MJC

Yip, we all know what happened the last time we played Killie here. It’s getting very nervy now.

Badly need a second goal here.

We are seeing this nearly every week now, these lengthy protracted delays to goal checks. If the VAR refs believe there is an offside or a foul, just tell the referee to go and check the monitor straight away. None of this humming and hawing with the ref standing with his hand over his ear, just get him to do the check and make the decision there and then. It is absolutely ruining football and you just don’t know whether to actually celebrate a goal now.

Get VAR so far to fuck! Seriously!

I’m not interested in what Kilmarnock and Dundee Utd do, only what we do and until we are mathematically safe and cannot finish 11th then absolutely no way should be be fielding youngsters as opposed to our strongest available eleven.

It’s very much in our hands just now and we can secure safety today with a win. Whether we do or not is another matter entirely. Absolutely massive game today.

Me too. Had we lost that game and finished bottom six then Alexander would have been gone by the end of the season, if not before, and we would have had the chance to appoint a manager and give him an entire pre season to get his own players in. It’s safe to assume that Stevie Hammell wouldn’t have been in contention for the job if it had become available at the beginning of the close season and this season would probably have been a whole lot different. We would also have been spared Sligo, though I know that some Motherwell fans enjoyed it as they got to go on a ‘European tour’ to the tropical and sunny streets of…erm…Ireland…where they drank loads of beer and made lots of new friends. Cos that’s what fitba is all about eh? 🙄

This is why talk of us already being safe and suggestions that we field the youngsters today are absolutely ludicrous. Apart from the points gap being cut should the scenario of Killie and Dundee Utd both win today, there is also the issue of confidence and momentum. Both of them would be hugely lifted whilst we would be the opposite and panic could well begin to set in.

He’s found his level in the Championship to be fair.

That was a beauty, but was it ever on sale?

I sincerely hope it’s just you and that SK and the rest of the management team aren’t thinking along those lines because that is an absolutely ludicrous and extremely naive way of thinking. First of all as I keep saying we are NOT safe yet. Not mathematically and not basically. We are not safe and we need to guarantee our mathematical safety as soon as possible so to just chuck in the youngsters against a side fighting for their own safety would be complacent from the teams point of view and potentially damaging for the youth players if they flopped badly and we lost the game. Saturday is going to be one tough game and that’s with us playing our strongest 11 so we certainly can’t afford to just field youngsters.

A great kit and a great player right enough. The best kits we’ve had in recent years were the 17/18 ‘Kipre’ kit, last seasons and the home top from the covid season, especially minus the sponsor. Only claret shorts would have improved that one. I’m hoping we return to a more traditional kit next season but you just never know with us. You wouldn’t put it past us to bring out a half and half front top with an all white back and white shorts in a supposed ‘throwback’ to the jester kit we wore when we lost on penalties to Alloa in the League Cup in the mid 90s.

Agree about white shorts but I know that some do like them. For me a Motherwell FC home kit should look like this.

Perhaps, but I would think that the fans who will buy the kits will largely buy the kits regardless of what they look like and those who won’t, wont. You see clubs like Newcastle, Hearts, Real Madrid, Aberdeen etc who all stick by their traditional core home colours and merely tweak their kits every year. That’s identity and that’s what we should do as well. We are in a fortunate position of having somewhat ‘different’ home colours as it is. We don’t have navy or light blue, or green or black and white, we have colours that in Scottish football at least are instantly associated with Motherwell FC. We don’t need to try and be different, just use our colours proudly and properly and we have a kit that stands out straight away.

So with only five games left of us having to endure this seasons ridiculously bad home kit and with all kits now at half price, it’s safe to assume that we will be bringing a new kit out in the summer. Obviously everyone has their own views on what our home kit should be like but for me we should be keeping it simple. A mostly Amber shirt with a claret band and trimmings and mostly amber shorts and both colours represented on the socks. I don’t see how that is difficult, no nonsense, no ‘out the box and different’ just go with our unique and vintage home colours and deliver us a proper Motherwell FC home kit. I suspect we may well see a mostly Claret away kit next season as it’s been a few years since we’ve had that and as long as it’s done right then I wouldn’t be against that, as long as we only wore it when there was an obvious colour clash and not in every away game like we did with the 18/19 version. What’s everyone’s views?

Against a team we haven’t managed to beat in three attempts this season there has to be a degree of doubt or ‘fear’ going into this one. Killie, like Utd will be coming into this one on the back of a massive win and their need to win is greater than ours given the league positions. They will be well up for this one and we need to be too, otherwise we’ll get beat. A point wouldn’t be a disaster but it’s the best we will get imo.

I’m a supporter, not a cheerleader. I don’t support the club/team based on whether we can or I think we can win every week. We are almost safe. Almost, but not quite just yet and a win on Saturday would all but put it beyond doubt. But then the same could have been said for the Dundee Utd home game a few weeks back and look how that turned out. Saturday will be tough and predicting us to lose is no more or no less wild than the posts predicting 3-0 and 5-1 home wins. It will be tight and it could go either way but us being us we will make things hard for ourselves.

Another frustrating day at home as the nerves build. 1-2 defeat.

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.