FirParkCornerExile
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9 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
No-one should be shocked at Thelin being sacked. After yesterday's result it was odds on. Have they/will they approach JBA? Who knows. Will he approach them ? Again who knows. If there is interest from either side then our Board will have no say in the matter. Thats not to say he would be interested, but money talks and he could double or treble his salary with them.
Time will tell. The first test of his mettle.
Anyways he can't leave for both Celtic and Aberdeen.
If it came to that which I don't think it will the club most certainly can do something about it. They can refuse permission to speak to the manager .
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5 minutes ago, parko66 said:
I'm sure he is on a 1 year rolling contract
Correct. JBA won't be leaving mid season. Could I see him leaving in the summer? Most certainly if we continue going as we are. Whether that would be Aberdeen is debatable.
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11 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:
Rumours on P & B that Callum Hendry has picked up a serious injury; hence his absence from today's squad. Add to that Stama being on the bench and Sule's return to WBA, and you do get the feeling that moves are afoot to bring in another striker.
Even if we didn't have those issues I'd have been amazed if we are not looking to bring one maybe two strikers in because when the manager would rather play with no strikers than the two we have tells you all we need to know. Henry and Stama are not the answer.
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2 minutes ago, 0Neils40yarder said:
That's a noisy rumour to have got to Oz
Our players will be interesting many clubs , its the nature of the game but the Daily Ranger and The Sun need to build it up into something it isn't to appeal to their base customers..
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On a totally unrelated matter. Has anyone else noticed the improvements in the Fir park floodlights. Night games shown on TV used to have dark spots all over the pitch but now its really bright and clear. They must have upgraded them.
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6 hours ago, Orinoco said:
Strikers are more expensive. So at least £5 million. He has pace which is a big bonus in modern football.
No way hes in a £5 million bracket. If we were offered £2 million that would a good offer.
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15 minutes ago, grumpy said:
They announced it as 800 odd I think, about 6,950 'Well fans which is quite astonishing but totally deserved given what we are witnessing on the park.
7934 crowd, 800 Saints fans , 7134 Home fans truly incredible when you consider how stagnant our crowds have been for years. Average home attendance for the season now 7989.
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20 minutes ago, wellon said:
How many did Saints bring,? didn't look.a lot
8k , last year and before,even with a good mfc, lucky to get 5k
Just short of 800 I think was what I heard at the game.
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Just now, MJC said:
Our home crowds are increasing for the first time since the 1990s as far as I can see!
It’s great to see and appears that us playing attractive football and winning matches regularly does help.
They make me eat my words every week. I said last week we wouldn't get over 7000 home fans this season and there you go 7100 home fans. Absolutely incredible to think the last time we had these crowds was when John Boyle took over and was throwing cash about like a man with no arms and the catastrophic consequences that has.
Thoroughly enjoyed that game again today but it still rattles my chops that that pile of shite won a trophy this season. They are garbage and there was no more a Robbo masterclass as there was in the semi final.
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1 hour ago, joewarkfanclub said:
St Mirren fans will come to the game too.......
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of course they will but the reference was to 7000 home supporters which wont happen on Saturday.
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1 hour ago, Stuwell2 said:
Wednesdays attendance was 11435, 4500 away fans, hospitality hoching with them but I’d reckon 6000+ Well fans.
home support on Tuesday was 6635. The away stand holds 4800, there are Motherwell fans in hospitality too.
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11 hours ago, AllyMax said:
I think he only did a job on us because of that first goal they got (which they shouldn;t have because the free kick that led to it wasn't a free kick and was also taken from the wrong place). After their opener, we had to chase and that gave him the chance to do stuff he couldn't have done if it was still 0-0 and we had to leave ourselves a bit more exposed in search of the equaliser, which kinda made it easy for them. I think people give too much credit for their 'tactics' in that game. Their tactics are just what they normally are, batter the ball up at two big guys and hope it sticks or you win a second ball. If the dubious opener hadn't been allowed, his tactics would never have been discussed. Cunts ! I will never give them credit for anything !
100% correct. Robbos such a master tactician if we win on Saturday they are 18 points behind us.
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9 hours ago, Lobey_Dosser said:
I wonder if the home gate could touch 7k on Saturday. Aside from all the warranted euphoria around the performance against Celtic, it was so refreshing walking up to Fir Park and not feeling outnumbered by that lot.
I can't see our home support actually hitting 7000 not even this season but anything North of 6000 is still good going.
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12 hours ago, grizzlyg said:
This is going to be a difficult game as Robbo will set them up to be difficult to play against. He done a job on us for the semi final so we will hopefully get revenge
I don't buy into the "he done a job on us or a Robbo masterclass" St Mirren were as predictable as rain and as they've been in every game. We just didn't turn up. Had we played anything like we have in the other games we'd have taken them. Christ almighty as piss poor as we were and we were rank rotten we got right back in it from two nil down with 8 mins to go and extra time . We shot ourselves in the foot otherwise St Mirren would have been panicking with 8 mins to go and injury time.
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I have a real bitterness towards these fuckers.
I hope we pump them and would love them to be in a relegation struggle, sadly I don't think they will be. A perennial shower of pedestrian fuckers and they've won three trophies in my lifetime and not one of those teams has been better than our best teams in that period. Am I jealous ? too bloody right I am, let's stick it to them.
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1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
I hope the Board is working behind the scenes to improve JBA's deal. They will be well aware of circling buzzards or red kites.
All that does is ensure better compensation doesn't stop or delay any potential departure. That's why I never get too wound up by contracts. I'm not saying we shouldn't protect the club financially though.
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9 minutes ago, Happy Dosser said:
The buzzards seem now to be circling Mr Askou following his tactical masterclass against Celtic.
The received wisdom, as Tam Cowan has amplified, is that our manager will soon be tempted by a large salary and budget at a bigger club but Jens does not strike me as a man who is very materialistic. He seems more of a visionary with a lot of new ideas and technical/tactical know-how who senses he is free at Fir Park to develop/experiment with them without the instant pressures which moving to a "larger club" might entail, where big-time players' egos and fan expectation might compromise/derail his project.
I'm hoping he'll be here for at least this season to see where his experiment takes him, sensing that he has pretty much carte blanche at the club to do what he wants at the moment.
Or am I being hopelessly naïve?
Afraid you are being naive.
That is just not how football operates, rarely if ever can I think of a manager who chooses to stay at a smaller club when the big guys come calling. If we continue as we are until seasons end I fully expect to start next season with a different manager.
So let's enjoy it while we can and leave the worrying about JBAs departure until it happens.
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28 minutes ago, mio said:
At the game I thought we fell away a little in the second half. This must have been my general nervous panic because watching it again I feel we were in total control. That’s an absolutely incredible performance.
Players like Priestman and Said were unreal. I’m just getting used to how good fadinger, slattery and watt are so I don’t even need to say how well they play.we just need to enjoy this while we can.
Correct, success for us will always be fleeting, sadly, so enjoy it all.
Had we been sharper with our final ball we could have embarrassed Celtic. That's not a criticism its a frustration and takes nothing away from a stunning performance.
Mindset is enormous against the OF and too often over decades we always had an inferiority complex, not helped by most managers getting their excuses in before a ball is kicked. There is absolutely none of that under the new manager, none of the punching above our weight stuff , just complete belief in himself , his players and how they play and its rubbing off on the players. When you remember how some of our previous manager spent the lead up to the OF games pretty much saying we should just be grateful to be on the same pitch as the OF no wonder we did fuck all.
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50 minutes ago, mio said:
Just watching the full game again just now on premier sports. My god Michael Stewart loves us.
and it’s just as good watching it for a second time.Doing likewise. Michael Stewart I'm told has had connections with Motherwell over the years through friends and colleagues. He definitely has a soft spot for us even before this seasons impressive stuff. He couldnt give enough superlatives about us throughout this game.
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1 hour ago, numpty said:
Quite. The only thing I was surprised about was hearing it's 10 years since we last beat them, really didn't feel that long.
Seriously???? I've lived every bloody day of those 10 years, 35 games , 30 losses, thinking Id never live long enough to ever see us beat them again. For me its felt like an eternity , like a never ending prison sentence.
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5 minutes ago, star sail said:
Forgetting about budgets and history and the odd dodgy decision, could Motherwell actually win the league this season?
They have matched Hearts, Rangers and Celtic in terms of performance this season and have shown they can get results rotating the squad.
Based on that performance tonight it must surely be a possibility?
Any time an outsider wins any league is when 3 or 4 teams are in the mix cos they all take points off one another. I seriously don't think we have a chance but if the miracle was to happen the structure of the league is exactly how you'd want it as an outsider.
How good was it to see Celtic replicate the fuck up we gave them at Celtic Park. It's a strange old game.
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56 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
Amazing result and performance. A long overdue win against Celtic and we did it in style. A healthy crowd too.
Now we need fo focus on St Mirren.
A home crowd nearer 7000 than 6000 is incredible for a midweek game against one of the OF where historically our fans stay away.
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58 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
It was only two goals, should have been at least 4 dominated them from start to finish, make no mistake that was a pumping of epic proportions.
So a great nights work to end the year, bring on St Mirren.
The only slight issue was the final ball or we'd have pumped them. However I in no way detract from an absolutely fabulous performance.
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On 12/29/2025 at 6:38 PM, FirParkCornerExile said:
I could be tempted to say we will never have a better chance to beat them because they are one of the poorest Celtic teams in years. That said I've seen us fall to beat this mob in any incarnation in 11 years so I have zero confidence that we can beat them tomorrow. The last game at Celtic Park completely encapsulates our efforts against Celtic over the years. Different day same capitulation when we had them. A sore one tomorrow definately on the cards. There will be plenty plaudits and empty positives but we will still get the same points as we'd get from a horsing
I've never been so delighted to be a mile out. As fine a performance I've ever seen us play against Celtic.
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The fact that clubs chose to let an approach take place doesn't mean they have to and in cases with our managers and the contracts we have all the refusal does it prevent the manager leaving mid season, any departure would merely be delayed 6 months and that's what we should do should an approach be made.