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I got heavy "Eythor is starting this one" vibes from Big Jens presser......

He loves to have a bit of fun with them for sure! I guess they must enjoy it too though. Better than the same old scripted tropes you normally get from managers at these things. Jens is a class act.

Agree. Still a great achievement -- but as we're so close this game is huge. Hopefully the lads play their best and we really serve it up to them.

Ticket sales are a shambles, logged on to my account to buy two tickets for my sons, only to find out there is no online sale, as they "need to check purchase history". So i had to trek all the way over from EK to the ticket office today to buy them. I get why they need checks to stop the Rangers fans buying them etc, but when i am logging on to a password protected account, the system should already know how many ive bought in the past and let me buy them, oh and £34 for an adult ticket in the POD is a bit steep. Rant over.

Fact there is talk about us possibly in a title race sums up the incredible transformation to a year ago and the end of SK reign. No idea how this season will end but would be awesome if we could be in a title chase and win the cup but realistically if we finish 4th its still a great achievement

Any idea how our ticket sales are looking? It’d be lovely to see the same amount of home fans as was at the Celtic game.

Think maybe move this chat to former players thread

I think we have to dream now. I don't think it is looking at things with a Motherwell bias to say that we have been at least as good as the teams ahead of us. There has been nothing between Motherwell and Rangers this season in head to head encounters and but for a contentious penalty decision it could easily have been two draws between the sides. A win on Wednesday would be a massive statement of intent and it would pile pressure onto Rangers. Win and it is a huge result in the history of the club and provides the platform for what could be a very special season. Defeat would represent a significant anticlimax. I can't remember being as fired up for a game for some considerable time.

And given Rangers & Hearts play each other at the weekend, were we to win both matches, the table starts to look much more interesting.......

True. It's a bit like they what they say at the golf. "You can't win a tournament on a Friday, but you can lose it".

We probably aren't at the moment but lose on Wed & its defo done

I don't feel like we're in the title race yet - still very much chasers. That's fine with me. If we somehow end up in the top 6 in a position where winning all our remaining matches will do some damage, then I'll start thinking about it.

It was you’re right, my mistake. The same point stands for him though, ie. worse than Stevie Woods but we never saw him again after that game.

Was that not Chapman against accies?

It must be easier to tell goalies what to do than actually be a competent goalkeeper.

In previous years that would be a comical throw away comment to be taken with a bag of salt, never mind a pinch. However, this time it’s not beyond the realms of possibility and a reasonable forecast.

We have. But the length of time Woods was here sways it for me. Nine years, never first choice, kept turning up like a bad penny and making the same errors time and again. An example of much worse would be Jordan Archer. But he made only a handful of appearances with the last being an absolutely horrific display against Accies. After which he left and was never seen or heard of again. With Woods he would pop up again and again after the first choice goalkeeper left or was out injured and would remind the support just how much of a bombscare he truly was. Had he established himself as our undisputed first choice goalkeeper and been solid and reliable for the remainder of his time with us then the howler against Rangers in 1998 would have been largely overlooked as one of those unfortunate isolated moments, similar to the aforementioned Tommy Coyne miss. But that’s now how it panned out with us and Stevie Woods. What I would say for him though is that he found his ‘calling’ or his ‘forte’ when he moved into coaching. Some things are just meant to work out a certain way and for Stevie Woods it was clearly coaching as he has shown for many years now that that is what he is clearly best at. He’s worked with and coached top goalkeepers like Craig Gordon, Fraser Forster, Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel. And they all speak highly of him as a coach.

I believe we will win. 3-0. However, and it hurts me to say, if we don’t get the 3 points from this game then that’s us out the title race

He was shite...but we've had much, much worse

The top goalkeeper coach in the country. He wouldn’t have lasted as long as he had at Celtic if he wasn’t pretty decent at coaching. But sometimes those who are great coaches weren’t the greatest players and Stevie Woods falls into that category. He was here for the best part of a decade under numerous managers yet never made the No.1 spot his own. He continually made the same unforced errors like getting beat at his near post, coming for cross balls and completely missing them and his dreadful judgement and kicking led to various cheap goals conceded. The one against Rangers was the most high profile one but it was just another in a long, long line of clangers as he had plenty before it and would go on to make plenty more after it. And that is why Stevie Woods is right up there on the lists of many Motherwell fans worst ever goalkeeper.

Aye, none of this "we need to be our best and hope to catch them on a off day" nonsense. There's no doubt he has everyone in that team believing they can win on Wednesday.

They did have the advantage of using the feet they trained kicking a ball with since the age of 5.

For being pretty shite, hes done alright has Stevie

Another chance to gain on those around us if we can win. Hibs v Hearts tomorrow night amd then Rangers v Hearts at the weekend when we play Aberdeen at Fir Park.