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That is indeed Brian McLean formerly of Motherwell of Lanarkshire footballing club.

He was a decent player several years back and I distinctly recall a story whereby a Mr Angus McPherson made attempts to sign said Brian McLean but alas was unsuccessful in his endeavours, unsuccessful indeed.

I see the forum has thrown up a plethora of footballing experts who are able to judge accurately the abilities of Mr Brian McLean without seeing him play. Why did we bother with a trial....Tommy should have just started a thread on here!!!!

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He would be good centre back cover and is vastly experienced. He only left County due to a fallout with Mr Adams. He since trained with Coventry and more recently with Well.All his previous managers at Rangers Well Falkirk Dundee Utd cannot be wrong about his ability. If he signs we have to give him our support.

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A United supporting mate told me he was worse than current Carnoustie centre-back, Gary Kenneth.

Make of that what you will....

Kenneth was excellent for United. He won the Scottish Cup and was capped for Scotland in his time there.

His career has went to hell since he left certainly.

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Kenneth was excellent for United. He won the Scottish Cup and was capped for Scotland in his time there.

His career has went to hell since he left certainly.

From a former manager I spoke to it is basically that Kenneth's legs are completely done and he has very limited mobility.

From what I remember about Maclean he was quite injury prone also. Can't really remember to much about him playing wise... kind of meh in thet he never stood out one way or other.

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From a former manager I spoke to it is basically that Kenneth's legs are completely done and he has very limited mobility.

From what I remember about Maclean he was quite injury prone also. Can't really remember to much about him playing wise... kind of meh in thet he never stood out one way or other.

He will fit well here , we must have space for him on our injury list .

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Kenneth was excellent for United. He won the Scottish Cup and was capped for Scotland in his time there.

His career has went to hell since he left certainly.

I'm only going on what my mate said. I think Kenneth was on the slide dramatically in the 18 months before he left United and has got nowhere since.

Anyway, I've not seen many ringing endorsements on McLean from County fans on PnB either....

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From what I remember about Maclean he was quite injury prone also. Can't really remember to much about him playing wise... kind of meh in thet he never stood out one way or other.

Suffered a serious injury while playing for 'Well in 2008 but started 67 out of 74 league games in two seasons for Falkirk between 2009 & 2011 - he's not appeared so regularly since but whether that's due to form or time cathching up with him - who knows? Of more concern to me would be that he has not completed any of his last three contracts citing not being able to put up with Derek Adams whistling.gif as the reason for leaving the last one with Ross County.

Anyway, I've not seen many ringing endorsements on McLean from County fans on PnB either....

IMO that's a pretty weak argument.

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Not saying we should sign him as there's clearly plenty of reasons not to but he's the sorta player who's (presumably) within our price range (although even as I type not according to SuperSaints 12 lol.gif ) - more likely to be a miss than a hit but in the absynthe of good options sometimes you have to go for the least bad one.

As an afterthought if we're looking for a song to run out to how about Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh............

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