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All interesting stuff but for me the decline is due to Scottish Football complete and utter inability to do ANYTHING imaginative to change the product. The product is completely stale . My match day experience is no different to it was 40 years ago. Forty years ago 1. I knew my team could never win the league that honour would only go to two teams, today its still the same. 2, Forty years ago the blazers thought changing the numbers of teams in the league changes anything , they still do 3. Forty years ago instead of promoting their own product differently they constantly bitched about football in England and "the we can't compete" syndrome they still do. 4. Forty years ago they were considering the winter break as being forward thinking, it wasn't but they still do. 5. 40 years ago they ditched the League cup mini leagues as a season opener because fans hated it and they wanted to make it a short sharp tournament, 40 years later they've wrapped up the same old sh1te they had then and try and convince us its new. The demise of Rangers was sold as an utter holocaust , particularly by Motherwell, instead of seeing it as an opportunity to break the voting strangle hold the OF had over everyone else and try to be really innovative Aberdeen side up with Celtic and when Rangers return the voting strangle hold they have will still be in place. The custodians of the Scottish game (ie the clubs) are collectively incompetent and only ever want to support a corrupt set up that favours two teams and ensure the rest get at least 3 big gates a season without having to try to hard instead of trying to create a competitive league to boost attendances at all games. If people were told who would win the Golf majors every year for the next 40 years and the R&A and PGA went out their way to ensure the same two players won everything do people seriously think crowds at the majors wouldn't plummet. If there is an opportunity to be missed or fpucked up Scottish football would do it. As soon as Rangers demise happened the clubs, instead of wringing their hands and screaming Armageddon, should have approached the TV companies and said how much will you give us to move to summer football , instead or trying to compete and compare with down south fill the TV schedules with a Scottish product. Sell the product and chip away at this myth that Scottish football is desperate compared to everything down South. use the extra money to make meaningful changes.Even if moving to Summer Football failed theres an easy answer change it back but for FFS try it. In England the match day highlights are on immediately that night when fans are still excited and talking about games. In Scotland its days later when most fans have less of an intensity about the events on the Saturday. Who agreed that TV deal. Cup draws , in England the excitement is kept up and the draws made after the games and fans get to listen in on their way home. In Scotland we hold the draw back for days and make it live on TV on a Tuesday afternoon when every buggers at work, seriously Scottish football couldn't sell water in a dessert. Clubs do absolutely fpuck all for visiting fans the cost are horrendous and that's where the biggest fan loss has gone. They should make it £10 across the board for all away fans. The numbers are now so low they'd make more money with the increased number of fans travelling. They could look at the points structure to try an invigorate the game. There are a ton of things they could have and should do but they don't. They just want fans to turn up shut up and accept a completely uncompetitive set up. They have quite blatantly broken their own rules to support corruption in relation to one of their biggest clubs. Unless it involves changing the number of teams in the league or re introducing other tried and failed concepts as new the custodians are utterly bereft of any original ideas. The only thing that has changed in my 40 years watching Motherwell is all seater stadia, which was forced upon them and giving the refs a can of foam. The only real surprise is that we actually have anyone who still watches our game with the complete and utter fuuds that run it.

We were cack Craigans talking out his butt. No one worth man of the match.

If it was Robinson at the centre of the bust up you gotta ask what is gained by keeping him on as Craigans sidekick in the interim. Hardly conducive to ongoing team harmony which makes me think he wasnt at the centre of it.

That will be why Alloa are second bottom of the league cos Dans the man.

Its certainly not the smart brains.

If we are speaking to a "manager" with or without a club Lennon wouldnt come into that category. He couldnt manage a pish unassisted.

He was probably asking directions tae Asda ... Lennons a fuud and if we are mad enough to even glance in his direction god help us

Was probably Leitch all he ever feckin does is flap his arms about and point.

I wish folk could explain to me why MVG was a legend. The guy scored a screamer against Dunfermline to save our bacon but other than that his tenure at Motherwell falls into the easily forgettable category.

Who signed the dross? Biggest squad in a decade and the biggest pile of sh1te you are likely to see.

Dundee Utd were my wild card for a relegation fight and Ive seen or heard nothing to change that 2-1 Mwell