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It does. But long before social media was a thing, folk used to write to Points of View every year moaning about which TV presenters weren't wearing poppies and which were showing off by wearing the ones with the extra green bits.

On paper his pedigree before he joined us was perfectly decent, with Leeds United paying decent money for his services, and representing his country at every level from U-17 to full international (including one in which he clogged Steven Gerrard at Wembley). I don't remember anyone ever touting him as a goalscorer, though.

Depends who’s paying them I guess. If Premier Sports are paying their fee for these games and have asked them to be impartial (as alleged), then it wouldn’t be unreasonable for them to tone it down a bit. If they’re not, then it serves them right.

Currently 15th-longest serving in Scotland, but 3rd-longest in the top flight. Managerial reign

Not sure if he's on here, but if you can stomach X/Twitter these days, @SteelmenHistory (run by club historian Stuart Graham) might be a good place to ask, too. Think you can also email him on historian@motherwellfc.co.uk.

They are? Can't say I've disagreed with any of their decisions so far.

Agree the email is really good... could quibble about the order of information for me personally, but I'm not the main target as I won't usually be going to the game. Been a bit disappointed with the WhatsApp so far to be honest, was hoping it might at least be a replacement for the much-missed Twitter updates on game days.

The rumoured €1.5m bid for Theo Bair from Auxerre would be a good start.

True on the "clear and obvious". But it doesn't matter whether you measure it with computers or a bit of wet string, there will always be a line behind which you're offside, and it will always be possible to be a few millimetres the wrong side of it.

Certainly not how I remember it, he was a useless unlikable arsehole from day one.

What he chooses to discuss on the forums is up to him and his team... certainly seems a bit ill-advised to me, but he's made a lot more money doing what he does than I ever will, so you have to assume he either knows what he's doing, or thinks he does. Either way, it's his choice. So yes, the thought that more suitable investors might be put off from dealing with us in future because we now apparently have previous for leaking private conversations during negotiations does concern me more than that.

I'd be more concerned about the legality of sharing them, as there appears to be precedent in Scots law for reasonable expectation of privacy in WhatsApp group chats.

He might have made a better job of saving that.

As somebody pointed out on P&B, "It would be actually quite hard, since one team sits out each match day. Add in that they play at new Douglas car park and the knock on effects that they would have to redo a significant part of the fixtures".

On the other hand, he's Canadian, so he's probably far too nice to want to stick the knife in. But hopefully he'll just do it anyway and apologise afterwards.

Feed the Bair, etc.

More classic set piece defending there.

Louis Moult doing his thing. https://x.com/BBCSportScot/status/1771965847839334655?s=20

They’d be quite entitled to say the same about many players.

I think that horse bolted about 40 years ago.

We won 2-1 according to thread on P&B. No injuries reported so far…

Even my heart isn’t deluded enough to say yes these days.

We effectively do; they have to pay for all the damage, which they wouldn't have to if they stopped it happening. They just don't appear to be willing or able to stop it happening.

My recollection is that clubs have to charge the same amount to all supporters for "comparable" seating... i.e. similar view, facilities, legroom, etc. I'm sure we could make an argument that the south stand is the best we have and charge more for it, but no doubt other clubs would suddenly discover that their away fans' facilities were better too, and our travelling support would pay the price.

Somewhat ironic given the recent lack of important communications from the club...