Frazzie

Buchanan Street bus station. Think it was half ten.

Right, you've talked me into it then. Anyone else going on the Megabus?

Nae bevvy on that though.

Nah, that's about £36 return. Better with the Megabus for £9 in that case.

Are they still available for general sale? If so, I'm pretty sure me and two mates would go with you for a tenner a pop.

I certainly will. I'm sure a fair few posters on here know where I live if I decide to do a disappearing act!

It would need to be something that was introduced at the start of a new campaign to let folk make up their own mind about buying a season ticket, but I also think that the season ticket should carry extra benefits other than free function hall hire because, over the past few years, it's turned into a bit of a numbers game when folk have been deciding whether or not to buy one. Free function hire, prize draws for hospitality once a month, promos at the 'Well Shop, etc etc should be introduced for season ticket holders so that when the chips are down and the club needs to try and get floating voters through the gate by lowering ticket prices, nobody will moan.

The East Stand holds 3128, or which Leann states 1328 are season ticket holders. This leaves exactly 1800 seats to be filled by paying punters. Only 411 paid the £20 to get in so, in theory, if Motherwell charged £10, they would make the same money in gate receipts if 822 folk turned up. Would you get the extra? I think you would. Obviously that theory is far too simplistic without taking into account concessions, extra policing and suchlike, but any losses on that front would be made up by programmes, kiosk, club shop, etc. In my opinion, any game live on TV, and any friendly, should be priced at £10 as a matter of course for the East Stand, avoiding the loophole of having to charge South Stand and Cooper Stand fans the same. I also think that 'Well fans could stomach Old Firm fans having the Cooper if they're charged twice as much as us to be there.

Ahem....

To be fair, it does seem to be Louis Walsh in the photo advertising it...

This totally popped out of my mind so I forgot to hand my cash to Brazilian at the h**s game. Anyone who knows him going to Tannadice?

I'm not saying I can't understand why they do it - of course I can, but they still do. Landlords are businessmen at the end of the day, so of course they'll let the unwashed hordes take over their pub and fill their tills. The majority of police officers are Old Firm fans, and Strathclyde Police have a clear bias towards all things weegie-related. If they waded in and started chucking out h**s everytime they sang the Sash then their problems wouldn't start and end with that action, like it would if they throw out a punter in the East Stand for dropping a bovril. That day, it would cause mayhem outside the ground, on the trains back to weegieland, etc and then it would be all over the news the following day, and a can of worms would be well and truly opened. On the other hand, you can launch a few home fans in the cells for the night, your figures look hunky-dory and you never hear another word said about it. Because nobody cares about the wee teams as it's not us that sells the papers and fills the stadiums.

Folk shouting at each other with the odd punch being thrown is no big deal to you or I, but if I was elderly or I had kids at the game with me, I doubt it's a situation I'd want to be putting myself in.

This time last year, I was blootered annoying French folk. Good times indeed.

You saying this site is full of stigs? Fair point.

Aye, me too, and what doesn't help is that our club (sorry Leann!), the local pubs (except JDs), the police and stewards have contributed to that over the years I've been going to games. Their fans should be made to feel as welcome in our pubs as we are in theirs (ie, not at all), they should be kept in (actually kept in - not just announcing they're being kept in) until the 'Well fans are cleared out and they should have anything that offends any of the home support taken off them, and be papped out when they sing anything sectarian. Then you'll get the Cooper busy with 'Well fans.

No, they're not. If the game was live on TV at 3pm (which I know is not allowed), I am confident the crowd would be higher. A lot of people go to football for a day out - a few pints, a bit of lunch, etc beforehand and a 12:15 kickoff makes that impossible, so a lot of people will have decided to have their lunch/pint while watching the game on telly. Even taking those people aside, there are fans who travel from outside the area to go to Fir Park, and the 12:15 kickoff could potentially make it an unfeasibly early start. I know the kickoff was early because it's on TV, but it's two different reasons not to go.

Christ, Dave, I'm trying to give you a hand here, because I know that all the stuff is never there for the launch date! :-P

1. 12:15 kickoff 2. Live on TV. 3. Extorionate ticket prices. 4. Indimidation of Old Firm fans taking over the town for the day. 5. Bigotted bile. Five perfectly good reasons why 'Well fans would've given it a miss on saturday. Given that the Cooper is traditionally the family section where parents will take their kids, these games are exactly the type of games these people are likely to miss, and understandably so.

It's awright - ah'm here aw day...

I could live with that.

Does helping you out there do anything for my chances of getting my warning level decreased?

Not sure about that, Haggis. I agree Forbes could be doing with a rest, but I still don't think Jennings looks the part to slot in, although he has improved. Would still be Keith Lasley for me. I would say that Murphy is in the same boat as Forbes and, for me, McHugh has been every bit as effective as Murphy, if not moreso, when he's come on, so I'd give him a start.

Friday of the September weekend according to SCDave on post 1279 of this thread and the front page of the official site.

We were talking our first walk across the square in Nancy around this time on this day last year. It was deserted. The next three days were to be arguably the best three days of my life. Abd the square didn't know what had hit it.