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Re Holt and Halliday ... we used Holt as an attacking right sided midfielder last season, whereas Halliday was our main holding/central/defensive midfielder. How Halliday would perform further up front with us (sic!) on a more regular basis is anyone's guess. Now that Barton and Rossiter are prime candidates for Halliday's position of last season, we may see more of him in an attacking sense, perhaps in left midfield. Pending on the opposition and venue, we may even decide to play two central midfielders and here I doubt that Rossiter will be an immediate starter.

 

I actually think a Midfield 3 of Halliday Barton Holt would work really well and balanced

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Betfred Cup Format 2016/17

 

Format

The group stage involves 40 clubs - the 38 SPFL teams not involved in European competition plus Cove Rangers (Highland League champions) and East Stirlingshire (Lowland League representative), drawn into eight groups of five. They were split into four North groups and four South groups. Each group contains one seeded club, one second seed and three unseeded clubs.

 

Group matches

Clubs are awarded the usual three points for a win but all drawn games in the group stage go straight to penalties - the shoot-out winners receive a bonus point. ie three points for a win, two points for a shoot-out win and one point for losing on penalties.

 

Knock-out rounds

The eight group winners and four best runners-up progress to the second round, where they are joined by the four clubs competing in Europe - Celtic, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian.

 

The tournament reverts to a traditional knock-out format from the second round onwards, with ties decided by extra time and penalties if the scores are level after 90 minutes.

 

http://spfl.co.uk/league-cup/format/

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Motherwell face Rangers in the Betfred Cup at Fir Park on Saturday, live on BT Sport at 3.00pm – here’s our look at Group F.

 

Motherwell

Manager: Mark McGhee

League Cup fact: Won their only League Cup back in 1950/51.

Last season: Lost 3-2 to Morton at Cappielow AET in round three

Betfred odds to win Group F: 7/4

Summer signings: Ben Heneghan (Chester), Richard Tait (Grimsby Town), Jacob Blyth (Leicester City), Dean Brill (Inverness Caley Thistle), Carl McHugh (Plymouth Argyle).

 

Rangers

Manager: Mark Warburton

League Cup fact: Have won the trophy a record 27 times.

Last season: Lost 3-1 at home to St Johnstone in round three.

Betfred odds to win Group F: 8/11

Summer signings: Josh Windass (Accrington Stanley), Matt Crooks (Accrington Stanley), Jordan Rossiter (Liverpool), Joey Barton (Burnley), Clint Hill (Queens Park Rangers), Niko Kranjcar (New York Cosmos), Matt Gilks (Burnley), Lee Hodson (MK Dons).

 

East Stirlingshire

Manager: John Sludden

League Cup fact: Are the Lowland League representatives this season.

Last season: Were beaten 5-0 by Falkirk at Broadwood in round one.

Betfred odds to win Group F: 28/1

Summer signings: Dylan McGuigan (Cumbernauld United), Derek Ure (Camelon Juniors), Paul Sludden (Stirling University), Graeme MacGregor (Linlithgow Rose).

 

Annan Athletic

Manager: Jim Chapman

League Cup fact: First tie was in August 2008 – lost to Dumbarton on penalties.

Last season: Beaten 4-3 by Queen of the South AET at Galabank.

Betfred odds to win Group F: 20/1

Summer signings: Max Wright (East Stirlingshire), David McKenna (East Stirlingshire), Alex Mitchell (Workington Reds), Raffi Krissian (Edusport Academy), Tony Ribeiro (Edusport Academy), Jean Guy Lucas (Edusport Academy), Przemyslaw Dachnowicz (Rangers), Barry Cuddihy (St Mirren), Willie Robertson (Stirling Albion), Adam Asghar (Alloa Athletic), Stewart Sharkey.

 

Stranraer

Manager: Brian Reid

League Cup fact: Best performance was the quarter-finals in 1968/69.

Last season: Lost 1-0 away to Hibernian in the second round.

Betfred odds to win Group F: 9/1

Summer signings: Smart Osadolor (Annan Athletic), Scott Agnew (St Mirren), Cameron Belford (Wrexham), Frank McKeown (Morton), Liam Dick (Falkirk), Ross Barbour (Kilmarnock), Christian Nade (Dumbarton), Giuliano Morena.

 

Group F fixtures

 

Saturday July 16

Annan Athletic v Stranraer, 3.00pm

Motherwell v Rangers, 3.00pm (BT Sport)

 

Tuesday July 19

Rangers v Annan Athletic, 7.45pm

Stranraer v East Stirlingshire, 7.45pm

 

Friday July 22

East Stirlingshire v Rangers, 7.45pm (BT Sport)

 

Saturday July 23

Annan Athletic v Motherwell, 3.00pm

 

Monday July 25

Rangers v Stranraer, 7.45pm (BT Sport)

 

Tuesday July 26

Motherwell v East Stirlingshire, 7.45pm

 

Saturday July 30

East Stirlingshire v Annan Athletic, 3.00pm

Stranraer v Motherwell, 3.00pm

 

Read more at http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/betfred-cup--group-f-preview/#YucBqDGWExxhDtew.99

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