Al B

Please stop that. Edit: Beaten to it...

I couldn't agree more, but as I understand it the point most are making is that this only works if you don't then have the stewards (who we're told to listen to), instructing everyone that the official line is to sit wherever you want. Seems the lack of consistency is the issue....if you want everyone to adhere to the instructions, then you have to be giving everyone the same ones. The place is a shambles and the sooner their wee amateur set-up is back where it belongs in a wee part-time league, the better.

I think the point he was making is that when you hear a scoreline of 4-1 it would normally suggest one of the teams had been good, but.....

All the £35 tickets sold out.

Phew.

Are you actually asking why Alan Campbell isn't in the midfield of the Scotland first team?

There's 5 or 6 I could pick for different reasons, all mentioned above...but I'm going for Bowman. I would happily have punted him into the sun last season as I genuinely believed he was terrible, but I'm absolutely delighted to have been completely wrong on that and he's still getting better and better every week. Aside from his attitude and work-rate, and him getting amongst the goals, he had a few touches yesterday which more than fell into the sublime category, killing a high ball with a single touch, reverse passes, back-heels...and none of them were just for effect, they all contributed to excellent passages of play. Haven't been so glad to be proven wrong on an initial assessment of a player in a long time.

Yeah I don't have a problem with Neil Lennon either, don't mind him at all.

What I like most about Campbell is his timing. There are a bunch of hard-tackling midfield players in most of the leagues in the country, but they tend to be more of the "go through everything and clean it out" type. Campbell just seems to have naturally impeccable timing in that although he's that type of player, his tackles are absolutely clean as a whistle. You can't really coach that into someone who doesn't have it, but he does in abundance and it's the difference between being a good midfielder with a decent career, and being a great one with a successful career.

You know we were actively TRYING to sell him though, right? Our club might well have instigated the call to get McHugh to talk Ben up.

I think you're missing the point. It's not about the negativity of your thoughts and opinions, but the drastic and noticeable change in your attitude. It genuinely is like someone else has put YaBezzer in a basement and then started using his login.

You've turned into the kinda guy that would actually vote for the best kid in a competition your son was in.

In the lead with 39% of the vote!

I quite like Hearts.

With respect, this and your following posts suggest it's you who needs to change rather than the society.

I'm not actually convinced he was signed with the intention of him starting, given the main hope for CB was the other dude that rejected our offer. It just so happened to turn out that he's an absolute JCB of a boy, and can play football as well. And he's 20. TWENTY!!

Finally got round to watching the highlights there. Have we ever had a centre half before that could even have spotted that through-ball to MacLean for the winner, let alone have the ability to play it?

It's not difficult to find out what happened during the Rangers loan for anyone that can work Google. It also doesn't help anyone to wildly speculate about specific's that are potentially quite damaging.

You're thinking of weight in the wrong sense. In sporting performance terms when people refer to "lightweight", it's a lack of strength, power, muscle stability and balance, rather than being the opposite of muscular weight. It's more down to an individual's physiological make-up than training. An example to put that into real terms that we as Motherwell fans have experience of, would be if you put Louis Moult onto a year-long nutrition and weight plan he'd be bigger, stronger and more muscular, but someone like Henrik Ojamaa would still be harder to knock off the ball. From a physiologial point of view, all the training in the world couldn't have turned Stephen Craigan into Shaun Hutchinson, or Ben Heneghan into Cedric Kipre, or Dom Thomas into Henrik Ojamaa. Just to take your point at face-value though, I'd imagine that any side who would be willing to spend 750,000 on Louis Moult, would be capable of spending 1m on someone they didn't have to put 6 months of work into. Again, I absolutely adore the guy, but I'm realistic enough to think that if you take away his passion and his charisma, it doesn't leave as much as we think it does...and it's that, that clubs would be buying. They don't care how he celebrates a goal, and on ability alone I think I could name 5 or 6 better strikers we've had in the last 10 years...none of whom we got that kind of money for. All just opinions obviously, and "internal Vs external value" in itself is an interesting point for discussion. Another example being the positive influence a player can be on other players at the club and the extra 10% his presence brings out of others (Scott McDonald on Lee Erwin for example), which adds massively to their value internally....but can't be included in their external value to a buying club.

I don't disagree about their quality as it's proven, but I wouldn't be surprised if Dorrans and Alves already don't want to be here.

Yeah Steven Thompson is probably paying attention to friendlies too.

I can't think of a side since I was born that Michael Higdon wouldn't improve.

Lot of people still being convinced by the Rangers name, same thing they get annoyed about the management and media doing. They are absolutely diabolical. If we lose it will be because we haven't done our job properly.