MJC

‘The Beek’ has arrived.

Delighted for the kid. Our youngest ever goalscorer?

Can’t argue with that. Obika will never do and cannot be relied upon to get goals. We need to address this asap.

Sadly I think we’ll see it worn in most away games this season, except ironically against Aberdeen and Hearts, the two sides in the league who we would usually change against. I also think it would look better with white shorts. And the back looks too much like last seasons home top, which I’ve still got PTSD over.

It was brought out as a 3rd kit that season as we already had a white away kit out. The first game was abandoned at half time due to heavy rain and in the replayed game Gilles Rousset was sent off for them. Lee McCulloch scored our first that night and he was actually linked with a move to Hearts for £1M. Crazy stuff!

Memories of beating Hearts with a last minute Pat Nevin winner wearing that kit.

Common sense like that will never catch on with some people in this part of the world I'm afraid. I've said this before but there are too many people, not just in our support, who's hatred and obsession with Rangers overrides their passion and love for the club they support and it's pathetic. The irony is that it's usually these types of people who shout longest and loudest about how much they dislike Rangers and want their club to be nothing like them, free of any connection with them, yet at the same time they can't help themselves but bring Rangers info the equation no matter what. Some of the responses on here and on social media to the away kit reveal are the prime example of that. We release a kit which is claret with an amber diagonal band, not a sash, and you get some wahoos bubbling about how it somehow makes us have a connection to the OO/Rangers. That's one of if not the first things they think of when seeing a new Motherwell kit for the first time. As I said, absolutely pathetic. You'd think we'd brought out a black kit with two diagonal orange bands that meet in the middle complete with white gloves and a bowler hat.

Well don’t associate an amber diagonal band on our change kit with the uniform worn by orange order marchers which actually looks absolutely nothing like the design on the kit then. YOU are ‘associating’ it with an orange order sash with that nonsensical attitude and outlook.

It’s not just Old Firm fans though. some Motherwell fans are dribbling out similar nonsense, on here and Twitter. And as ever what these folk who bang on about “not wanting anything that makes us look associated with Rangers” are missing is that by having that kind of attitude and coming out with that kind of talk, THEY are the ones bringing Rangers/bigotry etc into the equation and thus giving them far more recognition and relevance than they deserve. Whatever kit we bring out has absolutely fuck all to do with Rangers or any other club, but these folk just can’t see it and are too busy obsessing about them and pacing the floor at night thinking about them no doubt.

That’s not what I’m saying atall though is it? What the manager was, or appeared to be referring to was players who were completely out of the picture and had no future at the club. Danzaki, Aitchison being the obvious ones. Then you throw in McKinstry (a loanee who was always going to return to Leeds) and Shields (who was loaned out in January and clearly isn’t in the managers plans). I think it was obvious that the manager had identified who was going to feature for him and who wasn’t. Danzaki wasn’t in contention for a start ahead of Miller, Cornelius or Obika towards the end of last season. To give just one example.

Okay. I’ll rephrase it then. If we are terminating the contracts of individuals who are being embursed to make a material effect for the club on the field of play but are sadly falling short of that expectation for whatever reason which may or may not be any fault of their own, then I think we are displaying prudence and sound judgement. That better?

Good at detecting sarcasm are we?

I completely agree. And on a serious note I think this is a braw kit and a lot nicer than our previous claret effort in 2018. If anyone takes a dislike to this purely because it has ‘a sash’ and somehow they associate it with Rangers and OO bigots then they need to take a good look at themselves, imo.

We sign players to play football. If they aren’t playing football, for whatever reason other than being injured then what are we paying them for? To train well? To sing songs and dance through the meadows? If they are not going to play then we move them on and that’s what the manager said yesterday. But yes, let’s leave it at that.

We’re a football club. If we have players on our books under contract who are not playing games or likely to break into the first team then they are stealing a wage, end of story. It might not be a nice or ‘PC’ term for it, but that’s what it is.

I agree. As a club we need to rid ourselves of any suggestions of us being Rangers fans without the bus fare and having sash on a kit which is just like a sash worn by Orange orde….erm, well, it’s actually not like those ones at all….but Rangers like sashes! Fuckin Rangers! I’m very uncomfortable seeing this kit. 🤑

He might not have actually used the term itself but SK saying that players walking about the club doing nothing is basically saying that players are stealing a wage. It’s the same in any job, if you aren’t contributing then you are stealing a wage, simple as that. Definitely. I’m surprised and delighted with this news.

Tough talking stuff there from the boss and he’s obviously not afraid to get rid of players just stealing a wage if he has to/if he can.

We better win this one. Its a Cup game, we’re the top flight side, they’re the league two side, we win this game. No excuses, no “it’s early days yet, we can afford to lose this” nonsense. We win on Saturday. 2-0

No arguing about every signing being a gamble, but as I said this was a signing that we put alot of effort into signing, or so it appeared on the face of it anyway. It kinda had shades of Resch & Dorner under McLeish and Maurice Malpas with his Irish trio of Keegan, Murphy & Molloy. Im glad we’ve moved him on as he clearly wasn’t going to contribute anything to the team but at the same time you have to wonder about how much this will cost us to sever ties.

It was almost as if some saw he was Japanese and automatically thought he would be our Kyogo Furuhashi or Reo Hatate. In reality he was a very limited footballer that we seemed to invest a lot of time and a decent amount of money into bringing to the club. It certainly will. Which doesn’t bode well when you look at our current squad and realise that we don’t have the money to improve it.

Was Danzaki not on a decent wage as he came in with a bit of pedigree? Whatever it was it clearly didn’t work out and he looked hopelessly lightweight and out of his depth, even against Raith in the Cup.

New kit available from Friday apparently.

Kelly will be crucial to us next season you feel. On another note, the strip minus the sponsor looks absolutely stunning 😍

Only David Clarkson, his nephew, has wore 10 since his passing. Rightly so too.