steelboy

i'm not sure i agree with that. jim o'brien put in a good shift defensively on saturday and humphrey is good at getting back in due to his pace. plus i think hammell and o'brien work well together and the combination of hateley's passing and humphs speed could be dangerous. forbes lack of pace hurts us both ways when he's at left mid. he's always likely to get outpaced and he's never going to beat a fullback.

the juke was brutal up at pittodrie but improved a bit in each of the next games and has been flying since he got that double at st mirren. great news

getting hammell a new deal should be a top priority. 320 appearances at 27 years old. if he signs a three year deal he'll be closing in on joe wark

most people around me thought that dargo dived. it inadvertantly led to our first goal anyway so all's well that ends well

maybe he's got a belter of a back lawn.

i think we could be dodging a bullet if we don't get mcglinchey. i'd much rather see humph, pollock or darren smith get a chance in the first team. the few times i've seen mcglinchey play before he's been murder.

might be a daft question but does anyone know if we have any type of warranty with the company that laid the pitch

half a million would be a good deal in my opinion. to get a really good price for a player you need a combination of a decent length of contract and a few different clubs really wanting the player which i don't think we have.

the club isn't in any position to give up loads of their match day income and past initiatives have shown that lower prices don't increase gates enough to make up for it. the fans should pay because we're the reason the club exists. if money doesn't come from the fans where exactly should it come from?

i disagree. the clubs exists because of the fans. it costs a lot to put a decent team on the park and maintain a pitch and a stadium, if motherwell fans aren't willing to pay for that then who is going to provide the money? we support a club that relatively very few people care about, if the people who claim to care about the club aren't willing to put their hands in their pockets then we'll be stuck watching continually worse football in a rotting stadium until we wind up due to lack of interest. the problem with scottish football is that too many people want to talk about what's wrong but not enough people are actually willing to commit time and money to making things better.

if we can only get 3000 for for a home game what right have we to expect to be able to compete with hearts, hibs or aberdeen?

shite support again today, people need to realise that motherwell fc only exists for motherwell fans and therefore motherwell fans are the ones who have to put their hands in their pockets to ensure the club can survive. 15 thousand at the CIS final, 3000 in nancy but only 200 on monday and just over 3000 today. if there's a good day out involved or a bit of glamour you'll have well fans coming out your ears (and they'll be signed up online moaning about ticket allocation) but the week to week support that club needs to thrive is never going to be there.

if we regularly have less than 400 on a saturday then it's not much of a suprise that we had such a small a crowd on monday. netherton - where are all the thousands that want to watch the team in regular away spl matches, motherwell fans must be the poorest, longest working folk in europe.

i might be in the minority but me my brother and big conn enjoy going to games. in my opinion eight less games a season would be shite. i actually like watching the well.

we'll win the cuo next year. nae motm

very poor show from the team tonight. poor show from the well fans as well, less than 200. if we beat st mirren i will not give a france. if anyone knows the old boot who grassed in me and wellayrshire for having a snout at halftime can you give her my best wishes. even although you went down and got the stewards and explicitly tried to get a couple of good well fans who had travelled 300 miles to support the team chucked it doesn't make you a bad person. BOOT! any time the old speccy cow comes down to the metropolis i'll buy her a drink.

i like things the way they are. there's plenty of other stuff do in the summer and the idea of january and febraury without any games would be torture. surely the last two games are proof that winter football is working - good games, good travelling support and a great atmosphere. there were also a few threads on P&B where posters demonstrated that if we were to maintain a 38 game season with two cups the "summer season" would have to run from the end of february to the start of december. does anyone actually want to see the scottish cup final played in november or december? we live in a country with shite infrastructre and unpredictable weather, i think we just have to accept that call offs will happen. the main thing is ensuring that fans get plenty of notice (which to be fair we have had).

i dunno about that, hutchison's card was harsh at perth but JOB torpedoed himself into the stand which is probably worth a yellow. i actually thought he was going to do it again after the second and get a red but it looks as if big giles thought the same and made sure he couldn't.

a lot of good performances. craigan was excellent and giles showed why he's a vital player for us but it has to go to o'brien. however i'd still say that performance was an exception and that he'll need to put in a few more before it's worth starting to worry about how we might replace him.

mon the english!

excellent first post. i don't think we'll have much luck targeting guys who go to watch the old firm from motherwell on a regular basis though. i've got mates with season tickets at ibrox and parkhead and they are as commited supporters as we are, they travel and put their hand in their pocket and i doubt anyone who does that is going to countenance changing their allegiance. there are probably 20 OF fans in the area for every one actually attends a match, they'd be a better target but beyond attracting their kids or putting a right good team out i don't really see what we can do. first priority should be to get more well fans attending.

i'm not too worried about him being injury prone, it's likely got something to do with the fact that he's only 18 and is still growing.

i've actually been expecting a thread where all who doubted my wise reading of the situation came on and apologised for their misdeeds and vowed to follow my sure to be correct opinion on 'well related matters in the future. i take it you're just saving it for OSB

that's some backwards logic. if your idea was implemented the club would have the actual money you paid them but would lose out overall. the big winners would be the old firm. motherwell make far more off away fans than we pay out on our travels over the season, every season.

he definiteley treated mcgarry with a lack of respect. up at pittodrie he sent mcgarry and lasley out to warm up after we had used all three subs which seemed like a slap in the face and an attempt to publicly humiliate them just before the transfer window shut.