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Nothing to lose now to be honest. I know we're 2-0 up but if we sit in they will just pin us back and eventually wear us down so Motherwell might aswell just go for it and try and get another goal.

If Celtic only beat us by a three goal margin then it will be a good result for us. Let's face the facts here. We are rubbish and can't score in a brothel just now and are up against a Celtic side who are by far and away the best side in the country just now and are unbeaten in something like eighteen matches, scoring goals for fun and will be on an almighty high having just thumped Rangers, who don't forget took six off us not two weeks ago without breaking sweat. Celtic have players who can absolutely rip opponents to shreds, for instance Commons, Izaguirre, Brown, Samaras & Hooper and if they can destroy Rangers then God knows what they could do to our disjointed, low in confidence, sorry mob. 8-0 to the Hoops.

Right I'm going to have to admit something here. When I wrote this last night, I was half cut. But now looking back at it in the cold light of day...I stand by every word that I said. I've nothing personal against Stuart McCall and I'm sure he's a top guy and a good footballing coach. However he is not the right man for this job at this time. I fully understand and appreciate that he is just in the door and has a wafer thin squad to work with and a shoe string budget to try and make any improvements to the squad when the transfer window opens. A hard enough task for any manager out there but it's when they are faced with situations like this that we see the signs of a good manager and so far Stuart McCall has not shown any of these signs. For example, the team look disjointed and tactically all over the place and more worryingly lacking in motivation and belief in themselves. That is the job of the manager to instill these qualities into his players and from what has went before Stuart McCall is not doing this. Now, I've said 'McCall Out', but he won't be sacked and he won't resign just now. I just believe that he is not the right man for the Motherwell manager's job at this point in time and in answer to the question of who I would suggest to replace him who is available and in our financial range, personally I would ask Tommy McLean to come back and put a safe, reliable hand on the rudder for the next year or so because that is what the club needs right now.

Laugh all you like. As much as it pains me to say this I firmly believe that Stuart McCall is in the wrong job at the wrong time and the sooner we part company with him the better. He does not inspire confidence in the team and does not appear to have any tactical nous. Not what is needed at Fir Park just now I'm afraid. We need someone who can grab that mediocre bunch by the scruffs of their necks and make them fight tooth and nail to make sure the club stay in the SPL. Sadly on the evidence so far, Stuart McCall is not that man.

McCall OUT.

We'll struggle to a 1-1 draw in an absolutely dreadful game.

1-0 Accies. They'll come here and play their usual sturdy, defensive, physical game and we won't know how to break them down.

When did winning an SPL match ever feel so, so satisfying? Not only a crucial win to arrest our recent wretched form and pick ourselves up from the debacle at Ibrox, but to do so by getting it right up that fucking rodent by beating him and his new mob on their own patch is just fucking perfection. Well done Stuart McCall, well done Motherwell, Fucking up your's Brown.

Fuck you Craig Brown you mealy mouthed, two faced, patrionising weasel that you are. Away and have the utmost respect for Archie's cock.

We won't hold this lead.

So we're now playing against 10 men? Oh dear...

Yip that's pretty much what you'd expect him to come out with.

Mmmm I wonder how this fixture will pan out... Well I reckon it will be preceded by Craig Brown giving his usual patrionising and pretentious interview in which he speaks of his "complete and utmost respect for everyone at Motherwell FC" and how he "still has many good, good friends there" and how he thinks Stuart McCall "is a wonderful man for whom I hold in the very highest of regard" and of course "has the utmost respect for him". Then the 150 Well fans that made the trip will chant some unoriginal forms of abuse at our former management team, before enduring an awful game in the freezing cold North East in which we will no doubt lose with yet another toothless and clueless display. Canny wait.

Disliking Rangers maybe isn't, but disliking Stuart McCall for no other reason than the fact that he is an ex Rangers player - as some of our fans clearly did right from the off - could certainly be considered to be bigotry. As I said in another thread, I've not been impressed with some of McCall's recent interviews as he's spent half of them going on about Rangers and his time there and I've yet to be convinced about his credentials as a manager, but some of the shite I've read on here from the minute McCall was given the job has been embarrassing.

What bit? That McCall wanks over pictures of the queen, probably had a drink with McCoist after the game and had a Rangers love in or may be in line to be Sally's assistant when he gets the top job there?

Glad to see I'm not the only one who's getting every so slightly peeved by this then. Holy fuck McCall's not even been here two months yet and I'd go so far as to say he's actually WORSE than Mark McGhee was for bumping his gums about the other half of Glasgow. At least McGhee compensated for it by being a decent manager though.

God, this must be one of the most repeated topics in the history of these forums. As always though, my answer is Motherwell first every single time. Scotland don't even get a look in when it comes to my club.

I remember football before the smoking ban was introduced. I'm not a smoker myself but I always thought the smell of fags and cigars floating through the stands on a cold, dark Saturday afternoon or midweek night added to the atmosphere of being at the football. Even nowadays when I'm walking past folk on the street who are smoking or standing outside a boozer next to some old guy puffing a cigar, the smell of it brings back my childhood memories of going to the games as that's the smell I always associated with it. It may be healthier without it, but I miss the passive smoking in fitba grounds.

Quite simply, we can have no complaints tonight. Kilmarnock came for a point and walked away with three, well done to them. You can go on all you like about them 'mugging' us but the fact is that we did nothing to deserve to win that game tonight because you can have all the possession in the world, if you can't score goals then you don't deserve to win games. We are utterly powderpuff upfront and we just don't look like scoring goals just now unless it's from a set piece or from a long range effort that we get lucky from. Tonight we played okay, nothing more, nothing less. We showed some decent movement but yet again we have nothing in the final third. Jamie Murphy is most definately not a centre forward, he's too lightweight and doe not possess the instinct needed to be a striker. And Casagolda? Well I can see why he's not been a regular this season based on that display tonight. And yet again we lose a poor, poor goal that could easily have been prevented. So all in all it's another worrying performance and I don't see it getting any better anytime soon because there is nothing in that squad that inspires any confidence and a relegation battle may very well be on the cards. Worrying times ahead...

'On another day' We almost ALWAYS end up saying that after we've lost to Rangers but it doesn't make it any easier. I am fucking sick to the back teeth of watching that mob snatch wins against us like that by getting every single break going for them, while we get none. You could have wrote the fucking script when it was 1-1 and we had them on the back foot. Fucking sickening.

Chill out. This is a football messageboard and it is for all opinions and views, so long as they don't overstep the mark. I am a negative bugger when it comes to Motherwell, but that's just the way I've come to be and I'm not going to change now. I support the club in quiet hope, but never in expectation that we can achieve something along the line and that's how I'll be approaching this game tomorrow. I don't for one minute believe that we will win tomorrow, but I really hope that we do and that's why I will be there supporting my team in what is a massive game for the club.

It's all very well saying "nothing is impossible" and "records are there to be broken" but that just doesn't happen when it comes to Motherwell playing Rangers, especially in Glasgow. We haven't beaten them for eight years in all competitions and haven't won against them away from Fir Park for fourteen years and god knows when we last beat them in a cup game. That won't change on Sunday, Rangers will win one way or another and we'll be left to lick our wounds after either another demoralising hammering or kick ourselves after we failed to take advantage of them having an off day. Some things just don't happen anymore and Motherwell beating Rangers is one of them.

Well it's just aswell I'm not one of these folk to say 'I told you so' then isn't it? Cos I'd have a field day and a half if I was. As for the next bit, there is more chance of us discussing our shock at Rangers fans singing the soldiers song and being generally handsome chaps than us discussing a win over them.

Well apart from the odd draw I'm always right aren't I? Interesting to note that since these forums have been in existance, from back in the days of welltrust.co.uk they have held discussions on all sorts of topics but NEVER about a victory over Rangers. Now that's a scary thought eh?

And also down to the fact that we haven't beaten them for over EIGHT years no matter how good we have been by our standards and how bad they have been by their's.