Kat

TICKETS CLAIMED I'm quite gutted, I was going to take my daughter to her first 'Well game today but she has been struck down with a virus that's doing the rounds so sadly we will need to wait until another fixture in the near future to go. So I have 4 tickets for the Davie Cooper stand if anyone would like them for free. First person to respond is welcome to them, I would just need your email address to fire over the document but I'm heading out at 1pm so that's the cut off for claiming them. I'd hate to see them going to waste, hopefully a great day out awaits.

I didn't realise that he had missed so many games over the years, I thought his injury worries were from recent years. Saying that I'm sure Ryan Jack was vocal about Kipre trying to wreck his career or something. He said in an interview recently that he was training on his lonesome at Dalziel Park, you can't help but feel he will likely fold like origami if we signed him.

I seem to remember John Boyle at an AGM had based the cost of any new stadium on that blueprint. The seating in the POD was supposed to be upgraded a few summers ago, I assume these plans were shelved due to the unforeseen work over on the Hunter Stand.

I think it's houses on the land now.

Just a random mention that I thought was quite cool. I was at the Meet the Manager event the other week, and while I was helping put things back at the end of the night, I was shown a few interesting things. It's well known the stand was built upon when we sold Quinn and St. John, but next to the home players' dressing room there is a cupboard, and when you peel away at some of the panels, you see plenty of the old corrugated metal and brickwork from the old stand. I know I'm probably answering this myself; I know it would have been more costly, but I wonder why they just didn't reduce the old stand to rubble and build the new one from scratch to future-proof it in a way. Quite a few main stands in our league must be a fair age; I don't think Dundee's has changed much; half of Dundee United's was built the same year as ours with Aberdeen's, Killie's, and Old Firm just going through renovations at various points. I wonder how things would have looked for UK stadiums if Hillsborough never happened and the Taylor report hadn't been introduced. I know it has been mentioned previously in the thread but Brian spoke about moving out of Fir Park soon as being very unlikely I was however surprised to see St. Mirren got £15 million for Love St, then subsequently spent around £8 million to build the current stadium just a short jaunt up the road.

I would agree with that, I have no issues with Blaney as he has always seemed a decent enough defender. Lamie enjoyed that wee purple patch which I think papers over some of his horror shows. At times Mugabi would look excellent after a run of games dominating in the air and so forth but he always had that massive error in his locker which we paid for numerous times. The injuries are actually depressing, we won't see Slattery and Paton until Christmas (if we're lucky). In recent times we have lost the likes of Carroll, Hartley, Fox, and Tanner to horrible injuries in training. With Hammell as manager, you can accept the likes of Aarons and Moult given their respective histories but Mandron lasted a couple of games before he was out for months. I didn't think we could top last season with injuries.

Yeah he was pitched in for his debut after Paul Shane managed to get "injured" in a warm up on the opening game of the 2009/10 season vs St Johnstone and for the next three seasons he never missed a game. Scored a few fantastic free kicks against Rangers and Odense.

Obika is not mentioned on the list and we offered Calum Butcher a new contract but it was declined.

PLAYERS UNDER CONTRACT Dan Casey Shane Blaney Andy Halliday Harry Paton Ross Tierney Davor Zdravkovksi Lennon Miller Theo Bair Moses Ebiye LOAN PLAYER RETURNING TO PARENT CLUB Georgie Gent Adam Devine Adam Montgomery Oli Shaw Jack Vale PLAYERS DEPARTING Callan Elliot Calum Butcher Barry Maguire Blair Spittal Liam Kelly PLAYERS OFFERED NEW CONTRACT AND NEGOTIATING Matty Connelly Stephen O’Donnell Bevis Mugabi Callum Slattery Sam Nicholson PLAYERS WHO HAVE AGREED EXTENSIONS Paul McGinn (contract until summer 2025, with option for another year) Aston Oxborough (contract until summer 2025) An update also on our Under 18 squad. CONTRACT EXTENSION AGREED Dylan Wells (contract until summer 2026) Olly Whyte (contract until summer 2025) Max Ross (contract until summer 2025) Ewan Wilson (contract until summer 2025) Mark Ferrie (contract until summer 2025) UNDER CONTRACT Brannan McDermott Luca Ross Ross Nelson Scott Williamson Zack Tomany Derin Marshall Zack Flatman Campbell Forrest Mikey Booth Devon Johnston PLAYERS DEPARTING Shay Nevans Robbie Garcia Arran Bone Kyle Aitken Josh Bogan Adam MacDonald

It would be nice if we could have a glamour tie of some sort set up at Fir Park, it seems like it's been a while as we have been doing pitch works each season for a while. We only announced the two Dutch friendlies last year and I think we may have played Falkirk at Dalziel Park upon our return before heading into the League Cup group stage.

Thanks for sharing. I made a YouTube channel with a ton of old videos mostly highlights of different game. I have lots more to get converted but it takes forever. https://www.youtube.com/@motherwellnet/videos

Pape Souare is confirmed to be out injured for 4 months, I wonder if we will see him play for us again. In the past with the likes of Dunne, Tanner, and co, we have generally been nice at offering deals to see them back to full fitness but I think Carroll was only offered training facilities.

Thoroughly enjoyed that especially after his 'built upon fighting until the very end' comments on Saturday.

Thoroughly enjoyed all these injury-time goals we have scored against Killie lately, there seemed to be a phase where Kris Boyd was either scoring a late winner or equaliser. I'm looking forward to seeing how Spencer develops, he ended up in the opposition box numerous times with some great chances, he is fairly rapid and perhaps should have been away when he was put through one-on-one. Well done to both Casey and Paton for the goals, loved the composure to let the Killie defenders slide to try and block the feint before launching the ball home.

New signing Brodie Spencer.

Bobby Madden was particularly generous to them in recent times with soft pens, I'm glad he's long gone. Seldom I'm in the know but I heard from a good source that Robinson had tried to take Liam Donnelly to St Mirren a few weeks back but he opted to return to Rugby Park. I'm looking forward to the cup game, we certainly owe them one as in recent times we have had Billy Mehmet knock us out with a late goal and I think we got pumped 3-0 in Gannon's days, not too mention the 4-4 at Fir Park a few years ago with the abysmal penalties that followed. I thought our defence was great on Saturday but obviously, we had a couple of issues we needed to deal with. St Mirren are in a decent run of form, some of their fans seem to have much more positive things to say about Mandron but he gave away a stupid penalty against Dundee and they were fortunate they missed it. The 'Well connections have been reduced significantly this season on the field for the Buddies. If our defence is on song again I feel we can progress with a 1 or 2 nil win.

It's funny how football goes sometimes, I remember earlier in the year Goss said in an interview he was desperate to stay, this was obviously when we weren't enjoying a fruitful run of form, and at a time not many would have shed a tear if he departed. Fast forward months later you can't help but feel he has run into the same issue as Casey in that he didn't have as many potential suitors at a level he had hoped for. Good luck with whatever transpires for him, loved his assist for Max's goal against St Mirren, and his free-kick against Hibs was great too.

I see one of our youth players Ali Gould joined Watford yesterday. He wasn't assigned a shirt number for this season and don't recall his name being mentioned in any of the retained or leaving list before hand. I'm sure he was once on the books at Rangers and Hamilton before arriving here so I'm guessing any cash we receive would be nominal.

We haven't enjoyed many good memories in the last few years at Fir Park against Hibs. I think the last time we beat them, Seedorf and Hylton, tore them apart, however, I'm fairly confident we will get a result here hopefully the midweek European game takes its toll. Even though they beat that team in Europe quite convincingly their defence was really fragile and they were fortunate not to concede more and by all accounts, the same happened against St Mirren. Saying that I'm sure they will have their new 700k forward available, the forward line doesn't sound too bad with the likes of Boyle and Le Fondre. Looking forward to it.

Mika has arrived.

If he stays fit he'll be a great addition for them. I think we paid a nominal fee for him when he arrived from Hartlepool and Celtic moaned when we wouldn't accept their offer 6 months later. It's a massive loss for St Mirren, I've not seen much of Hemmings tbf but felt Carson was a great shot-stopper plus his distribution was excellent.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Seemed to have blotchy bits all over but I'm sure it'll be back to the best soon enough.

I think around that era there were some ludicrous headlines in the tabloids. The original Ronaldo was apparently approached by Rangers but it was something like he didn't need to play in SPL fixtures it was Europe only. Ironically enough it was at a time when they were also spending dosh above what they could afford but it was an additional 10 years after us that it caught up with them. I've ordered Pat's book, always interesting to get insights of particular events. I'm sure he and Boyle used to be good friends but I think that soured over the whole administration stuff.

As sad as it sounds, I don't remember anyone in recent times letting their contract expire and then sign back on. Scott McDonald is probably the exception as he seemed to be allowed to set his own deadline. Goss mentioned earlier in the year in an interview he was desperate to stay but this was at a time when we weren't playing particularly well. A total assumption on my part but the team is back for pre season on Monday, I wonder if the deadline for players making a decision coincides with that date as come the weekend we're off on that pre season camp.

Yeah definitely. We have been screaming out for a defensive midfielder and now we have one.