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You mean Chalmers? or Clarkson? Or Ainsworth? Or Dom Thomas (who we tied down on a deal earlier in the season)? I have no idea how good a signing he'll be, but this forum was full of posters gagging for him to be signed last season.

Aye, Clarkson was playing at Fir Park when O'Donnell returned in 2004 and that's when he picked up the "Uncle" tag.

Clarkson is an interesting one. Started last season on fire then only scored one goal in 2015. He should get plenty of chances, so hopefully he brings his shooting boots.

Erwin back on loan would do fine.

Even in his latest interview he says he is an "out and out winger". Let's just sign someone to get on the end of his crosses.

Delighted to see him pen a new deal. Nothing beats watching a winger in full flight, and he has the right product with his crosses too. As others have said, he can also put one of the sweetest strikes on a ball I have seen at Fir Park.

Surprised Aberdeen didn't go for one of the goalkeeper coaching experts on here.

You say that like it would be a bad thing.

That was my original thought when the kit launch was delayed. Double announcement.

I was thinking Vigurs and Lawson.

Tweet(@MotherwellFC): @Malloyal All going well, there will be some good news to report on the player front tomorrow! :-) Which by our standards means nothing will happen tomorrow, this thread will go into meltdown, signing news will be reported on Thursday soon to be followed by a string of complaints about who we brought in.

Credit where it's due - I found it on google, but it's actually hosted by the guys at Fir Park Corner: http://www.motherwell-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/motherwell_loses_a_great__andy_paton_has_died_824071/index.shtml

Here's the team photo (with names) of that Cup Winning team

He will be be VIGOURSLY AGAINST!!!!!!

That's a fair point. He did have to make a big step up, and that takes time. (Unlike his brother who made a big step down and dropped his performance level).

There's a really interesting interview with McCall out there on YouTube somewhere, as part of the play off conversations. He's pretty candid about what happened. Basically, he says while others suggested he leave on a high after the Aberdeen game to finish second, he really wanted one more crack at the cups with us. After the injury crisis and the early cup exits, he admitted that he found it hard to motivate himself to give it everything each day to fight for what was likely to be, at best, at battle for 7th or 8th place. He obviously still had strong emotions for our club, and was visibly upset when discussing the possibility that he might relegate us. You can tell he holds his time with us in high regard and still has a lot of good friends at Fir Park. I certainly don't have issues with him on a personal level - he seems like a genuine guy and I'd happily have a beer with him. I wouldn't have him back as a manager, though, as a club like ours always needs to be moving forward.

Moore was much better than McHugh in the U20s, but suffered from lack of opportunity with McCall. He had a great partnership with Erwin and it's a shame we won't see that in the the first team. As long as his injury hasn't crocked him I think he has a good chance of making an impact.

Exactly this.

The only reason it's being delayed is so they can have Skippy wearing it when he signs his new contract.

While not great, the good news is that we do seem to have implemented a new scouting system (using the Moneyball kind of approach), so that should still be in place. As for proactive, we re-signed Pearo and managed to lock down Dom Thomas. However, the nature of the beast these days is that agents won't let their players sign any contract until they have squeezed every possible offer out of every possible club, and they takes a few weeks. Also, there was uncertainty which league we'd be in and, even if the budget wasn't to be cut after relegation, I'm sure a number of targets would be reluctant to play in the Championship. In our most successful seasons we have been doing business all summer and even after the deadline. Last season, we had most of our business transacted early and that turned out to be a bit of a disaster. It's still a buyers' market, though.

From what they said in one of the Q&As, that is the kind of thing they are working towards, but they have a number of different databases that have been used over the years and it's a fairly large job to consolidate them into a single list. I'm sure once they manage that, a subscription to MailChimp will do the job.

It's June. No rush.

Aye, it's an old MFC TV interview that was never removed after MFC TV was abandoned in favour of Youtube.

Amongst the shite we still had wins against Utd and ICT. I'm pretty sure we will be better this season. Of course, maybe we could ask not to play them this season in case we lose.

It's not easy, but our recent form against Inverness & Hearts away and Dundee Utd at home has been pretty decent.