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Ally Maxwell used to play Centre Forward for his BB team while he was the youth team goalie at Motherwell.

Steve McLelland - signed as a striker, and was pretty useless up front, but turned out to be a great defender.

Again - 7 years under many managers and the guy is still here. Either he offers the team something or every manager he has played under knows nothing about the game.

+1 for Porter. One of the most natural finishers I have seen at Fir Park.

I don't think you understood what I wrote. The managers that he has worked with (and there have been many) obviously believe he offers something to the team. So they don't share your opinion that he 'gets to do nothing' - otherwise they would have punted him. What 'we say' is irrelevant.

There's your answer. You don't stay with a club for 7 years if the management don't rate you.

I have been using that site for years and not seen any viruses.

The fact that Broon is trying to get Gow and Blackman shows what a limited imagination he has. Another reason I'm glad to the see the back of him when it comes to supplementing a squad. I'm hoping McCall's stint as a scout in the lower leagues will have alerted him to a few interesting possibilities.

So Walter Smith is in good company with you pair. I'd love to see the 18 team league too. I hate the split, but would even take a 14 team league with a 7/7 split over a 10-team effort any day.

That's why we should have brought Gannon back.

They did - just in slightly less direct language.

In McCall's early interview he seemed to think that he could replace outgoing players with the cash that was freed up.

You're lucky. My local team is the New York Red Bulls.

Alternatively: 14 team league. Pre-split all 14 play home and away = 26 games. Post split, play home and away = 12 games (including, most likely another 2 OF). It would mean a week off for each team after the split, but it solves a few problems in regard to playing an odd number of games after the split.

We do have play-offs for the drop and Europe. It's called the SPL.

People don't need to accept it - that's the point. The game relies on the paying customer. If it doesn't deliver to an acceptable standard, then no more customers.

See, you're falling into the same, short-term thinking. Right now, the level across the board is short on quality. Increasing the number of teams might not improve the quality overnight, but stands a chance of allowing teams to develop better players without every game being a relegation dogfight. But relegating 20% of the league every season will increase quality exactly how?

No, that was a stupid idea too - that's why we want to see an expanded league.

Change the 'o' to an 'au' and I think you have coined the perfect word for the new 10-Team SPL.

First of all, there are more players than there are clubs, and they can't all head down south. Even in the worst case, (such as the 70s) when large numbers of good Scottish talent headed that direction, the league managed to keep producing more. In the EPL at least, the 25 player rule is going to reduce the number of opportunities and increase the competition for places in the lower leagues as fringe players are edged out.

Similar comments here in regard to The Scotsman's article e.g.

Seems like Dundee Utd (plus a few others) are making the right noises. From today's Scotsman:

Sadly, I think that might be the case. The big 2 have a stranglehold on TV money and the 10 hangers-on are too scared to try and take it from them.

That was part of it. The other part, of course, was financial. When teams started to keep their gate receipts (rather than split them 50/50) playing the OF at home 4 times a year was a big deal (or at least, became much more important).

Yes.