steelboy

it must be a big effort to remember every brand that sponsors a team and go out your way to avoid them. well done. as other people have said of course it works or companies wouldn't be spending billions on it every year worldwide. some people obviously haven't watched mad men.

why? i've got no idea how many tops we sell every year but i can't imagine it's more than 4000 and most of them will be in the motherwell area which isn't giving you much exposure. a picture in the paper or a game on tv will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people, surely that's what the sponsors want? i doubt jaxx were trying to increase their brand awareness in PE classes in dalziel and braidy or up at the fives courts at wishae sports centre. how many punters are wearing a motherwell top out and about on average day? not many.

if he is coming to the game on thursday the club should get him out to do the half time draw. esteban deserves to meet his adoring public.

o'brien scored 4 goals in 68 appearances. humphrey has scored 2 in his whole career. i'd start humphrey on thursday but he's got a lot to improve before he becomes a vital plater for us. i'd never start him and forbes in the same team though.

how much of a gutter is that we're scraping about down the back of the couch for change this summer but not that long ago we pissed 300k up against bob malcolm.

archdeacon was unfortunate that murphy and mchugh are ahead of him and are the best young scottish strikers in their age group. i felt bad for him the night at hibs when he looked like he was going to get a chance and mchugh got on ahead of him, it was pretty clear then that it wasn't going to work out for him.

it costs about 120 quid just to get a visa for russia so sack that. i'd love to go to moscow but not for the fitba.

first post and this guy is right into the spirit of things on steelmenonline. perhaps a norwegian relative of mjw?

is sparra about to winch that old dear?!

i'd like to go somewhere with mental fans so aek athens, either istanbul team, palermo, napoli or feyenoord would be quality. clubs we might have a (slim) chance against. dnipro, maccabi haifa, brugges, austria wien, odense, sofia, aston villa

just watched the highlights tonight, saw my 14 year old self sitting down the front row of the east stand. garcin's free kick was as good as i remember it but tommy coyne m'lord's finish in the second half was absolute class. i made the mistake of watching the 2-2 each h*n cup tie after it, woods passing the ball to durie still makes me want to greet.

i think he could be our most important player this season, if he can take the next step and become a regular goal scorer we could be on for a good season. it looks like brown has confidence in him and will play him through the middle which is exactly what he needs.

the hibs game is cutting out to live coverage of some big slovenian bird doing the javellin

how are you watching it mate?

unbelievable!

i think they used to cover a few of our games when mcgarry and paterson were here.

you better watch out the norwegians don't sign you as a back up striker. have a good one

he also said a few weeks ago that we had a budget for a striker. i wouldn't read too much into what paw broon says to the press.

they're giving out free kids season tickets in the cooper, what more do you want?

the league cup works when your team does well in it, when we got to the final we thought it was the dogs baws. even last season it saw our biggest travelling support by a mile so it can't be that bad. with even championship teams putting out weakened sides in the FA cup these days there's no chance of getting any interest in a revamped texaco.

i think there's some logic behind our decision to pay the 5%. directly selling tickets to old firm fans would incur big admin costs and probably be beyond the capabilities of our ticket office. i'm sure we just bumped up the price and passed it on the old firm fans anyway. it may well be but we don't have to cut prices, attendances in scotland are relatively excellent.

edit - thought you meant gate money. i agree about the tv money.

that's all true but we're not just competing against the other spl sides, it's championship and league one sides that are taking our players off us. if every spl club voluntarily cut their income you'd just see even more players heading south. it's also not a suprise that other clubs aren't as receptive to new ideas as we might be as hearts, kilmarnock, aberdeen, dundee united and the old firm all owe millions of pounds to banks.

our wages haven't really rocketed though, they've dropped massively over the past ten years. the money thing is simple, the club should spend a bit less than it makes every year.

all this stuff about scottish football being on it's knees is frankly a load of pish. scotland has the highest football attendance per capita of anywhere in europe. in terms of population we're about the 28th most populous country in europe but 14th in league co-efficient. scotland (a country of under 5 million people) has a higher top league average attendance higher than Russia (150 million), ukraine (45 million) switzerland (7 million people), sweden (10 million), portugal (11 million), and poland (37 million) and austria (8 million). the first division here has a higher average attendance than the top leagues of ireland and croatia.