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The second leg at Fir Park

Teniously linked to the topic, but I took a wee drive earlier, popped in and parked up outside Fir Park and looking into the South Stand for a wee while earlier today when I was out with my wee boy. He's nearly 4 and just about showing an interest in football, so naturally, being a basic dad duty , I'm developing that as carefully and thoroughly as one can. I had him in the car shouting "Mon' The 'Well" full voice heading down to Asda, so much that on the return journey, passing by FP, he automatically bellowed it out with zero encouragement from me. It was a proud moment, have to say...!

The first leg at Ibrox

The South Stand has served it's purpose well since it was built. It enabled us to mitigate the drop in capacity from not far off 20,000 pre-Taylor Report days to what would have been closer to 10,000 had they gone with a Cooper sized stand. I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of pounds extra they will have taken it as a result of making full use of the "estate". I don't think it would have made much odds in terms of the boxes but the additional space has provided them with gym space and (albeit the most basic) a limited training space when weather conditions made training outside difficult in addition to extra 2000 odd seats. If that's meant we've ended up with four different sized stands then so be it. I'll take that little bit of character and individuality that Fir Park offers before the time comes when we're sitting in a 2030 or 2040's souped up McDiarmid Park or Almondvale. And to be fair they went some way to achieve a degree of uniformity with the cladding on each of the stands, although admittedly they've let that slide since with sponsorships As an aside the original intention was actually to have a scaled down version of the South Stand when the North Stand was originally conceived with two tiers the original plan. It was only when they did the plans and worked out how high a structure they could get away with and discovered that would only to equate to something like four or five rows that the North Stand, or Cooper Stand as it became, was designed in it's current form.

Without the top deck where would the other 2000 seats be accommodated, back to the nonsense we had giving the Cooper and the sides of the main stand to the ugly sisters? The South stand was built solely to accommodate away fans , that was its purpose, these days it may only be full a few times a season but it means the Motherwell fans get the majority of the ground as it should be.

A lucrative monstrosity though. Those 2000 seats have put a lot of money in the bank over 25 years.

At the end of the day if the player in question felt it was racist we need to accept it was, even Ross has done that

That's a bit revisionist for a guy that took us the the Scottish Cup final in his first season and led us to 6th, 3rd, 2nd and 3rd league spots. (And he's hardly unique in having a poor record with us in Cup competitions, or bottling games at Ibrox. We haven't exactly set Govan on fire with our performances there before he arrived or since he left).

It’s racist because he’s never saying it if he’s a white guy. He’s perpetrating a racial stereotype that black players doctor documents to make them younger.

One of the best things about that night was travelling into Glasgow and feeling real tension without all the day tripper pish that comes with cup finals. If Rangers weren't idiots we should really have had a couple of thousand there but 900 intense Motherwell fans in the corner going crazy was a great experience.

Yes but there weren’t many Motherwell managers other than McCall who had such a good squad of players at their disposal and at a time when circumstances were very much in his/our favour. Yet for all we did well, really well, in the league during his tenure, McCall’s Cup record in the same time was a disgrace and indeed saw us record two of the most embarrassing results in our entire history (Rangers in 2012 and Albion Rovers in 2014). That for me was a major black mark against him and a massive missed opportunity to win silverware again. And to get back to the subject of the playoff, there was not a snowballs chance in hell we would have won that had McCall still been in charge of us.

Ditto.........would have loved Lionel to have slotted the one he blazed over to make it 0-4 !!!

Ainsworth’s goal to put us 3-0 up that night was one of the best and most surreal moments I’ve ever had supporting ‘Well. I remember just screaming “is this actually fucking happening?!” for about 60 seconds after it hit the net. I still didn’t believe we were actually going to do it until the second goal in the second leg.

I loved that playoff game for a few reasons. 1. The absolute demolition of that lot, 2. It put to bed some theory among parts that we are like Killie and somehow h**s without the bus fare and 3. Fir Park was rocking in a way I haven't seen since.

Here’s another one this time Hampden

Still the biggest aggregate playoff win 6-1, to be fair that Rangers team was feckin brutal but after they had 2 straight promotions, slapping them down like that was very enjoyable If only we could do it in the league.

if we ever had money Id take the top deck off it make it a replica of the Cooper stand. Its a bloody monstrosity as it is.

nah, I still dont get why its " racist"....so he got the guys nationality wrong...its like mixing up an aussie and a kiwi , based on what we perceive to be similar accents . Like I said earlier weve come a long way , but somebody having to resign because of this does nothing for the fight against racism....anyway mo ross took the decision, he will probably be back at fp in time, when ga gets international job....you heard it here first.