David Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Excellent. I'll keep my manners although I am not expecting much from us. Nobody's buying this attitude of expecting nothing, Bliki <_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bop Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Your reverse psychology is no good here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Do you think there will be a sneaky way to watch the away leg? Will Iceland telly being showing it Bliki? If not I'm playing 5's as usual next Thursday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 if hateley is fit enough he should be starting. forbes and humphrey were both poor on saturday and having both of them playing out wide could kill any creativity we might have. i'd go for the same shape as our 2-0 win at tynecastle. randoloph saunders craigan reynolds hammell hateley jennings lasley mchugh sutton murphy Agree with Hateley. Thought we looked better when he came on against Ayr on Saturday. I'd maybe sacrifice McHugh for Humphrey but then bringing him on with his pace with 30 mins to go might be more beneficial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bliki Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 To give you some idea of the quality in Icelandic football you can follow the score between BATE Borisov who competed in the Champions League 2 seasons ago, play against FH who are 4th in the Icelandic Premier League. By all accounts this should be a walkover for BATE like for you tomorrow. This is in the Champions League Preliminary round. http://mbl.is/mm/sport/fotbolti/2010/07/14..._stadan_er_0_0/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewK Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Interview with Sutton here if anyones interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxi Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Biki how would you compare your team to the likes of HB Torshavn of the Faores? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Pitch flooded yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geedub Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Interview with Sutton here if anyones interested Good interview but why does he sound Australian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Good interview but why does he sound Australian? OK ... Who hit the 'Shite' key (kiddin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Cos he's from Norwich - they all sound weird out that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Pitch flooded yet Aye! Summer football! I just walked from Motherwell station to Watsonville and it's like someone threw me into a swimming pool. It was actually raining so hard it went through my leather boots. The floodlights are on so presumably someone is running about on the pitch churning it up before the season has even started! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 It would be a shame if we had a full house, a great crowd and a shitty, flooded pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Aye! Summer football! I just walked from Motherwell station to Watsonville and it's like someone threw me into a swimming pool. It was actually raining so hard it went through my leather boots. The floodlights are on so presumably someone is running about on the pitch churning it up before the season has even started! . It wouldn't suprise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_P Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Likely be our opponents will it not? Unless they've trained at FP earlier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnstone Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 To give you some idea of the quality in Icelandic football you can follow the score between BATE Borisov who competed in the Champions League 2 seasons ago, play against FH who are 4th in the Icelandic Premier League.By all accounts this should be a walkover for BATE like for you tomorrow. This is in the Champions League Preliminary round. http://mbl.is/mm/sport/fotbolti/2010/07/14..._stadan_er_0_0/ Finished 5-1 to BATE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 If this game had to be rained off, what would be the procedure? Anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welldaft Mk1 Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Typical weather for a Motherwell Game. Rumours of a hosepipe ban and the hey presto Motherwell are due to play and cue the Amazon Rainforest weather That said I believe that because we did a good job installing so many (working) drains the water escapes to well and the ground is very dry. So even with this amount of rain the pitch should be fine. Sure it will cut up and by January it will look like the gobi desert and we will spend another small fortune...........groundhog day. Hopefully 24 hours from now we will be kicking back and enjoying the last few minutes with a comfortable victory.....or we will be swearing loudly at the players for gifting all 5 goals. Ah the joys of being a Motherwell fan. You don't know what is going to happen next. Looks like a reasonable crowd expected 6000+ Judging by the sold seats and posts on here. Should give the boys a lift and intimidate the opposition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bliki Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Finished 5-1 to BATE Yes it was 0-0 at HT but BATE ran over them in the second half, although BATE are leading the Ukraine league as well as only conceding 4 goals in 18 games I fear the same tomorrow. Maybe you guys will use the 1st half in getting accustomed to us then BAMM in the 2nd half. This BATE result does only make my fear worse. FH Hafnarfjördur ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT one of the best teams in Iceland and they were bitchslapped by BATE tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Yes it was 0-0 at HT but BATE ran over them in the second half, although BATE are leading the Ukraine league as well as only conceding 4 goals in 18 games I fear the same tomorrow. Maybe you guys will use the 1st half in getting accustomed to us then BAMM in the 2nd half. This BATE result does only make my fear worse. FH Hafnarfjördur ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT one of the best teams in Iceland and they were bitchslapped by BATE tonight. What would BATE do to Motherwell though Bliki? That is what you need to ask yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Kerse Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Giddy for the mora now! Going to sit and play Football Manager untill 5 am, crawl into bed until lunchtime, wake up and jump on a train to Glasgow for some scran and many many many pints while most of you mugs clock watch in the office and draw up formations on post-its. Then onto JDs for more pints!! Gotta love the summer holidays!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big gaz man Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 I'd have loved to have been there tomorrow, phone the club today, to try to buy a ticket for myself and a few visiting friends, wanted to pay over the phone, apparently they stopped this yesterday, no reason given, i cant get there during the opening times due to work. they must be rakin in the cash to be willing to turn down half a dozen bodys for a game thats less than half capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelvinBragg Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Hadn't really given this much thought til today. Don't get me wrong, the ticket is bought and the day off secured long ago. But I haven't had a sense of anticipation for it until about an hour ago. I reckon we'll have a hard game of it and fear we could see a re-run of Mypa 47. Only thing to say against this is the fact that Breidablik may not be as good as Mypa were. That and the fact that we have wily old Craig Brown rather than a young naive ginger manager in charge (whatever happened to that guy?). So many unknowns about tomorrow's game, the opponents, our line-up, how solid our keeper is, how conditions will affect things, I'm not even going to attempt to predict a scoreline. For what it's worth (never having seen Hollis or Randolph in action, I'll leave that one blank), I would go with.. _______ Saunders Craigan Hutchison Hammell Lasley Hateley Jennings Forbes Sutton Murphy Not Forbes' biggest fan but he can pass a football and perhaps a free role behind a front two, without the same defensive responsibilities as in a midfield three or requirement for pace if playing wide left. Could be a bit narrow as formations go, but when we have the ball Hateley can drop in making a back three allowing Saunders and particularly Hammell scope to bomb on. Not the team I expect to see, but it's how I'd go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welldaft Mk1 Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 What would BATE do to Motherwell though Bliki? That is what you need to ask yourself Quite - I suspect that BATE would beat Motherwell in Ukraine. Maybe not by 5 but there would be a big gulf in class. You cannot really compare BATE with Motherwell. They are leading league in Ukraine - we finished 5th in Scottish League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Bate are Belaroussian- hardly a footballing powerhouse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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