Kmcalpin

Certainly of our group of about a dozen, none live within 30 miles of Fir Park and most considerably further away.

I suspect that is true but then again I've never claimed them since year 1.

This. Members can indeed stop paying whenever they want. At some point in the future presumably the Society will have accrued a sufficient war chest to keep things going but I can't ever see a point when it says - no more contributions please.

Maybe not a good day to hold the event given the timing of the Scotland game.

A start would be for the Society to set up and maintain a register of skills. I'm sure with a membership of 1,800 there are a lot of useful skills already within the Society.

How much detail would you want on expenditure Gaag? Would an annual balance sheet suffice for example? Your other point is well made. Much more use needs to be made of members' time and expertise. This is a great untapped resource but on the other hand its notoriously difficult to get folk involved.

Thats about it for me. His first duty is to defend and that is his weakness. In turn thats putting additional and unwanted pressure on the central defenders and Ripley. All too often opponents are allowed to run unhindered into the right hand side of our box and have a crack at goal or fire over a cross.

Thats very encouraging.

I think he is destined to go elsewhere.

He'll never ever set the heather on fire as he's just not that kind of player. He's the kind of guy who cleans up, closes opponents down, tackles, protects his central defenders and values and appreciates his goalkeeper. He'll never be eyecatching but he's the kind of player every team needs.

I've not usually encountered any problems. Craig Hughes has responded to me promptly on several occasions. Try phoning the office. I know they were busy last week. Try emailing directly well.society@motherwellfc.co.uk - that always works for me.

I listened to his interview last and couldn't find much wrong with it. He didn't take personal credit for the win and as I recall didn't say "I" once. He continually used the word "we", which suggests a management team should take credit and not just him.

He is well thought of at Tynecastle and is now starting to settle in.

The Society also uses Mailchimp.

I doubt very much if that statistic had any bearing on Aberdeen's approach to the game or their performance. Just to reiterate I just don't think Hammell was our best player in the first half - thats my point.

I've been in contact with a couple of folk from the Society in the last day or two to mention the issue of the original members not been made aware that they should or could renew membership and/or pay a monthly contribution. Both told me that members have been emailed and that information has been on Twitter and on the website. Apparently, when mass emailing they do not send out individual emails but use a marketing programme to do it en bloc. I'm no techie expert but believe this allows them to check who has opened emails and who hasn't. Surprisingly, a few hundred emails are never opened (I don't know the exact figure). This could be down to emails ending up in spam folders or being sent to old email addresses, or being bounced back due to overflowing inboxes. So in short folks, if you are a member check your spam folders and also that the Society does have your up to date email address. Thats not to say of course that individual errors can't be made.

Agree that Moult was outstanding but not sure about Hammell. He had an ok game and as usual his suspect defending was masked by decent offensive work. Gave 100% as always. He got caught out of position a few times when we were under pressure and his tackling could have been better but overall by no means his worst game.

Overall agree with a lot of your post, but don't believe all you hear or read in the media. Yes, Aberdeen's defending wasn't great at our goals but we have to take some credit. It wasn't all down to keystone cops defending as Willie Miller and Richard Gordon would have us believe. I didn't hear either of them criticise our defending at their penalty (if indeed it was a penalty). For a long spell in the first half we gave them too much respect and didn't compete and that also happened in the latter stages of the game. He does deserve credit for guiding the team to a win. .

In general I agree that referees shouldn't be overly fussy and pernickety but when one doesn't blow up for a blatant foul, possibly deserving of a yellow card, which gives one side an important and unfair advantage you have to question his approach, especially if he then goes on to award a soft penalty (I've not seen it yet so can't comment either way). As Tam Cowan mentioned post match, the foul on Marvin Johnson took place a few feet away from the 4th official - ludicrous that he doesn't help the referee in such circumstances. Other than that he was conned a few times by Ash Taylor in awarding Aberdeen fouls. Overall though we've seen worse referees this season although he did make a few errors.

An important win for us today and a real team effort, given our injury and illness absentees. Ripley was my man of the match closely followed by Louis Moult. I thought that Kennedy, McManus and Johnson were also just above the rest. Both full backs struggled a bit at times especially in the early and late stages, as did our central midfield. Still we mustn't complain too much given that we were playing Scotland's second best side. Truth be told we could have finished them off earlier although it was a tight game. A real shame Cadden had to go off the worse for wear. I thought we sat too deep in the first half and in the dying stages but fortunately our central defenders were rock solid. The ref didn't give us much and let us down badly by not blowing up for a blatant foul on Johnson just before the penalty. I don't know what Robson was thinking about with his double assault on Gomis and MacDonald but he got what he deserved.

Met Louis Laing after the game today. He expects to be back for Inverness game. Anyone notice Louis Moult hold his groin when he came off today? Hopefully we'll have a few players back for this one.

Should Robson not have received 2 red cards? He's always had a suspect temperament and McInnes knew that.

What position does MacLean play? When I saw him at Grangemouth pre season it was as a winger.

You're being a bit pessimistic. Dundee for example have a worse stadium than ours - remind your mate of that. Even Celtic need to sell at least one player per year - ok the scale is somewhat different but they buy at say £1m or £2 and sell for £8m or thereabouts. I'm pretty sure all Scots clubs have to sell players to survive.

I'd be happy for us to resume donations again Andy and if this is agreed by members I'll make modest donation to Steelmen online kick things off. Even if we as a site were to contribute a fiver per month it would help.