MJC

It’s a fair jump right enough but it’s a sign of the times unfortunately.

If we win this we’ll be safe. We can win but it won’t be easy. 1-1 and a frustrating day is my prediction.

That’s exactly what he would do imo. I’m a big fan of KvV but he has a huffy streak about him and if we reject an offer for him then the toys will be launched out of the pram.

You’re right it probably would. The difference with those three clubs is that if he was playing for them he would be on a fair bit more money and so they would be in a better position to demand more money for him in a transfer fee if any potential buyer came in for him. Obviously he would also be getting a lot more media attention if he was playing for and scoring over 20 goals a season at one of the Scottish press’ darling clubs like Aberdeen or Dundee Utd so that’s another advantage they would have over us in that regard.

There are decent people who support both sides of the Old Firm, to deny that would be extremely narrow minded. By the same token there are some absolute roasters that support Motherwell, albeit on a much smaller scale to the Glasgow two given we have a much smaller supporter base.

Aye to expect upwards of £500k for a player who will be 32 in the summer and who only has a year left on his contract is fantasy stuff.

That’s my worry too, with Burrows obviously knowing him and having dealt with him to get him here in 2021. I’d prefer he left Scottish football altogether than see him join an Aberdeen, Dundee Utd or Hibs.

Alot of the way the club has been run over the last 12-18 months has been amateur hour stuff but hopefully we can now put that down to experience and move on. From retaining Alexander following his shit show of a 2nd half of 21/22, allowing him to do next to nothing in last summers transfer window then parting company with him after the Sligo episode and to then replace him with an untested youth academy coach on the eve of the season was absolute madness, in hindsight of course. But then you add in allowing the signings of two well known injury prone ex and players as our ‘big’ signings then it makes it all the worse. I don’t know why Alan Burrows left and I don’t need to know either, but his last year at the club certainly wasn’t his finest and it’s probably better for all parties that he has now moved on to pastures new.

Harsh on Obika and McKinstry imo. Obika has been injured (albeit our habit of signing injury prone players this season has been ridiculous) but he made an impact when Kettlewell took over. McKinstry is a youngster who hasn’t really had a look in of late but showed some promise earlier in the campaign. Efford I have never rated but he is clearly a better option than Shields and Spittal has significantly improved his game since Kettlewell replaced Hammell. Before that change I would have fully agreed that he merited his place in a “worst group of attacking players we have ever assembled” but he, like KvV and a few others have upped their game in the last couple of months.

I think it’s inevitable that he’ll move on and no one can begrudge him that. He has been excellent for us by and large and if we avoid relegation this season then that is mostly down to him and his goals. He is a proper No.9 forward, our best since Michael Higdon ten years ago and even though he hasn’t had the benefit of playing with the same quality of players that Higdon did in that team he has still racked up a superb goals return for us. He will be a big miss and hard to replace.

That’s my concern. Killie under McInnes could never be written off to start with but like Dundee Utd the other week they will be coming to FP on the 6th on the back of a moral boosting win in the previous game. It will be a tough one that day. It is of course in our hands and yes we really should be okay in our current position, but we need this rubber stamped as soon as possible as the longer it goes on and our points advantage reduces the more nervy it’s going to become. Of course if we were to beat Killie at home then we would all but guarantee safety, but this is Motherwell after all.

I am 100% sure I’m not a Rangers fan, thanks for asking. I dislike Celtic more than Rangers but that does not equate to actually supporting or even liking Rangers. Your post from a few months back didn’t cause me any offence, I just found it a bizarre take. Unless you know something I don’t about TB’s post match celebrations or there is something I either completely missed at the time or else completely forgotten about, I don’t see how you can deduce that his celebrations after that game were more driven by his supposed love of Rangers and delight at them winning the title rather than being pleased that the team he was manager of had just won in incredible circumstances. You’re entitled to your opinion and if that’s just how you saw it then fair enough. I just don’t see what he did wrong that day. Should he, the players and us as Motherwell fans just have quietly and respectfully left the ground that day, perhaps even apologising to Celtic, their fans and their players for ruining their title party? That’s certainly what a lot of Celtic fans and many of their players who were involved that day have basically said that they think we should have done when they have been greetin about the lack of respect we showed them.

Killie at home in the first fixture will be tough, as will St.Johnstone away and I don’t even want to think what it’ll be like if we need to get a result against Dundee Utd in the final game. Those fixtures have not been kind to us at all.

Killie (H) St.Johnstone (A) Ross County (H) Livingston (A) Dundee United (H)

Some of the usual suspects on here would drench their scants nowadays if we beat Celtic with a team led by ex-Ranger Tommy McLean and containing Bobby Russell and Davie Cooper. Then you throw in Rangers supporting Ulsterman Colin O’Neill whacking a Celtic player in the chops and getting away with it at the time. If “Terry Butchers celebrations on Skippy Sunday are something I’d rather not see again” to paraphrase a quote from a poster on here a couple of months ago are anything to go by then beating Celtic with an ex Rangers manager, two ex Rangers players running the show and one being described as “loves scoring against Celtic” and a Rangers fan from NI elbowing one of their players in the face…god knows how they would cope. 😆

Tom Boyd is still to this day the last Celtic player to be red carded at Fir Park. In another 2-0 win for us on the 3rd April 1993. Over 30 years ago!

Maybe it’s just nostalgia as that’s the era I grew up in and starting following Motherwell in but the 1990s really were the best time football wise. The Cup win, 3rd, 2nd and playing Dortmund in Europe aside, the teams we had during that decade were great and had some terrific players.

My recent posts about Celtic and Tom Boyd have been based on my own experience of them and my opinions on them based on that. To be clear, a man who has openly disrespected us as a club on more than one occasion and has annoyed and showed disdain to Motherwell supporters, including Tam Cowan at a club event (it’s been mentioned on here before). And is associated with a club who have signed several players from us on the cheap, who regularly bully and control the rest of Scottish football for their own means and who’s supporters often openly glorify the death of one of our 91 Cup winning heroes and who label anyone who doesn’t like them as “a Rangers fan without the bus fare” and imply that to show dislike of Celtic automatically means a dislike of RCs and the Irish. Now what’s not to like about people and football clubs with outlooks like that? To suggest that anything that I have said about either has been examples of “red white and blue tinted hate everything green and white bigotry” is completely and utterly unreasonable and lacking any basis or rational thought. Im sorry if I hurt your feelings over Tom Boyd and Celtic mind you x

No. It’s just straightforward having an ability and willingness to think for myself and form my own opinions based on my own personal experiences as opposed to being a sheep and conforming to groupthink mentality. And to suggest that disliking Celtic more than Rangers equates to “red white and blue tinted hate everything green and white bigotry” is absolutely moronic talk. Even ‘bigoted’ moronic talk if the word ‘bigoted’ is applied correctly according to dictionary definition. adjective: obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. "they're pandering to a vocal minority of ill-informed and bigoted individuals"

Matter of opinion. As I said last week in my opinion no they are not. There is no Rangers equivalent to Tom Boyd apart from anything else.

Him and people like him are one of the reasons why I detest Celtic so much. That horrible chip-on-the-shoulder and manufactured victim complex which he uses to pressurise match officials into giving Celtic decisions. He even took part in their ridiculous ‘Anyone but Celtic’ film which they released to ramp up their conspiracy nonsense.

It's in our hands and I would rather be in our position just now than Dundee Utd's or Kilmarnock's but we are not officially 100% safe yet. One more win should be enough.

I couldn't stand Grant as a player but as a 'Celtic minded' pundit he's actually okay and usually reasonable in his comments. Compare and contrast him to Tom Boyd with his dribbling whining and chip on the shoulder about anything and anyone out with Celtic then Peter Grant is night and day.

Ideally we wouldn’t play Dundee Utd until we are officially safe but whenever we do play them I would be more confident of a result if we were to face them at Tannadice than at Fir Park for some reason. We of course should be playing them up there but you just never know. We need to cement our safety as soon as possible otherwise nerves could kick in.

I’ll be very surprised if he’s still here next season. He’ll be 32 in June so he’ll probably be looking for one last ‘bigger’ move and his agent certainly will be. I think he has a year left on his contract? So we should get a fee for him if he goes this summer but it won’t be anywhere near £1M though. He will be a big loss when he goes, as strikers who can bag you 20+ goals a season are hard to come by for clubs our size.