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I've never seen a more hardworking performance from us. Moult and Bowman were tireless, and even if they both leave for nowt next summer, I think it will be worth it just to watch a season of those two putting in a shift every week. Our decision to hang onto moult has already paid for itself too. This was the first time I got a good look at Andy Rose and I thought he was excellent in pressing and winning second balls, and I also think we benefited greatly from the presence of hammell on the park. It's been a long time since I've watched us without feeling like we're going to concede any minute. I counted a free header from an early corner and Carson's save from Christie as their only real chances. We need to extend campbell more, he's excellent.

No worries, its my job to tell people what's wrong with their stuff, and I'm on holiday, so needed something to whine about. It may be worth having some text on the sign up page to clarify this for the time being. I think I can help with some of this, and had been speaking to Craig just before he went off, so would be happy to help when he gets back.

So, when you sign up are you supposed to get a confirmation/welcome email of some sort? Other than the PayPal receipt?

Nope. You can see him shake hands in the highlights.

It's great that we've had different people make an influence off the bench each time, with bowman, bigi and tanner all coming on and leading to goals in the last few weeks.

Boring trivia - that was meant to be an extended fight scene, but Ford had the shits so they did that instead. Dunne's attempt at working while sick didn't work as well.

Maybe people post stuff about him in forums because in every interview he comes across as a total paranoid mile oot.

The "playing better than results suggest" and "only losing by the odd goal" is textbook relegation fodder. I've seen a few motherwell teams with the same problem, just that one win good spell away from getting it right, then it's February and we're in the shit. There's also the motherwell tradition of ending other teams bad runs, so I might adjust my earlier prediction and go for a draw.

2-1 good guys, Moult and Bowman. Thomas to get red for fighting with Erwin over who gets to take a penalty, which Erwin misses, but then they get another one later which they score after Erwin gets subbed.

This is a totally normal thing that happens in every industry.

If cadden moves to wing back, I'm pretty sure the midfield will be bigi, mchugh and rose.

I like that the first item in our signing checklist seems to be "looks like he can dish out a twatting"

Flow said one of the signings was a replacement for heneghan

I'd guess one of our expected signings must be a right sided defender then.

Peter Morrison out on development loan to Clyde.

Twitter bollocks account mentioning a loan for Jamie mccart.

If we have no money in the bank we'll also be in the championship. We have to balance putting the best possible team on the park with having a sustainable financial model that keeps us in the top division.

The other thing to consider is that although the Marvin Johnson deal has worked out, there is no guarantee that everyone we sell will go from strength to strength and command a bigger fee a few years down the line. You just need to look at the number of young Scottish players that end up coming back up here after a couple of years of reserve football.

There is a point there though, we can't get a sell on as well as a development fee. So we could sell him for 500k now and get another 25% of hopefully a few million down the line, or we can let him go at the end of his contract and only get the development fee. Personally I'd go with the latter, as I think 2 years of cadden is more valuable than the potential sell on amount.

It's based on robinson quoting that figure in an interview.

Tait has scored 2 and set up a few, and despite his defensive misgivings (and that he is clearly under instructions to be more attacking) we have won more than we've lost. He also had a load of assists last year, so I'd say he has proved himself as a starter, whereas Plummer hasn't done anything. Frear also hasn't done anything to suggest he can play on the right, and since his game is about getting to the byline and getting crosses in, he'd be better on the left. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the season frear and tait are going to be way up there in assists. I think there has been talk of bigi nursing an injury, but I had expected him to be the one we'd be raving about by now, but he hasnt met those expectations yet. I still expect him to be pretty influential as the season goes on though. I still think fisher will come good, but bowman's improvement has been welcome when fisher and tanner haven't lived up to expectations (yet). Kipre has been really good, and dunne has been interesting, but a lot is going to depend on who we replace Ben with. If we were looking for a defender anyway, and now the possibility of losing him, we really need someone with a bit of experience to replace him and a right sided center back/wing back hybrid to push tait. So we'll sign two strikers tomorrow

I like Fisher, but he very well could be the last outfield player to score his first this season.

Has any other player caught on with the fans as quickly as Kipre has? If we are guaranteed a Kipre for every Blyth, do we keep singing young guys released by Leicester?

Woooooooooo

A bit disappointed for Campbell, but the manager has been full of praise for rose, so he's obviously doing what is asked of him, whatever that is. I like the front pairing, hopefully it's a straight 2 up top.