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It's a nice effort right enough. Glad we're sticking with Puma as their kits have been excellent so far, both in quality and appearance. On a side note though I can see the fact that we've got a blue kit being a bit of a concern to some of the more precious wee souls in our support who'll no doubt worry that it's too similar to a Rangers kit and they're Celtic supporting mates will say nasty things about them because of it.

I'm saying that James McFadden will not be coming back to us now or ever. Why would he? He is a 29 year old International player who barring injuries has at least six years left of top flight football. We at Motherwell FC are forever cost cutting, we have just released several youth players as we do just about every summer. We are a small club and have to live within our means, I accept that. So therefore I have to accept that ideas of James McFadden ever playing for us again is complete and utter pie in the sky. James McFadden will never, ever be a Motherwell FC player again. Not now, not next year or any time. We simply are not nor ever will be in a position to be able to afford him. So if that makes me a "complete fucking idiot" then so be it, but I stand by what I say. There is absolutely no chance of him ever coming back to play for Motherwell. He is a player who is now completely and utterly out of our league.

Yes but in Phil O'Donnell's case, he literally hadn't kicked a ball for something like two years and his career was all but finished until Butcher asked him back to train with us for a few months. James McFadden, whilst he's had his injury woes has not suffered nearly the same misfortune as Phil had. Remember, he's still a Scotland Internationalist and has was playing Premiership football last season. James McFadden will not be short of offers this summer. There is no way he's coming back to us.

Thanks for that. I did just about realise that the particular poster who said that last night was saying it tongue in cheek, but as I said there are Motherwell fans out there who genuinely believe that this is going to happen so yes that is a bit like a red rag to me. James McFadden, as much as he was a terrific player for us when he was year as a youngster; as much as I don't doubt that he still has a soft spot for the club and may have said, dare I say it, slightly tongue in cheek, that he might come back here one day to some of our supporters or briefly mentioned it in an interview, it just isn't going to happen. The guy has been earning something like £20-25k a week down in England and in football, where money does the talking, that blows any remote glimmer of hope that he will return to Motherwell FC to play his football completely and utterly out of the water. The only Scottish club he will play for again will be Celtic because firstly, they are the only club who can go anywhere near affording his wages, secondly he and his family are all Celtic supporters so that may well tug on the heart strings and thirdly, Celtic is probably the best place for James McFadden at this stage in his career. He would get regular first team football as well as Champions League experience and Celtic's style of play would suit him perfectly. He would run riot in the SPL so long as he stays injury free.

I'm sure he has got a soft spot for the club, in fact I've never doubted that. But that doesn't mean that he will come back and actually play for us again, unless he pays his own wages. James McFadden is well and truly out of our league, in fact he's on a different planet to us in football terms these days. There is more chance of me playing for Motherwell than there is of James McFadden playing for us again.

Plenty, but they also involve Motherwell winning the Champions League but I know it will never happen. I just can't believe the amount of Motherwell fans out there who genuinely believe that James McFadden will come back here one day. It's not just folk who post on here under a moniker either, I know of and have spoken to Motherwell supporters who genuinely believe that this will happen. Why would he come back here? What possible reason would James McFadden have for coming back to play for Motherwell? In football it is money that does the talking and we just cannot offer even a fraction of what James McFadden would ask for. As for him signing for Celtic; I've said it since he left Motherwell and I will say it until I am finally proved right. James McFadden will be a Celtic player sooner or later. He wants to play for them, don't kid yourself otherwise and if they make him a decent enough offer, which they are capable of doing then he will go there.

God what is it with some of our support. James McFadden is a 29 year old International player, he has been plying his trade in the Premiership for the best part of the last NINE years apart from a brief spell in the Championship. He would have been earning something like £25k a week, yet some sections of our support seem to think that he is going to come back here, even though we are actively cost cutting and getting rid of youth players. Understand this. James McFadden IS. NOT. COMING. BACK....EVER. We cannot even begin to think about affording his wages. And for those who think he won't end up at Celtic...get your heads out of the sand. The man is a Celtic supporter, he has never denied this and would jump at the chance of playing for them should it come up. He will be a Celtic player one day, mark my words. But for God's sake, some of our support need to wake themselves up from this daft wee dream that 'Faddy' is going to come back and play for us. He's long gone and he is now way, way out of our wage bracket. He will never, repeat 100 times NEVER play for Motherwell FC again.

Yes that was Marshall's last ever game.

Has to be James McFadden's goal against Livingston to complete his hat trick when he was captain for the day. He was a genuinely top quality player and that goal was something else. He scored another absolute peach of a goal against Dundee in 2001/2002 at Fir Park when he beat three or four players and curled it into the top corner from the edge of the box.

A day never to be forgotten. What a day and what a team we had there, some really top quality players were on display for us that day, Davie Cooper, Phil O'Donnell, wee Dougie, Luc Nijholt, Tom Boyd and the rest. I wonder how that team would fair in the SPL of 2012, I reckon very well. In contrast to 1991, last year's damp squib doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as it. Everything about last year's final was rotten. Even the build up was overshadowed by the fact that we were playing Celtic and we all knew deep down that we had little to no chance and all the side show with Neil Lennon in the run up to it completely dampened any little enthusiasm I had about it. The day itself was a complete write off from start to finish and several factors made it a day to forget; ....the weather - horrible and completely fitting for what happened on the park; ....the bus fiasco, before and after the game ....the non atmosphere in the Motherwell end. Our support largely sat with their lips glued shut before and during the match and there were loads of 'daytrippers' in our end who weren't remotely interested in the game itself, especially were we were sitting. ....the performance on the park. We never even looked like we believed we could get anything from that game and it showed from the first whistle. Lasley apart, we stood off Celtic and gave them far too much respect. Even if Gunning's thunderbolt had went in and Majstorovic had been sent off it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference, we would still have lost convincingly. I will always refer to last year as 'The Damp Squib' because that is exactly what it was.

Two games for me were crucial, well perhaps two and a half games. The 3-1 win over Dunfermline in January was a huge result because our home form in the SPL up until then had been dire and we had gone on our usual festive period slide so we needed that win so badly that night. The other one was the Hibs game at Fir Park. Firstly the 'Friday night experiment which was abandoned at half time with us 1-0 down and staring at a certain defeat IMO. We were absolutely awful in that first half and our home form at that time was dismal. We couldn't buy a goal never mind a win. That game being abandoned was a blessing in disguise for us because it gave us the chance to try again in February and although we found ourselves 1-0 down at half time again, we stormed back in the 2nd half to earn a very hard fought win as Hibs just wouldn't give in. Higdon's hat trick was the highlight of the season for me. I know we'll never know but I seriously doubt we'd have come back like that in the original game.

It was aye. I'm sure that was the last time we had the end of season pitch invasion, that was back in 2004.

Ahh fuck it, 2-1 Motherwell after going 2-0 up in the 1st half before they get a goal back in the last 20 or so minutes making for a nervy finish but we'll see it through as we prove to them and everyone else why we've earned our place in the Champions fucking League next season. :thumbup:

I started this thread last year, but since then Stuart McCall has guided us to 2 top six finishes, a Scottish Cup final and a Champions League Qualifying position. If he's reading this then I fully apologise to Stuart McCall for starting this thread back in February 2011. He has more than proved himself as a very good manager for us and the job he has done in his time in charge has been tremendous. Regardless of what's went on at Rangers, we deserve to be where we are just now as our results over the course of the season have earned our place in next season's Champions League. Congratulations to Stuart McCall and all the Motherwell players

There really are no words to describe just how fantastic that result tonight was. To go to Tynecastle is never easy but to go there and win in such a massive match is incredible and to think that we are now within touching distance of the Champions League. A lot of work is still to be done though but that was an absolutely massive step toward it tonight. Well done Stuart McCall and the boys tonight.

I am as well. It's going to be nerve shredding, even utter torture at times but if we manage to pull this off and finish 3rd then it is a terrific achievement. I have my doubts but I just hope we can do it. It's going to be an exciting last few weeks, that's one thing that's for sure.

Just the usual lies and mock outrage about absolutely nothing as usual from this lot. They really are a bunch of sweetie wives.

A point is the best we'll get from this one.

Well me and you are going to have to disagree here because in my opinion we did deserve to lose that game. If you defend the way we did for both goals and show no belief in yourself that you can go on and win the game at 1-1 then you deserve to lose. Rangers didn't steal the points, we gifted them the points by making the same basic mistakes we always do against them.

Yes but I must also remind you that during Stuart McCall's tenure as Motherwell manager we have played Celtic & Rangers twelve times combined, won one and lost the other eleven.

So what? Rangers season was well and truly over when they came to Fir Park at the end of March but guess what? They still managed to waltz away with the points after we'd turned in yet another inept, gutless and gormless display against them. Sunday will be no different and anyone who thinks, or pretends to think otherwise is kidding themselves. This will be the first season in God knows how many years that we do not take one single point from either Celtic or Rangers. I'll also stick my neck out right now and say that we will not take another point off of either of them (or beat them in a Cup game) whilst Stuart McCall is our manager.

No I didn't and I prove that by the fact that neither St.Johnstone nor St.Mirren were in the SPL in season 2004/2005...

+ 1 The sad fact is that whilst the likes of Hearts, Dundee Utd, St.Johnstone and even Kilmarnock and St.Mirren are able to take results off of either Celtic and/or Rangers, we just don't have the belief, bottle or savvy in our squad to do so. Sunday will be no different, Celtic will get three points as per usual and the only question is whether they hammer us or if we'll gift them it through piss poor defending or discipline.

Celtic will murder us next Sunday. Do folk never learn? Whenever the 'Old Firm' lose or drop points just before they are due to play us they always bounce back big style against us. I was quietly confident of getting a point next Sunday, but given today's result then I can only see a comfortable win for Celtic.