best pal or anything, but if he sent a plane over for us, I'd totally not say anything about his streaks.

Darren Randolph is probably one of the most polished players I've seen in a Motherwell jersey. We've had some great raw talent come through the club, and some excellent players do us a turn at the end of their careers, but this guy is class.

Surely he can't be, he just came back from his suspension for this game? I think it was las that was running the risk of suspension, and not Jenno as mentioned earlier.

Great first half, but I'm still bricking it! St J had a chance to take the lead early, but since Randy's save we've looked excellent and Hump hasn't even been involved yet. Hutch and Jenno are my biggest worries for suspensions, but I don't see McCall making changes for that reason. Maybe Jones for Hump at some point but that's it. Randy just needs to make sure he doesn't waste too much time on the by kicks! Wish I was there. I'm resisting the urge to check out flights for the final, cos that's just tempting fate.

http://tykestv.info/index.html http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=113269&part=sports

'tinternet is the best bet. Doubt we'd even get the final on TV over here.

Yep

If it's on TV anywhere, it will be online somewhere, and Myp2p.eu is as good a shout as any to find it. It's trial and error though until you find a decent quality stream, or one that doesn't get cut off.

This forum came about when the happy-clappies left FPC. I sometimes go on the messageboard there, but the layout gets on my tits. This one's better, cos we have compost corner and Kylie and Al B's avatars.

If you set your formation to be strong in one area, it will naturally weaken another. Did Hamilton and Aberdeen not have 4-man midfield's against us? Playing wingers is all well and good, but it won't make much of a difference if they're shite. We're going to struggle regardless of the formation against Celtic, a lot will depend on whether we approach the game looking to have a go or whether it's damage limitation.

Who knows how they'll pan out over the next few months but I think that considering that some of these guys may have been plan b,c,or d, they have done pretty well so far. They address the areas the manager highlighted as needing cover and may just give some of the tired legs a rest and allow some rotation in the squad. Especially with Jones, Hammell and Saunders all coming back to full fitness.

Canning's arms were around Sutton, giving him a pretty good excuse to go down. Canning could have avoided this by not putting his arms on Sutton. I hate the term "winning a penalty" but as long as everyone else is doing it, we should be.

Do Jennings or Lasley have th pace to play wide? Are they that much quicker than Forbes?

Ok, but Humphrey has both and still gets slated. Shivute had both in abundance, along with all these "no end product types" I think you need more than those two things tbh. Fitness can be worked on, pace is overrated, but you either have talent or you don't.