TheLip69

Thanks, much appreciated.

I don't doubt that one day we will move to a new stadium, and by God will I miss Fir Park. The Taylor report killed stone dead any character a football ground may have had. The only character our ground has now is the ludicrous three quarter length Main stand. In the '70's I used to love getting there early paying in at the Knowetop end and running up the stairs just to stand at the top of the terracing and survey the whole stadium, especially on the first day of the season when the paint was fresh and the grass was green, remember grass?. The covered terracing opposite the main stand, the open terracings at each end of the ground, it was, to me, exactly what a Football ground should look like, and the only other place that gave me that feeling, funnily enough, was Firhill. I look on Fir park as my own, I've laughed and cried there, I've cheered and jeered there, I've sung and danced there, the place is in my soul. I love it.

I know a couple of Reading fans who say they would like to see him back, as he had the team playing great football. I believe Mark's problems were with the board but it's all new people there now and has been for some time.

Hmmmm!

Well done Flow and everyone else. I am especially pleased for Bobby Jenks whom I know fairly well, I am well aware of his love for the club and his job. He is a perfect gentleman and I am absolutely delighted that his hard work has been recognised in this way.

I'm not apopleptic about it, to be honest I couldn't give a toss. I just thinking teasing everybody for a couple of months is ludicrous. I generally do buy the tops and have a fair old collection at home, strips, training tops, polo shirts, t-shirts, the lot. I just don't like Canterbury's stuff, I've got a couple of Scotland rugby tops that are Canterbury, and they are howling (they were gifts, I wouldn't have bought them for myself). So it will definitely be missing from my collection.

Leeanne Dempster

Are you sure it wasn't selling meerkats? Have you tried the site? The meerkat in question is called Alexander Orlov, they've taken this advert so far that the meerkat has it's own website and is on facebook. The copmpare the market website has quadrupled it's traffic since the campaign started. It's a totally different form of advertising from the teasing method used by the club and there is absolutely no comparison between that and the club's approach. Well there is, one's an advertising campaign run professionally by professionals and the other is a school project. To be perfectly honest I'm already bored stiff with it and surely that's contrary to what the campaign is all about. I'll wait until the whole strip goes on show and then I'll have a look at it, as for getting all excited about wee glimpses of the shirt, "oooh the badge is in the middle", "is it a hoop or a band ?", I grew out of that kind of pish when I was about 7. It's amatuerish in the extreme.

I think my opinion of the Trust is well known and I dont believe we need to go over them again.

Not quite sure how much faith to put in your stats when you think three teams add up to two.

I'm not a fan of this type of advertising, but I can see it's uses. it's purpose is to build some tension and increase interest in the product. To work well that kind of advertising has to be either, done on a larger scale with a bigger product, or done over a shorter time period with a limited product. It's one thing teasing millions of Coke or Pepsi drinkers over a few weeks, but teasing a couple of thousand Motherwell supporters for a couple of months is gilding the lily a wee bit. If you want to gauge the success of the tactic you judge the reaction of the clientele, and the fact is there are as many posts about the ludicrousness of the campaign as there are about the product. A good advertising campaign excites interest in the product being promoted, when the campaign itself becomes the talking point rather than the product, the campaign has failed.

As I said earlier. I knew it was coming. You little beauty.

Oh for God's sake behave yourselves. Can you possibly imagine the odds on all those matches coming up to send Motherwell down? Try going into the bookies and placing a bet on all those matches to finish as suggested and Motherwell to go down, they'll let you choose your own odds ffs. I dont mind a bit of pessimism, it can bring those of us with the euphoric flights of fancy back down to earth, stupidity however is a whole different ball game.

I hate to go against the grain here fellas, but I just get this feeling we are going to hump this mob on Saturday, and let's be honest it's long overdue. 4-1 Motherwell.

Every team needs that wee bit of grit in midfield. You cant name a successful club that didn't have a so-called hardman at it's heart. Bertie Auld did it for Celtic, Paddy Crerand for Man United, Tommy Smith and then Graeme Souness for Liverpool, Bobby Collins, Norman Hunter, Johnny Giles, and Billy Bremner at Leeds, Revie wasn't taking any chances there was he? Even when we had a footballing side with the likes of Pettigrew, Graham, Davidson, and Marinello, we also had Peter Millar and Stuart McLaren. Jock Wallace's Rangers had Alex McDonald, Roy Aitken and Murdo McLeod did a similar job for Billy McNeill's Celtic. Psycho was Tommy McLean's enforcer. Fancy Dan's win sod all, they need a bit of bite in their side to carry it through the tough times. Does anyone doubt Arsenal would have put up a better showing tonight with a Vieria in their midfield.

Even if we don't get through all 3 rounds of qualifying, I believe that competitive matches will make us sharper for the start of the season than the usual round of friendlies.

We should be grateful he moved when he did he managed to take Hibs down and we stayed up. It is though, and I'm sure I've posted this before, his signing of John Hendry that I cannot fathom how anyone could trust him with any sort of transfer budget. John Hendry played two games for Dundee and they loaned him out to Forfar he played 10 games and scored 6 goals and Terry Venables, no less, paid £50k to take him to Spurs in 1990. He played 1 full game for Spurs and one as a sub and that was his entire Tottenham career. In the five years he was there they loaned him out to Swansea and Charlton and various others but he never got near the first team again. So picture the scene, Spurs have a boy on their team whose experience at any level over 5 years is minimal they paid £50k for him but they have already written that off and would be willing to hand him over to anyone who will pay his fare. What does McLeish do, does he drive a hard bargain ask them to cover part of his wages for the first six months? No, he walks in offers £200k and Spurs bite the hand of him. £200k for a nonentity that's played less than two games in 5 years and only cost them £50k. The laughter still rings around White Hart Lane when the name McLeish is mentioned.

Cant disagree with that, I too know a couple of players who were at Fir Park when McLeish was there and they have nothing but contempt for the guy. From what I hear from Birmingham as well his jacket appears to be on a shoogly nail, more than a couple of players are whispering in Karen Brady's ear and she seems to have taken against him in a big way. The problem with Mcleish is, he will take you to a certain level but after that when yopu need to bring inj new and better players, you better bring in a new and better manager, because McLeish just hasn't got what it takes in that department. Hemdry, May, McSkimming ffs. If Birmingham want to consolidate in the premiership they need a quality manager and that is not McLeish.

This has been mooted for a while, I believe Gordon Smith spoke with UEFA and wanted the extra place to go to the next in the league rather than the runner up, but UEFA vetoed that idea.

Excellent interview, I think he's got Stevie Hammell to a 'T' eh? It looks like Big Bad Boab won't be here much longer either.

That picture of him holding up the Cup, I managed to copy that cut out all the extraneous surroundings and print it out as a transfer, which I then ironed onto a T-shirt that I wore to the Cooper Final when we lost 5-1 to Rangers.

Naw, it's a Sergeant Major and he was on the board of Motherwell FC at the turn of the century, big guy, top hat, and an amazing 'tache.

I think it's worthy of even higher praise when the one who made the error holds his hands up and sets about amending it themselves. It shows that person is able to recognise the error and do something about it. It's also a lesson for the future maybe they will look at things from a different viewpoint in the future. I think the club should derive a great deal of credit from this episode and deservedly so.

I hate strips where the Logo is more prominent than the badge.

I have had a shit day today but that has really cheered me up. I am delighted he has gone on record and been quite unequivocal about his committment to the club. Terrific news.