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Young 'uns Steven Lawless, Steven Meechan and Peter Innes have all gone to Albion Rovers on a six month loan. http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/index.php?op...&Itemid=134

The quality of the football on display is what makes our league a laughing stock. I seriously doubt that most fans of other leagues outwith the UK, or even outwith Scotland, actually know or care that we have a split.

It's happened a few times, but it would only be ridiculous if every team had played the same number of games against the same opposition, which of course they hadn't. Personally, as long as we have the split, I'd maybe rather they just split the league into two groups proper when the time comes, instead of pretending that everybody's still playing in the same league afterwards. Perhaps even start the bottom team in each group on zero points, with the other teams' points adjusted accordingly. At least that would stop people moaning about the fact that the team in 7th occasionally ends up with more points than the team in 6th (as if that really makes any difference, when everybody knows and understands that it might happen before a ball is even kicked).

Perhaps somebody ought to teach him not to actually cross the ball if there's nobody in the box, but you'd hope he might know that already. A good cross to nobody is a bad cross, just like a good pass to a bad player is a bad pass

It appeared today that the stronger guidelines about booking players running off the pitch to celebrate has been forgotten about since last week, too.

Yep, I'd happily take "can actually hit the target once in a while" over "inventive" at the moment.

Lasley for me too. Thought Craggs had a better game than some folk are giving him credit for though, and might even have scored with a spectacular volley if somebody's heid hadn't got in the way

Well, that and that fact that five times more people than you'll ever get inside Fir Park tend to make at least five times more noise

I was going to say that as well, but we didn't get into the UEFA Cup/Europa League by winning the Scottish Cup, we got into the Cup Winners' Cup

Funnily enough, main thing I find myself reflecting on this morning isn't the fact that we're out, but the unpleasant financial aspects of the UEFA competitions these days, i.e. inevitably making the rich clubs richer, and the poor clubs poorer. A win last night might well have seen us sign a couple of decent players either now or in January, increasing our chances of doing it all again next year, which of course is partly how the other top clubs manage to compete year after year. The loss means we might just about be able to attract some journeyman on loan for the rest of the season for a dogfight to scrape into the top six again. Of course, hypocritically I'd have bitten your hand off for the £1.5m as much as anyone, but it's a pretty depressing cycle, really.

I won't be looking at it at all. No Scottish clubs => not in the least bit interested

I'll be there on Sunday as well, but afraid I can't afford to fly over from Ireland every weekend

BBC video interview with Lars Olsen.

http://www.wishawpress.co.uk/wishaw-sport/...76495-27127091/

Ticket update on the 'fishel site:

Yup. All they need to do is stop us scoring, after all... on the plus side, they don't seem to have a very good record of doing that in recent times. But tbh I'll be surprised (and delighted) if we manage to stop them from scoring as well.

Doubt it... sorry for churning out an old cliché, but Thursday's game is pretty much our Europa League Final IMHO. If we make it through, there's zero pressure after that, because nobody will seriously be expecting us to qualify out of the group.

FT, 1-0!

Sounds like we're practising desperately defending a 1-0 lead for Thursday. Hope we do it more convincingly than this on Thursday.

4-0 Caley Thistle now!

Murphy on for Humphrey.

Craigan coming on for Page.

Caley Thistle 3 up at Tannadice now!

They do, but not today by the looks of it. They do have a twitter feed that's being updated today, but that's no better than watching the BBC live text commentary page, really...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bateman