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Not wrong. Cadden, though - get in.

So did Livi.

Need another 3 before I start feeling comfortable.

And one on target for us.

"Curtis Main takes a touch too many"

Not even for overseas subscribers it seems. I wish the web site didn't advertise audio only streams as if they were video.

It's the paid subscription site for viewers outside UK and Ireland. https://tv.motherwellfc.co.uk

I see it listed on the MFC TV website now, so looks like we should be good.

Happy to see Bigi and Turnbull both start. At least showing a little bit of creative ambition.

Aye, that too. I was just hoping it was a public relations spiel while he changes things behind the scenes. Unlikely, I know.

The bit where he didn't think much needed tweaked as far as systems were concerned? Or the bit where he said we didn't have the players to change it anyway? Not very inspiring.

He couldn't be worse than Main is right now. Plus he has a track record of scoring goals in teams that are playing like they are about to be relegated.

That's right. I think, at least part of the development fee, is still formula driven - depending on things like the level the signing team plays at. So as long as we don't do anything that prevents it being applied we should still get a few quid.

I would say that makes it even more impressive given their relative success from vastly reduced pool of players.

Not every move out the club will generate us a wadge of cash. We have taken advantge of the transfer rules many times (like getting Chris Porter on a free) and done some great deals (Ojamaa and Anier for example). We even managed to get money for Moult from PNE when he could have signed a pre-contract and gone for free. Not to mention the deals we got for guys like Henighan and Hall. So if, once in a while it doesn't work out to our full advantage, we can't complain too much.

Looks like St Mirren usually have a live stream (run by students from the University of the West of Scotland), so that suggests it will be available. Nothing confirmed on their (or our) official channels though.

To answer my own question, I came across this article today. Apparently Athletic Bilbao's Academy has produced 85% of their team. For the past 5 years, at least 2 academy players have graduated to the first team (and they have never been relegated). That's pretty impressive.

You must be reading different posts from me because the ones I have seen have blamed Robinson for everything from our league position to the post-Brexit Irish Border problem

Might just be we have a couple of injury doubts so we wanted to make sure we had cover if required.

The question is which leagues do better than this? (I don't know, but if any do, we need to follow). The biggest issue I can see is the increasing impatience of fans. You need look no further than than here to see to people complaining about lack of youngsters in one post and slagging off young players in the next post on a different thread. Fans say they are willing to accept the massive swings in form from youngsters and the stupid mistakes they make while they are developing, but when they do happen, most of the same people are up in arms. It's not an easy problem to solve at either end of the table. The only team that has had some success with it in recent times was Hearts - and that was because they had a massive points deduction and no money at the time, and were already doomed to relegation. As soon as they overcame that, they went back to throwing money at their problems. Let's face it - if teams could achieve the same level of success with less money spent on players, they'd be all over it. As I've said before, I agree our game needs a complete overhaul, but I doubt those at the top have any real interest in addressing the problems.

Looks nothing like John Reilly.

I'd be there in a heartbeat if I had the chance. I've seen plenty of terrible 'Well teams and plenty of terrible games, but it was always a case of "never again" until about 2 days before the next one - then off we'd go again.

"Can we not play more youngsters?" "Great to see Cadden establish himself as a first team regular" "He's wasted at wing back" "He has limited skill" "No ability" "Good riddence" "Can we not play more youngsters?"

You would.