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You’re a fucking weirdo.

Truthfully I don't know but I assume it's up to each individual club to set what they think is an appropriate age to meet the safeguarding guidelines. Don't know about other Scottish clubs but Man Utd don't let any under 14s in but Fulham is under 16 for example that's why I'm assuming it's up to individual clubs but I could be wrong. I used to get dropped off at home games when I was 9 but that was in the 60s but the world's a different place now. Authorities overreacting? Possibly but that's a social and political argument. Personally I think 12 is about the right age.

It's absolutely mad that we (as in Scottish football, collectively) are making it difficult for teenagers to attend live football... Don't care what the actual reasons are for it, just think it's dreadful

I’m not interested in Rangers.

Yes, it's statistacally a safe conclusion that every other year of his career is an anomoly and the best stats to quantify his career is his last season with us.

Youre right. Misread your post sorry

Straight from Rangers website… See Rule F

I personally witnessed various groups of youngsters being denied entry on Sunday by overzealous jobsworths in hi-vis. Again, the SPFL guidance is 12 years old, why are we making it harder for young people to attend Fir Park?

Tbh for me it's only the midfield that needs addressed that's the area we look most vulnerable in so a couple of 6 months loans and we should be home an dry.

I would guess that it would take circa 6k pw to secure his services. Do we really want to splash that kind of cash.

I am so angry at this 14 year olds need to be accompanied biggest load of crap i have ever heard. as a yong lad my dad would take me to motherwell games when i was under 12 up in Scotland on holiday i would attend southend united games with him every week and sometimes away games when we went on the train. he passed away when i was 12 and I carried on the going to see southend at home and more games away when i would go on the train. I f i had not been allowed to go to football because i was not accompanied with an adult it would have devastated me.

What he's saying about the police operating a defacto blacklist is something that needs to be looked into. Why aren't they using banning orders? Havering complete pish about it being down to the SFA when it clearly wasn't in place last season. "The last thing we want to do is knock people back" says the guy who knocks people... "People of my generation went at that age no problem". Naw kids born in 2010 were going no problem in May this year.

Vale is a decent striker and I'd happily have him back...............so long as he's played as an out and out striker as part of a front 2. Too often last season he was used as a number 10 behind the main striker. Thats not his game.

I think it's very unlikely that he'll be back with us. I also think that ship has sailed and we don't need him. Good luck to him but I don't think we'll be looking at him somehow

I don't sit with the Well bois/block e sometimes they are great and sometimes they annoy me but overall they do bring a bit of atmosphere, therefore I would say I sit on the fence. What I do agree with is the attitude of a club employee who seems to think he runs the club and I think his influence and opinions rub off on other staff members, he maybe needs a sit down and told he isn't Robocop and he is now speaking to paying customers who's attendance is crucial to the future of the club.

What "house rules" have the individuals who have been banned broken then? If someone is responsible for smashing up seats, fighting in the East Stand, or something along those lines, then fine, issue a ban. I don’t think that has happened, though? The issue I have with your analogy, and others have done the same, is that you're using examples where abuse was hurled at someone in the stadium, or some sort of "house rule" was broken in the stadium. This isn't the case. If you left a Motherwell game and then got accused of getting into a tussle with some wank who supported the opposing team in a pub two miles from the ground, would you accept a ban? A crime that is hardly worthy of a slap on the wrist if you do it on a Saturday night in the town, but deems having you treated like a gun-toting gangster if you happen to have just left a football game? You’re right, though; a ban should not be based on a criminal conviction. But if that’s the case, why does the club issue such bans based on the police charges? That was precisely why these bans were put in place. It only makes sense that if the club issues a ban based on police charges, it should then lift the ban and issue an apology when the charges are dismissed. "Mistakes happen, no issue there." Well actually, there is an issue there. A pretty fucking big one. There's absolutely no way that should be glossed over. Some poor lad wrongly accused, put through the stress of what that entails and when it's proven he wasn't even in the country it's just a case of "mistakes happen, no issue there?" Not for me.

When I spoke to Caldwell about this after the Q&A I pointed out that he would be barring kids in Third Year at High School and he didn't believe me at first so they obviously haven't looked at it very thoroughly. The SLO started up with some hysterical 'what if' scenarios about issues with young fans but didn't seem very happy when I suggested they contact other venues that allow unaccompanied youths such as cinemas or fast food restaurants for advice if they couldn't figure it out themselves.

Rangers are 13 and under. It's not just Motherwell.

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There’s nothing I would love more than for us to ban that vermin from Fir Park but in reality we couldn’t actually do it and even if we attempted it then it would cause more problems than it would be worst. What you would almost certainly get is Celtic fans buying up home end tickets in their hundreds which would put our fans safety in jeopardy and as a result would put Motherwell fans off going to the game. The ‘Well Bhois’ would no doubt stage another joint protest with the Green Brigade about their unfair treatment, probably buy them tickets for ‘block E’ so they can stand in solidarity with them, or lick their boots.