TheLip69

There's no use getting all het up about it because the fact is we haven't been given enough info to form an opinion. Lets wait until we've got the full details before we start wringing our hands in anguish, or singing it's praises. Frankly, I wish the club would just shut the f**k up about this until they have a concrete proposal to put before us. Then maybe we'd get some sensible posts on the subject.

Aren't we supposed to register both strips before the beginning of the season?

Once again that article opens up more questions than it gives answers. The main one being who does his ironing?

Dead right, why give Old Firm benchwarmers SPL experience they wont get at their own clubs at the expense of our own youngsters.

Really? I'm pretty sure the new sponsor was announced last season, just before the Cup Final if memory serves.

I did say earlier in the thread that I liked it, and yes I will be buying one.

I have to say my Xara tops have all washed well over the years and are still quality. Isn't that right Eddie?

If your first point is true, explain how we are going to acheive your second point.

The cost of anything other than a flatpack stadium a la St Mirren is prohibitive for a club our size. Our problem is that virtually the only asset we have is the ground, and the cash isn't there to do the kind of remedial work required. So the only viable alternative is the sale of the ground and a move to new premises, which will be, whether we like it or not, one from Ikeas cheaper range. We dont have the wee extra bonus from Europe that we have had the past few seasons and John Boyle is no longer funding us so I think things are going to be a wee bit tight for ome time around Fir Park. I love Fir Park and would want to stay there for ever but teh reality is we have to get the hell out of there before it collapses round our ears. Sell up and move on.

I dont mind signing players from the OF but it's those with that attitude, on either side, that I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. When they are too closely associated, in everybody's minds not just the bigots, with one side of the great divide I would leave well alone.

Wee Keith is my particular favourite at the moment, cant really say I dont like any of the current bunch. Wasn't a fan of Jeffers signing but he's moved on to bigger and better things, Accrington Stanley wasn't it?

How can you imagine that? It was almost a century ago, and given that the reason for the change was because so many other teams played in blue and we wanted to ensure fewer clashes of colours, I can actually imagine quite a few people being very happy about it. Given that it would be more than half a century later that club colours would take off in the shape of replica strips, scarves etc it really wouldn't have made much difference at that time.

I was aware of McLeish's overspending in the Transfer market that's why I put it in context with another player with a fairly similar background at the same club, rather than list McLeish's idiocies.

According to Soccerbase he played twice, once as a substitute. I remember at the time he signed it was said he had played once and scored twice, and he was headlined as if he was the second coming. No-one actually mentioned he'd been down there 5 years and done sod all else. Had we gone down there and taken the guy either on loan or given Spurs the £50K they had paid for him, FIVE YEARS EARLIER, then yes I would say I can see the thinking behind it, but to whip down there and offer them £200k for someone who was basically a squad player, if that, defeats my thought processes altogether. Let me put it into perspective for you, in the same season Spurs sold defender Gudni Bergson, (who had signed for them in 1988 as a youth for a fee of £100k twice what they paid for Hendry), he had played over 50 games and had scored the same amount of goals as John Hendry. He would go on to play over 300 games for Bolton and score 26 goals, all for the princely sum of £65k. So, who saw who coming?

For me it's got to be John Hendry, Spurs had signed him from Dundee as a schoolboy about 5 years earlier. He only played one game for Spurs and they loaned him out all over the place, they were on the verge of letting him go when Big Eck went in and offered them £200k. The question that has been puzzling me ever since is, WHY???????

Jennings and Gunning will definitely be on improved contracts, and Craigans new contract will be equally lucrative. The budget doesn't just go on new signings, I'm pretty sure Hutchisons extended contract will have made a decent dent in the budget also.

Point taken, but I wasn't actually meaning Motherwell specifically, just that the whole pre-season apart from the Rangers takeover, has been pretty quiet.

Does anyone else think this has been the quietest pre-season in years? Our first friendly is only a week away and it feels like months since the Cup Final with sod all happening in between.

Aye just a fan, and a shareholder, mainly due to his Dad who was on the board there in the 70's and 80's, and is still in touch with things at the club.

A contact I met through work. I never knew he was a Shrewsbury Town fan until I mentioned going back up to Scotland for a Motherwell match and he asked how Chris Humphrey's was doing. From there we got chatting about football and every now and then we discuss how our relevant teams are doing and he mentioned a few weeks ago that we were back to steal another of their players, he is still a bit miffed about Humphrey, and gave me the info. He took great delight yesterday in e-mailing me the BBC page about Taylor signing a new contract.

Nope, there was no deal, as far as they were concerned he'd knocked it back and was heading for Fir Park.

I like it.

It was, apparently, an extremely surprising turnaround for everyone at Shrewsbury. My contact at Shrewsbury says that up until last night they were sure he was Motherwell bound. They aren't sure what changed his mind they're just glad he did.

For what it's worth my contact at Shrewsbury believes John Taylor is on his way to Motherwell as he knocked back a new contract yesterday.

I never said Aberdeen would be better but I dont think either them or Hibs could be worse. I believe we need to strengthen and all we've done is replace Sutton with Higdon, our league form at times was pretty woeful and if anyone below us had come with a late run we might not have made the top 6. As it was everyone below us cut each others throats and we remained in sixth. For me the boost from the Cup run and the unexpected win over Celtic saw us through. I really dont know what to expect next season but at the moment I'm more anxious than excited.