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They choose Zimbabwe over Motherwell? , who'd have thought ...🤣

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 teams have Gloryhunters, all teams have troublemakers. The number each team has is probably pretty close in percentages. As the OF have thousands more they will have more of each category but percentage wise proportionate to their support.

That is a genuine issue , the boot and rush merchants will get behind our current defence we need improvements in that area. Something Im sure the manager is working on.

Its been a bugbear of mine for years how easily we gave the ball away. If the opposition don't have the ball they cant score. That's why I'm so interested to see how we fare this season. Will our goals against improve, what will we do if teams try to man mark us?? interesting times.

LOL , thats exactly the clip I sent to my mate a couple of hours ago saying exactly the same thing.

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.

Last 15 mins we finished strongly, spoke to a few who were behind the goal and said it was never a penalty , be interested to see the highlights.

Slattery was poor but he did set up the goal. He seems to think he has more time than he does and is so very slow turning. Like everyone else he will need time to adjust.

He reminds me of Chris Long , looks disinterested. I could be a mile out but he just gives me that same vibe.

Just watched the re run of the game on Premier Sports this morning and you are quite correct he didnt have a lot of options.

The key is stop employing the usual fuds the Scottish Football mafia love who have been hawking themselves round Scottish football for 30 years or more 😉😁

A lot what you say is true, however I suspect there will be times when it horses for courses. Especially once teams tumble to how we play. My biggest issue with Kettlewells eye bleeding pish was when it was obvious plan A wasn't working , he tried Plan A again so all we ever saw was limited possession and hoofball. Id like to think JBA has enough abiout him to mix it up at times.

me too , when I think the shite we endured under Hammel and Kettlewell any fans who didn't enjoy that tonight should, I respectfully suggest, give up.

Really? I thought we played well , struggled a bit with the final ball. Other than a lucky call on the penalty we were never in any danger. Scored 3 goals , one screamer what more can we ask.

the manager was going tonto when Ewan hoofed the ball long, he got the message , didnt happen again

I'm not too bothered about seeding in 23-24 we were seeded and got St Mirren away and frankly in my years supporting Motherwell I've seen plenty teams I wouldn't see in our way dump us out both the Cups. One of the worst being Albion Rovers at NDP

A completely different game. In the last three games they have packed the defence and kept everybody behind the ball. Morton will come and have a go. I'll be more interested to see how we fare against teams who are not basically just setting themselves up to stop us scoring. Morton will be a bit more adventurous.

Anything but a convincing win is a mild concern.

A real slog tonight but we got there in the end. We tried to do the pressing game but too often the passing was slack and broke down. Peterhead kept it really tight at the back and we struggled with it . Be interested to see how we fare against teams who open out but no doubt there are still improvements needed. However if you were the guy at the back of section F in the Hunter stand who abused nearly every player you need to get a grip. Boo'd SOD onto the park , never left Euan Wilson with a name and berated Gordon most of the game. We were all feeling frustrated but fuck me you were way over the top.

Those I saw on Saturday must have eaten the whole shop 😂

What amazed me more on Saturday was the amount of enormous fuckers in our support and I'm talking American sizes. Was there a Well Society sponsored weight gain competition during close season? Some of them could have provided much needed shade to the poor buggers in the kiosk Que wie their belly over hang. Some of those sights would put you off going for life.

I talked to quite a number of fans walking to the game and queuing outside and most of them said its the first time in ages they were genuinely excited about the opening game.

The volleyball was tedious, if you want to play games go to the swing park.