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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
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On 1/10/2026 at 7:12 PM, grizzlyg said:
Sign the striker and try and get Welsh. There is money there from Miller sale
Celtic have recalled Welsh, he won't be coming to us.
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11 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:
I thought Longelo done better today.
Need to disagree I thought he was one of our weakest players. I'm not saying he was dreadful but a shadow of the player we saw at the start of the season
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A decent enough game. The quality of our ball in the final 3rd was what stopped us getting 3 points. To slow getting forward to support some great position out wide forcing our players to check back and dither on the ball. Great goal from Manwanhise. Said off the scale frustrating today, great build up play but caught in possession far to often. We didn't win as many second balls as I would have liked. Longello a shadow of the player we had in first 6/7 games. Just was outstanding as was McGinn. A point a Easter Road is never to be sniffed at.
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4 hours ago, 0Neils40yarder said:
Im not a literary genius but the 'should of' winds me right up for some reason
😂me too, it is like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard.
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1 hour ago, Orinoco said:
Aberdeen can sniff all they like. Surely Welsh justs says nope not going there.
Aberdeen trying to be relevant. Basket case of a club. They spend plenty with no real planning or style.
Why do football fans suspend employment reality when it comes to players. Doesn't matter a fuck if Aberdeen don't have a manager or whether or not he flops. If someone offers you a 3 year contract on 10 grand a week you won't worry about fuck all else. This fanciful notion that players are motivated by places in the league, chance of European football really is suspending reality. Look at Jake Hastie took the chance was utter shite from the minute he left us but laughing all the way to the bank on the back of a 3 year contract with Rangers.. If Aberdeen want him and they are bidding with us it's extremely unlikely he would choose us. Happy to eat humble pie if Welsh is the first player in 20 years to take lower wages just cos he likes where he is.
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1 hour ago, weeyin said:
Exactly - so the non-native speakers have to try and translate their half baked questions.
There are no foreigners who speak English would ever dream of saying
Should of
I've did
I've saw
Unlike those in this country who get a decent free education and don't see anything wrong with those grammatical howlers. If you are Kris Boyd you can add "Rangersies" to that glorious list, e.g. "Rangersies troubles began" instead of "Rangers troubles began". It is even worse from him as he is getting paid good money to sound like an illiterate buffoon.
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1 hour ago, mio said:
I sort of think this could be the toughest game of the season tomorrow. Hibs aren’t a bad side and they are performing quite well at the moment. There’s no way we’ll do what we did to them at first park and with a full house it’ll be a tough gig especially without Watt.
id be happy getting a draw tomorrow as I think that’d be a great result.
if however, we come away with a win….. I think this could persuade me we do have a chance of winning this league…. No harm in me dreaming
I agree his will be very tough. However I'm reassured by the fact absolutely no team has dominated us this season in the league home or away. Our record of late at Easter Road is none too shabby. If Watt doesn't make it, as expected, this could be pivotal. Had he been available I'd go into this game with a degree of confidence without being cocky.
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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.