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Add to that I also seen him pull on the goalie jersey during one game and score a hat trick in another. I think the hat trick was against Montrose at Fir Park. The goalie may have been his debut game??

Well it's easier getting it into your own net

Still disagree. if a team is not in a european competiton what difference does it make to them if he is cup tied or not? Championship side like the looks of him............he plays in europe and turns in a few stormers. Why would his value go down? Also if he starts to attract attention from more clubs then his value is more likely to increase

Don't agree that his value goes down as soon as he kicks a ball.

So can he transfer to foreign club any time or stil lonly during transfer windows? I can see us wantint to take a decent and reasonable offer but I would want to keep him for the european games before accepting any offers. Maybe a few sterling european performances might drive up his value and attaract some richer suitors?

Apologies in advance for being so dumb ( and lazy ) what round is our european tie and how many rounds would we need to win to get into the group stages?

So who was your old man?

Was his nickname "Measels? That would be the team with Pettigrew in it? I think 10 out of the 11 guys were all signed up on S forms and Wilson Humphries was the coach.

Doesn't bother me that he went there. Don't care where good players go when they leave Motherwell as long as it's not to rival teams in our division.

Yes, he wants to talk about how much he would be on playing for Sheffield Utd.

Difficult task for the club. You want some stability but in doing that you may end up having to keep players who turn out to be non performers. Hopefully the Manager/board can keep that to a minimum. AT the moment i would mabe only classify Daly as having fallen into that category. However, even by giving the likes of Law etc 2 year contracts it gives us some continuity but no chance to sell them and make money. So perhaps ( easier said than done ) we need to develop a signing strategy that 1. Provides continuity: Manage contract lengths such that you limit the number that are up at the same time. 2. Enables us to get some decent time out of good players but still enough time left on contract that other teams would have to buy them if they wanted them. Of course, we are completely at the mercy of who has enough cash to buy players but at least if we don't sell them we get to keep them for longer. But, stating the obvious, any contract strategy relies heavily on the ability of the manager and board to "predict" what players will be good for motherwell and able to maintain or improve their performance level. Not the easiest of tasks. The task being made even more difficult by the fact that they have to also align these contracts with projected budgets. I don't envy them the task

I think you play our strongest team. Go out in style....hopefully !

What age was Keith McRae when he played in goal for us? Not making any point just that he sprang to mind and I could not recall what age he was but pretty young I think. I have no clue how good ( or bad ) Stewart is.

What's the position with Higginbottam? Haven't seen too much chat about him. I quite liked the look of him but no idea how the situation is with him at Huddersfield. Is his contract up there? or is there a chance of getting him on loan again next season? wouldn't mind having him on the squad.

It's a long term strategy as well. No easy quick fix but the more kids you get coming to fir park for free the more likely they might continue to come as they get older but as mentioned benefits would be in the long term.

So you like the Kit Kat?

I'm hoping we crush them and score about 5 or 6

What is a jot anyway??

Yep! either way you're forking out a lot of dosh!! edit: although it seems strange they would make teams pay for each other. Not sure I see the logic in that one.

Cheers Kmcalpin I was purely speculating. Obviously a contributing factor to the fact that gate receipts are only 33% is the size of the crowds. Not sure what we, as a club, can do to increase the TV money. The remaining 24% perhaps we can do something there but I would think probably not, unless we got a huge sponsorship deal. So I think it brings you back to the question of how do you get people through the turnstyles to get bigger crowds helping to increase that 33%. Part of that seems to be the dwindling away support coming to Fir park. Although, like us, many of the teams in the league don't even have a great home support. So I am not sure what the club can do to get the crowds up.

Chance for us to boost our best ever goals total and positive goal difference. Big Higgy has this game and 2 more to get to 30 league goals. 3 points will take us to our highest points total. Not getting beat will take us to 9 games on the trot. Lot's to play for with no real pressure so hopefully the lads can turn on the style and really enjoy the game. I'm hoping we score a barrow load and Im not worried if they score he same as us or just 1 less, as long as it's not one more.

to be honest I am not sure how we actually make it through each season. Although Money comes from other sources I would have to think that the main stay is punters paying to come watch. Sadly even although Motherwell have been playing well and relatively successful there are just not enough people interested to shell out the cost of going to a football match. Although we gt moeny for european games i wonder how much they have to actually spend on flights and hotels etc for the away games. Not cheap I am sure. I am sure no one is pocketing any money and I am sure they are doing all that can be done not to squander money so all in all I am not sur that much blame if any can be laid at the feet of the board. Perhaps they deserve credit for keeping us going??

Not sure if it was true but it was stated on here that Faddy's wages were being met put of the pocket of a couple of the directors and in this day and age players from all countries are all over the place so I don't think we are paying any extra than if we would have got a scottish player.

Indeed! They seem obsessed with this reconstruction crap and ignoring the things that could easily be improved upon as listed in Wee yins email.

I wouldn't want to have someone come in and just go stupid with money but it would be good to have a benefactor who could help augment the coffers so that we could keep the likes of Higdon faddy etc not go out and buy a team. Or perhaps a benefactor to provide a specific amount of cash per home game to allow the club to reduce entrance price and help encourage folks back to the terracings. ( is it still called that? ) A combination of keeping a good core together and playing attractive soccer coupled with reduced prices might help halt the downward spiral and start to help us get bigger crowds again. Mission impossible I know. So do we know any rich actors, musicians, reputable business men ( or women ) with some cash to write off? I'll keep buying the lotto tickets!