MJC

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!

Funny you should say that, because that’s exactly the message that this entire ‘episode’ sent out, from the big long winded statement yesterday to the ham-fisted protest today.

Other results have been not to bad for us today with Ross County losing and Utd & Killie both drawing from winning positions.

The first Rangers goal was pathetic from Kelly. Getting beat at his near post like that was Stevie Woods-esq

It genuinely would be less annoying if they played “Always look on the bright side of life” after a loss.

We never learn playing this mob. If you sit in deep, play one up front with no support then you will get nothing. With Obika out then Tierney or McKinstry should have started today, or Mandron if he was fit enough.

Well that was typical Motherwell v Rangers fare. Cheap goals conceded, no luck with decisions and just pure frustration. I need to see all the key decisions again but the length of time it took to confirm their 3rd goal when it was obvious they were going to allow it was ludicrous. And on a final note I wish to Christ we would stop playing Chumba fucking wumba after every defeat. Apart from being a shite song it just rubs it in getting beat.

It was daft from Slattery no doubt but Cantwell made sure he made the most of it. The same player that got away with niggles and fouls all afternoon.

That Cantwell is another detestable cheating bastard that Rangers have acquired. Mop headed prick.

Obika injured now as well I take it? No doubt that’ll be the last we see of him this season too now. That team is never scoring today.

A draw would be great but just can’t see it. 0-3

So when they as a group collectively decide to boycott the first fifteen minutes of a match at the ground of the club they support, or walk out as a group or disrupt matches by throwing stuff on to the park…is that them valuing their own status more or that of the club? As I said there are decent guys in that group and I believe their intentions are good towards the club, but the saying goes “you are judged by the company you keep”. To me that group have became a bit of a ‘Green brigade wannabe’ bunch over the last few years with their petty grievances and behaviour.

It was the St.Johnstone game at the start of the season that they threw stuff on the park at the start of the second half, supposedly in protest about mistreatment they had received at St.Mirren the week before or something, happy to be corrected if wrong on that one. I’ve said this before on here, I don’t like the Well Bois. There are obviously some decent lads in their section but a lot of them seem to value their status as a group more than the club itself and their behaviour at certain away grounds is questionable, to say the least. Not to mention invading the park and throwing objects, the latter of which has happened on more than one occasion from that area of FP in games against Rangers, hopefully we don’t see that today. And then when they inevitably attract unwanted attention due to the above they cry about heavy handed policing. Again, very Green Brigade.

Absolutely. What happens on the park is surely the main concern for the vast majority of the Motherwell support.

How very ‘Green Brigade’. Maybe the Bois got some tips from that mob in return for them having a joint protest with them at Fir Park a few years ago? Go to the football, support your team and don’t set off flares or jump on the park or square up to stewards and police and they might just find that they are left alone to get on with things. But hey…no pyro no party eh? I for one won’t be ‘standing with them’.

The grandparent/ancestor rule is one of the (many) reasons that makes International football meaningless to me. If you can pick and choose your nationality in a footballing sense then it just makes a mockery of the whole thing and it is clear that in the case of Angus Gunn that he is opting to ‘be Scottish’ because he knows he has next to no chance of ever featuring for the England national team. I know his father is Scottish but that was the case when Gunn jnr was representing England at every youth level up to u-21, so why else change national team now?

Granted. Although it was down to us that they weren’t in it for one of those seasons after we cuffed them in the playoffs. 😁

It’s nonsense to say “who cares about these games”? as clearly the majority of the support do care and would desperately love a result against them. Obviously we are not going to compete with either of them over the course of a season, no one is as was shown when Hearts and Hibs were easily swept aside last night, but the frustration comes from the fact that other sides have managed to beat Rangers at least once in that twenty years we have failed to. I’m not talking about the Hearts, Hibs or Aberdeens, the clubs with an obvious financial advantage over us here, Hamilton fucking Accies have managed to win twice at Ibrox in the last few years ffs! Ross County have knocked Celtic out of both cups on three occasions in the last twelve years, St.Mirren managed by Robinson and half our ex team beat Celtic this season, something they never achieved when with us. Obviously these are ‘one offs’ and the exception to the rule but the question has to be why do we never manage to pull off these ‘one off’ results now and again? We need to stop simply writing these games off beforehand and at least show a bit of belief that we can get something, but the mentality of us just shrugging it off and accepting our fate seems deeply engrained in the club nowadays.