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You have your answer. First minute of the first game "Sneddon, who's not in the squad today".

The woman was a retired Fifa Grade referee. I didnt think she tried to justify decisions, more explain why they would be given in line with current IFAB rules. There was one decision in particular (cant remember which) that she explained why the decision had been given in line with the rules, but then said, "if you ask me my personal opinion, you would get a different answer". I think it was to do withba penalty handball incident. I thought it was actually quite refreahing ro get a referees insight as it explained a lot of stuff. I think IFAB are the problem. Not the referees.

🏆 Cup game the gaffer said

So 1.1 million was the Bair minimum?

SK has won a watch if this happens, yes could have went other way and bair done nowt but thank feck we got him on 2yr deal

Aye, waiting on international clearance.

A brilliant bit of business for us if it's true.

100% ….what a move and to a place considerably more appealing than North lanarkshire. If we get this for him kudos to SK as the lad was going nowhere and a punt for us a year ago.

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Nice tribute to the Motherwell fan who died last week.

Stuart Kettlewell: The only person in the world who watched Scotland at the Euros and thought 'this is brilliant'.

Not the most creative midfield but good to see Wilson and Wells starting. Come on well let's do this and remember its first game of season so if players are a bit rusty it's expected

You mean being the 3rd highest scorers in the league? I'd settle for that again.

Proud to say i have no idea what you are talking about

I believe that the name was bastardised from L'Oeuf Island and it is located in French Polynesia.

Never heard of it. I checked my atlas but couldn't find any trace of it. I've come to the conclusion it must be part of, or near, the Dutch East Indies. Maybe somewhere near the Marshall or Solomon Islands?

You watch Love Island, 🤦‍♂️ok then.

They sadly got rid of big Ouzy from Love Island, too. Man deserves kudos for fucking up that wee prick Tyrique for a few weeks.

The bookies are never wrong so they say..... must know something I don't.

Just like that

Been reading Tommy Cooper books during the close season ?.

Looking forward to hearing who's up next based on that list of affordable 20 goals a season strikers you secretly maintain.

I agree, and I think the problem there is that the rules haven't kept up with the technology in a few instances. Offside was originally introduced to stop a team having a player camped in the opposition penalty box and launching balls at them all day. It evolved into what we have now, but in pre-VAR days there was obviously much more leeway and arguments were not about fractions of a millimetre. Same with the handball laws. They were designed to eliminate the need for refs to establish intent, but instead have made things 100 times worse. And that's only amplified by the VAR reviews for "handballs" that nobody even noticed or questioned. If they are insistent on keeping VAR, I'd be in favour of changing offside to mean a player has to be completely in front of the last man. Of course there still might be arguments about only being 1cm behind, but it would give a lot more leeway. If they don't change the handball rule, then I like the idea of having different levels of infringement in the penalty box. I know there are indirect free kicks sometimes, but they are few and far between. It seems crazy that a player saving a shot on the goal line gives up the same penalty as a defender on the edge of the box, back to goal when the ball traveling out of the box hits him on the back of the arm. Of course, I'd much prefer scrapping VAR. The only excuse I have heard now for keeping it is "players without it will struggle when the play international or European games". No mention of improving the quality of the game for the players or more importantly, the spectators. That pretty much says it all.

Spoiler: We're not keeping Bair.

Only criticism of media team is they tend to focus on clips and montages of 2 sections of east stand and forget we have loyal and vociferous fans in the other stands and rest of east stand. But again a thankless task and they do their best