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Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I just wanted to say that the McGrillen family deserve the greatest respect for what they are doing to mark the tenth anniversary of the untimely and tragic passing of Paul. I can only wonder at the strength required to make such a video. Best wishes to them and hopefully it all helps just a little.

I am absolutely desperate for Craig Tanner to get back to the level he once was. Not for the team, but for himself. By the commentary and media stuff he sounds like a superb guy and he thoroughly deserves it.

Our best recent ‘home’ hoop shirt that never was.

As a fan owned club tradition should be important in the decisions we make as a club going forward. #saveourhoop Experiment with 2nd or 3rd kits if you like (although white is best) Simples

Our league form was alright before then but our three games in a week against Celtic seemed to kill off our spirit and left us with a number of injuries. We desperately needed the winter break to recharge our batteries because we were jaded and couldn't handle the number of games in December.

The club's attitude to the hoop has been strange. Both it and the club colours are almost unique in football (only Bradford City sport the latter and we copied them to avoid colour clashes) and yet there seems a reluctance to give it its place and develop it as a strong brand among the boring blues and reds many teams wear. I understand completely that the first strip you saw MFC play in will probably be the one you identify with most strongly. For me, you won't be surprised to hear my childhood team was the Ancell Babes, who played football on another level from the likes of Rangers and "Captain Cutlass" Shearer. However, if your first memory was hoopless Motherwell beating Spurs or Pettigrew and Graham playing in the sash strip and disposing of Celtic regularly home and away in the 70s, then you may not feel so strongly about the older jersey. There may even be some who get multiplied organisms remembering our (infamous or was it just me?) jester's strip but I would doubt it. Yet the club did produce a 125 anniversary jersey with full hoop (and white shorts) which we wore in a pre-season friendly against Everton and which there was talk of using as our strip that season, so maybe it hasn't quite given up on tradition yet. The longer the team goes without wearing it means of course it could fade from the memory, particularly as every year more and more auld yins fall off their perches, and in the end, many fans maybe don't give a flying fruit bat about what we wear as long as we win something. It's a funny old game, Saint.

I loved that kit!

I attempted to revive our classic hooped sleeve era in 2006. Time to pay it another visit at some point.

Two good questions. I had a look at our strip history and Patrick 1984-1985 early k Patrick 1984-1985 f i j k Umbro 1985-1987 f g i j k Matchwinner 1987-1989 f g i k Matchwinner 1989-1990 f g i k Admiral 1990-1991 f g i k Admiral 1991-1992 f i k Hummel 1992-1994 f i Pony 1994-1996 f i k Pony 1996-1998 f i Xara 1998-2000 f g i Xara 2000-2002 f g o Xara 2002-2004 f g h k Xara 2004-2006 f g h Xara 2006-2007 f g h o Bukta 2007-Jan 2008 b o Bukta Jan-May 2008 b k Tribute to the late Phil O'Donnell Bukta 2008-2009 b o Canterbury 2009-2010 b Puma 2010-2011 b Puma 2011-2013 b Puma 2013-2014 b Macron 2014-2015 b Macron 2015-2016 b Macron 2016-2017 b Macron 2017-2018 b Macron 2018-2019 b Macron 2019-2020 b Surely the majority of them have the band/hoop? Unless you mean the band/hoop all the way around as I know some of them didn't go round the back

Not to take away from the impact he made but are you perhaps mixing up the start of last season and the season before? We'd reached a Cup Final, were on the way to another and were borderline top six in the only season Tanner has featured for us.

Maybe I have forgot how good he was but I can't help but think he's being remembered very, very fondly. Not to say I didn't think he was a good player.

Interesting article in the Daily Record on how young players need to be managed and his take on the Hastie and Turbull scenarios. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/handling-david-turnbulls-celtic-transfer-18788893.amp?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0vYakZqzO2QypETZQpeiFI0gKhxvDmaWzaW4FEHxTbkok8OJaeQTcKcMA I do have to dispute his comments on Sevco however - they are hardly a "world class club" - don't even scratch the surface!

I have a yearbook in which our then manager Roger Hynd asked the fans to submit designs for our new kit (I’ll try and find it, but it may take sometime). I entered the competition representing our supporters bus, but sadly I didn’t win. Years on my unique 78-79 lightening bolt sash design was resurrected by Roma for their new away top, I’m claiming to be a design visionary. If you haven’t seen the new Roma sash shirt I suggest you take a look. It’s about as controversial as my 1978 effort. Anyway, Admiral duly went away and manufactured the new fan designed two vertical striped kit, although, there is still a mystery surrounding how it was selected. I’m currently doing some research into that and if I find the answer I will let you know. By January of 79 it became apparent that the new look wasn’t proving to be that popular and the club decided to revert back to the previous design, before switching to adidas in season 79-80. The adidas deal was arranged through a Scottish kit rep. I remember reading an interview with the guy a while back and he mentioned that he handled quite a few Scottish teams back in the day, including Motherwell. With regard to our ‘traditional’ claret hoop. It’s generally accepted when a side first establishes a signature look, (in our case, a full claret hoop) that particular design/colour will be forever linked to the club. It took us until 1928 to establish our own kit identity which remained unsullied until 1969. However, it’s up to the custodians of a club to protect that identity, but sadly the people in charge opted to neglect it. Most notably in the 1970s. Some clubs like Celtic (hoops) or Boca (bold hoop) Airdrie (Diamond) appear to be more protective of their kit identity and in my opinion this has to be applauded, especially, for home kits. Our penchant for white shorts are much easier to explain. For quite sometime shorts were only available in a few colours, mainly white or black! Motherwell usually opted for white or occasionally black as an away option. It wasn’t till much later that other colours became more readily available, however, Motherwell decided to stick with the white as it seemed to compliment our bright amber shirts. Of course new traditions will evolve as a club moves forward, however, it’s the first ones that usually become entrenched in a club’s identity.

Aye, it’s definitely the tops that are getting smaller

They are certainly getting smaller. I went from a medium to a large for last years away top and even that is on the neat side and this years home is just as neat, Stephen purchased the home shirt on Saturday. I would say if you are between a medium and large in general certainly go large.

I find the Macron stuff tiny. I got last season's home and away shirts. Usually an XL but had to to get 3XL in these!

Don't think we should rule out extradition for Cadden tbh