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On 1/28/2026 at 1:30 PM, stv said:
Poor state its in , its not really that old in football terms . It takes away the proximity of away fans to us and the game, keeping then up there which lessens the atmosphere.
It also looks poor on tv. But I'm sure there is an ulterior motive for it we don't know about . Probably financial.
You have to question the value of replacing the seating when Celtic fans will just destroy any replacement.
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3 minutes ago, MelvinBragg said:
The sarcastic response to the questions about Watt and Hendry made me wince a bit. I know it's a stupid question given he answered the same question last week but journalists need to do their job.
Too much of it and there will be journalists who will be itching to put thr boot in should we hit a slump...
Not for me, he was bang on, these fuds ask the same pathetic questions every week and one thing is I don't think he suffers fools gladly and quite right the Scottish media are full of shit stirring zoomers
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1 hour ago, mio said:
Hearts will cave and will not win the league. (Bookmark this)
celtic are awful, toxic atmosphere at the club and their players are the poorest I’ve seen since the early 90s
Rangers in my view have the best chance to win it unfortunately. They seem to be better organised under Rohl.
both rangers and celtic tho will drop points.
we are just as good as the above and should have nothing to fear against any of them.
Motherwell are the best team in the league, no one absolutely no one will convince we aren't. No team has dominated us in the league and no one has deserved to beat us. However sadly too many draws have killed us for the League title. Even the semi final I don't buy this pish it was a Robinson masterclass. St Mirren were just St Mirren they had 4 efforts on goal and scored all 4 we had 4 and scored with one. Even then we dominated possession and killed ourselves more than anything St Mirren did. We gifted them a 3rd that killed us otherwise they were sweating with 15 mins to go - inc extra time It could have been quite a landmark season but for a wee rub of the green.
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3 minutes ago, mio said:
It’s quite incredible what has happened over the past year. At this time last year we had something like 12 loan players? Right now we have none and about 5 of our players that are the target of big clubs along with potential big fees. The main big fee is for a player who wasn’t even selected in the first 11 last January.
i know I may be mocked but I sincerely believe if we keep our players and win the next 3 league games (which is entirely possible) that we will be in the mix for the league. Again a year ago to think this would be laughable.
In the mix I think is highly unlikely but I think if we won our next 4, which I also think is unrealistic, we certainly would be in the mix.
Killie H
Livi A
Dundee A
Rangers H
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3 hours ago, weeyin said:
That's right.
It's the same with selling players. Do we cash in on Watt, JT and Just in January for guaranteed money or keep them in the hope they keep us in the top 4 and help with a good cup run?
Option 1 is money in the hand, but with the risk of sliding into the bottom half of the table, losing to Aberdeen in the cup and crowds falling again. Plus not repeating a season like this in the forseeable future.
Option 2 is speculative, but the rewards could be a good cup run, a European spot, maintaining higher crowds and a season to remember.
Risk/reward can be a difficult calculation for players and clubs.
I think it comes down to the offer. If it was £2 million. Could we possibly make that with Europe and a good cup run, yes possibly so it's worth knocking back. If the bid was £4 million would we be likely to make that with a cup run and European Football? Highly unlikely so that offer becomes worth it.
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6 hours ago, weeyin said:
They also have to consider the alternative. Imagine Jake Hastie had stayed with us and taken on board the coaching turning him into a better player and was now a regular starter for Cardiff City on 7 grand a week,
I get that it's a tough decision, and never criticise any player that chooses the money option. No idea what I would have done in the alternate universe where I was a player in that situation.
Yeah but the money was guaranteed, turning into something special with us if he'd stayed was not and never would have be guarenteed
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27 minutes ago, Spit_It_Out said:
If Welsh had any sense he would take the wage cut come to us and for a couple of years then get his move and earn x amount of money in the championship down south.
He will only benefit himself coming to us and the way we play earn 5 grand a week then now and earn 8 times that in a year or so.
However we have to have a set of balls and pay the fee to get the player my big fear is we sell all these players yer Watts,Tjs and Just and don't reinvest in the squad.Bums are back on the seats and will only stay on the seats if we keep up momentum it won't cut it now going back to Dom Thompson and Tony Watt of this world.
We are on the cusp of something very very special and really proper club changing forever.
Football doesn't work like that, say he takes a wage cut, highly unlikely, gets a serious injury with us, career ruined. What then for him?
Players cannot play fast and loose with a short career. Imagine Jake Hastie had stayed with us and became the pish he is. He wouldn't have had a 3 year contract on 5 grand a week to soften the blow. As it is he should be comfortably off even though his career came to fuck all. Players have to live for the moment.
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4 hours ago, Wellsince1976 said:
Rumours from the East stand yesterday..... JBA knocked back the Aberdeen job. Welsh was pimped to Hearts,Hibs and Aberdeen. Aberdeen met Celtics valuation, but Welsh was not willing to travel. Apparently will be back with us next week and off down South in the summer.
I'd heard that he'd knocked back Aberdeen too. How true it is we will never know but almost immediately after I'd heard the rumours his name started to drop from conversations / reports in the media about Aberdeen being interested and his odds lengthened to 6/1.
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1 minute ago, texanwellfan said:
Am I recalling correctly that Aberdeen went into Europe as SC winners and were straight into play off game for Europa cup? Loosing that had them Drop to conference league? So pretty much guaranteed “group stage” games as cup winner?
I'm not sure but still needs a few stars to align for that to happy so it still makes the decision to knock back figures around £4 million almost impossible to do. As I said I wouldn't like to make the decision.
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12 hours ago, Orinoco said:
With 30 months left on his contract and Celtic being desperate we are in the driving seat. It will have to be silly money surely for us to sell in this window. Celtic are not a good team and we can finish above them so why weaken us to strengthen them? Strikers scoring goals, with pace are rare.
There is so much assumption that Manwanhise will go to one of the OF. Our media think the OF are the centre of the world. Plenty English clubs will be looking and a couple of rumours that Birmingham City are going to test our resolve with a £4.2 million bid.
A bid of that order would be very hard to ignore because no matter his performances until seasons end its unlikely to generate a return of £4.2 million. Sure his valuation could go higher if we were very lucky. A cup win wouldn't return that kind of money. A European run could but would need to involve group stage qualification and that's a huge "IF".
Its a real dilemma for the club should these kind of figures materialise, glad I don't need to make the call.
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1 hour ago, weeyin said:
I see we did pass the 5,000 mark for crowd.
5,547 the official attendance and I think they said 147 away fans.
The crowds across all the games were surprisingly low for the Scottish cup. 1800 at Livingston and, surely a BBC misprint, 4373 at Tannadice, 4501 at Kilmarnock so makes ours look very respectable.
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30 minutes ago, wellfan said:
JBA should be picking his strongest eleven today. It's the Scottish Cup.
Correct, we should never use the Scottish Cup for anything but our strongest 11.
Mind you will be difficult without Manwanhise because according to Rangers fans he and his agent were at Ibrox yesterday to complete a move there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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On 1/15/2026 at 11:04 AM, Kmcalpin said:
Does anyone know how many tickets we've sold so far? It would be great to hit the 5,000 mark.
I'd be disappointed if we only hit 5000. Our home support this season has been sitting between 6000 and 7000. Prices are decent and the Scottish Cup is the premier Cup competition and one of two trophy that are not completely out of reach.
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3 hours ago, Jonesy said:
AP has a scoring rate of around 1 goal every 3 games for Motherwell. More than reasonable.
Hendry is currently sitting on something like 1 every 16.
It's pretty clear which is better.
Are you sure about those figures. He's played 43 games for us and scored 12 goals 5 of which are penalties. So his scoring rate from open play is 7 goals from 43 games. I grant you still better than Hendry mind you hendry has only played 15 games. Fact remains neither are worth keeping.
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44 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
Its Motherwell who should have been paid to take both of them, they are brutal.
Correct, who is the better of the two is I suppose like two bald men fighting over a comb. Both should be moved on ASAP.
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17 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Whilst Im happy to accept that Stama hasnt worked out and is probably on his way out the door, I think, of the two, Hendry is the more disappointing signing.
He has plenty of physical attributes, but his body language at times betrays him. Possibly because his body just isnt right and he has been struggling, but nonetheless, he hasnt brought any more to the party than Stama.
Hopefully he can get himself right and contribute more, but at the moment, I dont see him as more than a back up......
Not for me, we paid £250,000 for Stama, the Shaun McSmimming of strikers. Hendry cost us bugger all.
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Kettlewell genuinely believes in the tactics that surrender possession. He thinks his teams can give possession to opposition in areas that don't hurt them allowing them to make it difficult in areas that can hurt them. He did it with us, he did it with Killie and will do it with RC. The penny still hadn't dropped with him that if you give the opposition endless possession their opportunities are likely to be better than his team.
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2 hours ago, stv said:
Macclesfield is a warning. Best team available must play its a cup game one bad performance and your out til next year. We have a better than normal chance this year with the team we have and a favourable draw we could do well.
Every team is a danger in the Cup but the point remains we should have too much for Ross County with the quality we have and the style we employ. Sure fluke results can happen but I'll be genuinely surprised if Ross County turn us over.
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On 1/11/2026 at 5:07 PM, MJC said:
As is so often the case with Motherwell we save our worst performances for Cup ties even when we’re on good form. I don’t see next week being any different I’m afraid.
1-1 (3-5 penalties)
No team has dominated us this season, absolutely no one. Even the Stephen Robinson masterclass in the Cup was absolute bollocks. We just didn't show up in that one. As bad as we were had we not lost the 3rd goal when we did, we had momentum at that point, we shot ourselves in the foot with the 3rd goal gifting the game to a bog standard St Mirren team. We've only lost 3 games, in which we beat ourselves rather than the opposition turning us over. The kind of stats Motherwell have delivered this season I have never seen before in any of my 50 years watching us in the top flight so if we lose to Ross County it will be an enormous shock. I expect a hard game but we should be too good for them.
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2 hours ago, dennyc said:
My point was that we could afford the fee but the wages ruled us out. Sorry if that was not clear.
No worries, I may also have read it wrong 😁 I'd agree I think fee wise we could afford him but there it goes South.
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15 hours ago, dennyc said:
I heard we did and could afford him. But he is on £10k plus PW at Celtic for the next 18 months. I would not be surprised to see him playing for them at least until season end. Their current defence is shocking. Just look at how we ran Scales ragged. I suspected he would be recalled as soon as I heard Nancy had been sacked.
I can't believe for a minute we would have matched Celtic 10 grand a week and also don't believe the player would cut himself off from 18mths on 10 grand a week to join us on a permanent move.
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5 minutes ago, weeyin said:
You might have to, as word on the street is he's not going to Aberdeen.
That would be funny if they didn't get him.
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Just now, grizzlyg said:
Gutted, even worse is he will probably sit in bench
Not at Aberdeen he won't, I'd walk into that Aberdeen team
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8 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
A central defender added to our shopping list? Presumably we've been preparing for this scenario.
You'd like to think we've had alternatives identified for the expected departure of Welsh
Livingston v Motherwell 31/01/2026
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Expect a tough game on a horrible surface. A relegated team invariably gets one shock result a season just hope it's not us tomorrow. Based on both teams season so far it should be a straightforward win but being a Motherwell fan I never discount any situation. Just had a look at the ground map and looks like we are taking a really good crowd .