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Feels like a while since we played Raith Rovers, so a trip to Starks Park would be nice.

We seem to regularly turn in performances like this after an international break and the winter shutdown.

Telt ye.

Despite all the chat about new manager bounce, this is probably the best week to play them. They will either be playing with the old tactics, or taking a first shot at using some new ones. (Cue the Hibs goal that triggers the comeback).

Kipré was bought for our U20s, but he made the step up quite quickly. Pure speculation, of course, but I think his shot at the first team would have come quite quickly. Even if he ended up being loaned out a Championship team, I think he would learn more than playing Accies and Livingston another 15 times. I'm with you, though. The more often he plays for us, the better.

Great work from Hylton to set up the initial shot off the post.

I'd have taken the Norwich offer and got myself some EPL experience and coverage.

Then let's just keep him. As a fan owned club whose reason for existence is to entertain the crowd, there's a lot value in having him stick around for a while yet. No point in flogging all our best players before they manage a full season with the club. If he's happy to stay at Fir Park, I'm happy to watch him play.

We are. I see it listed as Live Video.

I don't think it's weird for a professional footballer. The op was preventative and obviously something all parties agreed was a good idea. A simple fracture in the leg would be minor too, but after 6 weeks in plaster, could still take some work to get back to full fitness.

From the Evening Times.

If we swapped Donnelly and Campbell for Allan and Mallan we wouldn't win a contested ball in the midfield for the rest of the season.

The link I posted contains no mock outrage. Just an explanation of why many Jewish football fans find it offensive, and how the vast majority of people who toss it around are not Jewish. Personally, I've never found a situation where I would need to use it, so it's no bother avoiding it and risk offending anyone.

That's because most of the people that use it aren't Jewish and many Jews see it as antisemitic.

Luckily the rest of the team was on sparkling form against Aberdeen or we could easily have lost 2 or 3 nil.

I don't mind Willie Miller's diatribes. I don't agree with them very often, but he doesn't hide his Aberdeen bias, so it's easy to filter out. Same for Richard Gordon or Tam and Stuart on Off the Ball. It's more annoying to me when pundits try and pretend they support a wee team when they are obviously OF fans. (Aye, I'm looking at you Chick Young).

So one bad game and we should drop our most creative player who helped boss Hibs the last time we played them? Sounds like a plan.

Aye, let's drop Polworth - one of our best performers this season - because he had an off day at Parkhead.

I see our ex-keeper is up against Falkirk's ex-keeper in the Euros tonight. Both seem to have done OK for themselves.

There's an article in The Scotsman today suggesting McPhee might still be in a with a shout for the job and Budge is happy to take her time. While the ghost of Levein is still haunting the board room, it sounds like Budge is considering McPhee as an interim until the end of the season and once they finally get shot of Craigy-boy, they can recruit a new director and manager. Of course, it's a journo article that may be well wide of the mark.

In playing style? Absolutely. And when I first started watching Hansen he was at Partick Thistle and only won the First Division title. One title less than Gallagher.

Every time I see him he reminds me more and more of Alan Hansen, another defender that made the game look easy.

Official site says he's contracted until May 2021.

People are overthinking this. When someone's contract is running down and you want to keep them, you offer a new contract - otherwise they likely leave. As a club, we tend not to stand in the way of people who want to leave - players or managers. (Most businesses are the same way, as it doesn't make sense to keep someone who is unhappy, and slavery has been illegal for quite some time). The compensation thing is a bit of a red herring. If Robinson just walked out today, breaking his contract, there's not much we could do except sue him personally - and I'd be surprised if we would get a year's salary from a case like that as it's not like we paid him the money up front. As far as Preston are concerned, if they get promoted and finish bottom of the EPL, they earn about £100 million then receive around another £42 million in parachute payments. Of course, if they stay in the EPL they earn a lot more. So that £3 million payment is 2% of 1 season's minimum potential earnings should Alex Neil succeed. If we asked clubs to pay 2% of one season's of Motherwell's potential earnings should Robinson succeed, we'd probably get a lot less than we are asking now.

Great news for Gallagher and another great advert for our club when we show potential signings how it can boost their career.