Goggles & Flippers

Wouldn't the current top U20's league show you that immediately? Doubt there would be many in that without an academy to justify a U20 squad.

I'd agree ropy, in the 90's I felt confident we'd take at least 4 from 12 from the OF every season. The one stat that has got me scratching my head is how we've played them 18x more than St Johnstone. Needed a wikipedia search to convince me they were in the second tier at the start of CoF's period. Good work though, love a wee stat

I suspect you mean Kilpatrick however the three I saw were Tom Feely, Jim McMahon and Les' daughter. It's essentially a first foot and it would have been churlish to insist on not taking part. Some people need to get over that part. It did look like a blend and not a single malt so their financial troubles are not over yet.

Considering up until 5 years ago, the first game after Ne'erday every second year would have been against a certain Glasgow club from the East end. That must have stuck in their craw.

Sad that on the 21st of January best I can hope for is Euro qualification or avoiding the drop. Not the most exciting of seasons. Shame none of the signing targets could be in place for today, seems like we could have done with a few.

Said for years (even during the top 2 and 3 finishes in the league under McCall with an undoubtedly better squad) that when we decide to put up the barricades then it's always hearts in the mouth stuff. Sitting deep, every cross followed by a muttered swear word and a shaky clearance or stramash. Conversely, when we are doing the pressing, it's being held at the halfway line, stupid mistakes and loose passes. You could argue that McGhee's game plan pretty much worked for 85 mins, however that is also down to ineffective the currants were. In a cup tie I want to see my team go out at them from the off (the same way that St Johnstone of late and ICT for the past 10 years have when playing the OF). Don't get me wrong, if we had held out, I'd be sitting here toasting McGhee's tactical nouse and the stoic professionalism of our players.

Andy Walker .... "last time Motherwell made it to the cup final was 1991" ...... that right ya walloper?

The human Chinese fortune cookie speaks again

As I understand it Fir Park was zoned as Parks/Recreational either by Motherwell District Council or NLC back in the 90's. There was also a planning law passed that the existing designations were not allowed to change their use and it was perhaps set in stone. Therefore Fir Park can't change from that status and it would take the council to reverse their earlier decision, potentially opening the door to new or retrospective claims. That would then scupper the supermarket/fancy house market quite a lot of Well fans seem to think is on the horizon. Also, if we were to move for whatever reason, it's safe to say that the new stadium would borrow a lot from that of Aalesund in Norway. Club officials who visited were very impressed with the setup there.

Tangent thread

Didn't he say he wasn't going to do an Erwin? If so, does he think he'd walk straight into that Rangers side and command a starting place every week. I think most will agree that while Rangers don't have players of top quality they have a number who outrank most in the league outside Celtic, the issue with them this season has been competing coherently as a team and underperforming.

FFS aye right you are then, one and half hours then for the sake of being argumentative

I'm just talking about when games have to be played midweek and also at this sensitive time of year, something could be done to avoid a ICT vs Kilmarnock or Hearts vs Ross County. I thought the whole strategy we were discussing was about improving things for fans. While not the easiest, I'm sure Ross County and their fans would have preferred to go to or host Aberdeen on the 28th opposed to Parkhead. That way Mrs McTeuchter from Dingwall gets to see her son who lives in London opposed to him being out the door from 8am till 10pm

SPFA scheduling really should be held to account next summer. The 3 home OF games reduced to two resulted in a 50-50 split among our fans, add together a shocking December run where we play Aberdeen twice in a fortnight, and head to Inverness on the one fixture you'd hope to keep local-ish. Aberdeen v Motherwell Tue 13 Dec 19:45 St Johnstone v Motherwell Sat 17 Dec 15:00 Motherwell v Aberdeen Fri 23 Dec 19:45 Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Motherwell Wed 28 Dec 19:45 Hamilton Academical v Motherwell Sat 31 Dec 13:00 I know ICT and Ross County have far to travel every second week, however nothing to stop them being given St. Johnstone and Aberdeen to mitigate the travel. At Hogmanay, ICT vs RC, St Johnstone vs Dundee and Aberdeen vs Hearts would keep most pretty happy at all clubs involved. This time of year is bumper revenue gathering when the family diaspora returns home and our league governing body seems to be oblivious. Now over two weeks we're looking at 3x 12pm kickoffs after no domestic football for 3 weeks. And I'm going to refrain from mentioning Currants vs the Unwashed on Hogmanay, as if A&E's aren't full of eejits already at this time of year.

2-0 up to this, feel like I've been raped by an elephant

There goes the blood pressure. Jesus wept!

Well that was slack as fuck

When he got red carded within 10 minutes of coming on in his debut .... that kinda potential? Anyone keeping tabs on Shaun/Sean Hutchi(e)nson(s)*? (* delete as required)

I thought this thread was a honey trap for paedos after reading the title.

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Actually, like to rescind my earlier comment, you're a bit of a fanny

Great news, sage to say Chris and Louis are our best hopes of getting the outstanding balance down. Just need Moult to start banging in a few more to keep him on the radar.

I think its safe to say the reason many (including myself) are a tad dismayed on here is how the previous 20 odd posts have gone. While flawed, CM did try to offer a solution and was smacked down for it. And that smacking snowballed. Granted the method and the justification leaves a lot to be desired, the crux of his point was positive and optimistic in its foundation. CM, your point would have been better served with an offer to help and not using the shaky results of a google search to give gravitas.

I get that but the three games against Stranraer, East Stirling and Annan skew things a little. What's more concerning me is our performances against those with similar budgets and resources which doesn't make pretty reading. I'm also not convinced he has been responsible for bringing anyone in who is sellable this far.

It doesn't feel like that