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Declan Gallagher joins Airdrie. If ever a club suited a player. He's also assistant manager, which I'm sure will work out an absolute treat given how successful his spells as captain with us and Ross County were.

It's all about getting through so hopefully we have enough over the two legs and we can then be in much better shape in terms of fitness and signings for the next round.

It's being broadcast by SolidSport apparently. Not familiar with which countries they operate in, or if that means it might also be on MotherwellTV, but it might help locate a stream. https://solidsport.com/motherwellfc/games/g/b3deb2au EDIT: I just created an account on there, and it says I can purchase the game for 12 quid. But no hint to any geo-restrictions.

Don't like.

He has just scored for St Mirren, they are 3-1 down though at home to East Kilbride

Nice kit, it’s like the 2003 untouchables away top which I have in a bag in my loft.

2 of their guys denied visas, including Moses.

Are we opening up the South Stand or just limiting our fans to the other 3 stands?

Is this game available for overseas viewers? I have family in Canada asking. They usually watch games via the MotherwellTV subscription.

After Stjarnan and Sligo in particular, I will never take us to be strong favourites in a Euro tie ever again. I think because they are match fit and because we have a fairly makeshift starting 11 at the moment this is a 50/50 game.

We are massive favourites at 1/7 to win 8/1 draw 20/1 for them to win. Given they are 16 games in to their season I thought that was a bit of a leveller but the bookies odds gave me the injection of positivity that I needed

I think the fans are going to play a huge part as we need to get right behind the lads. Should be a great crowd but no idea how ww will line up

I agree that the Pony one (claret with amber candy stripes) was a good one, probably a nod to the C&A striped jerseys we wore for four years (copying Bradford City as usual) before switching to the unique hoop in 1928. Of course, we don't really need the reverse strip at all since we brought out ye olde petrol blue version at the end of last season but it may be a money-spinner as leisure wear.

Yes, happy memories of Willie Hunter, Pat Delaney etc wearing the reverse strip after lifting the Summer Cup in the mid-sixties.

If it’s anything like the 2018/19 effort then we’ll be wearing it in every away game apart from Hearts and Aberdeen. It’s not too bad having had a better look at it and the outline around the badge is smart. It’s similar to the 02/03 Untouchables kit which I personally loved at the time but no Claret away kit will ever come close to the mid 90s classic by Pony.

The manager specifically referred to him as an attacking defender. I would imagine thats where we will see him. It is a bonus if he can do other jobs, but I fully expect a couple of midfielders incoming soon.

The kit is a winner. Much better than the home effort. Would happily watch us wearing that in every game this season!

Anyone know if this game (and the second leg) will be available to watch anywhere for those unable to attend?

No offence, but I thought the shoulders and collar on your version was honking 😂

I like that top, impressed

Aye, but in order to stop being "continually shite" we need to look at the reasons for it. Our coefficient means clubs like Motherwell enter Europe at the early stages. We play those ties in preseason basically, often with half a squad, new players being integrated and limited competitive sharpness. We lose, gain very few coefficient points and return the following year in pretty much the exact same position. Our opponents have played 16 games or so at this point. This time last season, if we were going into European football, we'd be fielding the kind of team that beat Stenhousemuir 1-0 a few days before and was heading into our friendly with Hertha. Just had been with us for less than two weeks, as well as Longelo and Said. We were 16 games into our league season on December 6th, and had just beaten Livi 3-0 and hadn't lost a game in nearly two months. Imagine if that team was the one that was going into these early European ties? I don't know about you, but I'd be a whole lot more confident. As things stand, I absolutely do not expect anything to change. Us, and clubs like us, are nowhere near ready for European football at this stage. We need a really good draw to help us, otherwise we'll likely trip up and fail against a team we'd have a really good chance of beating if we were up to speed.

I wasnt far off , I think mine was better

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Scottish clubs and the national team need to start winning Euro tropies again, getting to the latter stages of every competition on a regular basis, winning more games etc, etc to increase the country and club coefficients. Unless this happens the Scottish club sides will always be starting their Euro adventures in June and July when all the teams from the good leagues are still on the beach sunning themselves. So for me playing winter or summer will make no difference if our teams are continually shite and failing to progress beyond the diddy team rounds.

I think the new home jersey looks great as part of the entire kit on the actual players in the football environment, while not so much on a regular person wearing it with shorts or jeans. The away shirt looks like it'll be a better "fans" shirt if that makes sense.