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Hiya Tom Boyd Hiya ya odious, sanctimonious dribbling prick 👋

Was very close to John, he and my dad went to school together and played badminton to a very high level, I'm sure John represented lanarkshire, and as luck would have it I worked in all his shops, farms, abattoirs, homes and through all of the post '91 upgrades at Fir Park. A fine innings at 93 and a tremendous gentleman to boot. RIP Mr Chapman, without your steady leadership and deep pockets to sign Davie Cooper, we may have had no club to support and no anniversary to celebrate in May.

I watched Welsh, who was on the park at the end of the game. He shook the hands with every Celtic player as they trudged off, a few hugs as well. As soon as they were gone he turned to us in the main stand and fist pumped. He looked every bit as happy as me. His face definitely screamed “get it up them” I don’t see him going back there

They ask what your view is on Tom Boyd - the answer given proves who the well fans are

I don’t often get on my high horse but this is a sanctimonious and entitled reply. I have read the rest of the thread and replies and the dismissive attitude doesn’t get better. This DOES matter regardless of who is asking for the sanction and I am no fan of SPFL or Scottish Government hypocrisy. Use of pyros is not some political stance it is an outright danger to the people using and others in the vicinity. If the club is willing to accept that they don’t lose out financially because inconsiderate and negligent morons, or their excusers, have paid the cost of 50 tickets then I’m seriously worried about that attitude towards the safety and wellbeing of majority of the rest of us fans. As per the original post if Block E stuck to the tifos, joyful exuberance, and carnival atmosphere they can and do create they would continue be a credit to the club. Covering up and dismissing the dangerous behaviour risks totally undermining all the good. Multiple wrongs and hypocrisy from other “fans” behaviours is deflection and no excuse.

I disagree. Just has been exceptional for us.

I don't care which school he went to.

Aye, but its Tony Watt! 😍😍😍

I think it’s under 4hrs the flight time to UK from Marakesh. I’m sure I came back from Tenerife one year and played 5s that night. My standard hadn’t dropped at all after a 5hr flight. I was still sh1te!!

If he ends up at St Mirren, the only thing he’ll be kicking is other players’ legs.

It sounds like you're just making up stuff to be worried about. Some players will want to stay, some players will want to move on, some new players will be happy to join. Same as every season. That's for dealing with in the summer. Just enjoy the ride for now.

They were acting like arseholes at Tannadice. Their sense of entitlement saw them locked out the game because they because abusive to Stewards . Doesn't matter a fuck what you think of stewarding had they not acted like entitled arseholes they'd have got into the game. No doubt we'll get the persecution response of "heavy hands empty stands"

SOD signs new deal till Summer 2027. Delighted for him, such a loyal servant who has never hid despite the ridiculous stick he got last season at times. Been immense this season. That's what happens when you have a manager that allows you to play and express yourself instead of just saying 'lump it forward' Well done SOD

I saw another report that stated we had 'beaten off stiff competition' to sign this guy. Might have been easier to just make him a better financial offer.

Celtic don’t deserve Welsh. The disdain they’ve shown towards him is ridiculous, and he’ll be a huge loss for us.

Aye Andrew Lloyd Grizzlyg right enough .

Agreed. The thought of renewing both SODs and McGinn last year seemed mental. Especially after McGinns injury problems. Both of them have been outstanding this season and contribute so much both on and off the park. Who woulda thunk asking footballers to play football would have had such success!

Celtic and Rangers being pumped in Europe - “Scottish league isn’t strong enough” “no competition in the SPL so it effects us in europe” they get competition in the form of Hearts and us and then it’s a case of trying to plunder our players (Barga, TJ, Just, Watt etc)so they don’t get any more domestic competition fkn horrible clubs, horrible fans…. Utter parasites.

Selling TJ to bring in Welsh is utterly mental talk.Welsh type players are ten a penny but goalscorers are not and that's what read on here from a fair few posters about goalscorers. Crazy talk unless the money is ridiculous and I mean ridiculous.

12 hours in and 2026 steelmen online joke of the year goes to MJC

This pic sums up the game

JBA can do whatever the hell he likes! If we can beat Celtic with 4 right backs and no strikers he can probably walk on water! 😆😆😆

With Rangers, Celtic or both definitely dropping points this is a big game for us and a win could be potentially huge. St. Mirren are a bit of a bogey team for us, we've not beaten them in 2025, and they always make it tough and I wouldn't expect anything different this time. However this team just looks like they don't give a fuck who they are playing and our home performances have been excellent minus one half against Falkirk. Like I said ending the year on 36 points would be massive.

We've only lost 2 out of 6 against the Top 3 and we should have won at Tynecastle and got a point at least at Celtic Park and Ibrox. That says to me we are absolutely as good as them in one to ones. What we need to do is win games like the one coming up which I kind of alluded to in my original post. The best Motherwell team I've ever seen should have won the league but lost to lowly Dundee Utd and St. Johnstone sides. That's the tricky part rather than the big games when you challenge for a league. It's likely the 'top' teams will drop a lot of points in the run in as there genuinely isn't a gap between the Old Firm and the others now so it's down to us to keep up our performances and form going and you never know. We are further back that the Top 3 so we are probably going to have to beat the Old Firm and Hearts a couple more times this season to have a chance but this is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity. Motherwell are a club who will always struggle to keep talent and I don't expect that to change but this season everything is in place. The stars are aligned. It's there so why not go for it? Right now though we just have to get the heads down, keep the performances up and tick off the games. Let's get into February/March and see where we are.

Having watched both Rangers and Celtic today, I dont see anything for us to be worried about. Rangers are a bit more solid than Celtic defensively but they look pretty toothless. Celtic have more going forward, but they have been extremely wasteful of late and are wide open at the back. They only won today because Aberdeen played the whole second half with 10 men. Not saying we will win both games or even one of them. But they are not the scarey proposition they used to be. If we turn up and play our usual game and dont make any stupid errors we will compete and hold our own with both of them. As for Hearts. Yes they are a good team and are well clear at the top, but they have also failed to beat us twice, so lets give ourselves a little bit of credit!

If we had a goalscorer we would be top of the league right now.

Yes, we don't want to turn Fir Park into another version of Parkhead or Ibrox. Keep politics well out of Fir Park.

Looks like he's already landed a job managing this mob in South Wales

It'll be a tough game. County as per usual will take no prisoners with the likes of our old and dear friend Lacovitti turning out for them. They'll sit in and will be difficult to break down. With our injury list, I'm taking nothing for granted. As MJC, points out, our cup record isn't great.

No team has dominated us this season, absolutely no one. Even the Stephen Robinson masterclass in the Cup was absolute bollocks. We just didn't show up in that one. As bad as we were had we not lost the 3rd goal when we did, we had momentum at that point, we shot ourselves in the foot with the 3rd goal gifting the game to a bog standard St Mirren team. We've only lost 3 games, in which we beat ourselves rather than the opposition turning us over. The kind of stats Motherwell have delivered this season I have never seen before in any of my 50 years watching us in the top flight so if we lose to Ross County it will be an enormous shock. I expect a hard game but we should be too good for them.

I know what you mean, but I don't see it as a case of what could have been. We're 6 months into a radically new approach, and an approach that needs to be learned and worked out during games. We're miles ahead of where I thought we would be, and picking up points in places I did not expect.

Why do football fans suspend employment reality when it comes to players. Doesn't matter a fuck if Aberdeen don't have a manager or whether or not he flops. If someone offers you a 3 year contract on 10 grand a week you won't worry about fuck all else. This fanciful notion that players are motivated by places in the league, chance of European football really is suspending reality. Look at Jake Hastie took the chance was utter shite from the minute he left us but laughing all the way to the bank on the back of a 3 year contract with Rangers.. If Aberdeen want him and they are bidding with us it's extremely unlikely he would choose us. Happy to eat humble pie if Welsh is the first player in 20 years to take lower wages just cos he likes where he is.

Stick Eythor Martin Bjorgolfsson up front with Apostolos Stamatelopoulos and make Derek Ferguson report on the game.

This time last year Kettlewell was still manager and we were about to get pumped out of the Scottish Cup by a poor St Johnstone team. Who would have thought, back then, we would be getting treated to the best football most of us have ever seen at Fir Park and with a squad whose value is currently well in excess of the Miller Millions. Just goes to show you what a twist of fate and some bold decision making can do for a club like ours. Its quite frankly laughable that the old board didnt think that fan ownership was a going concern and we needed the outside investment of someone with absolutely no experience if running a football club. Penny for the thoughts of all the Colins' now?

This time last year I was swithering about renewing my ST for this season . Football was atrocious and coupled with the toxic atmosphere when we went behind in a game I felt enough was enough . Some of it justified but some completely over the top. I've said on a previous post if the New Board /Chairman had not come in with a vision on how to change things then my days visiting FP would have been few and far between . The vision and bravery to go the route we have is nothing short of incredible . Could easily have bottled it after Winner but instead doubled down more . Hats off to everyone involved in the decision making . After a few league cup game where new style of play was being implemented some of the usual roasters were screaming from the stand to revert to the old style . Patience 0 on a scale from 0-10. Jens intervention at that stage calming the roasters down and educating us at the same time really helped . By time Rangers home game came along you could see signs of progress . From then to now the development of players and team collectively has been astonishing . After 58 years watching the ups and downs of our club I can honestly say hand on heart although maybe not the best ever players we've had i'm struggling to remember a better team playing better football . Truly remarkable turnaround

Open a club shop in Harare.

Hot take - maybe some of the current squad actually enjoy playing football for us and would like another season of the same.

I think Ap Stam's tea is out. I like him so I feel a bit bad for him. An old man ( a random person I got talking to) told me Hendry is done for the season. Who knows how true it is or where he heard it but that would indicate we need another no9 at least. Feels harsh bringing in a LB but I think it would be wise. Sell no cunt. (for less than £3m)

Scary stuff, we are 12 points from mathematically not being able to be relegated, 13 from avoiding the play off place. Now 11 points ahead of 6th and chasing down the uglies for 2nd and 3rd 1 goal conceded in 9 matches What a time to be alive

It’s not good to hear and it really isn’t helpful to us as a club because that is the message that is put out to players and coaches, both current and prospective and many will buy into that. I know we have a core of supporters who like to portray us as this cuddly wee tinpot nonentity of a club, Cowan being one of the most vocal due to his position. And I am under absolutely no illusions whatsoever that we are a big club or anything like it, certainly not in the same scale as the Old Firm, Aberdeen or the Edinburgh clubs. But we have been playing top flight football uninterrupted for over forty years now. And even if the pendantic faither types want to go down the “ahh but we were only saved by league reconstruction one time and then Falkirk’s ground didn’t meet requirements” route, well the last time that happened was twenty two and a half years ago now. So we have been an established top flight club for over twenty years. Still pretty good going I’d say. Success we have will be fleeting and good managers and players we get will inevitably move on to bigger clubs at some point. I know that, we all know that and it’s not exclusive to us. That’s just the law of the jungle. But to hear our most high profile fan go straight on the radio just after we’ve recorded an emphatic victory over Celtic playing some tremendous football and his core point appear to be “it’s only a matter of time before the manager goes, x player gets poached cos a wee diddy team like us can’t afford to keep them” is pathetic stuff. At least enjoy the moment and let the rest of us do the same before spouting the “it’s all gonny get taken away from us soon” pish.

Too easy and we were not at full strength aswell missing our top goalscorer that second goal like a pack of lions hunting down its prey!Fantastic to watch. I tell you one player who doesnt get alot of praise but for me has been outstanding week in week out is Fadinger just goes about his business and never ever gives up brilliant player.

The whole fucking lot of them

If you're watching on Prem Sports, both Hutton and Mulgrew almost jizzed themselves during JBA's interview. The burd running it had to cut them off and Mulgrew asked if he could come in for a cup of tea and ask him more questions. If you can watch it back somewhere, do it.

Injury time at Ibrox, Rangers hanging on for a point and you reckon VAR got involved, to possibly award the opposition a penalty..... its GrizzlyG's job to crack the jokes

From the far side of the world To all Steelmen on Line have a great day. COYW

Cant be bothered starting new topic so hope everyone has a great Christmas and at this time of year spare a thought for Mrs Grizzly and my family as they have to endure Christmas cracker jokes plus my own ! 🤪🤪

If the last six months have taught us anything, it’s that JBA knows exactly what he’s doing at Motherwell, so I fully expect a good January transfer window.

I’ve just had the displeasure of listening to that little rodent Ian mcall on bbc. Tom English and Michael Stewart bigging us and our manager up and him coming back with JBA being disrespectful to Scottish football ?? And how he’s seen us play 3 times and we’ve only scored one goal. an absolute dinosaur with jealousy ripping out him.

Hearts will drop points, Rangers are on a run of games but are an appalling team and Celtic are a laughing stock. if we get a couple of players in January and get a couple of wins in the next few games I honestly believe we could be right in the mix and sustain it.

Not posted here in an absolute age.... but felt compelled to after the way my phone was pinging on Saturday following the Block E boys bus stopping off in my town of Auchterarder on Saturday. A group of them decided to spray paint and sticker parts of the town, including on a few memorial planters outside the town hall. The were confronted by an elderly neighbor of mine who was subsequentially met with a torrent of abuse before they headed into The Star bar. Absolutely no need for this behavior at all and reflects so poorly on club as a whole. And yeah, I know it would only be a certain few within the group that finds this funny and acceptable and not tarnishing them all with the same brush, but surely the older ones need to nip this in the bud and help protect the reputation of Block E? As I am involved a lot in our community here, I had my phone pinging with messages from friends and neighbors who know I'm a Motherwell fan - some as a wind up, some being more serious - all while I was out in Glasgow with my wean at a show. There was apparently similar damage/graffiti done earlier in the year around August time so a lot of the locals are now making a big deal of it. There is quite extensive CCTV that identifies the culprits - some of which I have seen - and it has been shared with he police and the club. There is a response from Brian Caldwell that has been shared in the community page. Worth pointing out that a lot of travelling supporters from lots of clubs stop in Auchterarder - and this is only time in 12 yrs staying here I have seen anything like this being raised - so a really shitty look for the club. Putting it on here to highlight and the off chance that anyone wants to take ownership and accountability for this. I will gladly put you in contact with the Auchterarder Community Council who will be footing the bill for your actions, maybe stop any police action before it happens.