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Thats what he does. For an experienced pro that was yet again pathetic. Gifted goal against run of play.

Aw nawww

Odonnell sleeping at the back post. Doesn't look himself at all today

Ffs 🤦‍♂️

That was an Arthur Scargill from Slatts there A great strike but a terrible result [emoji38] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hopefully test their keeper early as I have never been that impressed with him ( famous last words)

Stama gets first goal for Sydney in 2-2 draw, well done AP

Dundee have a few good players like Murray, Danda and Congrieve, but hopefully we can take conteol of the game early. If we're on it then we should win.

Yup team as expected. This ain't going to be easy but fingers crossed for a massive 3pts. COYW

Won’t be an easy game. Danda is a good player amd I’m sure Murray will be getting stuck in. Hopefully we play well today and if we can score a couple of early goals and not give away an early goal it might help us settle in to a good display amd 3 points.

I must admit, i've been having to check myself quite a lot in the last few weeks, as I've come away from a few of our wins like 'meh' 😕 Previous seasons, especially when battling relegation, a win would put me on a high for at least the rest of the night, and the wins against Rangers put me on a high for days. I think I might be developing 'Old Firm Fan Cunt Flu' and need to find a cure. Going into games expecting wins is not normal and complacency is something I don't think any 'well fan has ever suffered from before, except maybe when Davie Hay was the manager and we were skelping everyone 5 and 7 nil.

Not like previous seasons where there was so much wrong with our team and tactics everyone had their opinion.

Yep. When longello's on it he should start but jonny K is good for the games longello dips

Think that's pretty much everyone's first choice starting eleven, no ? (Other than maybe Johnny K).

Awful quiet match thread. Really could be doing with another 3 points. The longer we keep this run & tilt going the more chance of others feeling the pressure. While its still fanciful for us to win the title, lets not blow ourselves out of it just yet. Normally take a point in away games but given where we are & the small number of games left, expectations/hopes should change. Go for the throats, & knock off another 3points please

I agree with the attendances, football success is cyclical. For us in recent memory the trend has been good for a couple of seasons then mediocre for a few, above average for one and repeat on a five year cycle, heavily influenced by manager, recruitment and academy progression. I do think a new stadium if designed wisely could get bump in attendances for home and away fans due to the novelty and nuance. What maintains that long term is emulating the footballing side from the past 18 months as much as possible. Hosting Livi midweek in early December has a lot cobwebs even now. I think you can do things integral to the design to enhance the atmosphere even at half capacity or less. Stuff like steep stands (building regs have it at 42 deg pitch max I think). Proximity of opposing fans, similar to the old shed where tribalism manifests and can flourish, one of my best memories was at Brockville and the too and fro'. Perception, situating the fans so on telly at least the stadium looks busier (ie none under the main TV gantry), Hampden does this when the OF aren't involved. If parts of the stadium are unused there's no need for stewarding, McLean stand for Ross County fixture for example. If you count the top flight three OF, potential of top six and a fourth, a city club requiring more than 4,800 tickets and a early cup tie then we have potential to oversell our current offering in roughly a quarter of our home fixtures, and outsell massively in three to five of those games. If projected income can be used to give us a much better stadium to enter when we get the keys, I see the negatives as minor. The spaces I suggested in the presentation, only one corner I envisaged as being office space (both for the club and an incubator space for SME's). The other corners/stands were a mixture of spaces where people have/wish/aspire to go to, such as a gym with or without a pool/dance studios, etc, street-food court and a "Makers Space", using one set up in Boston as an idea. I suggested our executive boxes could be used as hotel bedrooms on non match days. For me the stadium and it's spaces have to be fully dynamic, configurable and adaptable plus the asset has to be sweated massively outside the 25 games hosted per season. A coffee shop/restaurant is complimentary to all of the above and ensure the building would be in use universally almost 24hrs a day but certainly from 0700-2300 if all ideas employed. A 12,000 capacity allows us to mimic what we have at present by and large, except our current maintenance costs are swapped for a large mortgage and lesser maintenance costs, this would undoubtedly affect our player budget. Moving to 15,000 or 18,000 stadium allows the club in theory to recoup approximately £20m over 20 years from other clubs supporters to finance the stadium while filtering the same ticketing revenues we currently enjoy to fund the team. Add in increased home crowds, enhanced hospitality functions, rents of sub leases, etc. all of these allow us to move away from current peer clubs like St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Dundee.

Yeah funding is key, I took from the AGM we're due eight installments for Lennon spaced every six months, if we realise some or all of the interest in our players that's been brought up in the past couple of months then we in theory have a healthy downpayment to get the ball rolling. The skill is talking to institutional investors and making the case and extracting every penny from the public purse as possible. You'd hope the authorities see a fan owned community club as a different entity to Dermot Desmond or the 49ers when it comes to decision making. Issue is the developer of Ravenscraig has been sitting on it for 25 years with minimal movement for a host of reasons. If we make player sales in excess of what Lennon went for in back to back seasons then they'll know that and we move from being an anchor/draw to further development on the site to being asked for money for land that limits our ambition. We have a unique situation in Scotland where two clubs hoover up support from the entire country. I have no issue with following what Motherwell has done in the past and extracting every single green and blue pound possible. I'd also add the figures I cobbled together only account for three OF visits per season, we've qualified for the top six half of the time since the split was introduced, a high flying Hearts, Hibs or Aberdeen have potential to exceed the McLean if there were extra seats available, not to mention home cup ties before semi final stage. When you add National team matches at all levels there is plenty of scope for these to all be cream over and above any repayment commitments. With respect to the feasibility report, as things are kept close to the chest, maybe only enough to endorse the decision made at board level to sell it to the wider support. While I'd favour a move if the decision is a new POD then I'll shoulder shrug and see it as a lost opportunity. If it's a Ravenscraig move, then I suspect there were be a genuine heads gone from many.

Lucky escape there then. 😅 My thoughts. Realistically we are a provincial community club in the top flight in a wee country of only 4.5million folk. With a fan base of 4000 - 4500 regulars, having an exceptionally good season. Up to 7000 now due to the amazing football we are playing. Which unfortunately won't last for ever. Everything needs to be based on that. Better with a 12000 seater being sold out a few times a season , but when its not still feeling pretty full with a good tight atmosphere. Than a larger one with cobwebs in it most of the time, with large spaces closed to save money on stewards ,no atmosphere no use and not really sustainable. Being a football club we need to concentrate on that, renting space for offices ,hotels other sports is not a safe and sustainable option nowadays to rely on as steady income . Getting into massive debt building a large stadium is really a no go as costs will always be more than budgeted for, always ! . Loads of other office space around as everything is going online and work from home , that's what the future seems to look like maybe not as a reliable future income as it seems. The model has to be sustainable, compact , and built around the footballing side of things. Cutting our cloth to suit what we are , a small club. Is way to go . We are a provincial club in the top flight of a wee country , sitting 16 miles away from bigot brothers in Glasgow. Ambition is all well and good but reality and finances have got to kick in at some point. Note - I can confirm I was not on the previous board.

Always felt there was a degree of animosity towards Reynolds from a selection of Motherwell fans that I never understood. Always rated him as a player and it was broad knowledge he was a Motherwell fan, as was his family. Pretty sure he went to our ladys school.

Yes, planning complications and delays shouldn't be underestimated. You can envisage, for example, if we want to remain at Fir Park and redevelop it, that a core aim would be to increase the usage of the facilities during non match days. So it should be. That would then result in increased traffic and parking issues, probably annoying the neighbours. Any refurbished stadium would have to be very similar to the current one in terms of height, footprint etc. Thats the starting point. Very limiting, as you say. As this forum has discussed many times, the key will be to secure significant funding for any major project. A very tall order. That will test the new board of directors and require a lot of creative thinking. I wonder how much of the feasibility study will be shared with us? Presumably all commercially sensitive information will be held back and rightly so. It would be interesting though to be given a detailed summary; thats all we need.

Ha true-ish, my career path took a different twist so no beret, cravat and any clothing with arm patches as I never worked for a practice.

Good interview with Mark Reynolds - still a big fan of his boyhood team.

Typical architect.

An indoor 200m one, not a 400m which I agree with you on. Not intrinsic to the design, just trying to sweat the asset. It would be below the pitch anyway and not get in the way.