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Europe is an absolute goldmine if done properly, and the opportunity to see Motherwell play in a foreign country is great fun, I am all for it. The issue is that on the rare occasion we make it we completely fuck up our preparation and embarrass ourselves and the rest of Scotland. Hopefully the next time it rolls round we have learned our lesson and manage to get through a few rounds. If we managed to sneak into a group stage it would set the club up for years. I just can’t wrap my head around any Motherwell fan not wanting that.

Well said. And don't forget the fall back of a guaranteed Group place in the Conference if you fail to make the Europa Groups. As I said earlier, that route brought in over £5m for Hearts this season and Aberdeen will likely make even more next season when they finish third this time round. Yes, of course many of our fans look forward to to the away trips. Why shouldn't they? But for MJC to suggest that the majority of the fans are unaware or don't care about the potential financial rewards for our Club is insulting. Third place in this League.....and the European experience and income that entails....is possible. Or perhaps MJC wants to take even that ambition away from us. Football is meant to be fun, an escape from the crap that life can be at times, and a chance to dream. At least it is for most of us.

I'm certainly getting close to closing it due to it being mostly mince.

I see what you did there. That was a rare joke! 😘

I know not football related but Mrs Grizzly completed marathon and has raised £560 for motor neurone disease....legendess. a few beers to celebrate....she is sore and I am feckin sunburnt!! 🤪🤪

Shoot for the stars! If you only get the moon, its still some view! We can always come back to earth with a bump when its all over!

I like to think we'll be very even handed and beat all five teams. The bottom 4 can sort out the relegation issues between themselves.

Can we close this thread now? I’m well done with it.

What a lot of shite, i suspect you dont get out much to enjoy yourself, Motherwell fans know we are not going to go deep into a Euro tournament but just qualifying for them means you've had a good season either through league form or winning a cup. You mention the Europa league, finishing 3rd in the premiership a very achievable target gets you into the playoff round, 2 wins or a win and a draw from the group stages so for a team like Motherwell that's within our capabilities. Some of my proudest moments as a well fan have been at Euro games home and especially away, Katowice in our 1st ever Euro match, Dortmund, Nancy, and the Olympic stadium in Athens to watch Motherwell in the Champions league, and even in Sligo this season as a football fan its an experience not to be missed. You obviously don't like being happy or others enjoying themselves but each to their own so you batter in being a dour faced troll, the rest of us will look forward to the next Euro adventure whenever it comes.

It's the the middle of May and this season doesn't end for another 3 weeks and it's too early to be releasing a new kit?

Poor effort, whatever way you want to slice it up! 😉

Agreed, people need to stop posting tripe and get down to the bare bones of the question, who is their man of the match choice, there is a lot at steak.

Unsurprisingly that's not true. The club made roughly £900,000 from European football this year. That will be a good chunk of our turnover for 8 days work and a wee jaunt to Ireland. If we had approached it professionally we could have made a lot more.

If your younger than 43! 😆😆😆

And that, let’s face it, is the real reason that a lot of Motherwell fans want to see us qualify for Europe. We are never going to do anything of note at that level as we simply don’t and never will have the money required to do it. And I don’t just mean go deep into the tournament either, I mean even getting to the Europa League group stages is beyond us, as it is for every other club our size and with our budget. But I suspect the majority of Motherwell fans realise and accept this. The ones who get all excited about ‘Europe’ get excited at the prospect of a few days abroad on the booze more than the football itself. Some of them that travel probably don’t even go to the game when they are there. But it’s all great fun!

Completely disagree that qualifying for Europe is the best we can hope for. Winning one of the Cups is the ultimate achievement for us and would trump any European qualification. Obviously winning the Scottish Cup would get us into Europe, as would finishing 3rd, but I would see the European qualification in that regard as just another added bonus to the main event. If we’ve had a great season in the league like we did in 07/08 or in 94/95, played great football and finished high up in the table then that would be the enjoyable and satisfying part of it, not so much playing a Euro qualifier the following July/August. On the other hand when we sneak into Europe like we did last season having had an absolutely dismal second half of the season or when the season is abandoned due to covid then it is less enjoyable and that devalues the European spot even more for me.