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I would edge towards Casey as well for the captaincy, I just hope we can tie him up on a longer deal.

Definitely. Either Butcher or Casey should be club captain as they have both shown in the short time that they have been here that they are both ‘leaders’ on the park, something that we have lacked previously.

To be honest, the penalty save is the only thing I can remember him for. That and him getting caught miles off his line against Czech Republic in Euro 2020.

Best result of the season! Even better than the win at Pittodrie in August imo because the significance of that puts a fair bit of daylight between us and Ross County in 11th. And winning at Easter Road will never not be enjoyable. 😁

FANTASTIC result!! Well done Motherwell and get it right up those Hibs bampots!

Fucking hold it this time ffs!!!

That McKirdy looks like a cross between Leigh Griffiths and Derek Riordan. Exactly the type of player you’d expect to see playing for Hibs.

Our two biggest weaknesses historically; defending crosses and 2-0 leads. Many a Motherwell team, good or bad, can never deal with either.

We’ll be lucky to get a point now.

He’s a ‘national treasure’ though because he saved a penalty for Scotland once, was never getting sent off. And Hibs bring it back to 1-2 so we won’t be winning now.

Worst penalty I’ve seen him hit but it went in so that’s all that counts. Let’s see you boogie about that one Marshall ya big helmet!

Brilliantly struck from Goss.

Mandron and KvV up top then? Hopefully they get the service they need.

Oh right, apart from the three examples that I quoted above? And I'm sure there's more I could find if I wanted. But hey, you batter in talking shite and making things up if it keeps you warm. I mean granted I can be negative and have talked shite on occasion on here during my time, but who hasn't? You for example have said more than once that you would rather see us qualify for Europe than winning a trophy which I think is utterly bonkers but I respect your right to have that view...

Saying “I fancy us to win 3-0” alone would have been enough for an April fools.

I hope so too, though I must point out that I correctly predicted that we would lose to Rangers the other week. (And yes I know, bigger club, bigger budget, all those glory hunters behind them, it’s easy to predict a loss in that type of game yada-yada-yada. But I was right regardless on that occasion.) Our record against Hibs is dreadful, something like one win in the last eleven meetings and I don’t see that changing on Saturday I’m afraid. We are absolutely not out of the woods yet by any means and we need other results to go our way this weekend and we also need maximum points from the home double header coming up before we can start relaxing a bit.

That’s our next manager confirmed then. 🙄

2-0 home win.

Davie Cooper died 28 years ago today aged only 39. A true Motherwell great and part of the famous Scottish Cup winning side.

If by “they were pilloried for the action in plenty of circles” you are referring to the Well Bois holding a joint protest with the Green Brigade then yes I know they were, and rightly so. And “it’s never happened again” then good! Rightly so. Because they were shown by the unwillingness of the wider support to join in with or support them on that that they were in the wrong for it and weren’t supported by the majority of our fanbase. And yes, I’m “peddling that again” and I will keep doing so as long as that group keep acting like the Green Brigade with their behaviours, statements and victim mentalities. If you fly with the crows and all that…

The incident mentioned in the above post where Celtic fans/The Green Brigade/Celtic fans led by the Green Brigade trashed the South Stand at Fir Park happened in December 2013 and rightly had the majority of the Motherwell support up in arms at both it happening and the lack of action taken against the perpetrators. Then, less than two years later in October 2015, the ‘Well Bois’ participated in a joint protest with the Green Brigade/Celtic support over supposed unfair treatment of football fans. In other words they stood shoulder to shoulder with the same group who had caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to Fir Park with little to no comeback on it. I don’t speak for anybody else but in my eyes that group lost most if not all credibility they had when complaining about harsh treatment by police and stewards there and then. And that is before you take into account some of the behaviours they have displayed on more than one occasion since then. If they don’t want to be seen as ‘Green Brigade wannabes’ then don’t stand along side them greetin about the police when they attract attention for their bad behaviour and stick two fingers up to the club they support and the rest of your fellow fans in the process. And don’t release big chest-puffed-out statements about boycotts full of poor grammar and spelling and then deliver a half arsed attempt at a boycott like they did on Saturday. Like I said in my first reply on this subject, everything about this episode is very Green Brigade.

Perhaps spelling it ‘Bhois’ might be more appropriate…

I don’t see us getting anything at Easter Road so the Livi - Utd home double header is massive for us and will play a big part in whether we survive or not.

Yeah but but, budgets! finances! size of support! Clubs our size can’t be expected to beat the Old Firm! I mean it’s not as if Killie, Ross County, St.Johnstone, Accies, St.Mirren have fared any better…..oh wait… …Welcome to our great wee club!

The honest answer to your question is that I don’t know. Perhaps they know more than I do, perhaps they are misguided. Who knows? Only those people do. And that’s not a criticism by the way, they may well know of incidents that I and others don’t. Secondly, as you yourself appear to acknowledge, the ‘protest’ today wasn’t very good. And did it achieve anything in terms of the supposed objective of the whole thing? Only time will tell but I’d be surprised if it did. Finally, if it had disrupted the ‘matchday experience’ then some would moan? Well I don’t speak for anyone else but I certainly would moan about it! And I would make no apology for it either. To me if you have a group of fans actively disrupting the game or the match day for regular fans then that is a perfectly reasonable reason to moan!