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  1. It was great to stop at Auchterarder as some have mentioned. I mind as well the BBC on a Saturday morning when the sports program started and they had those circles with football, horse racing etc. and the live typewriter with the scores as they came in that stopped like Dundee 1 Motherwell....took ages it seemed and that was the "internet" those days. Ian Archer's Herald report of our 3-2 cup win against Celtic at FP when Pettigrew scored from the byline. Roger Hynd's era when they handed out whisky to fans before our cup game against some lower opposition (QP or QOS) and we lost. Seeing the floodlights in the distance from the bus from Newarthill. Getting home soaked and miserable but stopping for chips at the cafe on the way home and all I could think of was the next game....
  2. Expect it to be a tough game. Hopefully we can bounce back from last weekend because it is another important game, yet I am skeptical that we actually have the means to win, but we will see what happens. A good test for our manager to get his tactics right and the players up for it.......
  3. Spot on. It's time for the Club to start living up to it's name as an SPL team. Supporters deserve a far better product than is being sold to us and fans are beginning to see that and are not prepared to pay, pay and pay over and over again for an inferior product.
  4. I think people are absolutely right to be angry at today's non-performance. I can think of many players from the 70's through to today who played for the shirt every single game, many of them home grown talent. If we as a club believe that we are SPL material then we better start showing it because right now we are 1st division material and no better than that. Don't mind getting beat but to show no commitment, no drive, hardly a shot on goal etc. etc. is absolutely not good enough. Used to watch for the team coming out the tunnel with tremendous enthusiasm because you knew that the team would give their all and sadly today that is lacking. Will always be a Motherwell supporter, forever, but I will not sit back and lightly accept such performances as was witnessed today. So, MFC players and management staff do NOT embarrass our club like that EVER again. Oh and here we go: "Stuart McCall says his side must dismiss the 6-0 thrashing by Rangers and look to what he considers a more important game with Aberdeen." A bit much asking us to "dismiss" this dreadful performance don't you think?
  5. Correct. Correct. Remember too we are supposed to be attracting people to go to Fir Park.
  6. Agree. Are we or are we not a SPL team? Sure we are likely going to get beat at Ibrox but 6-0 is totally unacceptable. We should at minimum be able to compete, show some fight and determination.
  7. But if we are good enough for the SPL we ought to be able to compete. It's not just today's game, McCall's record is pretty poor over the short term.
  8. Have to agree Jim. McCall was never on the radar initially and other far more experienced people I understand, turned the job down. I think if Brown had still been in charge our recent results would have been better. McCall does not impress me and time will tell.
  9. We just cannot compete at the top level and our defence can't deal with crosses.
  10. They scored a similarly easy goal the last time with a simple cross. Come on Motherwell.
  11. Remember a lot of the things people have just discussed above. My experiences: The very first home game of the season, walking up the "hill" and seeing the beautiful grass and white lines on the pitch The stanchions having been painted in amber Being in the East stand, looking at the tunnel for the first glimpse of our heroes in Claret and Amber Getting a lift-over the turnstiles On the school bus going to Hamilton and watching for players cars going to training. My hero of the time was Bobby Graham and I knew the make and model of his vehicle and was so chuffed to see him pass sometimes Waiting in Newarthill for the Central bus to Tynescastle and it didn't stop......... went home and cried my eyes out to my dog who was happy to see me The East stand atmosphere with rival fans separated before the fence Young boys in the East stand doing a kop thing when we were close to scoring Going to that store in Motherwell - Forsyths? (albeit was a mens' store) and buying a claret scarf with little logos of the fir tree on it, twas a class scarf
  12. I think we played very well at Ibrox in the cup but against a Rangers team that never got into top gear, and that is important. I think Rangers will be a completely different team this time. As for Murphy, he has played great until recently, maybe even since Brown left, so I am not sure what the forward line should be. However, Casagolda (even with more time last game) hasn't done anything particular for a Madonna, so I think he is really a Cinderella. I would play Murphy and Jeffers up front, we have to try something new and that's why we signed this Jeffers guy I guess.
  13. It is a good point. Any other officials with similar statistics for other teams?
  14. I understand what you are saying. Having been there myself over the darkest of times and the best of times, this season came to a shuddering halt when Brown/Knox left so completely out of the blue. I am not sure exactly now when they left, approximately December 10th, 2010 and since then: Saturday, 5 February 2011 Scottish Cup Stranraer 0 Motherwell 2 Wednesday, 2 February 2011 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Motherwell 0 Kilmarnock 1 Sunday, 30 January 2011 Co-operative Insurance Cup Rangers 1 Motherwell 0 Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Clydesdale Bank Premier League St Johnstone 1 Motherwell 0 Saturday, 22 January 2011 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Motherwell 2 Hibernian 0 Saturday, 15 January 2011 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Motherwell 0 Inverness CT 0 Wednesday, 12 January 2011 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Dundee Utd. 2 Motherwell 0 Sunday, 9 January 2011 Scottish Cup Dundee 0 Motherwell 4 Saturday, 1 January 2011 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Hamilton 0 Motherwell 0 Wednesday, 29 December 2010 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Celtic 1 Motherwell 0 Sunday, 26 December 2010 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Motherwell 1 Rangers 4 Tuesday, 14 December 2010 Clydesdale Bank Premier League Motherwell 1 Hearts 2 So that's 3 Wins, 2 draws and 7 losses. Not sure what to make of the statistics.
  15. What a player was Gregor, stood firm and never shirked a tackle, that is exactly the type of player we need, but I'm not sure we can get them now.
  16. We'll see what happens I guess, but gone are the days we signed players like Bobby Graham, Peter Marinello, Vic Davidson etc. for likely small sums of money who all turned out to play for the shirt and achieved great status at Motherwell. I think those days have gone when we are signing players like the unknown Casagolda and Jeffers, whose record is posted above.
  17. I know its the cup but I can't understand why we are struggling against Stranraer
  18. Back to the game...1618: Stranraer refuse to buckle against SPL side Motherwell. That one could go to a replay.
  19. About time, must have been the dying seconds of the half
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