TheLip69

Here's my five. 1971 Texaco Cup semi-final Hearts 3-2 Motherwell (agg) (both legs) 1975 Scottish Cup semi-final replay Airdrieonians 1-0 Motherwell 1976 Scottish Cup semi-final Motherwell 2-3 Rangers 1984 Scottish Cup Quarter final Celtic 6-0 Motherwell 2005 League Cup Final Rangers 5-1 Motherwell

1991 Scottish Cup 4th Round Aberdeen 0-1 Motherwell 1952 Scottish Cup Final 2008 Nancy away 1959 The Saints hat trick in 2 and a half minutes against Hibs 1961 Ibrox Rangers 2-5 Motherwell The Aberdeen game is the only round I missed on the way to the final, and it does my head in. Nancy I was all set for it but work intervened The other three because my Dad was there and spoke about them often.

McRae Pettigrew Wark Davidson Kirk Being an oldie the first three came fairly easily, and, if I'm honest so did the fourth. Vic Davidson was an absolute joy to watch, one of the best midfield players I've seen in a Motherwell jersey. From the modern era, McAllister, O'Donnell, McFadden, Cooper, all came close but in the end it was a straight decision between Kirkie and Dougie. Kirkie's all round boys own career, going in goals and saving a penalty scoring in every round of the cup incuding the winner in the final, becoming our top European scorer. If I had played for Motherwell that's the career I'd want.

This is a financial thing with Celtic, they include the season ticket holders because those seats are 'sold' for that game, they can't be resold so they are counted in Celtic's attendance. It's their way of keeping tabs on how many seats are unsold per game. There are quite a few clubs who do it this way, most of the EPL for starters.

Got to agree with Steelboy. This is terribly sad news and my thoughts are with his family.

Get in there!!!

What happened to Jamie, is it bad?

I seem to recollect it happened back in the 1970's against Celtic, I think it was Andy Lynch who scored two own goals and a penalty for Celtic. Can anybody confirm that?

Yet the League Cup sections was the blueprint for the Champions league. The league cup sections were played at the beginning of the season, if I remember correctly they were the season opener. The attendances were poor due to holidays and the fact that they were played Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday. There are too many games at the moment, particularly with European qualifying so early in the season, there isn't room for the League Cup to be played in sections. We need a minimum of 16 teams ( I would prefer 18), two up, two down, no split. Leave the cups as they are.

It's a personal thing, not for these boards.

No I haven't, have I?

I think the OP is more annoyed at the lack of response than anything else.

That was my first taste of a Motherwell game in The Pub, not getting the feed up and running till just before our goal was a bit disappointing, the feed stopping just as Murphy was about o cross for Blackman's goal was as bad, especially when the score came up on Sky Sports News before we saw it. Not great coverage but excellent atmosphere.

1890 to 1975

Really? Dont lose it now.

Jesus, I hope and pray that's what they mean.

Wonderful, who writes this stuff, I can get them a booking at the Fringe next August.

I've never been to the Brittania but I did got to the Victoria Ground when we beat them in the Texaco Cup.

Fir Park on the first day of a new season with the league Flag waiting to be unfurled.

I havent drank tea since I was 7 although I do make a damn good cup of coffee, I've got a De Longhi espresso machine in the office. However it's Trish that does all my photocopying, I'll give her your regards.

The club in question regularly takes a couple of hundred to away games. No idea of their top sales but as their gates are along the lines of Hamilton Accies I would say roughly similar to them. The guy actually showed me the sales figures because I was more than slightly sceptical and as he said "What else can I put it down to"

After the performance against Leichtenstein I'm not far off a cap to be frank.

I dont know how much they are paying or the details of their contract with Motherwell, but I have been part of a few sponsorship deals with clubs in England. One company with branches throughout England sponsored a conference side near their HQ in the midlands. They were surprised by the boost in business over the first few weeks of the season given that the club hadn't been on telly and were only in their local paper. They did a graph that plotted which branches were doing the best business each week and at the end of the season it showed that in the week after each away match where the company had a branch their sales figures had a marked boost. To knock it's importance when you are unaware of how it works is foolish, we dont know why it works, we just know it does. Even on these boards when we discuss favourite strips we'll see people arguing over whether they preferred the "Motorola" to the "Untouchables" or "Anglian" to "Zoom" the association with a club lingers long after the deal is finished. In some instances the company can become more associated with a certain strip than the club. No I'm not Duncan Bannatyne, but I've met the twat and I'm extremely glad I'm not.

The theory is applicable to ALL clubs, the larger the club the more effective it is thats a given thats wjhy they get bigger and better sponsorships, but it works right down the line. No I haven't been in Motherwell Town Centre recently, but I was just making the point about product placement, we could multiply it by adding Uddingston, Bellshill, Lanark, Shotts, etc. I'm off to watch Scotland.

Those who read about football in the newspaper, go to the stadium, and watch it on TV are the same cross section of people, football fans and they've already bought the shirt. Send one person in a Motherwell jersey to walk about Motherwell precinct for an hour on Saturday lunchtime and more people will see that shirt than will pass through the turnstiles at Fir Park later that day. Most of them who dont read any pages after Shuggie and Duggie, and never watch Sportscene. It's alright being facetious about it but that's the reality. That's the kind of advertising they want.