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Yes, we can recall him anytime we like.

Certainly carved himself a niche in our history books, but was always going to find it hard to focus on getting back in the first team after his off-field shenanigans.

Only if the referee considers the contact was made "carelessly, recklessly or with excessive force". And they're all pretty vague terms that basically mean we're always going to have annoying inconsistencies and bad decisions. (Since the only one of those three that results in a caution is being "reckless", we can only guess that's what the ref thought on this occasion... unless Cadden was just booked for complaining, in which case, he might just have been "careless"...)

To be honest, the first time I watched it, even having heard it was never a penalty and expecting that to be clearly the case, it did look to me like Holt kicked the ball, and Cadden kicked Holt's foot. Totally unintentional though it was, and as much as a meal as Holt made of it, if that's what actually happened then I suppose it was technically a foul, albeit an incredibly soft one.

https://twitter.com/GavinMcCafferty/status/692651305240825856

That's always the annoying thing though, isn't it... an English Premiership team would probably always pay more for a Championship or League One player than they'd pay for that same player from a Scottish Premiership team, just because transfer fees down there are so grossly over-inflated.

I agree there's no reason whatsoever for them to acknowledge it, but given that Eddie Howe played in the same Bournemouth team as our assistant manager for six years, it's certainly not impossible that they still talk and that Marvin has come up in conversation.

I see big Esteban has scored 22 goals in 19 games so far this season. Mibbes we should get him back

To be fair, I seem to remember he was regarded as having a ton of potential when he joined us... for whatever reason, he just never showed any of it.

Like all sponsors, they'd also be considering what's in it for them, and it's hard to imagine how a deal with us would do anything at all to increase their brand awareness or increase sales.

We'll be 3 up inside 10 minutes at this rate.

Updates and photos on 'fishel Twitter and from Flow since last night. Pitch was being cleared until late last night, undersoil heating's been on since Thursday, not covered (because apparently that's not what you do for snow), clearing last of crusted snow this morning, volunteers helping to clear surrounding areas.

Somebody wandering round the track selling macaroon bars and spearmint chewing gum.

Dylan Mackin and David Ferguson have joined Airdrie on development loans. http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2016/01/06/young-duo-join-airdrie-on-loan/

Pretty poor standard of "gossip", the club announced it themselves days ago!

His arm is at full stretch above his head. Deliberate or not, that's a pretty unnatural position when you're running around on a football pitch.

Not saying it appeared to be the case here, but there doesn't have to be contact for it to be a free kick. "Attempting to kick or trip an opponent" is a foul whether you hit the guy or not.

The added time board is only a minimum. Ref can add as much as he sees fit over and above that.

Trouble is, by protecting yourself with your hands, one could argue you're deliberately moving your hands into the path of the ball. So is that "on purpose" or not? The laws of the game only specify that "handling the ball deliberately" is an offence, they say no more than that. Of course, common sense dictates that protecting yourself from a blooter in the face is normally a reflex rather than a deliberate action... but most refs aren't particularly known for their common sense.

If it were a truly random draw, which is presumably the ideal, that sequence would be exactly as likely to happen as any other. (Reminds me of Apple having to make the shuffle feature on their iPods less random, because people thought it wasn't random enough -- just because it sometimes played two songs from the same artist one after the other...)

Fair enough then Fishel Twitter said 5477.

We didn't today either: 5477 - 546 = 4931

I'd have thought he'd be more likely to make an appearance if we're 3-0 up and cruising than if we're scrapping for a late equaliser.

Yep, just a classic case of youthful inexperience. The fact that Celtic scored from it might not be a bad thing... might make him think twice about diving in too early next time.

There's already a button for people who didn't go or didn't have an opinion -- it's the "Show Results" button. Beats me why anyone would press Null Vote instead if they didn't even go to the game... kind of worrying for the future governance of the country if folk can't even vote properly on a fitba' website