FirParkCornerExile
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On 5/24/2025 at 2:47 PM, weeyin said:
I know what you mean, but the hoop and/or band has only been used on about 50% of our kits in our history. Even when I started watching us around 1970, we only had one hoop season until 1984.
Our kit in the 1925-26 season looked like this:
I'd be OK if we did that as a tribute 100 years later.
I detest any Motherwell strip with white shorts.
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44 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Mmmm. If it was still Kettlewell and we had scraped back into the top flight via the play offs?
I agree though, any new manager offers hope, so the prospect of not knowing who the appointment is, probably shouldnt be a factor.
Managers are transient the club is your club forever.
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44 minutes ago, weeyin said:
Good idea extending the early bird season ticket pricing so fans can see who the new gaffer will be.
if anyone bases their purchase of a season ticket on who the manager will be they need to take a good look at themselves .
There are many good reason why people might not buy a Season Ticket
Cost, Family Commitments, Work Commitments al perfectly acceptable but who the manager is ? nah no having it.
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On 5/25/2025 at 4:33 PM, weeyin said:
You do need a huge slice of luck to win any trophy, regardless of how good you are.
We had plenty along the way to our victory, and if after failing to beat Morton home and away, we had lost the penalty shootout at Cappielow, it would have just been another average cup run.
Oh agreed you need luck but fuck me I've never seen any club Win the cup with the draw and luck Aberdeen had. Aberdeen were god awful in the final but Celtic give them a goal theyd never score through their own efforts.
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16 minutes ago, wellon said:
Do your strange feelings often come true?
Thankfully no.. lol I just think Davies and Imrie will get a gig sooner or later and both were in for it when Wimmer got it..
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I've got a strange feeling it will be Billy Davies or Dougie Imrie , don't ask me why.
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2 hours ago, Spiderpig said:
Every Motherwell fan still alive has only ever seen us win at most 3 cups, league cup in 1950 and Scottish cup in 1952, & 1991, and for the vast majority it will only be 1. Is that record vastly different for any other club in the league apart from The ugly sisters and Aberdeen.
In Scotland only the uglies win trophies on a regular basis, the rest of us have to wait for a win every 35 to 40 years etc for a special season.
We've had 4 major finals since 1991, 2 league cup in 2005, 2018 and 2 Scottish cup in 2011 and 2018 and faced Celtic 3 tines and lost them all and Rangers once again losing.
All this chat about other clubs winning cups etc is nonsense, it took Hibs over 100 years to win one ffs, St J had a special season won 2 trophies but never played either of the ugly sisters in doing so, as is the case for most of the other winners.
So in my lifetime I've been at 5 cup finals supporting Motherwell, 4 of them defeats against the best teams in the country, and 1 win our special season in 1991. So for a club of our size our record in major trophies is is decent. And I suspect if a comparison was done against the other teams, uglies excepted re finals reached, games won etc we would be high on the list.
If everyone had the luck Aberdeen have had to win this seasons cup we'd all have a few trophies in our lifetime 😂😂
Draw
Elgin City
Dunfermline
Queens Park
Hearts
And the Celtic Keeper throws the ball in the net for them yesterday.
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1 hour ago, Big Stall said:
Leaving in mid May isnt leaving us in the lurch. If he left in July then we would be fucked
We will just need to agree to disagree, I think it does, preparation for a new season doesn't just start in June. By the time we get someone in the door its likely to be mid June. He will know fuck all about the squad he inherited so has limited time to assess the options before he may need to head into the transfer market and the season starts in July.
Our only saving grace is Dundee and Kilmarnock are in the same position.
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2 hours ago, twistandshout1983 said:
I genuinely wish Michael Wimmer all the best
In those 3 months he only had positive things to say about the club and the fans unlike that last guy
I couldn't give two fucks about him, he's an ex manager whose uproven whether he was any good in Scotland and has left us in the lurch.
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1 hour ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
Maybe, maybe not.
Didn't stop him going straight into another job in Germany.
Correct. Generally in these situation The official line tends to be bollocks. We move on, to listen to some Motherwell fans you'd think he was some kind of messiah. The jury's out whether he was any good or not. We will never know. I'm more pissed about how it upsets our recruitment for next season which is a huge issue for us.
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7 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:
They have already......that grass is lovely.....cue............🤪🤪
Billy Davies was quick enough to say he was interested last time but didn't get it. I've got a feeling this could be his time. God help us.
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2 hours ago, MJC said:
Wimmer’s appointment always had a strange feel about it and never felt like it would last long.
What we need next is some stability.
We need a decent transfer window more importantly and that's under some threat right now.
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1 minute ago, well_said said:
Is that the same guy that finished two places below us in the league with a vastly superior budget and a natural goalscorer, no thanks. Probably going to hearts with his pal
Docherty is supposed to be a coach. 130 goals against in two seasons, what was he coaching?
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1 minute ago, Benson said:
Imo,absolute bollocks the family thing,for whatever reason he's decided to bail out and been sounded out about the new job back home,didn't want a blemish on his CV if admitting he couldn't settle in the uk.
It must have been a daunting prospect trying to get a team in Scotland to play football.
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I had heard Imrie was in contention but Wimmer got it. They might go for him. Don't know how we'd get all the mattresses into Fir Park mind you. 😁
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3 minutes ago, mfc said:
We need to stay clear of the usual merry go round.mcinnes to hearts,kettlewell heavily linked with Killie and if we go for the likes of dochery is a big part of the reason why scottish football won't ever get above the mediocre,there all crap managers that play the same way,sign the same type of player.....no thanks.
Correct the same pish that's was hanging around footballing coaching and management roles 20 years ago are still in the game in some capacity today.
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24 minutes ago, Yoshi-1991 said:
The biggest thing that worries me is that it takes us about 30 working days just to decide what colour to paint the walls, by the time we appoint a manger the transfer window could be well into its last days.
That's how I feel, another summer window we should be building the team we are scratching around looking for a manager.
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1 hour ago, grizzlyg said:
It is not being used properly.......but is only ever an issue when it affects the old squirm
Correct when it came in it was to ensure "clear and obvious" errors were corrected. If it takes them over 2 mins to arrive at a decision its not clear and obvious.
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If we bin VAR we will have 20 errors in a game called wrong rather than 2 or 3. Whether folk like it or not VAR enables the correct decision to be called in 90% of occasions. However it takes far too long to arrive at the decisions. I would strictly enforce clear and obvious error. If a decision cant be called in 2 mins the onfield decision stands. Fans waiting 3/4/5/6 mins for a decision to be called is ridiculous. I would also adopt the English automated tech for offside decisions rather than the cheapo version we have in Scotland. In England they just do not have the carry on we have looking at offside goals.
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8 minutes ago, SteelmaninOZ said:
I liked this kit but with claret shorts
Late 70s and early 80s our strip was more Lemon than Amber. The Adidas strip we wore when we ran away with the 1st division title was popular at the time but looking back it was actually quite hideous.
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On 5/20/2025 at 1:13 PM, Stuwell2 said:
StJ and Killie figures are lifted because for 3 games a season they give their stadium over to the OF hoards which we decided - correctly in my view- to stop doing.
Kilmarnock home attendance v the OF are almost identical to ours so they didn't boost their average attendance any more than ours. St Johnstone home attendances v the OF were less than ours.
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On 5/9/2025 at 4:05 PM, grumpy said:
FYI Dave, I was out and about in the region of Fir Park today so I went in to the ticket office and asked the question. I was assured that, having taken the digital option, my existing card will be updated, I will just have to wait till next season to find out if that does indeed happen.
It happened last year , it pretty seamless. My google wallet updated with my new season ticket and would expect it to be seamless again next year. However I do agree the wording about the digital option could be clearer.
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17 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Probably.
I'd be ok with 3-5-2 with better wing backs. Sparrow is serviceable on the right but Wilson doesnt have the pace and Thompson continually gives the ball away.
I think Stama could be the striker we need if he can stay fit. But as you say, probably alongside someone like Watt or Armstrong as opposed ro on his own.
We could really do with making that work given the initial outlay on him.
I have to admit I was no fan of Slattery before his injury. I thought he spent most of his time on his arse involved in petty needless fouling adding nothing to our midfield. Since he has come back in from injury his focus seems to be more on how he plays than fouling opponents to stop them playing. Whether this was tactical under SK or not I don't know but for me there's a definite change in style of play from Slattery and he's been worth watching since his return.
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1 hour ago, Spiderpig said:
We had 80% possession 2nd half according to MW, the killie keeper had at least 3 great saves , they were offering feck all with 10 men behind the ball all the time.
We played some great football and eventually scored 3 great goals and got what our play deserved..
A clean sheet, 3 great goals, a pumping and some payback for killie and McInnes for their tactics, so all in all I would say it was a great performance.
At the game I genuinely thought we were very pedestrian for 75 mins. However when I rewatched the highlights we were probably better than I gave them credit for. Maybe I'm getting bored with football. 🫣
2025/26 Ins & Outs Discussion
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We are obviously short of a skilled arm wavers and pointers for the middle of the park as Davor isnt on the list.