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90% of them are from Zimbabwe 😄

My band has a gig on Saturday at half eight in a right proper h*n pub. It's either going to be a brilliant night or a right sore one for me. Hopefully, we'll be kicking off the night with 'Twist & Shout'. I did that the night we beat them (when Kettlewell was manager) and instead of the usual.....good evening, welcome to the <whatever boozer>, I started with good evening, here we go.....if you know, you know !

Good to see you keep up to date with what's happening at your big team.

Where in Italy are you calling from? 😉

Oh, I remember that as if it was yesterday. Stuart Rennie and the 4 step rule. I never saw it applied until that night. Another day when the ref had it in for us.

I’m sitting watching the hearts v Sunderland game and I have to say the way we have played in the past 2 games is miles more entertaining than this muck. Hearts keep launching the ball up the park and into Channels and Sunderland aren’t much better although are trying to play a wee bit.(they will be relegated by Xmas) i think im becoming Askou-ized

Just heard JBA talking about the Ranger's game: "Next week we have some neighbours over for dinner. Let's hope we enjoy dinner the most" So maybe your chips will be fine.

It’s all ifs and buts just now. For what it’s worth, I didn’t rate Stama even before the transfer talk, so that’s definitely shaping my view that any profit is good profit. Either way, we need a new starting CF.

We are all well fans - c'mon.

Im going to be my predictable self here and think we should keep Ap Stam He didn't spend all of last year on the treatment table. Yes he had injuries but the second one was a freak one. A ball hit off his arm in training and he broke his wrist. He made 16 appearances last season - a lot more than some other players who were injured did Who do we get to replace him? Do we really want to go into this season with no striker? And - I don't care whether he smiles a lot or if he has resting bitch face as long as he gets the job done I'll caveat that by saying I think we need another striker but I'm definitely on the side of keeping him

I think AP is going to have a good season with us. If we have balls coming in the box from both sides I can see him grabbing a good amount of goals.

If the Stama rumours are true, we should be taking that money and laughing all the way to the bank.

I really hope so. We have been crying out for decent central defenders since Hartley & Aldred left us.

You did well to avoid the phrase 'if you don't like the circus, ignore the clowns' about the media..

It started when Airdrie papped us out in Scottish Cup semi replay in 1975 and I got hooked on painful glory hunting defeats.

Gloryhunter

Sign will be up by the official opening. Well society posted on Facebook to confirm this

Fuck it, who cares if we're seeded or not? lotta shite. I don't care who we draw.

There’s definitely a time for the long ball or taking the chance of getting the ball into the box but that’s what the players have to learn, making the right decision between retaining possession and taking a risk. Our normal over the past few years has involved no such decision making, it’s just been hoof the ball up and chase it.

Her words.

Ok I’m plucking figures out of the air here but £250k to buy plus say £50k signing on fee and a years wage at say £3k per week, £150k, gives us a potential £450k outlay on him. Add the sell on fee and what’s left is not a lot for the club. Keep him a year and if he has a good season we could get around £1.5m. Buying him was a gamble, why cash in early for next to no return?

Nae bother Craig David 🤪🤪

AP Stama has been very good in the role despite what people think.

I am quite sure we will be able to source a striker . Take the money and run.

Not a fucking chance we take that Stama offer. We've no forwards as it is. Stama is getting a rough ride for hee haw.

If you want to be entertained go to the theatre, cinema etc not to a football match. What would you class as entertaining football, scoring 4 or 5 goals every game, Barcelona style tipy tappy boring as feck 59 pass moves, blood and snotters hoofball with everyone chasing the ball etc. If your team wins the vast majority of fans go home happy, the game might have been a total shitfest but if it results in 3 points nobody gives a feck. Supporting a team like Motherwell is a tough ask, we don't win every week, win a trophy every year, compete in the fantasy world that is the Euro group stages etc. But having watched Motherwell since 1970, winning a league title, Scottish cup, various Euro adventures, champions league and being a Premiership team for our 40th year now its gave me a lot of entertainment and great memories that greatly outnumber the bad experiences so I think we do OK.

I honestly just wish it over now for him and the club. Its actually quite boring now

I think you pronounce his name cheating bast@rd, just in case anyone was in any doubt.

Only covers.....and no bloody Muse 😄 But we will do Twist and Shout 3 times at least if we win on Saturday 😄 We play in Rothesay, not Las Vegas 😂 Muse are too new to have reached Rothesay yet !

Yes please. And it suggests JBA has replacements in mind. Quite honestly I think we don't have any central defenders ....by trade or makeshift...that merit a first team place. So I'm hoping we see more than one depart. To be replaced by at least two that are comfortable playing out as the Manager expects. Might save me a few 'moments'.

Dennyc is correct

The ones who still turned up and loyal to the club done it out of defiance in my opinion. Sell outs in the bottom league. Not everyone of course but there was a good few It was a big GIRFUY to everyone in Scottish football at the time. The reason being they should have been allowed to carry on regardless of anything

I hadn’t really been expecting him to play anyway.

I would assume, when it comes down to it, that it will be Miller and not the club that who determines which bid is accepted. If the club doesn’t pick the one he prefers then it could develop into a messy situation with one or more parties loosing out.

Another year with us would be OK for Miller, but terrible for our finances.

But there wasnt 6000 like you in those 10,000 crowds. Fans will come out for a big game for every team then disappear like snow off a dyke. No one is criticising fans who are hundreds or even thousands of miles away but most in those 10,000 crowds will probably live withing 20 miles of Fir Park. On a slightly different note you look at social media like twitter (or X if you prefer) Motherwell have 63,000 followers, St Mirren have 43,000 followers, Kilmarnock have 56,000, Falkirk have 36,000 followers and every one of them will leave us standing in next years average attendance stakes. I know they wont all be Motherwell fans but there is obviously a connection there, we have many who are obviously interested in the club but have no desire to come to Fir Park. Our stagnant attendances whether we are good bad or indifferent is frustrating , even more so for the Well society I suspect.

We do though , we can get 10,000 for Cup semis and finals, we couldn't get 10,00 of our own fans in Fir Park for a league game if we paid them.

All the details were on the Society's web page (although it wouldn't hurt to have a sign) https://thewellsociety.uk/2025/07/24/grab-a-friday-night-brew-in-the-new-well-society-fan-zone-before-hertha/

Celtic get Falkirk, Rangers get Alloa. Yea not fixed at all. Happens far too often

If we draw Alloa at home you will still have us down for a 3-0 defeat 🤪🤪

Hoping Lennon Miller plays and scores the winner Was speaking to a fellow Well fan in work before the Morton game , asked how he thought the game would go Bluenose listening into the conversation enquired if we were talking about the Rangers game ? No mate we are talking about the Well game my response . I didn't even know Motherwell were playing tonight was the response I got . Is it a friendly ? Just shows the majority of them know nothing about Scottish football unless it involves their two Glasgow clubs Even tried to explain to one how the Premier Sports Cup groups work and how to qualify , was apparently some bizarre situation that wouldn't have happened back in the day 🤣

While it was brilliant to beat them at Ibrox I just think that beating them at Fir Park in front of the home crowd especially next Saturday first game of the season, lights on (probably) would be that bit better and more satisfying. Can’t see it happening though.

Stama

Technically you could see they were better but got to say how many direct shots did they get on our keeper ? I think we handled them reasonably well still plenty room for improvement but going in the right direction. Still a wee bit too over elaborate in and around the penalty box but that is a minor criticism. Excellent turn out from the Hertha Berlin fans btw.

We have had a barrow load this year and have not looked dangerous at all

So where's the next striker lining up to sign for Motherwell? You tell me who you think we are going to sign before our first game of the season? In two weeks time Actually less than two weeks time - 9 days time. Who are we going to sign to replace Stam in the next 9 days?

Is there a world shortage of strikers .

Nae need to get personal...

He was greetin' about the grass at Hampden and the physicality of the players when Scotland beat Spain. He wouldn't last 2 minutes in an away game at Livi.