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Wonder if he's managed to pass it on to any England players ?

What is the basis for Ethan Ross being worth anywhere near £200,000 compensation? Not complaining like, just wondering ?. He's barely started a game for us. It can't have cost that much to develop each player in our youth team. Considering what we paid for Ferguson from Hamilton, who was recognised as being a really good prospect, it doesn't make much sense. Ross is nearly 20 and hasn't got anywhere near the first team really.

Aye, could be an issue I suppose ? I blame Marshall entirely Rico. His job is to protect the goal, we should not be in danger of conceding a goal just because we lose the ball mid way inside the opponents half. There were two defenders goal side of the Czech player so Marshall had no need to be anywhere out there. This whole sweeper keeper thing is plain stupid, started by Neuer and become some kind of cool trend because of how Liverpool and Man City play. Marshall almost came a cropper from it in the first half when he rushed from his box to clear into the stand but seemed to forget that putting it in row Z does not work when there is another ball immediately available for the opposition to take a quick throw. The whole playing out from the back thing is ridiculous too, players have forgotten how to defend. Almost every Czech chance yesterday came from us dicking around at the back instead of just hoofing it clear when we needed to.

Could not believe my lugs listening to McFadden in commentary yesterday. He was slating Jack Hendry for the second goal and never even mentioned Marshall! It was comedy goalkeeping at best, if Marshall was back in his box that goal would never have happened. Despite all the preparation it amazes me that Clarke still does not know his best team. Marshall, Robertson, O'Donnell, Tierney, McTominay and McGinn seem to be constants albeit Tierney has injury issues. Apart from that it really could be any 5 from about another 15 names. Don't think I saw any of the so called experts guess that Armstrong or Christie would start yesterday. Noticed a few starting to get on the bandwagon suggesting Dykes is not good enough, the sportsound guys were questioning it yesterday. I think him and Adams link up pretty well and hope they both get a start in the next game. Also, a lot of the pundits seem to have harshly written off McGregor with a big clamour suddenly for Gilmour to start based on half an hour against a dismal Luxembourg team. Next team should be: Gordon O'Donnell Gallagher Hendry Tierney/McKenna Robertson McGregor McTominay McGinn Forrest Adams Dykes

Hope you are right with the away shirt Chris, like the look of that. Similar to one of the Abtrust? ones back in the 90s.

Don't see why all the negativity about O'Donnell, he's not a world beater but at the same time he's a dependable full back. His delivery into the box is also decent. We have had a lot worse right backs. More worried about the fact Hanley seems to have played his way into the starting line up. He has been culpable for more goals going into our net over the last 10 years than most. An accident waiting to happen. In fairness to Patterson and to add some balance to the paranoid out there, he must be a good prospect to have broken through into the hun first team because they generally have zero inclination to blood their young scottish players.

Clarke does not seem to have a scoob about what is his first choice defence. First he gives McKenna the captaincy and plays McTominay at the back, then brings in Considine albeit with injuries to others. Then Gallacher looks like a first choice, now we have Cooper, Hanley now Hendry! Has he actually ever played the same three centre halves for two games in succession? God knows who will play in the proper games. Tierney seems to be the only certainty. Even the midfield is a bit unknown, will we go with McGregor, McGinn, McTominay, Armstong, Fraser, Forrest, Turnbull, Christie?? First time in a long time that we could actually field two not bad teams.

Jute, it was a light hearted, private exchange between two mates via text message, not personal abuse directed at anyone yet he has been depicted as some sort of monster. People seem determined to get offended at anything nowadays yet we seem to accept the bile dished out at football grounds to referees and opposing players without batting an eyelid. Jesus, we've just signed someone who served time for fracturing a guy's skull with a baseball bat!

I don't particularly like or dislike Malky Mackay but he has been a victim of the massively politically correct world we now live in. What he said in his texts was absolutely no different to what you would hear in most factories, buildings sites and probably more importantly, in the stands of most football stadiums throughout the country on a daily basis. His texts with the bloke at Crystal Palace was simply private banter between mates. He was stitched up big time and as a result lost his way having been a really promising young manager that was doing pretty well down south. Good luck to him at County.

Without injuries, we would have had 5 ex-Dons in the Scotland squad with McLean, Jack, McKenna, Fraser and Christie.

Interesting trend in changing managers at the moment. Bar Slippy and Brian Rice, every other club has had their manager for less than two years and a lot have changed in the last year or so.

He has a lot of promise but clearly is not the finished article yet however taking him out of our team would certainly be weakening it whether you like him or not. As some have said, he has played more than a lot of players of 21 which says a lot about how highly he is rated. Have to say, I would doubt if the pull of the old firm is as big as it once was for a really promising player. For someone like Scott Wright who would never make it at EPL level it is about as high a level as he can reach. For Ferguson though, he only needs to look at someone like McGinn or Tierney to see what can happen if you really screw the nut. Why move to Glasgow and keep playing Motherwell on a Tuesday night when you could potentially be lining up against Pogba or Kante? If I was his agent I would be telling him to hold off for a move to england.

Good to see Turnbull and Gilmour get the nod, both seem really exciting prospects but why not give them a cap or two before now. Reckless to just lump them in the final squad without even having played.

I suspect that is true that there won't be many fans asking for a reimbursement, still don't think it was right for clubs to be taking fans money when they knew games would probably not be open to spectators. Glad you are happy that your season ticket money went straight into Curtis Main's bank account for helping the community though ?

There were about five months between fixtures so take off a month for pre-season and they could have been furloughed for a third of the year. I get your point Rico about the wages being last season's costs but that is not really the issue. Clubs knew from about mid April that the covid issue was not just going to pass in a few weeks but they had no foresight. Why pay full wages for five months then plead poverty in Autumn/Winter and ask fans to keep forking out when they could have wiped a third off of their salary bill just by being a bit more savvy in the first place. I am not talking in particular about our own club, just generally because they pretty much all did it.

It's a fair point but fans have missed the whole season. Clubs took their money and (most) continued to pay their players their full wage for not playing for months last year. In reality they could all have been furloughed like the rest of the country from mid March until a few weeks before the new season started with the government coughing up for it but the clubs totally bottled it on that one.

Absolutely the right thing to do. Clubs should not be keeping fans money who paid for tickets for this season. They did not get what they paid for and it is pure fraud to be charging them again for next season. Motherwell should not be looked at as if they are doing some great charitable gesture, they should all be doing it.

Does the average fan really care about things like that as long as their club is winning games? In united's case they have still made massive profits so it's not like servicing that debt has put them into financial ruin which has happened with some other clubs. The Glazers took over in 2005 and it is just the entitlement amongst their younger fans that has brought all of this on because they are no longer the top dog.

Agree with the sentiment of your post and do not like the idea of clubs being owned by "foreigners" but in reality, other than the superleague idea, I cannot see what the united fans have really got to complain about. It's not like the Glazers have done a Mike Ashley and just simply want the club to avoid relegation so they can scoop up the TV money, they've spent something like £700M in transfers since Fergie left. What do their fans really expect from the owners? Their club not winning the title anymore is certainly nothing to do with a lack of investment in the team.

McGeough. After all the attempts at getting him in the first place, what a complete waste of a money. Aren't Hoban, McGinn and Taylor out of contract anyway? Just hope we do not attempt to make a permanent move for Kamberi. He's a waste of a shirt and I would rather make an effort to get Hendry in full time. At least he is a trier.

Why not? He is better than anyone else who has played right back for us this season.

You'd have to think we need to sign two centre halves, a left back and a couple of strikers. If he is going to field a team with Ramsay, Campbell, McRorie, Ferguson plus maybe either McLennan, Anderson or Ruth from time to time then we need some more experience alongside them. I would sign up Logan for another year to help bring on Ramsay because you cannot expect him to play a full season next year. Shay's still got a lot to offer, no need to chuck him aside.

Rave reviews for the big man https://www.nottinghamforest.news/2021/04/22/scott-mckenna-showcases-star-quality-for-nottingham-forest/

Never saw the game last night but listened to the last 10 minutes on the radio and having done that, really surprised to see the comments above saying how positive we were and what a change there has been. Willie Miller said we parked the bus and that although the result was good he was not sure if the fans would accept that style of play.

Problem is, at the highest level the fans don't fund the clubs. If you let these big investors come in and are happy to bask in the big signings and the european nights you have to accept these people own the clubs and can do whatever they like. The fans have no say. It is no different to going into the local Odeon and protesting at their pick and mix offering. There is bog all you can do about it, you are simply a visitor, you don't have a say in how the business is run. In reality this is just a rival to the Champions League and similar to something like when the PDC darts started in that all of the big names moved across and the old BDO was eventually disbanded. Once the superleague bribe each of the big european leagues and offer a few more qualifying places I think this whole thing will happen. The same teams are in the champions league each season anyway so this is not really some massive change just the same competition with a different name. Really funny to see Sky pooping their pants over it because this could break their whole business model if the TV rights end up going the way of Amazon or Apple.