Scottish Premiership: Build up as Martin's Rangers visit Motherwell

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Update:
Date: 16:33 BST
Title: LINE-UPS at Fir Park
Content: Motherwell v Rangers (17:30)
Motherwell: Ward, Koutroumbis, Gordon, McGinn, Longelo, Watt, Slattery, Maswanhise, Just, Fadinger, Stamatelopoulos.
Substitutes: Oxborough, O'Donnell, Balmer, Sparrow, Halliday, Wilson, Whyte, Ross, Said.
Rangers: Butland, Tavernier, Djiga, Souttar, Aarons, Rothwell, Diomande, Raskin, Dowell, Gassama, Danilo.
Substitutes: Kelly, Cortes, Barron, Dessers, Bajrami, Cameron, Jefte, Fernandez, Curtis.
Update:
Date: 16:30 BST
Title: Saturday night Fir Park fever
Content: Motherwell v Rangers (17:30)
One three o'clock kick-off on a Saturday afternoon? Not good.
A half-five kick-off on a Saturday night? Good.
The Scottish Premiership is well and truly back and we have a potential cracker for you at Fir Park.
Dive head first into your takeaway, or get it ordered, while we provide team news and build-up.

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SPFL transfer round up as pundits embroiled in heated Hearts debate

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