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He must have the best league record against Rangers for Motherwell managers in the past 20 years or so. Even so, I wasn't expecting anything from this game, and didn't even bother getting up early to watch the first half.

Who'd have guessed we'd go on to lose against Rangers after they went down to 10 men?

I'd imagine our club didn't have much choice. Football sold its soul to the TV companies a long time ago, and if they are happy to move it, we basically get zero input. There isn't a club on the planet that wants to kick off at noon or 12:30pm on a Sunday (or a Saturday), but we are subjected to them every weekend. Doncaster wanted it moved. Rangers wanted it moved. Sky wanted to televise it. Game over.

I liked big Chas - especially when he played more centrally. Good in the tackle. Not so good in the pass, but fine when he keeps it simple. I prefer tackling defenders over the flashy wing-back type, but I'm old-school.

Good point. And McLair was Director of Man U's youth academy for a number of years before his brief stint as National Performance Director for the SFA.

New no 2 at Old Trafford. New COO at St Mirren. Manager of Belgium national team (currently ranked 2). We're just a conveyor belt for top class coaches.

steelboy's bedroom wall...

Maybe some people will be happier if we have an extended run of 8th and 9th place finishes and annual Betfred fixtures against Queens Park. I'll take the top 6 finishes and Euro games every season.

Maintains or improves the country's coefficient which determines how many club teams they can enter into the European competitions each season, and at what stage they enter. Details here if you need some sleep. Bigger payout to the associate clubs from UEFA via solidarity payments (worth £210k to us last financial year). Doesn't mean to say I want them to win, but any and all Scottish teams doing well in Europe does bring benefits.

I always enjoyed a McGhee press conference. Full of entertainment value.

If Sky agreed, nobody else would get a meaningful say anyway.

With a minimum of 6 cameras and the build up for all goals scored to be checked, you'd have to think offside will be looked at.

I'd add Gregor Stevens to that list.

Delighted... for Jack Ross. Their chairman's statement says: "“Our hope in appointing Shaun Maloney as a young, highly regarded coach was that he would help us take the club forward, but ultimately it didn't work out." Just in case sacking Ross (10 days before they played in a cup final) wasn't sufficient evidence the chairman is clueless, he thought a new coach would make a significant impact in 120 days.

If we need to choose between getting papped out of Europe by a wee team or papped out the regional League Cup group by a wee team, we get more money for a Europap.

Agreed. After years of practise, I'm pretty good at avoiding or ignoring all things OF related.

The CL has all sorts of weird rules baked in to ensure the big boys get more than they deserve. They're trying to confirm a rule change where teams that don't qualify at all get to play if they have a "high historic coefficient ranking". It's just a backdoor effort to rebuild the European Superleague, but it gets closer every day. As people will know from my posts, I'm no fan of the Old Firm, but I still think it's ridiculous that the Champions from our league have to go through more qualification rounds than teams that finish 4th in the EPL. Again, it's all about protecting the wealthy and making sure they get richer while sporting fairness and integrity becomes a distant memory.

I think you're right. It would likely maintain or boost our coefficient for future seasons, but no more than that. I think we are at our max for Euro spots. I don't see it happening though.

Aye, as long as Hibs don't win the Scottish Cup then top 5 will get a Euro spot of some kind.

Is it true they only considered him for the job because he was born after our infamous 1977 cup tie victory?

From sparky to C-Level executive. Not too shabby.

I've been seeing that rumour for a while. Certainly be a great opportunity for Las, but a bit weird for Robbo to have him has a new boss.

If you follow that approach you'll just end up with technically excellent, tactically astute football players. Don't want any of that nonsense near Scottish Football!

Whoever we bring in, the one guarantee is that there will be people on here posting they're not good enough after 45 mins of game time.