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Motherwell: Carson, Hendrie, Cadden, McHugh, Main, Dunne, Aldred, Kipré, Campbell, Çiftçi, Tanner Motherwell sub: Griffiths, Tait, Grimshaw, Bigirimana, Frear, Rose, Petravicius

From the highlights the goals looked bad, with one possibly offside, main took his goal well, we had a few chances, and almost came back with a point from Easter road.

Formerly of Plymouth of course.

Weve got a good record with left backs from southend, so why not. Ohalloran would be a weird one, since he was all about fighting for his place at rangers in the news recently.

I dont have a problem with selling players, its the timing here and the effect it could have on our season. We would be letting another club take our best player with less than a day to replace him, when we arent clear of relegation (yet have a legitimate shout of a top six place). At the same time were asking people to join the well society, buy shares, and pay over 20 quid per game while accepting that were only here to give Celtic someone to beat. If they want to know how to completely deflate a support, this would be it.

If thats true then it just underlines the futility of being a Scottish football club.

We have our valuation and Celtic can easily afford it. If they really want him they can get him, otherwise its not on us to owe Carson a move.

Chill Winston.

I assume the derisory bid is the customary old firm tactic of unsettling the player, thus making the move inevitable. The way these teams treat our game with utter contempt is disgusting.

Id like to think we could hold them to ransom considering the time constraints and their injury situation.

His dad would have a stroke

Lots of Ziggy Gordon chat going around.

Scramble in the box and main poked it just over.

Frear on commentary for anyone planning to use mixlr.

The manager said hartley isnt fully fit, and none of the back 3 have done anything to warrant getting dropped, so that one doesnt bother me. It would undermine the whole competition for places thing if you kept 2 clean sheets and then got dropped for someone who isnt fully fit. Tanner is a weird one, hes our best attacking player, and were playing a team thats hard to score against. I think hes overthinking this one.

Im looking forward to the next transfer window to find out who we tried to get this transfer window. Were we not after the striker hearts just released?

Petravicius and Newell were signed with a view to the future (but on one year deals weirdly enough) so although neither have had an impact, not a lot was expected. I think there were some injuries in there too. Plummer was signed to compete for a place in the first team and hasnt done so when there were opportunities to get in the side. Fisher was Robbos first signing, and it was probably on the back of his goals against us, but hasnt looked like any kind of finisher in his half season. He may not have had a run of first team games, but Im sure that if he was showing great promise in training wed persevere. One thing in his favour is that I dont think we expected to still have moult at the start of the season, nor did we expect bowman to find form, so that probably hit his form/confidence and he hasnt recovered. I think most of us were positive when we signed him, and I wouldnt put him on the Paul Keegan/John hendry level of terrible strikers, and seems a nice guy, so good luck to him.

I dont know if it was in this thread or the Hamilton one, but I mentioned that Peter Hartley had a lot of praise for the work that McHugh does in front of the defense, mentioned it in both games he was on commentary for.

The three center backs that show up best in training / better match the opposition will get picked. Should be good competition, but we probably need another left sided option because dunne is all we have there.

Id go with Carson too.

Has dunne missed a game outside of suspension?

Fisher got on on Saturday, but Petravicius got the spot on the bench today, so Id take it as more horses for courses than anything else. I think bowman is the only one likely to knock any of the current front 2 out of the team.

Hartley went into some detail how important McHugh is to the team, so replacing him with a defender who is hardly a ball player isnt going to improve much. Tanner is also benefiting from playing in behind the strikers, so sticking him on the left would limit him. Shoe-horning players into positions is a Craig Brown thing, Id rather we picked the best players for the system we choose.

Theyve been doing these post match videos for a few games now, but I think theyre another nice touch

I particularly enjoyed his suggestion that someone should put one on Ngog to welcome him to Scottish football, and calling hammel satnav