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This Saturday's a big game, but win or lose I wouldn't give McCall all the credit for just a couple of days work. If people want immediate results, and think they can judge the guy on this weekend's performance, then they're deluded. I don't know what would have qualified as a great appointment this time round. When was the last time we had one (at the time, not in hindsight)? I'm sure that every appointment from McLean onwards has had its fair share of sceptics, I can't speak for the earlier ones but I'm sure they were the same. It will be nice when we can one day appoint a "Motherwell man" as manager, but who the guy played for really shouldn't come into it, he's not playing for them anymore and has a new job to do, and I'm confident McCall will give his all at FP, and we'll see what that amounts to. My opinion on McCall will be based on what he does from today onwards.

Seems pretty shitty, but could it not be down to a broadcasting rights issue?

As has been said countless times on this thread, Calderwood hardly achieved what he has done on a shoestring. Also, did he apply?

We've looked a fair bit more composed this half so far.

I bet on the ref falling over. Well, half time and it's only 1-0. Can't complain.

Gow is worse than George Weah's cousin

Just won a booking!

Celtic are playing well, but this is as hopeless as I've ever saw us. We are dreadful in every department.

We're looking pretty hopeless right now.

OK, this page suggests that Stuart McCall's win % is better than Motherwell's all time win % in the SPL. Got to love stats! Butcher, Brown, McGhee all won games at about the same rate.

I doubt the win % of most of our previous managers would have been much better.

I'm sure this isn't the first time we haven't got our first or even second choice candidate. These things happen all the time, they just aren't always played out in the media. Out of all the names mentioned over the past couple of weeks, Fenlon was the only one that I thought would be an exciting choice. McCall isn't a glamour appointment, but anyone who was expecting a big name or someone with an excellent track record is deluded. Look at the quality/experience of players we attract and that will tell you the kind of manager we're going to get. Very few managers are going to want to work with almost no money, and even the teams in the lower leagues of England have money to spend, add this to the fact the guy has to be unemployed and this is going to thin out the list of possibilities further. I don't care who our new manager used to play for, all I care about is how he manages MFC. He's obviously impressed the board enough for them to offer him the job, so I'll trust them on this one for the time being. One thing that seems to be lost on SPL teams these days is bringing through players and managers from the Scottish lower leagues. Is this a quality or a financial thing?

http://www.myp2p.eu

Looking good, very easy to navigate and seems to be running quicker. However, the "home" link doesn't work and Willie McLean's picture isn't there. Shambles.

Alexei Mikhailichenko, Andrei Kanchelskis, Tonton Zola Moukoko, Eddie Large

That confirms the Celtic connection then.

Bop said the other day that he hadn't been mentioned yet, so if he knows who it is it's prob someone mentioned in the last day. Seems kind of suspicious that he commented immediately after Jay mentioned Boy George though.

Who's name rhymes with comma? This must be a clue

Are we at the stage where people can start dropping hints in the form of puns? I love when folks get all pissy about that.

Well here's a list of managers with premiership experience.

He'd probably have to take a pay cut to come here.

Streamlining the management of the game is a must. The ratio of administrators to players must be frickin ridiculous! We also need to streamline the number of teams we have, and these decisions need to be made with the good of the game in mind, where "the game" is the sport of football and not the SPL. That's why we need some outsider to get involved, as we need some logical, impartial, thinking. I think it would be beneficial in the long-term if we lost our TV deal altogether. Then we really have to start from scratch, instead of trying to patch things up to keep the money coming in.

Who were the papers' favourites when McGhee and Gannon were appointed? Ian McCall? Owen Coyle?

We used to get 10k at old firm games, and a fair few away fans from Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen. Chances are the dip in home support isn't as dramatic as the change in away support. There's also the kick-off times, cost, dick head stewards, TV, and the fact that it's shite.

You need to queue up one at a time to get in, otherwise it crashes. It's the website equivalent to newsagents and schoolkids at lunchtime.