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Never know - he has been getting a fair bit of press.

Craggs went in with the nut. Was a bit of handbags, but the ref is using the letter of the law. Two good results on the bounce and a welcome 4 points. A win against St Johnstone would be a massive result and I think would cement our top six place. It will be a very hard game though. Thought the starting line up last night was perfect and suits our style of play perfectly. Hopefully we can use that same formation against the Saints.

I think the issue with the Higdon gesture is that I doubt anyone apart from Rob McLean at Sportscene will have raised it. As fans we should just boycott the programme and their website. Players are human and react just like we do. If I was getting pelter's all game from fans and scored a goal in the heat of the moment I might also gesture towards them - its a pretty natural thing to do. But now we have this ridiculous situation where a BBC TV programme is lording it over who plays and who gets banned. What would happen if the camera caught me in the crowd giving the wanker sign to a player, would I get pulled up for it? I doubt it.

Not quite true. He might want to keep his options open in the summer or he wants to see if he will settle in Scotland. Also it might also be the case that Motherwell FC are not willing to take any sort of risk on a long term investment due to falling crowds and lack of money coming in from player sales. I actually think Scottish Football will be full of loan deals and very short term contracts from now on. Its the way our game is going.

It might be that it was Ojamma who wanted the short term deal. Player power and all that.

When exactly did that gesture become an offence? Stephen Craigan does it to the whole East Stand nearly every time we win a game.

Aye

Ross Forbes had a wee bright patch under Gannon, but under Brown and McCall he has done nothing to convince me he is anywhere near as good as Lasley and Jennings. He is also has a shocking lack of pace for a professional footballer which is his main downfall. Has a great pass on him though.

Good result.

We will win. 2-0 Houston is a total c**t.

It's getting to the point where they are starting to out number the sane people. We are doomed to shite patter on this board for years to come...

A lot of the abuse comes down to people not understanding how the game of football works. The rest comes down to them needing their hole.

A lot of current Motherwell fans have a totally unrealistic expectation of our team. At the start of the season most people would have quite easily accepted a top six finish - we are well on course for this. We have a group of players and a management team who are giving their all to the club, but even when they do this they get totally lambasted for it. There was a good programme about Borussia Mochengladbach on ESPN the other day and last year the team was in a playoff to decide who got relegated from the top division in Germany. They won 2-1 and didn't go down, but all season they had about 50,000 fans standing to a man supporting the team. The players really appreciated the effort the fans put in to keep them up. I dread to think what Fir Park would be like if we were in the same position. We just need to have a sense of realism around Fir Park and accept the quality of player we can sign and also the quality of the football on display.

Fuck sake. Higdons hold up play is excellent he nearly always wins his headers and nearly all his knock downs are into dangerous areas. The problem is we have this three pronged attack which leaves Higdon totally isolated. Personally I think Higdon has been an excellent signing. It's down to McCall to get the best out of his strengths.

Tactics mate. Tactics.

Seen about twenty minutes of the game on the choockter channel and Higdon won every ball he went for and every knock he made went into space and there was no one there.

Our home form is now a mental issue.

Opta joe says. Clinical.

Our terrible season will continue with a win at home to keep us third in the spl. I am honestly sick of it all and thinking of just never going back to fir park.

I detect a hint of sarcasm mr sieb!!

That boys Hayes will be a danger.

We were made in Scotland from girders

blah blah blah fuck blah

A lot of all SPL ties which is good.

Any offers made for our players will be accepted. We have fuck all money. As for Murphy he has been poor at home and decent away from home - like the whole team....