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So, does this mean we didn't hump you? Are we not in the next round now? Does this also mean that your travelling support didn't make that journey just to see their team get owned?

I like the way Jim Gannon conducts himself, as he at least puts across the impression that the is proud to be our manager. McGhee did a great job of taking Malpas' squad and showing the difference a good manager makes, but Gannon doesn't have the benefit of inheriting a full squad, so it will be interesting to see how things play out once he has brought in all the new guys. He has the chance to put his own team together, and he has chosen not to accept last years leftovers as the core of our team. Players like Lasley, Craigan and Hammell have been around MFC for a long time, and I think they are probably quite comfortable here. I don't think for a minute that they are unprofessional, but I think that it is now important to see who is prepared to step up to the challenge and put the work in to get their place back. It was also interesting seeing so many coaches on the pitch during the warm up. Did these guys all come up here with Gannon?

Jennings looked like he was carrying a bit of extra weight, but he put in a good shift and looked pretty gutted with his performance when he came off. He isn't scared of a tackle and was quite happy to do the simple stuff. Humphrey looks pretty quick and he showed some wee flashes of skill, but there were a few occasions where he could have went in with a bit more commitment in the tackle, but it's understanable at this point in the season and also due to the fact we were humping them anyway. His final ball wasn't up to much, he missed the target by a fair bit with most of his efforts on goal, and only put in the one decent cross. Early days though, there's certainly something there.

Sorry, OT I know, but this article from the same site is great, if just for the line "What next? Weal Madwid buying Wwanda?""

Gannon said that since we've now played them once and studied video over the last week, he has a better idea of how to deal with them and he's been working on this plan with the team. Therefore whatever selection/tactics he chooses tonight wont just be a case of him making changes for the sake of it or "putting his stamp on the team", instead it will be what he believes will give us the best chance of getting a result. Whether it works or not is a different story, but that could be said of every manager.

Not trying to be smart here, but is anyone willing to put some names forward of experienced players that we could look at?

Nope different set of officials

I really don't see what the problem is with signing players from leagues which are supposedly below ours. Some excellent SPL players came from the Scottish lower divisions, and Craig Levein seems to do a good job of unearthing these guys without getting stick for it. Last year Falkirk went for some of the better known names from Scotland, like McCan, McNamara, Pressley, and Lovell and we saw how that went. We got Porter and Foran from the English lower leagues, and if you go back a wee while we also got Rab McKinnon from some English club, and I'm sure there are many more. We also have Championship clubs cherry picking some of the best players from the SPL, so I cant see us competing with them for signings. We could sign guys who aren't getting games for their top division clubs, but then they would just be rejects! I mean, we've brought in guys from Man Utd, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Spurs, Birmingham, Man City and Everton (and probably more) in my time, and I don't think we did too well out of that. I'll reserve judgement until I've actually seen these guys play. I couldn't give a toss where they come from, as long as they're good.

We seem to have a thing for pissing off the English wee teams. First Oldham, then Shrewsbury, now Northampton. With four more new signings expected, who else can we collect? I also like our strategy of signing players with posh butler names.

Profile on Northampton's website.

Fererre's was great, with three identical finishes (I think). It is even more special since it turned out he was actually shite. I'm gutted I can't find any video of it online though. Coyne's against Killie was nice, expecially the one he scored from the Kille throw-in. I think that this was also the game that Softie scored a free kick.

Could it be this guy?

Yep, more evidence that the board of Motherwell FC is actually the Illuminati.

I've been to one reseve game, against hearts at Tynecastle. Mio was there and he bought me a bar of chocolate.

You're excused, but what's a nimron? I only saw the second half and I didn't see much in Flamurtari other than a few breaks on the counter attack. The goal was pretty good, but 9 times out of 10 that would have gone into the stands. The second half wasn't all Flamurtari, that's a blatant lie.

As with most football clubs we've been involved in plenty of rumours which didn't quite come true, and some that supposedly were true but were actually just made up. There's the infamous myths that we actually turned down Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, Sami Hyypia, and Gus Hiddink, when we could never have afforded them in the first place. I'm also sure that we were once linked with Paul Gascoigne, with the deal being he could get half the gate receipts or something, but that may just be my imagination. So what's the most ridiculous MFC rumour you can remember?

If that was the case Jennings could have made the bench in the 2nd leg against Llanelli.

The deadline is for the whole tie.

Google that Stavros is better than FHW.

From what I saw of the game we didn't look that bad. We should have put the penalty away (never should have been a pen though), and Sutton had a good chance, so I'm not too discouraged since we have another week for the team to gel and for Gannon to get the guys ready. Most of us would have been happy with a close result considering we didn't know much about the oppositon, and I'm quite confident we'll beat them at our adopted home.

He looks like a right winger

Also, has he not played most of his career at left midfield?

I would like Kosiorowski to start, because he has a foreign name.

How does this compare to the deal that just ended?

Motherwell v Ayr and Greig Denham, can't remembr the year but that one was woeful.