Spiderpig

I hope the word murky refers to his behaviour and not his ethnic background

Any world record attempt by a Motherwell player should be encouraged and fully supported, its the time for new hero's, mon the Craggs

HOTD for this pish please

Whit our tactics were pish yesterday Rangers played their European game with everybody behind the ball at all times and we could not break it down. Hamell and Hatley were too far forward at times and left huge spaces for Rangers to get in behind, as Lafferty showed for the 2nd goal, with Hamell nowhere to be seen. Playing good attacking passing football is ok but you need to keep the back door shut and this did not happen with the 2 Full backs pushing forward all the time Craigan and Hutchy in the middle were fucked, Yes we played some great stuff at times, and probably against any other non old firm team we would have got a result but against Rangers its not good enough, SMC got the tactics badly wrong, we needed to be a bit more direct, trying to get in behind a team who are not coming out and have 9 players inside the 6 yard box for a corner !!! does not work.

I bet you are a real happy soul, obviously as you think we have no chance you will not be going. Motherwell do beat Rangers admittedly not for a while now but it used to be a regular occurrence, this current run needs to end sometime and given the strenght of the current Rangers squad and how we are playing just now i think we have a good chance on Sunday. We need all the well fans to get right behind the team, so get rid of the negative sh*te and start believing

I have to agree with that i thought he was a bomb scare today !!! and having just watched the highlights he looked even worse, most of Hearts best efforts came from his mistakes. But saying that we kept a clean sheet, so you cant criticise the defence too much

This is already being discussed on the League cup draw thread

You would probably be guaranteed a good turn out for any Fan parades like that, music, flag waving and lots of old fashioned singing and jovial banter just what the Scottish game needs

There is a good local band from Craigneuk thats good at that stuff, now that there busy time is over they have midweek's free, it's only a short walk down to Fir park.

What people seem to be forgetting is that standing is not allowed under current legislation as a result of the Taylor report recomendations after Hillsborough. It is a condition of membership of the SPL that you have an all seater stadium, currently 6,000 minimum, but not sure on that. So irrespective of whether the majority of fans at a club want it it wont happen unless the SPL change their rules, and we all know how difficult that is or we get relegated which is again unlikely. The SPL wont change their rules as they are bound by current government legislation re all seated stadiums. So unless there is a major political U-turn and the SFA, SPL etc agree it wont happen.

Lets be honest with ourselves for a minute, Motherwell are a selling club, they always have been and the first decent 7 figure offer that comes in for Murphy will be accepted and he will be off. But just for a change i would like the board to think about the teams prospects and keep players like Murphy for as long as they can,he is a young player and will move eventually. Ii would rather he stayed, banged in the goals, helped Motherwell to maybe 3rd place in the league, european qualification, possible cups runs etc this season and hopefully next than have some director tell me that the club is ok and we have a couple of million in the bank. He is worth probably 2 million so what could we do with that, buy 1 or 2 new players, improve the stadium, pay off the clubs debts ? All this will happen anyway so lets for once try to keep our best talent and let SMC get them playing some good football, the signs so far this season have been encouraging.

+1 with that, its great

He is being lined up for a post playing career in TV punditry, the BBC like him. I agree this season will be his last as a player at Fir park.

If Broadfoot wants regular 1st team football then why not sign for us on a 1/2 or full season loan. Only problem would be what percentage of his wages would we be able to afford ? But as SMC is good pals with McCoist, Rangers might not be too difficult to deal with.

Good points but as football is so dependant on the TV cash, the broadcasters will continue to dictate the kick off times to suit their schedules. There may be some scope to look at addmission costs but in reallity would reducing the cost bring in enough extra fans on a regular basis to outweigh the cost of the reduction ? The stewarding issue is one where input from fans / shareholders / members etc could make a real difference, we all want to be safe at matches but some common sense and tolerance is required, which seems to be sadly lacking in the current bunch of stewards.

After the state of the seats in the POD last saturday i hope the first vote is to buy a mop and bucket and get one of the staff trained to use it to clean the place.

Anyone still unsure about why we need to move from Fir park, should have sat in the POD on Saturday, and seen for themselves the state of the place. We had a decent turn out of Leeds fans in the POD a couple of hundred mile round trip to sit on seats covered in Pigeon shite, rubbish that looked as though it had been there since the last home game last season, broken seats, catering points that are too small and run out of pies etc. I have just renewed my season ticket, £380 to sit on Crappy manky seats, that have not been cleaned in years ffs !!. I cant judge the East stand (assuming the South and Cooper are ok) but i suspect its just as bad. Fir park is dirty, tired and well past its best its time to go and build a new stadium we can be proud of. The slogan in May was "Time for new Hero's" we should be building a stadium fit for hero's, we should go and go soon.

What do you expect the system was state of the art in the 1960's FFS, the quality in the POD is not much better, you can hear feck all apart from crackling and static any time an announcement is made, the whole thing needs replaced,

Whit St Mirren 4th and Aberdeen 6th you are mental, St Mirren will struggling to avoid relegation again and as for the Sheep sha**ers they are basically the same pish outfit as last season.

History should be exactly that we need to look forward and not back, this is the 21st century peoples tastes have changed there are loads more opportunities for them to spend their leisure cash and time than there were 30 or 40 years ago. Lets not forget that Motherwell FC is a business these days and it has to be run as such so that means attracting as many people as possible to the ground to generate income. This means the facilities on offer need to be good, catering, saftey, comfort etc. If all this can be achieved by moving to a new purpose built stadium then it needs to happen, forget all the sentimental pish about the history of the ground, sitting in the same spot etc, i am old enough to remember some of the shite holes i used to go to to watch Motherwell, Brockville, Kilbowie, Broomfield and many others. I dont want to go back to that and i am sure many other fans have the same opinion, if we have genuine ambitions of being Scotlands community club, then we need a stadium the community can be proud of, Fir Park is past its best, its time we got started on the Ravenscraig arena.

Sounds like a real winner, hospitallity for a pre season friendly, i hope the buffet is sale or return.

Why do people get all emotional when there is talk of moving from Fir park ? Its about improving the facilities, not just for the paying public, but for the team as well, better facilities means more revenue oportunities, which means more money for the club, ie one more step on the road to financial security and more funding to develop and possibly but better players. And the last time i checked the Craig site is still in Motherwell, so given the choice of a souless concrete oval with good catering and bars, or an out of date stadium, crap seats, and ocasinally wading through streams of pish then a move to the Craig gets my vote

+1 he was poor, the fact that Celtic dumped him and he is now hawking himself round the lower leagues say's it all about his ability. If he goes to Hibs its good for us, 1 more crap player in a crap team thats falling apart at the seams, less to worry us when the season starts.

Lets be honest Fir park is not the best, 4 stands all different sizes, seats in the POD that were state of the art in 1950 ffs, dodgy toilets in the East Stand, poor catering facilities, no car parking, a suspect pitch, limited scope to utilise the stadium for other commercial activities. Yes its time to move on Sell FP and move up to the Craig site, build a proper footie stadium , ie enclosed Oval, close to the pitch etc Almondvale at livingston is a good example. The site could be developed to include commercial and leisure outlets, plenty of car parking, there is even going to be a new Rail station up there. Motherwell are advertising themselves as " Scotlands community club" this would be a chance to build an asset the whole community could use and be proud of.

+1 from me as well, that fud Casagolda must go down as the worst ever