Al B

To be fair, as much as he's a wank, JJ is the only reason Killie are anywhere near the SPL. They would have been at the arse-end of the 1st division years ago if it wasnt for him.

Ye've only been goin for 6 months!

Ye could have seen it from Hamilton! "In order to avoid confusion, on every season ticket seat we have placed the biggest fuckin stickers in the history of the earth....."

I think he'd benefit more from not being dropped when he's playing well! I liked the thinking of playing Hammell wide left today, but then playing someone behind him who hasn't got even a hint of a left foot and therefore has no option but to always turn inside, completely defeats the point of it. One change made a positive contribution, but the second change made to allow it to happen, rendered it totally pointless in the first place.

That is the crux of the matter for me. Im not saying football should be £6.50, im saying the imbalance is wrong. I agree they are different things, and I appreciate where Johnstone and Weeyin are coming from, but the fact of the matter for me boils down to two things. How much does it cost, and what am I getting for that. On that basis, football as a live event is quickly fighting a losing battle.

If it cost between 18 and 26 quid to get into the cinema, they would go out of business. Not a single person would ever go. Why do we do it for football?? It's essentially the same thing...paying entry to a show that lasts an hour and a half to two hours. In fact, at least at the cinema you are in a comfortable seat, indoors in a heated auditorium. It's ironic that I often complain about paying £6.50 maybe once a month at my local cinema for that, while week in week out I pay four times that to sit on some shite plastic chair with my knees up at my chin, at the side of a field in the pishing rain, while being told that we cant sing/stand up/move/complain about the product im (grossly over)-paying for. It just highlights how football as a business relies on the loyalty stupidity of people like me and you, to get away with it. Change has to happen though...as the amount of people who are starting to see it for what it is, insanity rather than dedication, is increasing by the week.

Proggy at tomorrows game!! Excited!!

I'd be very happy with that I have to say, although not convinced of the chances of it. On another note, a good mate of mine who is a Falkirk fan has been saying for a while that he's been told that either us or United have got Stevie Lovell on a pre-contract.

I actually LOVE new kit time! Over the years i've pretty much accpeted that we'd never get a proper manufacturer to make ours, and that we'd have to make do with what we could get, butCanterbury are huge!! And contrary to what someone's said earlier, I love their stuff. Really modern looking kits which I like....the only thing being they can look a little "templated" as folk have been saying. But having them done in our colours isn't gonna be your run of the mill footy top. Im actually really excited! Gonna be buying a proggy for the first time in years on Saturday just so I can get the sneek peek!

Surely no??

When my dad was younger he used to play, but as a fan he didnt really have a team or an interest in watching football, and my mum absolutely DETESTED the game. Used to tag along with friends whenever I could so used to go along to Parkhead with a Celtic supporting mate and his dad, or to Ibrox with the guy that ran the boys club I played for, or more commonly to Brockville with my mate who's dad was the commercial manager at the time, so quite often got in for hee-haw. Actually used to love standing on the terracing there, although I never really felt any affilation with the team or the club. Same with anyone else I used to go see....I just loved footy as a kid and took whatever chance I could get to go and see a game, regardless of who it was. Strangely one of my best and earliest memories in football was going to see Hearts v Aberdeen on a Hearts supporters bus from Stirling when my Uncle Jimmy was assistant manager. Weirdly enough I kinda liked Aberdeen at the time (early 80's...surprisingly enough), but I remember the feeling of being on the Hearts bus was just unbelievable. I must have been about 6 or 7 and i'd never experienced anything like it, the laughing and joking, the constant singing. I wasn't bothered about the team in the slightest, but regardless of the club it was where I learned the difference between watching footy and actually being a fan of a club involving any kind of passion and pride etc. Around that time I discovered that my best pal at primary school was John Philliben's nephew, and so all of a sudden Motherwell games were the new ones that I had the chance to go to now and again, and for some reason when I went there I just felt some kinda connection with the place...something i'd never felt at Ibrox or Parkhead or Brockville or Annfield. I started to recognise the same feelings in me that i'd seen in the Hearts fans on the bus a couple of years before, and I just got hooked....although I never really got to go to games all that often. Fast forward another few years and my mum and dad split up, and my dad moved abroad so I never saw him. I guess my mum was trying to find a way to bring me and her closer together and so when my birthday rolled round she asked if i'd like to go to a game. Bearing in mind my mum's dislike of the game as a whole I couldnt believe it and I jumped at the chance! It was against Falkirk ironically enough, and we sat in the East Stand. I can't actually remember how the game panned out, but I do remember my mum saying afterwards that it wasn't as bad as she expected it to be, and over the course of the season with much begging and pleading, she took me to a few more games. After that, the bug bit her too...and we have pretty much been every week, home and away, since the 94/95 season, and for someone who hated the sport so much in the past...on occasion if I havent been able to make a saturday my mum has gone on her own to places like Rugby Park, Dens...just because she hasn't wanted to miss a game! For me, going to Fir Park and following Motherwell all over the country is as much about the closeness between me and my mum that developed after my dad left as it is about the game itself, and the 2 will always be linked. I've met a few folk from here through going to games, and i'll always stop for a natter if I see them...but I never sit with them. Not through ignorance or anything like that, just I go to football with my mum. Thats what we do. It's our thing, and over the years we've stood freezing on the terracing at Boghead, watched Tommy Coyne score a backheel volley at Dunfermline on the opening day, paid 2 pound and got a cinema ticket to stand on terracing at Dens park, right up to standing on our seats at a Hampden cup final during the Butcher years, and seeing the team that in the past we had watched getting absolutely pumped in the pouring rain all over the country...up there in a draw with names like AC Milan and Bayern Munich and Ajax earlier this year!!! It's just probably the best feeling in the world, and I guess you could say that theres a strange case of the club finding us, as much as us finding the club. Wouldnt change anything about it for the world.

I think we'll make it, but I think it will be at Aberdeen's expense rather than Hibs.

Jeezz...14 years!! As said by everyone else, to this day I still get a great sense of pride knowing that a player of that calibre not just played for our club, but in a way we reinvented each other. I mean, Dundee can say Cannigia and Ravanelli played for them etc....but Davie didnt just play for us, and he wasnt just here for the cash or to wind his career down. A world class footballer who lived for Motherwell for the time he was with us. Ruud Gullit's favourite player no less!

Ah im sorry to hear that mate. I go to the football home and away with my mum and have done for 15 seasons now. I can't imagine what it would be like to go without her, so it's great to hear that you will be carrying on with your own son so that he will go on to have the same great memories as you do with your own father and following the club.

Went for Klimpl but could just as easily have gone for O'Brien. Thought Jim's engine was fantastic, his chasing back was superb and was always looking to get on the ball. Still a lot of rough edges to his game but he's the kinda guy that looks capable of creating when he gets on the ball. As for Klimpl, I just love the way he plays. Sometimes you find a proper midfield hardman, but it's not often you find one who also has the ability to put his foot on the ball and pick out a pass. Plays as if he has absolutely no idea who any of his opponents are, and wouldn't give a shit even if he did. Theres too many footballers these days who will go down at the slightest touch, but Klimpl has that old school attitude that you dont see anymore unfortunately, where the LAST thing you will let happen is for an opponent to think they have hurt you.

Agreed. I must admit I thought Smith in for Fitzy was a strange one. O'Brien, Hughes, Klimpl, Fitzpatrick I think is our best midfield at the moment. I know Fitzy has a tendency to drift inside...but recently Hammell has more than compensated for that.

Ok let me ask you a question. Imagine Spaniards, and the Spanish FA wanted Nacho Novo. Now imagine that at the tail end of last year it had been decided that he could play for Scotland because he had lived and worked here for long enough...and then he decided that was what he wanted to do. Spanish people would then probably be pretty pissed off, see him as having turned his back on his country, and anytime he went back to Spain he would be boo'd and probably told "if u want to be scottish that much, then fuck off back to scotland." Would they be being racist?

Tom Green did know who Motherwell were, 'Flow emailed him on his site and asked and he replied sayin yeah because he had family from the area or something, and thats how he got the top. Paul Oakenfold is also a 'Well fan, theres an interview with him online somewhere where he talks about it...im sure a wee google would find it.

I remember that day well, going into that old main stand you had to go around what were almost wee tight corridors once you were through the turnstile, and at one point the Hibs fans at the other end of the stand from us had to be moved because bits of the roof were falling off!!

Ally..lovin the Klimpl sig!!

Which part are you querying? That fact that we own it, or the fact that it's worth more than yours? Do you have any issues which are current? Again...do you actually live in the past? Do Marks & Spencer annoy you just as much as Motherwell does...given they have also paid off staff in the past? Or are you just being a fanny because we're better than you?

Yes we do, and it's worth a helluva lot more than yours. Yes we have (otherwise the game tomorrow would at the very least have an inspection, which it doesnt) And yes we are. But thanks for your concern.

Thats probably the best night of my life I reckon. If you had written it like that for a film it would probably have been rejected for being too unbelievable...was just an amazing night the way the whole thing unfolded!

What difference does it make?