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Rumoured interest in guy from Morecambe http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/550799/Motherwell-target-Morecambe-midfielder-Ryan-Williams Listed as a striker on Morecambe's site, and scores a free kick here

Scotland and the rest of the UK are years behind in this regard. This issue bothers me since you would think a footballer would want to extend his career for as long as possible, and fitness/diet is one thing they can 100% control.

Another thing to consider is whether having a plastic pitch would put doubt in the mind of potential signing targets. I think that as these pitches improve we'll see more of them in Scotland, but while the plastic clubs are in the minority you've got to think that this would be a factor when a player is weighing up his options.

Here is one article talking about the perceived injury risk.

My guess is that rectifying the slope would prove to be a big obstacle on top of the cost of installing the pitch. It may be that the savings from being able to use it for u20s, u17s etc, and train on it (as well as income from leasing it out) could recoup that cost. We have a couple of case studies in Dunfermline and Hamilton and others to see if this is the case. I'm not convinced it will make a significant difference on the playing side though. Hamilton's success isn't due to their pitch, it is down to their players playing well under a manager that has a plan. I also think we've had these pitches around long enough that we can start to understand whether there really is an increase in injuries compared to grass.

You can lump Black in with all the out of contract players, as a problem that we'll deal with at the end of the season when we don't have to worry about paying them off (on the assumption that he can be let go at the end of the season).

He was on loan at Tranmere, so my guess is that he'll sign on there considering his history with them. Here is Jennings saying as much

Don't know, bit of a gamble.

He's English I believe.

Making an assumption that a player is from Africa because he is black? Requesting said black player goes back there either because he is an imposter, or he is from there?

Considering we can't replace a whole team, my guess is that a goalie is at the bottom of the shopping list. Thomas and Erwin looked handy when they came on, hopefully we see more of them. Watt looked shaky in spells but did ok considering Aberdeen were targeting him.

That's what everyone's Facebook page suggests, no?

would our slope cause issues with installing an astro?

For those that were there, was today similar to the last few games (saints and Patrick had many chances) but this time accies were more clinical with their finishng, or could it have been much more?

I think terry butcher did something like that, no sure it worked. With the transfer window opening, today was a timely reminder that we should probably try to freshen things up somehow, and that our troubles weren't just a case of bad tactics/coaching.

I didn't get carried away with our wee 7 point run, and I won't over react to this result either. The damage was done last summer, and through the lack of long term planning as mentioned above. The best we can do this year is to beat the other bad teams and then reshape the squad/club in the summer.

Doubt any other manager has been watching us this season thinking that any of our shite players could do such a good job for them that it would be worth paying them premier league wages. This constant 'offload' chat Is wishful thinking. That will happen in the summer. Any news on the fitness of vigurs and Lawson?

The best we can hope for is keeping ojamaa, getting vigurs and Lawson fit, and maybe one new face. As said above, the offloading will have to wait until the summer.

Done. The redirect to http://mfccommunitytrust.org.uk/ at the end of the survey seems to be broken, and the question about whether you want to donate stuff should have a "None" option.

The move that led to the goal started with a throw in! Their 'goal' looked in at first glance but I'll take a wee bit of luck for a change. The red was a red.

I don't think the twitter feed did us justice, interesting to hear some eye witness reports.

Second part of Les Hutchison interview.

They actually replied to me within the day, and were just as quick with my follow up questions.

When I contacted them via their web form the reply went to my spam folder (Gmail) so you might want to check that. Whoever the tech guy is for the society might want to look into that too.