Mortonhallwell

I sit in the Main Stand and will now be subject to their vile chants and pondlife behaviour. Having said that I'm happy to have the Cooper back in our own hands, its just that I hate being so close to the great unwashed!

Yes, that right, lets get rid of John Boyle and get a Vladimir Romanov type figure in! I work beside jambos and they are just waiting for the day when he walks out on Hearts and they are left with nothing. John Boyle put his own money into the club. We were left with no huge debt unlike other clubs. He had to put us into administration because the expenses were spiralling out of control thanks to a certain Mr Nevin. Don't forget he paid for Porter and Hughes out of his own pocket and no doubt has put his money into the club in other ways which we are unaware of. I really can't understand people who criticise John Boyle because he is a Motherwell supporter and has the best interest of the club at heart. If we were to mount a concentrated campaign to oust him god help us!

A stain on his record! Are you serious? He came in and spent in excess of £7m of his own money. Anyone who does that should be forever praised and not criticised. He was prepared to invest his personal money in order to improve the team and the club as a whole. What more do you want?

This is my worry too. I love the guys commitment and enthusiasm, a total contrast from Malpas who stood with his arms folded looking as though he was not interested. However given the diabolical standard of referees in the SPL I can see them reacting badly to Jims frustration at their poor decision making we see most weeks. The ref on Thursday night was the Spanish version of Iain Brines! I hope he calms down a little because we need Jim in the dugout and not in the stand.

I still miss the cry of "Well Played Ports!" around Fir Park on a Saturday afternoon!

Yes, very deep down Welldaft Mk1 but I kept it well hidden! I will take no consolation from walking out of the Parc Y Scarlets next Thursday if we draw 0-0 but we were the better team. They managed to put the ball in the net - we didn't. They will defend the same as they did on Thursday and invite us to come at them but we never do well against teams who sit in. Still, I hope you're right and we're off to Albania in the next round.

McGarry WAS one of the worst last night. He made some decent runs first 20 minutes and then completely disappeared. This from a so called professional football player. He contributes nothing and he urgently needs to go along with Sutton. These guys are first team players but were completely out of their depth last night. Jim Gannon must be wondering what he has got himself involved with. He needs to build practically a new team as I see he has had a go at Craigan in the press this morning. I like Craigan but don't know how he has made a career out of not winning defensive headers in our penalty box. How I hope Gannon knows a commanding centre half who he can bring in and we might, just might, stop losing goals from crosses into our box.

I've seen Motherwell win the Cup and now I've played at Fir Park - nothing will top that! It was a fantastic night with some real quality out there. A special mention to Ferguson at full back in the home team defence who was excellent and also to Welldaft Mk1 who was quality and took his goal really well. And to be on the same pitch as Stevie Kirk was a dream come true. Also thanks to ChasserB for making it all possible. These things take a lot or organising so well done and thanks for a fantastic night. Gebbie in the home defence.

Hasn't Henry McLeish been appointed to look at the state of Scottish football and come up with a blueprint for change. Can't wait!!

Intentional or not Craigan might have a broken jaw and if you can get away with saying sorry, didn't mean it then surely Kimpl should just say that every time he's about to get booked!

From where I was sitting it was Nades elbow that caught Craigan, no doubt about it. It was an assault and Nade should have walked but I don't think the so called ref even spoke to him. We got the free kick so there must have been some foul play on Nades part. When these sort of challenges go unpunished I despair for scottish football with these referees totally out of ther depth.

McGhee talked about us looking forward to playing on a decent surface - well if thats the best we can do on a good surface why bother working on the Fir Park pitch. Can't believe how bad we were tonight. Total lack of skill and craft. And for our so called international Captain to be playing offside 3 minutes to go is beyond belief. You would have thought a little bit if his experience would have told him to follow the player but no - he sticks his arm up and hopes for the best. And don't get me started on Clarkson. Gash all night and he gives the ball away in their penalty box when under no pressure. From that they play the ball up front, Craigan claims for a non existent offside and we're out the Cup. In future we should just avoid entering the Cup because we always give out supprters false hope that we might actually do something.