Spiderpig

Agree with that, he downed tools as soon as Brown went, so good riddence to him. We need to be signing players on permanent deals, who will contribute to the club long term, not Fud's who are only trying to up their wage packets with their own clubs.

Why worry about Aberdeen its blatantly obvious that Stuart Milne is throwing money at the team to avoid relegation, and it will probably work. But you can't keep that up, so next year when all the loan and short term deals are gone they will be deeper in debt but still a mid table average team.

If that's the case it worries me that Motherwell are that financially strapped that we can't compete with lower division clubs. What chance do we have of attracting players to Fir Park

Radio Clyde news were reporting that he had left the club after rejecting a new contract and he would not be back at Fir park. Quote from official site “We’ve offered Mark a deal and we hope to hear back from him in the next 24-hours or so,” said McCall. “He does have an offer from another club on the table though so it’s something he will have to consider carefully and we are respectful of that.”

He gets a chance every week at training, reserve games, bounce games etc to prove his abillity, so if he was any good he would have been given his chance, its time for him to be moved on.

Harsh but fair But his failure to break into the team at a time when we were crying out for a goal scorer says it all, he is a dud. He has obviously given no indication in training or reserve matches which i assume he has been playing that he could be any better than, Blackman, Murphy, etc I think we were conned on this one, exotic name therefore he must be good, so get him out the door and free up some cash.

A complete waste of space ,

If he had any potential then he would have been playing, he is a useless who we have been wasting money on since the start of the season. Tell him to GTF and free up some cash to spend on players who will actually contribute something to the club. Brown and Knox were stiched up big time when they signed this fud.

Sad news, so soon after the anniversary of Phil's death, condolences to all the family.

Agree with that prediction, McCall will have the team playing again, so hopefully an unchanged side from sunday, my money is on Murphy for the 1st goal

I guess the baw heaters were broken, there will be an enquiry now

The way Motherwells luck goes in cup draws it will be Rangers, then it will be 3 games out of 4 against them 30th Jan, 5th Feb and 12th Feb.

Chris Porter, Ross McCormack or David Clarkson, i would have any of them back in a minute

On the subject of dodgy haircuts, Stuart mcCalls has not changed in the last 20 years

Thanks, he sounds a bit of an Arse

Excuse my ignorance but who is Scott Burns and what does he do ??

He was an arse who lost the dressing room, its ancient history 3 managers ago FFS, get over it and get behind McCall and the team, they have a season to save. mon the well

Casagolda was another Brown investment that we have had feck all return on, its time we chased him as well and freed up the wages to use on a player that actually contributes something to the club .

Thats the problem the clubs are far too dependent on the income from those games and dont want to lose it. Most if not all SPL clubs if they were ordinary businesses would have closed down years ago as they are not financially viable. They are paying way too much of their annual turnover on players wages, at some clubs it 85% to 90% of their annual income !!! All the TV money has done is fund ridiculous wages for average players, so its no surprise that clubs want as much cash as they can get. The situation is too far gone to change, you cant just cut wages overnight, you would have no players left. There needs to be wage caps put in place and clubs forced to gradually reduce their expenditure till they are financially stable and able to live within their means, ie financing all expenditure from ticket sales, merchandise, hospitallity and catering, advertising etc. Any TV money would then be a bonus which could be used to lower ticket prices, attract more fans which in the long run would earn you more money. Simples

Totally agree he wont be missed, just off to the bookies for the odds on Blackman as first goal scorer when we go to Pitoddrie on 15th Feb

Why does it seem that nobody wants to come to play their footie at motherwell, all we seem to get in the press are stories about who will be leaving Fir Park. But will it really make a difference if some of the players go this transfer window, i dont think so. Blackman - Scored a few goals and played well Sept, Oct but has not been interested since we would not have been keeping him long term so if he wants to go let him. Gow - He has been found out at every club he has played for, done nothing in his time so far at Fir Park, he wont be missed. Fitzpatrick - The last meaningful thing he done was scoring the winner at Tyncastle in the CIS semi in 2005 !! so again he would not be missed. We have no money to spend so McCall should be giving the younger players a chance, McHugh, Paige, Forbes, Meechan etc. The real problems start in the summer as we need to be thinking about a new defence, Reynolds will be away and Craggs is past his sell by date, Hammell has been crap this season but he still has a few seasons in him. So McCall has his work cut out to try to bring in 2 maybye 3 experienced players, Defence, MID and up front to work with and bring on the younger players, if we can get the balance right we have the makings of a reasonablke team that could be together for a few seasons.

another 6 years watching that, are you on drugs or just mental ?

A 10 team SPL is bollocks but the Turkeys wont vote for christmas and change to 16 teams, they wany the extra income that 8 games against the old firm generates. Sky will put some extra cash in as there will be 4 old firm ties to cover and the ugly sisters will get a few extra quid. So the whole thing is nothing to do with improving the game in Scotland its about extra money for the clubs, SPL, SFL etc. SPL 1 and 2 its a joke, will any of the clubs in the top half of div 1 who will make up the bulk of the SPL 2 be wanting to spend lots of cash to bring their grounds up to SPL standards ? i think not. They have tried a 10 team set up in the past and it did not work, now we are going back to it as the solution to all the games problems you could not make it up.

Why all the negative predictions, we will win, i cant see it being a classic but i think we will be too strong for them, i am going for 2-0 to the well. Dundee are playing well few clean sheets but the standard in Div 1 is not as good as the SPL so you cant compare like for like, would they have had 5 clean sheets in a row playing Hearts, St Johnstone, Aberdeen, Rangers etc i think not. We have a tough January and Feb that will make or break our season and this is the game to get the momentum started with a good win. mon the Well

Keevins is a whinging little :wank: who will make up stories to suit himself, but if it is true why worry the goal machine that is Casagolda will do the Business