Personally, I'd be most worried that it ended up costing the club money. Travel to arse end of nowhere + having to find another ground to play our home leg + potentially getting pumped out at the first hurdle while the players are still half a stone overweight from their holidays, doesn't really make for a very attractive financial proposition...
Clicky
"Rab was signed from dunfermline athletic and he was the club's top scorer as they won promotion in 1984/85 with 9 goals to his name. he was capable of performing well out wide or through the middle, he was very fast and while at fir park he did pick up a few injuries which sidelined him for months. he joined falkirk in 1985, he was also part of the deal which brought crawford baptie to fir park. he scored 10 goals in his 'well career."
Not exactly a mine of footballing information, but lists some former clubs at least:
Trashy article from some downmarket tabloid
And
scoring for Dunfermline against Rangers.
Ireland *is* abroad Well, except for me of course... would just be typical if we were to get an Irish team though, cos I'm off at a conference on Gran Canaria from the 2nd-9th July
Aye, he's about the only player who hasn't pulled out
http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8...5282701,00.html
Seriously, though, well done Clarky-- I'm sure your Uncle Phil would have been proud.
Having been to Motherwell in South Africa, I can only hope any teams practising there are employing some decent protection... it's a bit of a murder hotspot!
Or we could just turn into another Ireland, where thousands more people leave the country every weekend to watch games in England and Scotland than stay at home to watch their own top league, and any Irish player who can stand upright and kick a ball can't wait to go and play elsewhere either...