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Yes. http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2016/12/16/turnbull-extends-contract/

His contract expires next year. It was announced as a 1 year deal but presumably there's been a low key extension.

O'Halloran? He was born in Glasgow and has played with Scotland through the age groups. We've been linked with him fairly consistently over the past few windows so there's a reasonable amount of what his agent is saying stacks up. I'm pretty sure there were mentions on here that he was someone we had been speaking to in January but were miles apart in any sort of agreement. I'd imagine the landscape may have changed for him given his current situation at Ibrox. We don't play with wingers and I don't see us switching from the back 3 with wing backs any time soon. O'Halloran isn't a wing back so if we were interested in signing him it'd presumably be to play as a striker (where he's played on occasion for St Johnstone) or off the forwards in the sort of area Tanner operates. On the face of it I'd have said that O'Halloran would be the type of player we'd have liked Petravicius to be (but clearly isn't).

Not quite correct. The Sheffield United news piece says he's one of the players who remain under contract at the club who available for transfer or loan. https://www.sufc.co.uk/news/2018/may/retained-list/

Unless I'm being whooshed that is literally what is happening, no? http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2018/04/18/motherwell-enter-partnership-with-ticketmaster/

Entirely unrelated to the cup final/new shirt chat but this has put me in mind of something that I'd been wondering for a while. I picked up a sponsorless version of the 09-10 Canterbury shirt a while back and it's an elastane fabric (in the same vein as Kappa etc) rather than polyester which is what the other replica versions of the same shirt are tagged as. It's legit tagged and everything but it's got a number on the back but it's not printed on it's actually part of the jersey which seems a bit weird. Similarly the Canterbury logo is embroidered on the replicas but it's part the shirt on the elastane one. Anyway, at the risk of going off on a tangent I was wondering if anyone on here knew the script? Bootleg Motherwell shirts seem like they'd be a pretty niche market. Did we have a different player issue version of those shirts? FWIW: fan of the form-fitting jerseys here.

Craigan spoke about the trialists for the u20s & the bounce game in his interview post-match the other day (2min 31).

It's a fake Twitter account mocked up to look like the official one. Unverified and with something like 5 followers.

Link here: http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/7723

I see ticketing for both Hearts and Hibs is on a Ticketmaster platform. I'd presume ours will be a similar set up. Edit to add: Hibs have no admin fees and no admin fee for printing at home so that matches with the info from MFC. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/hibernianfc/Common/CustomerNotice/TicketingInformationAndFees Hearts charge booking fees sniders that they are: https://www.eticketing.co.uk/heartofmidlothian/Common/CustomerNotice/TicketingInformationAndFees

Found it: "To be honest I like centre back more than left back but throughout my whole career the majority of the time I've played left back which I enjoy as well but I like playing centre back more."

IIRC in one of the videos that went up around the time he signed he straight up said he preferred playing centre half and that's how he saw himself. The gist seemed to be that he'd only been playing full back/wing back because that's where his managers had been picking him on account of his pace. It wasn't his preference.

He's got a year to run on his deal at soon to be relegated Bury. https://www.transfermarkt.com/tom-aldred/profil/spieler/95076

Speaking of context it's worth pointing out that Kipré's current deal expires in 2019. Taking that into account it's not necessarily the case the other 3 are players whose contracts expire in the summer.

^^^^^ Absolutely this. Put bluntly and regardless of percieved "effort" or whether he's "fat" even this version of Ciftci is a better footballer than Bowman, Petravicius and Newell. He's also a better footballer than Fisher, Blyth, Belic, Robinson, Fletcher et al. "We can do better" is quite a bold claim given we've done plenty worse in recent seasons.

Strongly agree.

Lennon was on pre-match before the Accies v Celtic game and admitted he's been looking at Crawford for Hibs.

It's definitely a contributing factor. The majority of the games since the winter break we were starting with a front 3 of Main, Ciftci and Tanner. The run of fixtures through December we were clearly chopping and changing the starting line-ups eg: Bowman + Fisher (vs Hearts + Killie), Petravicius (vs Thistle), Tanner (vs Dundee) or Newell (vs Accies). It's also fair comment to point out the number of players who were either out injured or visibly carrying injuries in those games. For avoidance of doubt the point of my post on P&B isn't that Ciftci's been better than he has it's simply that we've been more effective in terms of results with a front pairing of Main & Ciftci (+ Tanner) starting than we have with Bowman + a cast of thousands (Moult excluded).

Need to listen to it to find out. That's some quality trailering from Busta right there.

Our away form is significantly worse than our home form. If anything has stopped us from being comfortably in the top 6 it's that. We've lost 5 of 16 at home (Rangers, Aberdeen, Hibs, Accies and Killie). We've lost 9 of 15 away (including St Johnstone, County, Thistle, Accies). We've taken 23 points at home (which is the same as Rangers have at Ibrox) but our away record is the equivalent of Dundee's (14 points). http://www.soccerstats.com/homeaway.asp?league=scotland

The subject title is game 33. HTH.

Extended his contract last July. It's up in 2019. http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2017/07/26/mchugh-pens-contract-extension/