shooie

I wish I could test you on that but I have no access to away fans' figures on that day. But if you are saying that the average pay at the gate numbers of 'Well fans went up by 2,000 or more, I'd have to be sceptical. My subsidiary point was to refute the assertion that there were more than 600 away fans on only two occasions last season. Can there be any doubt that more Motherwell fans will attend Fir Park when the SPL is not a two-horse race, when the bulk of non-gate income is not awarded to the Ugly Sisters, and when we have a more realistic chance to qualify for European competition, and when bigotry, from either side ceases to be the dominant factor in Scottish football?

I've just seen this. The letter only applies to SPL games. 125,000 people came to Fir Park last season for SPL, League Cup and Scottish Cup games. They paid an average of £15 each making £1,875,000. Rangers absence in the SPL would have reduced the total coming to Fir Park last season to 115,000. That might have cut gate income by say £200,000 or 8.5% or so. On 6 June we were told that season ticket sales were up by over 26%. According to the way you do your figures less than 300 Motherwell fans on average pay at the gate. Apparently we can look forward to much bigger home crowds without Rangers. By the way, you're wrong about Hearts and Hibs. There were 7,456 fans at the last day of the season match agains Dundee United. I can't remember how many Arabs were there but it was at least a couple of thousand. In a more competitive SPL, without Rangers and with Celtic having to live without their greedy lion's share of resources, I believe attendances can only go up.

The letter says underPotential Implications on Revenue, paragraph 2. Gate Income: "Last year our cash income from gate receipts was £1.64m comprising £670k season tickets, £970k fans pay at gate." Where did you find other figures?

This is just not true. According to the official site we have pulled in 126,472 in 21 home games this season averaging 6,022 per match. In SPL games we had 105,498 in 17 matches. That means an average crowd at SPL games of 6,205. PLEASE STOP TALKING US DOWN!

I fought the law and the law won.

You hate your dad?

It's called "Hear, hear". Some folks cannae spell a four letter word.