santheman

Cannae believe it.Had a brilliant conversation with him about the 'Well in the Tynecastle car park on Xmas Eve. A nicer guy you couldn't meet, Condolences to hisfamily

Totally agree. His pace keeps him up with play and gives Humphrey more options if he gets past the fullback. Interesting to see if McCall gives it a try in a league game

First of all, let me dispell any ideas that MFC are trying to profit at the expense of disabled fans. They have never charged for any disabled fans to attend Fir Park but have bowed to pressure from the fans themselvesduring the close season to allow charging.This brings us into line with most SPL clubs who already charge. Ironically the only clubs who don't charge are the Old Firm!! We have set up the Motherwell Disabled Supporters Group and the club have generously allowed us to keep any income from sales of season tickets (season ticket holders number in the region of 20 or so) and allow disabled supporters and their carers entry to league games for £150 per year. Non season ticket holders and away fans are currently charged £10 for entry to games. ALL income is in a seperate bank account and will be used to improve facilities for disabled fans. Already we have created a paved area under the South Stand for away fans so that they can be beside their own supporters instead of being beside home fans in the bus shelter. I know it sounds very harsh charging blind fans but you cannot discriminate between disabilities and our next project is to purchase a loop system so that blind/visually/hearing impaired fans can hear live commentary of the games. The installation of a lift in the Cooper stand will be welcome as we will be able to partake of a beveridge or two before games and offer a deal of comfort to watch games although some still prefer where we are as you are quite close to the action although the view isn't all that great.

No direspect taken MJC as I said exactly the same thing to him. I only used that example to highlight how badly I thought we defended when a guy who is a bit of a joke figure (even with Rangers fans) and has only scored somethin like 2 goals in 2 years manages to stick one past us. Sorry to have rubbed you up the wrong way

As my Celtic supporting mate said to me "You f*****ng let David Healy score against you" just about sums up the day. The only thing that imprerssed me today was the Ibrox public address system

Don't you think its a co-incidence that we play our worst game in ages when he was out of the team at Tynecastle? I can think of some we could afford to lose before Jenno.

Hearing that there are bits of the east stand roof flappin about. Ah well at least it'll be water flowing down the steps instead of urine

No surprise there then, what can you expect when the compliance officer has no football pedigree and his background is investigating war crimes. Only the SFA could make an appointment like that.

What's a bit worrying for me is how does this new fast track system actually work in practice. Does the compliance officer sit down on Monday mornin and go through 90 mins of footage of every SPL game from the weekend looking for incidents that the referee missed. Maybe he listens to phone ins or trawls through forums looking for clues. If thats the case where does it all end, does he look at every tackle, every off the ball incident and decide that the Ref missed a yellow/red card incident and decide to start issuing them retrospectively? He currently has the power to issue bans and my worry would be that could be the next logical development in the process.

Just back in and defrosting in front of the fire but worth it. Just over 400 'Wellfans made the trip according to the SJ head of security.Well played again lads for the vocal backing.

Just goin by what I was told by my mate who is a Hibs fan and was in the South stand that there were still big queues at the kiosks when they were told they had to leave.

I,m assuming he was talking about gate receipts but It would probably have been more than that as food sales would have been badly hit as well. Wonder what they did with all the pies?

When you consider all the shit happening at other clubs in Scotland then I think we have reason to be cautiously optimistic at the direction the Club is going

Yeah, definately remember that one

Try again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUl5dlpxHBs

Negative post No 45. Why not go for a record 50

If you don't mind me asking, what were tou charged with?

Here's what all the fuss was about Took this before I was asked to put my camera away because I hadn't asked for prior permission to take pictures inside the ground. Funnily enough I told the Steward to **** off and he did

Spot the difference competition

See, this is the danger of posting stuff when you weren't actually there (and if you are indeed a Motherwell fan which I have serious doubts about) No-one complained to the stewards or the police for a start Everyone who goes to away games know that these young guys stand up and support their team so sit in an area where they can watch the games (there is always plenty of room) Yes they were in high spirits and god forbid they might even have partaken in some of the devils brew but nobody was drunk or being aggressive or abusive. I saw as many arguments between Motherwell fans who were nowhere near what was happening and stewards/police about the way they were dealing with the situation. The Stewards were to blame for starting the trouble and it could all have been so easily avoided. Even Aberdeen fans on Pie and Bovril are saying this but I suspect that fact probably wont fit in with your own personal agenda

Thought I would remind us of what the Stewards are SUPPOSED to do

Yeah it would have been the sensible thing to do and sit down when asked but what I saw was a total over reaction by one Steward Number 088 to being asked why Motherwell fans had to sit down when Aberdeen fans were also standing. He manhandled a young lad half his size and I think thats what kicked it all off. I think if it had been my son I would have lamped him and talking to him after everything had calmed down he reinforced my view that he was "enjoying wielding his power". The cop standing next to us having watched what had just happened simply shook his head which to me says it all. I do think some of the 'Well fans maybe over reacted a bit themselves although it could be argued they were being severely provoked. At least there were no arrests and the guys were simply ejected (at least thats what the police told me) which was about the only good thing to come out of the whole sitaution. It does leave me with a question though about just what Stewards are and are not allowed to do as if the Steward I was talking about had done what he did to the young lad outside the ground then I think we would have been lifted for assault.

It also highlights what happens every time we have an International break and don't have a game to talk about

Gettin a smile out of pie stall staff would also go a long way to enhancing the match day experience. Never seen a more miserable bunch in my life (at least the one I go to)

We could wheel out this one particularly when we play the OF