Ya Bezzer!

I'll say again, I don't have a problem paying £25 to go to a Europa League match. However if we advance I do have a problem paying £100 on top of my season ticket costs to go to three Europa League matches and a League Cup match. And that's if the ticket price doesn't increase if we pull a big name. I don't see what's so hard to understand about this. I probably shouldn't be spending £300+ on a season ticket but I'm a fan. However fans have limits as well.

This is near the truth. I don't know anyone can say he offers nothing. He needs to up his consistancy though and while some players learn from experience, others don't and tend to fall out of the game. ZFA needs to start learning from experience but remember he is still only 20 years old. He still has a couple of years were he can realistically develop.

If anything happens to Ramsden we will be in big trouble. For me a good quality central defender is a must. The reason we've done well recently is we have replaced like with like. We cannot afford to lose Hutchinson and not replace him. And I mean literally not afford because it will equate to league place prize money at the end of the season.

Not my 'I saw Frank Lampard in The Rex' post. Since then he's been released by Chelsea.....just sayin'.....

I was always confident he'd be here next season but I'm a little bit disappointed that it's just a one year deal. Don't see him signing another one but that's in the future.

Produce players of a quality that attract interest from buying clubs.

How do you work that out? If that were true the whole idea of developing youth would be redundant because the best players will make it anyway. Are you trying to tell me if Jamie Murphy had been released at 16 or 17 he would have been guaranteed to make it in football? I disagree completely, there is every chance he would be out the game or playing at a much lower level. By the way Jamie Murphy was the last youth player we sold and he came into our first team 8 years ago so I'll make my original point again. We do not effectively develop our youth players.

Nothing to do with giving people fear. Everything about us not effectively developing our youth players.

And losses will continue if fans are priced out of going to matches. Prices will increase to compensate and eventually there are fewer and fewer supporters and the club is unsustainable. That's essentially what's happened over the last 20 years or so where football prices have sky rocketed against all other costs. Our attendances have probably gone down by 500 - 1,000 regular home supporters in that time. These European games are additional income for the club. The season should be budgeted to league season and finish. Maybe if we did that we wouldn't make these huge losses. I'm under no illusion about out financial situation. I think that it's more serious than has generally been acknowledged and I'm sure it had a big part to play in Dempster moving on. But the facts are the clubs financially policies are ultimately flawed if we look at the scale of the losses over the last few years and testing the loyalty of supporters by trying to squeeze more and more out of them is not the answer. We are flirting with disaster if we expected continued success to pay our bills in the future. What happens if there is another early cup exit again or if we finish 8th or we don't qualify for Europe? I think the time has come when fans need to start asking serious questions about our finances instead of stumping up more and more.

£25 is a lot of money especially if we go through a couple of rounds. Considering the cup match was taken off the season ticket and the season ticket price increase you'd think the club could throw us a bone here, at least for the opening qualification round. If we get a big name later on fair enough but this match is likely to be against a minnow. I'll buy my season ticket but it's getting to the point where I am almost priced out of attending matches that aren't included with the ST now. That really saddens me as I've hardly missed a home match in 20 plus years and the only cup match at Fir Park that I've ever missed in any competition since 1986 was Levante a couple of seasons ago due to work commitments. I think Motherwell really need to be careful here because it's not about increasing supporters any more its about keeping supporters and this flogged horse is nearly dead. Two rounds of Euro League and a home League Cup match is another £100 to all extents and purposes that the club are asking for on top of season ticket money and other money I put in. I'm working freelance and I've made about £2,000 in the last 6 months (maybe about £8,000 over the year) and I just finished a job today and there is nothing on the horizon. It's tough times out there and quite frankly I shouldn't even be buying a season ticket. I know the club has to try and make as much money as possible but sometimes short term gain is against long term interest. Stuff like this alienates fans and they drip drop away, 10 this match, 20 another and before you know it there is 500 off the average gate.

I think anyone would be angry if they were under contract and they lost their jobs, that's natural. But I have less sympathy for guys that got paid unbelievable money for doing absolutely fuck all. None of the most vociferous voices ever played at that level again for a reason - they were shite and should never have been there in the first place. By the way, the one exception, Mark Brown, I don't remember bleeting to the press like Forrest, Dow, Ready etc....

I'm an unashamed Kris Boyd fan. Any striker that scores that many goals can do what he likes as far as I'm concerned. However we don't need him with Sutton and Anier on the books and his wage demands would probably be at the top end of afford-ability. That money would be better spent elsewhere I think. If we were going to bring him in last season was the time.

Great to see Las sign on for another 2 years, one of the great players we've watched in the last 10 - 15 years. Continuity is a good thing but I also think it's important to freshen up the squad every year especially when you have done well, other wise I think things can sometimes go a bit stale. I'm still expecting Ainsworth to join but even if he does and bearing in mind that we've signed Law and Twardzik I'd like to see at least one fresh face come in who is going to challenge for a first team place, the most obvious position would be a left sided midfielder.

He was part of a team that finished 2nd two years in a row....

Didn't realise goals only counted when the opposition has it's strongest XI out. By the way that 'weakened' Partick team had one player in it that wasn't getting a game in the league - Marc Kerr. 3 goals in 9 starts is piss poor? If so what was McFadden's 4 goals in 21 starts then?

Scored 6 goals in 11 starts.

I saw Frank Lampard in the Rex. Obviously thinks he can eat whatever he likes now it looks like he's moving down a level.

The only one I'm not sure about is Billy Mackay. Started the season superbly but went right off the boil after Butcher left. He only score 4 of his 18 league goals in 2014.

Would not touch McPake with the proverbial barge pole. I'd take Clancy, who has been released by St.Johnstone, back before McPake.

I think we would have been defensively better this season if Hollis, Ramsden and Carswell had been ever presents. Instead they missed long spells, including some where all three overlapped in their absence.

Remember when Butcher inexplicably wouldn't give him a game? Remember when he almost joined Kilmarnock? Remember when Gannon inexplicably wouldn't give him a game? There's been a few close calls down the years!

The strategy shouldn't be to attract players, it should be to make players.

Ideally we'd be looking to offer Vigurs and Sutton 2 year contracts now. Might not be financially possible though.

We had Randolph on a three year contract and couldn't sell him.

I think our attendances have dropped a bit but not radically but I think we probably get a lot of kids in on free season ticket books. Away supports have gone down badly and the teams in the league currently aren't ones that are going to bring a lot of fans. Rangers would probably bring 10,000 fans to Fir Park in a season, Ross County probably didn't even bring a 1,000 over the two matches for instance. In fact it's only really Celtic, Aberdeen and Partick that brought significant supports to Fir Park last season.