HanoMaSano
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Much from Forbes last night?
According to the official, he was playing behind Gow in a 4231 formation. Delighted to see he is getting the opportunity to play behind a striker albeit Gow is never a lone striker. If anything I think him and Forbes should be battling it out for the same position...
From the groans and abuse I heard last night I think I may be on my own on this one, but I thought Forbes looked very promising in that position.
He played four or five very clever balls, some out wide, one through the middle for Gow to set up his jinking run, and a number of simpler ones slid to Blackman. Unfortunately Blackman had a bit of a shocker in the wider position and took every opportunity to run straight into his man.
If given a run in the team in that position in the hole behind the striker(s) Forbes will really come on to a game, the only problem being if 2 or 3 of his passes don't come off the crowd start losing the plot.
I forgot that we also took the worst free kick from the edge of the box I will probably see this season. With Forbes, Hateley and Lasley around the ball they somehow decided to tap it between each other to set it up for Lasley who then stood on the ball, allowing a Brechin player to take it off him and run upfield , setting up a break-away. Why they thought it was a good idea to tee up Lasley for a shot, when the other two have at least scored from free-kicks, I have no idea.That was my highlight of the evening, comedy gold.
I think it looked like Lasley came over to keep the peace as Forbes and Hately were arguing over who took the free kick. Taking the initiative Keith told them to set it up for him, only realising at the last minute that he didn't have a clue how to take a free kick and tripped over the ball.
Seeing as we were 2-0 up at the time it was genius, if we'd have been chasing the game I'd have been raging
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some bookies are offering the same price to qualify and to win after 90mins
I'd be to qualify all day long gives you more of a chance
look at www.oddschecker.com
If the odds are the same then surely you put money on the win in 90 mins..
We can not go through if we don't win in the 90.
We could however win 3-2 and still go out on away goals.
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In case anyone was wondering what the hell I was on about, they have now fixed the time on the official site to say 7:30.
Good news
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Does anybody know for sure what time kick off is tonight at Forfar?
The official site says 7:30 under fixtures, but now is saying 7:15 on the home page.
Forfar official site has it as 7:30.
I was pushing it to get up for a half past kick off, but 7:15 may be pushing it a bit too much.
Cheers if anybody knows for sure.
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This will be my last season were i've got a season ticket, and have the luxury of attended the majority of away games.
I'll not be renewing my season ticket, and will be picking and choosing my games from now on. The problem isn't when we go to either ibrox or parkhead were we take a 250, 500, 750 to away games now. Don't know about anyone else but i'm struggling to find an away game this season were we've broke the 1000 mark. Aberdeen away in august? There's been some very poor attendances this year. The average attendance at home this year most be the lowest in the last decade. Struggle to get into the 5000 mark. If you were to compare to the average attendance figure for the spl it must surely be down.
1800 to Hamilton earlier this season.
Pick and choose my away games nowadays, for many of the reasons posted here. Its not just Motherwell that this is happening to. The main reason, from what I can see, that our home crowds are down is the reductions across the board in all teams travelling support this season.
It's time the diddy clubs all banded together and provided each others fans with a more affordable away package. Not sure exactly in what form this could be, but something has to be done.
IIRC we used to have a deal with Killie that each others season tickets got a discount on away games? Which lead to us always taking a decent amount down there and them bringing more than the couple of hundred that make the journey up from Ayrshire nowadays.
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The thing is we always seem to struggle against Falkirk and they will win a game at some point this season. I'm normally captain of the happy clappy brigade but I'm not filled with confidence going into this game.
Fingers crossed the boys can prove me wrong.
PS. Big McLean's bound to score
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I agree entirely (almost) with your post. So far, as I have stated earlier Gannon has outperformed mine and many others expectations. But we would not be football or even more so Motherwell fans if we were not allowed a wee moan every now and then.
We have a veritable abundance of midfielders at the club and thankfully some have stepped up to the plate and scored telling goals this season. But we effectively lost 3 key strikers since last Xmas and have only replaced them with one loanee who has so far failed to deliver. I had very much hoped for at least two strikers and felt as we only had one in, we would struggle up front.
Hopefully Lukas will start to deliver like Porter did after his slow start.
Overall quite pleased with progress and I believe with Gannon at the helm we will have more highs than lows - or at least I hope so!
I think this is the case, if we remember Porter's first season he looked like he was never gonna score until the Gretna game where he claimed a goal with the ball bouncing off his arse. After that there was no holding the big man back.
I think Lukas just now looks to be trying too hard, but when he's up and running and got a bit of confidence I think theres potential there to be effective in this Motherwell team.
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Good feelings around Fir park just now, we're all excited to have a new man with new ideas in charge (and not just myself and the fellow happy clappers!) and with a team of talented young guys who are going to give their all every game for the well.
And for once, the relations between the fans and the club are pretty good. We generally moan that "The more things change, the more they stay the same." but I have to say that Leeann Dempster has done a great job so far and things are moving in the right direction.
The best decision the club has made in years IMHO is to give us back the Cooper, and it's up to us to show Mr Boyle that it was the right call. So get everybody you know told that they should come along on Saturday, get the place rockin, claim back our own stand in numbers and inspire the boys to stuff this Weegie scum!
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Not wanting to sound too harsh, but if they don't get their visas in time then they have absolutely nobody to blame but themselves.
Flamurtari have known for 4 weeks or so that they were coming to the UK this week (to play either us of Llanelli) to have only put the paperwork in on Friday as has been reported seems amaturish in the extreme.
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Was he the dirty one elbowing all our players?
Yup, and also he looked very poor. Despite the fact he had about 6 inches on Craigan, Craggs beat him in the air pretty much every time. Their main tactic was punting the ball to that boy, which didn't work.
I'm always the optimist, we're gonna pump them down there!
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45 and Counting
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3 of us.
That's 6.
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I don't get this belief that the Championship is somehow this league full of players much better than the SPL. Seriously, I watched Ipswich and Swindon regularly play in it over a period of 10 years or so, and while there are undoubtedly good teams in from time to time, there are plenty of average teams in it too.
In particular, the defences are generally poor. It's one of the reasons the clubs that get promoted to the EPL struggle. Clarky would have a field day against teams like Swansea, Sheffield Wednesday, Derby, Blackpool, Coventry City, Watford, Norwich etc.
Evidence of this fact is the goals McCormack has scored. For Motherwell 36 SPL games - 10 goals. For Cardiff 32 Championship games - 21 goals. A player who was good in the SPL is a standout down there.
I've said it more than once. Just because the Championship has huge amounts of money these days does not automatically make the quality of football soar. The main effect of the extra money is on the asking prices and wages of average, second tier English footballers.
Don't get me wrong, there is quality in the league, but only really among the top few sides. After his loan spell at Blackpool, teams down there are lining up to offer money for Charlie Adam FFS.
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Is that £90k if you win?
Some amount of dough being fired out to a plethora of diddy teams.
Not that it makes too much difference but minding that the 90K is in euros, about £75K for each round.
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I don't think you add the prize money together per round, if we go out in 3rd prelim round then we'll still only receive 90000 euros. Maybe I'm wrong
Maybe, but I wouldn't have thought so. If it was then surely:
Group stage: 1.000.000 €1st knock out round: 200.000 €
Doesn't make sense as obviously the 200,000 for getting to the knock out stages would be on top of the 1,000,000 for getting to the group stages.
I would imagine that they'd show the early rounds in the same fashion, ie. the the prize money for getting to each stage individually.
EDIT: I'm not sure what i've written makes sense, but I knew what I meant!
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I think the old firm deserve a larger share of the TV revenue.
Heard that the SPL gets the 5th highest tv money in europe (i think behind premiership, championship, Spain, Italy)
Take Rangers and Celtic out our league and you think we'd get more money than the German or French leagues?
Saying that they are scum - FTOF
Not sure that can be accurate. I remember the discussion last season about how we couldn't expect to compete with Nancy because they got something in the region of €35 million (can't remember the exact amount) worth of TV money for coming 4th in the French league.
Even the winners of the SPL don't get as much as that.
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So when do we find out if were in or not? After the games on Sunday?
I'm pretty sure I read that it would be Tusday or Wednesday next week before we would find out.
It would seem that it'll take until then for the SPL/SFA (or whoever it is) to decide who they want in europe and fudge the results in that direction.
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Just an update,
After his cross for Murphy's goal at the weekend Stevie has moved up to number 4 in Scotland for assists.
This makes him number 1 outside the Old Firm in number of assists, and overall number 1 in terms of assist ratio (providing 18% of Motherwells goals this season.)
A good defensive display on Saturday as well!
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Dont anyone get their hopes up for a trip to the sunshine of the Med even if we do qualify. The first two qualifying rounds are always drawn in pools so that you dont have far to travel!!!
We would be in the Northern Pool if we qualify and last year that looked like this:
Belgium
Denmark
England
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
Iceland
Ireland
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Norway
Scotland
Sweden
Wales
Here is how the split looks on a map:
I may be wrong but I was pretty sure that the regionalised early rounds have been scrapped this year with the draw only coming from 2 pots, one for seeds and the other for unseeded teams.
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Always rated Hammell, and felt he's been pretty hard done by re: his contribution. If you want bad defending, anyone remember Danny Murphy who got skinned/ripped several times a game on a good day? Stepover, while more inclined to go outside, was never as pacy as Hammell, and was more often than not caught by the opposition full back while on the overlap and forced to cut back. Hammells assists often don't come from direct runs/overlaps anyway, he does it more via neat one-twos around the edge of the box followed by a decent cross in. In his heyday, with Pearo and Faddy, some of the one-twos and interplay between them was a joy to watch.
Yes he cuts inside more often that people would like (usually because the opposition assign a man on him to stop him going outside), yes he could be a couple of inches taller but, hey, in the context of what we can afford and where we are, I'm more than happy. 'Mon the Stevie Hammell
It's like you scooped the thoughts out of my brain and slopped it all down in a post
Couldn't agree more.
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Why not play him at left mid then?
I think he was played there for the St mirren game? I wasn't there, was he ganting?
To be fair he was a bit, but it is a position I reckon he could play well. The St. Mirren game was hard to judge it on seeing as McGhee decided to play half the team out of position.
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Having a look at the teams we would be up against in the first qualifying round: Europa League 2009/10
I fancy this mob:
Juvenes/Dogana Sitting in the San Marino sun watching the 'Well (hopefully) stick 5 or 6 past some farmers/schoolteachers/postmen.
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a small part? so what's the main part if not to defend? i know that they are expected to get up and support when we have the ball but i would like to think that they are first most to defend. I expect a striker to help out defensively when we don't have the ball but his main job is to get us goals is it not? or am i just being old fashion here?
Yup!
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Correct!
He's paid to defend, which he does...badly!
Our midfielders should be making the assists but don't...cos their shit aswell!
Defending is only a small part of what's required from a modern day full back. Look at Alan Hutton, he can't defend for sh!t but got a move to the premiership for 9 million quid because of the danger he poses going forward.
Vs Brechin 21/09/2010
in Club Chat
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There were some amount of long balls punted up the park by Craigan and Reynolds to a slightly bemused Gow on his own.
I can't imagine that was the gaffers plan, unless he brought Gow in for that legendary Aerial Ability.