Ya Bezzer!

Joeboy is correct.

If it works even I'll have to start believing! Or it could just be a coincidence.

Yeah when I worked at the bank you could accept a faxed signature for six figure sums of money.

Assuming the game doesn't go to extra time you will want to spend roughly about 100 minutes in Airdrie. Head into Glasgow, lots to do and see and you can get a train to Drumgelloch near the stadium from Queen Street Station, only takes about half an hour.

I don't hold out much hope of winning the tie overall but if we could win the match tomorrow it would surely rank as one of our greatest results. 'MON THE WELL!

I'm trying to think and can't remember any examples not already mentioned. Mostly its memories of other teams doing it to us! I remember one especially bad day being 2-0 up and cruising against a poor Partick Thistle side....

I thought Steaua were superb in the first leg but will they play that well again? Do they travel well? Will they be thinking 'this tie is won' and not be switched on? I'm asking all these question in order to justify buying an expensive ticket when I've got fuck all money in my pocket!

I remember when I first started coming to games I stood next to the fence only for a bottle come hurling from the opposition side and smash on the fence sending shards of glass everywhere. After that I decided to stand behind the goals!

I think big Softy scored more goals for the Old Firm than he did for us!

So how come you've seen him once, tonight, and have judged him to be "quality"?

Well I didn't need to think very hard about this.

They are reminiscent of the Ancell Babes in the sense they are vaguely humanoid in shape.

That was poor. I think you are papering over cracks with the 'we were playing a good team' excuse. Sure, Steaua are better than anything we'll play next season but that won't matter when we can't defend with a spare man at the back, pass the ball to team mates, put in a cross that beats the first man or hit the net from 7 yards out. A lot of work to be done, especially in midfield. Bit of a worry that we had three of our new signings in there and they weren't at the races. The English season starts a week on Saturday so I'm not having the 'they aren't fit yet' line. At least Ruddy looks a good prospect.

Shocking goal to lose. Two defenders. One attacker. Free header. Fuck sake.

My stream is jerky but I've not even seen Coke and Jennings. I wish I HADN'T seen Humphries but sadly that isn't the case. Funnily enough I said earlier in the day over the Hammell debate how poor our midfield were in 'defensive' mode. Steaua are making that pretty clear. Unless we can clamp down the midfield straight from the start they are going to put four past us and finish the tie stone dead.

He's fucking honkin'. He makes O'Brien look like Franck Ribery.

I'm afraid we look out of our depth here.

If we can keep it down to a one goal margin I think that gives us a real chance. If we could get an away goal - great. I just hope we don't curl up in a ball and try not to get hurt. Have a go and you never know what might happen.

We've gone over this before. Hammell is often out of position because our midfield can't hold a line and have the positional sense of a group of headless chicken. That often leaves Stevie in a no win situation. Cover for the midfield and leave a gap at the back? Or fall back and let the opposition run at you? Or have two players on your side and have to pick one and leave the other? And I'm not saying he is Paolo Maldini but a lot of the stick he gets is unfair especially in terms of positioning and defending. We saw how useless Jim O'Brien was as a full back last week. We'll he's equally useless in midfield when we should be in 'defence' mode. Not that the rest of them are much better but he's the worst offender for being out of position, not tracking back, not picking up a player etc etc. If Gannon wants us to lose fewer goals, he needs to start by drilling the midfield in how to play in defensive mode with the opposition attacking because that's where a lot of our problems stem from.

1. Next season is a journey into the unknown. I don't think anyone can say with any certainty what's going to happen. It could be great, it could be terrible, we'll just have to wait and see but I'd be happy with 7th and no relegation worries. If we can do better than that then great. 2/3. I'd say we should be aiming to be a Top Eight team in Scotland at least and that means we should be getting to Quarter Finals. Again anything better than that is great but it all depends on the draw in the cup competitions. 4. I'm not even thinking beyond the Steaua Bucharest game but for some reason, I'm strangely confident about it. Just getting to the group stages would be massive.

Flawed logic - have you heard of Yves Makalamby?

Just read this on P&B. Terrible news. Always liked McGrillen. Should never have been sold in That Deal. Let's hope this is the last one for a very long time.

I don't want to over stress our relationship but I kinda knew John. I was a long time listener to his show and when e-mail came in I e-mailed a question about record shops in London. He sent an e-mail back asking for my phone number, put a 12 inch techno record on and phoned me up during the show and proceeded to chat away and tell me everything I wanted to know! After that I spoke to him a few times on the phone, exchanged plenty e-mails and met him down at Fabric when he was DJing. He was a great guy, I was pretty upset when he died. Can't really add anymore than has been said except that he did watch Motherwell whenever he was up here and there was a game on although perhaps saying he was a fan is taking it a bit far. And of course The Delgados were one of his favourite bands and they have a good Motherwell supporting pedigree!

McGhee let us down by letting so many players leave? Let's take a look at them. Stephen Hughes - Had no intention of staying at 'Well, now on 7k a week at Norwich. Graeme Smith - Had no intention of staying at 'Well. Has said as much in the press. Bob Malcolm - Didn't you want rid of him anyway? Steven Coutts - Wasn't good enough. David Clarkson - Under contract, transfer nothing to do with McGhee. Club cashed in on him. Paul Quinn - Under contract, transfer nothing to do with McGhee. Club cashed in on him. Maros Klimpl - Loan signing brought in by McGhee in the first place. Brian McLean - The only player McGhee can really be criticised for leaving the club by not offering him a contract. McGhee neglected the youngsters? Shaun Hutchinson, Paul Slane, Robert McHugh and Steven Saunders all made their debuts under McGhee. Jamie Murphy was a regular and Ross Forbes was on loan at Dumbarton so wasn't illegible for selection. Give us peace. McGhee took the worst Motherwell side in 25 years and gave us a third place and a seventh place, two Euro qualifications, some of the best football we've ever seen at first park in his first season, a long unbeaten spell in his second. Yeah, we have a lot to 'hate' McGhee about. All this resentment about players and managers moving on is pathetic and childish. And newsflash, Humphrey, Ruddy, Coke, Jennings, Gannon, Slane, Forbes, and however else you like will all be off just as soon as they get a better offer. And I wish Jim Gannon all the best, I've put my money in after all, but when we've beat a team that wouldn't embarrass the Ayrshire Junior leagues let me know.

He only played twice for us. Made his debut against Celtic and its fair to say he looked a bit nervous. His other match was a meaningless away match to Hibernian on the last day of the season so I doubt many 'Well fans actually saw it!