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18 years ago!? Numbers aren't your strong point, eh?

Wah Wah Wah It’s something relevant to the club I support so I will comment on it whenever it comes up. And as far as I can see two other posters have also contributed to this particular discussion today so we can put your claim that “nobody gives a toss apart from you, apparently” firmly to bed and tuck it in with a nice wee cup of cocoa and a lullaby to help it along its way. So like I say…Wah Wah Wah

Vaguely reminiscent of the pattern on our 1991 kit.

Its all ancient history ffs nobody gives a toss apart from you apparently, so can we start discussing the present challenges facing the club, and not what some long forgotten manager allegedly said or did 18 years ago

I mean at that moment in time he handled the situation with dignity , nobody would have been expecting anything different to be fair from any manager in our history. The worst day I have ever had at Fir Park. Nothing is close I was referring to the way he disregarded travelling fans off at Falkirk the following season. He just here to manage the team , not please the fans The comments about managing Liverpool , silly as they were . Nobody truly believed it what he was saying Various other things of course

Aye, he showed a bit of human decency, offered some leadership. I suspect many other Motherwell managers would have been equally capable of handling what was a horrible situation...

Folk say this all the time when talking about McGhee. What would he (or whoever might have been incharge at the time) have had to have done (or said) for people to say anything otherwise?

First season in 2007/8 was great and way he carried club through uncle Phil tragedy was immense and I will always be grateful to him for that. Then believed his own hype 2nd season and it went downhill. Burrows bringing him back was unbelievable but we move on

I’ve never felt as disconnected and basically scunnered with the club as I did during McGhee’s second stint. He was clearly only brought back because of good relations with people in high places at Fir Park and despite achieving top six (commendable, on paper anyway) in 2015 his attitude and comments towards and about the club sullied that. “Let me be clear here, that is the reason why and please do not misinterpret me here, why I am managing Motherwell today and not Liverpool” whilst sitting in the club tracksuit in a pre-match press conference. We would go on to lose that match 6-0 and not win another game for six weeks and we would suffer losses of 7-0, 5-0, 7-2 and 5-1(at home to DUNDEE) before he was emptied in February 2017. People talk about Kettlewell throwing the fans under the bus - and he did - but he was nothing compared to that utter prick with the way he acted towards the club. McGhee should never, ever be welcome at Fir Park again under any circumstances.

Very true. It was a mistake ever bringing Mark McGhee back second time around I am no fan of him either , the way he handled the Uncle Phil tragedy he has my biggest respect on that forever . Some of his silly stupid comments in the years later stick in the mind Was almost a relief when he left first time and dare I say it Jim Gannon came in. Now that is someone else who could split opinion lol

The turnaround McGhee overseen during summer ‘07 was incredible. The team that kicked off at Love Street on the opening day of 07/08 immediately looked significantly fitter and disciplined and despite containing several players who had finished the previous season and we went on to have an incredible season. Unfortunately McGhee proved to be an absolute wank of a man who treated the club and the support with contempt during his second season and second stint but the impact he had in his initial stint can’t be understated.

True , I remember that St Mirren game . The infamous game when people through the season tickets on Remember speaking to one Well fan I worked with on the day Malpas left He had been watching the team pre Tommy McLean era and was absolutely scunnered to the fact he didn't want to watch anymore 2007/2008 was much better

That season Malpas was in charge was toxic. Apart from it being obvious from very early on that it wasn’t going to work out I’ve never seen so many arguments/fights in the East Stand as I did that year. Even by Motherwell fans tendency for infighting it was off the scale until just about everyone finally started singing from the same hymsheet on the final home game of the season against st.Mirren. And the song on everybody’s lips was “Malpas, Malpas Get to ****”. ”That’s just yer Donald Duck”

Malpas along with Paul Hegarty as assistant was quite possibly the worst in my whole time following Motherwell , that season was a total disaster it was actually a relief for me when McGhee took over first time

He remains a legitimate point of discussion for that very reason and he manages in the same division so we will come across him. He’s had plenty of opportunity, and will likely have again, to recant on his reasons for leaving. For the sake of his new wife I hope he doesn’t behave in his personal life as he did in his professional, as an apparent total lack of insight into personal limitations and willingness to acknowledge mistakes never bodes well for a strong relationship. On the other hand, as a Well fan, I hope he carries on his managerial career as he left us as that will guarantee a Killie side fighting relegation.

It’s a yes from me, light/sky blue kits always look good, I suppose we have a blue connection from our original colours, more so blue than the vivid yellow and black abominations we’ve hawked in years gone by.

Aye you need to realise Scottish football is a wee backwater league with two big fish in it and there rest of the teams on a par with each other. Bloody right something needs done.

I'm still bitter about Malpas and McLeish they were both about 20 and 30 years ago.

I would be more worried if we'd brought in a manager who had started talking about "good honest professionals" who "run their socks off." Personally, I want modern and new dimensions. As I've heard people say in the past, if we're going to be pushing for top six/finishing 7th-9th, let's at least make it exciting for the people who part with their hard earned cash to watch.

Duped at the highest level Hopefully no other Well fan will be as silly

You’ve been duped by AI. The supposed ‘author’ is just a brand and not a real person. The books on multiple clubs are mass-produced and full of shite.

I see you haven't given it a review. A succinct, "Total bollocks, no stars!" would suffice. I suspect Gigi Romano is a rogue AI, going by the sheer number of other "books" they have supposedly produced.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motherwell-F-C-Steelmens-Gigi-Romano/dp/1923484052/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QVDZU61JZ48F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Z_GU6J9En2AV05pqInJzaFc_Clw7Sa3GZuOOvcq1lc3GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.9NeTRrCcXsKd_MkTaWXT5gPd2mqve6Z58-aehsWZc7M&dib_tag=se&keywords=steelmen+legacy+motherwell&qid=1750501826&sprefix=steelmen+legacy+motherwell%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1 If this new book pops up on anyone's Amazon avoid it like the plague, seriously I am a lover of anything Well related either official or unofficial if it was published by a fan I took a chance on this and was really disappointed The whole book is a joke from start to finish We won our first Scottish Cup in 1931, wrong straight away . Our 3rd Scottish cup win was 1991 which was 4-3 against Aberdeen in the final Alex McLeish was our manager from 1990-1996, in that time he won not just the Scottish cup in 1991 but a cup double in the same season. He won the league cup in 1991 beating Rangers 2-1 in the final We played in europe in 2007 against a team called Bate Borisov ??? More recently we beat Celtic at Fir Park with Kevin Van Veen scoring a double, Liam Kelly pulled off a few good saves that day Not even fit to go to a charity shop in my opinion, shocking indeed

Bradford have produced some very nice kits down the years The 1999/2001 home and away when they were in the Premier League were classics

Good one Indiana 👏👏👏