MJC

New kit available from Friday apparently.

Kelly will be crucial to us next season you feel. On another note, the strip minus the sponsor looks absolutely stunning 😍

Only David Clarkson, his nephew, has wore 10 since his passing. Rightly so too.

99 is such a shite squad number.* Why not just give him 9, 12, 15, 18 etc? *And no, it doesn’t really matter what number players have on their backs, but it’s just a minor gripe of mine. Thought I should make that clear for the weeyins, Spiderpigs and any of the other forum pedants.

He was a very limited manager who always seemed to benefit from a lot of luck, money and being in the right job at the right time. An absolute darling of the Scottish media mind you who would never utter a bad word about him. Some of his signings for us were horrific given the money he had to spend at the time. John ‘Klinsmann’ Hendry, Andy Roddie, Eliphas Shivute, Gunnar(sp) Jonsson, the centre half who played in and gave away the penalty in the above mentioned 2-1 Aberdeen loss then was never seen again. And there were lots more.

McLeish spent all that summer, or so it seemed anyway, trying to sign the two of them and I think they were both gone by the end of September.

Completely agree about the white change kits. Last seasons and the 19/20 efforts were our best in years.

The last time we had a Claret away kit we wore it in just about every away game except against Hearts and Aberdeen because of the obvious clash with their home colours. I don’t know the reason but that I found that an annoyance that season, though not as much of an annoyance seeing us wear a mostly claret away kit as our ‘home’ kit last season. If we’re going to have a Claret change kit then we should also have a white third kit imo.

Glad to see the first new face in the door. As with any signing we make only time will tell if he will produce the goods for us so best of luck to him.

There is time yet for us to strengthen the squad and we’re obviously working to our usual financial restrictions that we face every year. We will bring players in before the end of the summer transfer window, I’m confident of that at least, but it can’t be denied that as things stand there is cause for concern as the squad we have just now will almost certainly struggle in the league next season because it is weak at the back and up front. So any signings we make need to be absolutely bang on the money.

Simon Mensing was on our books briefly and hardly featured before going onto Accies and becoming a bit of a cult hero there.

The same season but not the same game. It was Woods in goal for us that day, he saved a last minute penalty only for them to score the rebound and win 2-1. It was after that goal that Leighton was attacked. The game Scott Thomson played also finished 2-1 to Aberdeen but it was the last game of that season.

Yeah I certainly wouldn’t trust any Motherwell team to get a result against Airdrie. The same goes for games against Accies. We always go into games like that as though getting a result isn’t as important to us as it is to them.

Yeah if there is any chance of getting Steven Fletcher then we need to take it. I don’t know if we could afford him or even if he wants to come here but I think we should be looking into it. As I said before our current striker options just won’t do and we can’t rely on Shields, Efford, Obika and Mandron(if we keep him) to get us goals next season otherwise we will be in trouble.

Alan Burrows obviously took the “on the button social media updates” procedure/mantra with him when he left… 🙄

Scott Thomson, goalkeeper who won the League Cup with Raith Rovers in ‘94 played one game for us in 1998.

I remember similar negativity around Higdon when he signed, some of it even persisted when he was banging in goals for us on a regular basis. ”Fat, lazy, a big downgrade on John Sutton” being just some of the comments I remember hearing and seeing posted at the time I’m sure. He was a lot younger than Fletcher is now when we signed him but having just lost a striker who netted almost 30 goals last season and not being blessed with forward players in his absence then turning your nose up at a former Scotland internationalist with a proven track record of scoring goals at our level is crazy, imo. If there is a chance of us getting Steven Fletcher I would grab it with both hands.

I’d be more than happy with Steven Fletcher if it’s a goer for us to get him. Even at 36 he would be an upgrade on our current striking options and he would bring a huge amount of experience and leadership to the team.

Don’t think they’ve announced the release date yet. Kit certainly looked good in the clips of last night. It’s great to see us looking like Motherwell FC again.

Oxborough in goals too. The first time he’s played for the first team?

Him and John Boyle had a set-to in the dugouts that same season after he’d went to Aberdeen. Boyle said something in his ear then tried to run away and Brown went after him. That spell from summer 2009 when Gannon came in to when Brown and Knox took over and then of course ditched us for Aberdeen in late 2010 was a mental but memorable spell for us. And of course him and Knox were often referred to as ‘Jack and Victor’ during their time here.

He was obviously a very good manager and had the ability to man-manage and get the best out of his players. Did an excellent job for Scotland and along with Archie Knox turned our season around in 09/10. From leaking goals left right and centre under Jim Gannon’s bonkers set up to being a hard side to beat in just two months resulting in a top six finish. And then there was 6-6 v Hibs which was completely uncharacteristic of a Craig Brown team but his teams had spirit and belief. The Euro run under him in summer 2010 was the best European experience I’ve had with us. For once we didn’t embarrass ourselves and actually came close to reaching the EL group stages. I seem to remember him brawling with one of those teams managers or coaching staff on the touchline at Fir Park during that run but can’t remember which side it was.

Yes, confirmed on SKY. 82 years old. RIP

If we go into the new season with Shields, Obika, Efford and Mandron as our striking options then it’s going to be grim, grim stuff for us next year. Fortunately there is still time for SK and the scouting dept to try and sort this so hopefully they come up with something.

Yeah I probably am a bit fickle. Most football fans are at times. But I’m just giving my opinion on what our kit should be like and I’ve been fairly consistent on what I think a Motherwell FC home kit should look like. However as I acknowledged earlier on today….