Inthebasement

I very rarely post but have posted on this a few times in the distant past. I love Fir Park dearly and believe we must preserve our history and stay / redevelop if at all possible. If we leave Fir Park we will lose something we will never get back. Realistically, we would not get anything special or architecturally interesting, it would be Almondvale with different colours and a bigger away end. That is the economics. I don't know the ins and outs of course, but surely rebuilding the POD from scratch would provide a platform to modernise the stadium / facilities while addressing the worst of the problems, and though expensive would be a more manageable project than a complete move to RC?

Probably the most genuinely dominant half we have produced against the OF in my time watching Well (I'm 49). We need to get behind this manager and team.

The bois display is f'in superb! Hoping as ever the team deliver.

Miller back to replace Halliday in midfield, Watt on to do what Miller is trying to do, simple tweak we'd a much better and more balanced team.

My all time favourite Well player, and I'm 46. Not just a leader and good guy, Las was simply immense in his later Xavi years. The number 1 on field reason we had spells as a very good football team under mcgee and under mccall. Thanks a million and best of luck.

Couple of individual errors aside we look strong and confident and are bossing this

Some harsh comments, they long balled from the keeper, kicked and dived all night, the pitch was a ruler shaped swamp, we had 10 men through extra time, refereeing was breathtaking. We're through.

No it really is not, these issues change year by year, the naive position is to assume anything in 1962 must be the same now. Unfortunately you are just spouting nonsense to back up earlier nonsense. This from a quick look at wik:- Construction of a new main stand began in 1962.[4] The £92,000 cost of this work was financed by a small quote and the selling of two players, Pat Quinn and Ian St. John.[4][5] To minimise disruption to the old stand, the steel frame was built over and behind it.[4] Construction of the main stand stopped 20 yards short of the south end, however, because a local resident successfully objected to a completed stand.[4] The objection was made because it would have restricted light to the garden and reduced the value of the property.[4] By the time the property owner had decided to sell, Motherwell did not have the funds or will to complete a full length main stand.[4] The club instead bought the house and used it for their offices.[4]

See above - this is complete conjecture, all construction projects face a mass of legal, planning and ownership issues, as would anything on Ravenscraig. The position in 1962 has little bearing on the position in 2020.

Sorry, why won't the land ownership problem be solved? Do you have information on this? That was around 80 years ago.

The historic failure to complete the stand has no logical connection to the prospects of redeveloping. Or do you want to explain the connection? Maybe just felt like disagreeing and saying 'piffle' but don't gave two coherent thoughts to rub together?

IMO humble opinion the only clubs to emerge from a move to a new build stadia better off are those that needed increased capacity to increase revenues. For the fans it's almost always a sad loss of identity, memories and atmosphere. Ask home or away players about playing in front of the east stand, we have a special intensity on the pitch for big games. I personally adore Fir Park it's tremendous, and i'd rather see us relegated than move to a Tony Macaroni Arena which is all we could reasonably hope for. If we really needed a refurb a rebuild of the Phil O'Donnell would surely be preferable to a move.

His co-commentary has been painful. It's difficult not to say one remotely positive thing re Well in 90 mins live chat but he managed it comfortably.

Anyone know why Craigan hates us now?

Undoubtedly true, but the discussion is a response to Tait appearing in the press indicating he is the good guy and club are the bad guys. So if that was unreasonable, he is the bad guy in this event.