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56 minutes ago, capt_oats said:
LOL.
Just to update on this, I know you were sceptical from the start but apparently the "source" of this is Motherwell fan forums? c**t's just made it up.
there was some Dundee UTD page on facebook, running through every position on the pitch and recommending 4 signings the club could make and Bevis popped up in that.
probably more likely.
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6 hours ago, MurrayWell said:
While I don't think it was a red, I also don't really get the reaction.
Interesting to hear Kettlewell and some of the players saying the referee's attitude was absolutely stinking all day, so perhaps it's the flash point in an overly frustrating game.
Feels like this is a wider issue, rather than just one decision.
Fwiw, I always think that particular referee has it in for us.
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12 hours ago, well fan for life said:
Doubt it. He was out of contract so we were due whatever compensation amounts to these days.
We've fumbled a lot of things in the last few years but that's got to be the worst of them.
I think there are wee quirks like that even in OOC deals these days. You can negotiate the compensation down, for add ons.....I THINK.
Was there not something similar in Campbell's deal for Luton.
I could be miles off it.
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28 minutes ago, santheman said:
I've always thought you should have to pass some kind of intelligence test before they let you have a social media account.
how do we see this?
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13 hours ago, capt_oats said:
What is this witchcraft?
credit where credit is due, I know it ultimately boils down to the player wanting to stay but convincing him Fir park is the best place for his development is good going.
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15 hours ago, Busta Nut said:
There is a lot of apologist stuff goin on for him cos we've managed to scrape a lot of draws. In reality we're baws. Terrible to watch. He sticks with his weird 5-2-3 formation regardless of who's in the team or what changes he makes. The defence has been stinking all season and there's been zero attempt to rectify that. (I mean the centre, not the 18 WBs we signed). We go behind a lot, often against teams we could have beaten.
I could not agree more re the lack of rectifying the centre of Defence. I thought that should have been priority number one in January, Regardless of how many centre backs we had signed.
I do disagree with us being terrible to watch though. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't say we are good to watch, cause that implies consistently good, and whilst we have been a very tough watch at times, I think middle to front we can be very easy on the eye. I think the goal of the season reel in may will be a corker.
Anyway, my piece on Kettlewell, Job seems done this season. If he can sort out the defence, which I probably trust him with on the basis he has made more good signings than bad (I think) then excellent. We as a club need the stability given everyone over his head doesn't have a clue what's going on right now.
The Bair, Moses Davor trio is something I've bought into for next season.
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4 minutes ago, capt_oats said:
What's interesting about that is that it was co-written with Max Handleman
I wonder if that is who he co-founded the company for fantasy football games with?
@capt_oats the more i'd read into him the more I leaned away from the documentary idea.
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2 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:
Isn't Netflix $14b in debt?
Nae idea, good job he doesn't work there if they are though.
Got his own company now called Wild sheep content.
he appears to have been been a co founder in a company that developed fantasy football style games for major media companies, which i suppose could be very profitable in the US as well.
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4 minutes ago, dezz said:
Working for a North American company, every man and their dug is a Vice President of something over there. Hopefully being a VP at Netflix holds a bit more weight than being VP at Goldman Sachs for example …..
some googling flung up this;
- Netflix pays its employees 25% to 50% more than competitors, with entry-level coordinators making six figures and vice presidents earning a minimum of $1 million, sources told the Hollywood Reporter.
also a mention of 5% stock included as well, Netlfix is worth 272 billion, so no idea what equates too.
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This guys plan is to basically do a Wrexham isn't it. Fire out a fly on the wall Netflix Documentary and hope it takes off in the same fashion.
Every report i've read refers to it as a Scottish Wrexham.
Does anyone have the slightest idea how much this guy is worth?
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16 hours ago, capt_oats said:
I don't think it's wide of the mark to say that Biereth was, legitimately, one of the best strikers in the league. I know there's been chat along the lines of he must have ended up with us by mistake but there's a fair amount of credit due for getting him in even if it was a deal that ultimately booted us squarely in the baws.
That was me. And whilst I do firmly believe it was a total fluke we got him, I totally agree that the club are due a lot of credit for making it happen.
He looks as though he could go on to have a very very good career at a top level, and it will be one of those where folk are like mind when Biereth was at Motherwell.
Like Aaron Mooy at St Mirren, just a lot better.
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Just now, VincentGuerin said:
A lot of things were said about VAR. Few of them turned out to be true.
But I think we'd all agree that you can't award a penalty without checking you're not ignoring an obvious offence by the attacking team.
That means you simply have to take the time to check. You can't say "You've got 30 seconds" or there's no point.
That is very true.
I understand that point, I think that is where I am coming from though with the 'stripping it back to the basics' Before VAR was introduced, things were missed, it was human error and fans can eventually accept it, which I think is a far more healthy position to be in that the one we are currently in.
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5 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
Time limits don't work because with a lot of decisions you need to check more than the incident itself.
For example, if an attacking team is awarded a penalty for a handball, they also need to check that there wasn't an offence committed by the attacking team in the build-up to that, which would mean no penalty.
You often just can't do that quickly. So, a time limit would mean delaying the game and getting inaccurate decisions, making the whole thing just completely pointless.
Say Motherwell are awarded a penalty for hanball, but VAR doesn't bother to go back and check to realise that two Motherwell players were offside before that or that there was a foul by a Motherwell player. Giving the penalty in a rush would be even worse than what we have now.
Of course, the whole thing should just be in the bin?
Was VAR not brought in with the understanding that games wouldn't be re-refereed?
again, I don't have any right or wrong answers, it's not my job. VAR over analyses every decision, could we strip it back to the basics, and let the referee and his officials deal with the rest of the game.
Would I want rid, absolutely, I just can't see it happening.
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1 hour ago, thisGRAEME said:
Actually agree with this, tbh. Having a fucking omnipotent all seeing eye wading into games willy-nilly is somehow even worse. Referees actually dealing with the players throughout the game should be making the ultimate decision.
Not a nip at you, but all the "well the rules need to change in X,Y,Z way" drives me daft. It's the same with people wanting offside changed in some way because they wanted definitive answers to offside, got definitive answers to offside, then replied "Actually no we don't want that!".
Just get rid, it's fucking boring, makes the game actively worse as a matchday experience, and gives additional oxygen to the worst people in the world arguing about it. I said from the off that people thought VAR would genuinely just give them decisions they want, which is a very football fan way to approach this, but that's an absolutely mad way to approach anything. Get rid.Yeah, as mentioned, my only issue with offside is the length of time it takes, even clear offsides are taking minutes. But you can't argue with the technology, user error aside, it is correct 100% of the time.
on the other point, 'just get rid' whilst I 100% agree with that, and all your other points re matchday experience, making the game worse etc, I think it's fantasy land stuff. So coming up with ways to improve the use of it and ultimately get it working in a way, that supporters and clubs are accepting off, Happy probably to strong a word.
I have no idea if it would be possible (someone somewhere must know) if there is a good v bad type stat, which is very subjective from club to club obviously.
I'd be over the moon to be proven wrong, I just can't see how the League/clubs would invest X amount and bin it so quickly.
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On the whole VAR chat, and how long it takes to come to a decision, could you put in some sort of limit. Say 30 seconds?
If a decision is clear and obvious, you will see that within 30 seconds. Watching the same thing, multiple times, from multiple angles really boils down to the referee not having a clue.
A reasonable time limit surely takes away a lot of the things the fans hate, ie time taken to get the game restarted, Games being re-refereed etc, i suppose it gives the referee the chance to see it once more and to make a decision, as opposed to freeze frames, slo mo replays and the likes
The offside one is difficult, as far as I am aware, it is the one thing the system gets 100% right all of the time, albeit I have certainly debated a few. And as we seen in the Prem, it still comes down to officials not making a pigs ear of it. But 2-3 minute delays to draw lines when we are really talking toe nails surely isn't the answer, saying that, I don't know what the answer is.
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I see that's Brighton and Brentford now looking to jump on the bandwagon of buying to Scottish Clubs, Both looking at Dundee Utd.
On the face of it, that is probably two teams you wouldn't mind chipping in, from the outside, seem well run.
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Am I missing something Re Nicholson, is he not only on a 6 month deal?
or are we assuming he will extend?
fwiw, quite keen to see Moses as well.
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13 minutes ago, capt_oats said:
Aye. I had a laugh when I saw that. Like...you don't actually need to say that now. Folk like him. It's fine.
All about the brand.
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18 hours ago, CoF said:
Can't quite recall which came first, but as a 12 year old I was kicking about Larkhall in these beauties.
i picked up that half and half kit in a chairty shop for a tenner about a year ago, along with the motorola xara away top for another tenner.
my first top though was the home top from the same season, still got it.
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34 minutes ago, Gianfranco said:
It’s quite disappointing him and Ferrie couldn’t get much game time in their loan spells.
I thought he looked pretty decent albeit against Elgin City. But west of Scotland league is quite a drop, especially for someone at 19.
Might just be me, and it is actually a good move, time will tell
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I also totally forgot Odense went down to 9 men, albeit late on according to the report.
I vaguely remember Blackman missing an absolute sitter as well.
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16 minutes ago, Swello said:
I would argue that for teams of our size, a competition that - on a good year - you could conceivably compete and achieve group stage football is a far bigger prize than the dull procession of losses against teams from a different level that we experienced in a lot of our qualifications.
Losing to Odense in the EL Playoff will always be one the very sorest losses for me because it was two teams from the same planet football-wise, getting pumped by Panathinaikos, not so much.
I shudder at the chances we missed at Fir Park
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Just seen this on twitter, be a laugh at least.
𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 | Dennis Bergkamp, Dirk Kuyt, Henrik Larsson, Ronald Koeman are looking to BUY a club in England! 
The aim is a League One/Two club at this point. Larsson wants to be head coach, Bergkamp will set up the academy, whilst Koeman will also have a role somewhere.
They are working with agent Rob Jansen who confirmed the news to podcast 'Keift Janson Egmond Gjip'!
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13 minutes ago, Neil86 said:
I am sure I've said similar in the past, for all the apparent interest in him, the only two acceptable offers we received were Celtic and Norwich, from memory.
If you asked me then who I'd have chosen, Celtic is an absolute no brainer, going for 10, European football, staying close to your family v Norwich reserves which is where I am sure he was told he would start.
I think Turnbull was unfortunate as well with the timing, the success of Scots in Italy came maybe 6 months later, Hickey, Doig, Ferguson.
Now more often or not, when a young Scottish player comes through there seem's to be genuine interest from the continent off the back of the success of the one's mentioned above, Max getting his move to Austria, albeit slightly different as he was OOC, but 3-4 years ago I doubt that's a move that would have happened.
Just seen @crazylegsjoe_mfc response as well, which isn't actually something I'd considered with his agent touting him to the full of Europe, which kind of makes sense. Cause like everyone, Italy looked like the perfect fit.
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Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons
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Probably an argument for it not even being his best goal in that game.