TheLip69
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I don't doubt that one day we will move to a new stadium, and by God will I miss Fir Park. The Taylor report killed stone dead any character a football ground may have had. The only character our ground has now is the ludicrous three quarter length Main stand. In the '70's I used to love getting there early paying in at the Knowetop end and running up the stairs just to stand at the top of the terracing and survey the whole stadium, especially on the first day of the season when the paint was fresh and the grass was green, remember grass?. The covered terracing opposite the main stand, the open terracings at each end of the ground, it was, to me, exactly what a Football ground should look like, and the only other place that gave me that feeling, funnily enough, was Firhill.
I look on Fir park as my own, I've laughed and cried there, I've cheered and jeered there, I've sung and danced there, the place is in my soul.
I love it.
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I know a couple of Reading fans who say they would like to see him back, as he had the team playing great football. I believe Mark's problems were with the board but it's all new people there now and has been for some time.
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Aye, it is a shame. He'll be difficult to replace for his work ethic alone.
I know this is entirely pointless, but if anyone fancies taking up the gauntlet then get in touch. Cheers.
Frazzle
Hmmmm!
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Well done to flow and everyone at the club
Well done Flow and everyone else. I am especially pleased for Bobby Jenks whom I know fairly well, I am well aware of his love for the club and his job. He is a perfect gentleman and I am absolutely delighted that his hard work has been recognised in this way.
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I really can't see why TheLip is going all apoplectic over this to be honest. He seems to be taking it a wee bit too seriously when there are far bigger things to be worrying and moaning about than the teaser campaign for Motherwell FC's new home kit!!!
Although I seem to recall in the thread about the kit that he's not happy at all about Canterbury being the maker... or something along those lines. Said he wasn't going to be buying it even though he hasn't seen it. I don't know if he usually buys the tops, but if he does it's a bit strange, fair enough though, he's entitled to take that stance if he wants. His point's been made now though, so hopefully that's that.
I'm not apopleptic about it, to be honest I couldn't give a toss. I just thinking teasing everybody for a couple of months is ludicrous. I generally do buy the tops and have a fair old collection at home, strips, training tops, polo shirts, t-shirts, the lot.
I just don't like Canterbury's stuff, I've got a couple of Scotland rugby tops that are Canterbury, and they are howling (they were gifts, I wouldn't have bought them for myself). So it will definitely be missing from my collection.
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Concession age lowered great, Cooper stand back great, season ticket prices frozen great, did the trust achieve this or did Motherwell just employ someone who realised keep the fans on board or lose them and we are losing them quite quickly and the other clubs who come to our ground don't bring nearly as many to balance the books.
Leeanne Dempster
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what about that compare the meerkat. arguably the most succesful uk advertising campaign of the year. last time i checked it wasny sellin meerkats. i think you are talking pish a bit. anything to get people talking about the product is a bonus and as far as i can see this is the most interest that has been created from a shirt launch in recent years for motherwell
Are you sure it wasn't selling meerkats? Have you tried the site? The meerkat in question is called Alexander Orlov, they've taken this advert so far that the meerkat has it's own website and is on facebook. The copmpare the market website has quadrupled it's traffic since the campaign started. It's a totally different form of advertising from the teasing method used by the club and there is absolutely no comparison between that and the club's approach. Well there is, one's an advertising campaign run professionally by professionals and the other is a school project.
To be perfectly honest I'm already bored stiff with it and surely that's contrary to what the campaign is all about. I'll wait until the whole strip goes on show and then I'll have a look at it, as for getting all excited about wee glimpses of the shirt, "oooh the badge is in the middle", "is it a hoop or a band ?", I grew out of that kind of pish when I was about 7.
It's amatuerish in the extreme.
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I think my opinion of the Trust is well known and I dont believe we need to go over them again.
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Reading my paper the noo, couldn't help but pick out a couple of things from the tables and the stats.
Dundee United, Celtic and Rangers are the only two teams that have scored more than us! Bascially confirms that our problems this season have been more to do with defense than attack.
Also, Clarky is the top scorer outside the squirm. Huv that!
Not quite sure how much faith to put in your stats when you think three teams add up to two.
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I'm not a fan of this type of advertising, but I can see it's uses. it's purpose is to build some tension and increase interest in the product. To work well that kind of advertising has to be either, done on a larger scale with a bigger product, or done over a shorter time period with a limited product.
It's one thing teasing millions of Coke or Pepsi drinkers over a few weeks, but teasing a couple of thousand Motherwell supporters for a couple of months is gilding the lily a wee bit. If you want to gauge the success of the tactic you judge the reaction of the clientele, and the fact is there are as many posts about the ludicrousness of the campaign as there are about the product. A good advertising campaign excites interest in the product being promoted, when the campaign itself becomes the talking point rather than the product, the campaign has failed.
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I hate to go against the grain here fellas, but I just get this feeling we are going to hump this mob on Saturday, and let's be honest it's long overdue.
4-1 Motherwell.
As I said earlier. I knew it was coming. You little beauty.
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Oh for God's sake behave yourselves.
Can you possibly imagine the odds on all those matches coming up to send Motherwell down?
Try going into the bookies and placing a bet on all those matches to finish as suggested and Motherwell to go down, they'll let you choose your own odds ffs.
I dont mind a bit of pessimism, it can bring those of us with the euphoric flights of fancy back down to earth, stupidity however is a whole different ball game.
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I hate to go against the grain here fellas, but I just get this feeling we are going to hump this mob on Saturday, and let's be honest it's long overdue.
4-1 Motherwell.
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As would I, big man, but don't kid yourself that Arsenal don't win the battle before they start playing football. The most successful of Wenger's team's had Patrick Viera in it. Shrinking violet, he was not...
Every team needs that wee bit of grit in midfield. You cant name a successful club that didn't have a so-called hardman at it's heart.
Bertie Auld did it for Celtic, Paddy Crerand for Man United, Tommy Smith and then Graeme Souness for Liverpool, Bobby Collins, Norman Hunter, Johnny Giles, and Billy Bremner at Leeds, Revie wasn't taking any chances there was he? Even when we had a footballing side with the likes of Pettigrew, Graham, Davidson, and Marinello, we also had Peter Millar and Stuart McLaren. Jock Wallace's Rangers had Alex McDonald, Roy Aitken and Murdo McLeod did a similar job for Billy McNeill's Celtic. Psycho was Tommy McLean's enforcer. Fancy Dan's win sod all, they need a bit of bite in their side to carry it through the tough times. Does anyone doubt Arsenal would have put up a better showing tonight with a Vieria in their midfield.
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Even if we don't get through all 3 rounds of qualifying, I believe that competitive matches will make us sharper for the start of the season than the usual round of friendlies.
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We should be grateful he moved when he did he managed to take Hibs down and we stayed up.
It is though, and I'm sure I've posted this before, his signing of John Hendry that I cannot fathom how anyone could trust him with any sort of transfer budget.
John Hendry played two games for Dundee and they loaned him out to Forfar he played 10 games and scored 6 goals and Terry Venables, no less, paid £50k to take him to Spurs in 1990. He played 1 full game for Spurs and one as a sub and that was his entire Tottenham career. In the five years he was there they loaned him out to Swansea and Charlton and various others but he never got near the first team again. So picture the scene, Spurs have a boy on their team whose experience at any level over 5 years is minimal they paid £50k for him but they have already written that off and would be willing to hand him over to anyone who will pay his fare. What does McLeish do, does he drive a hard bargain ask them to cover part of his wages for the first six months? No, he walks in offers £200k and Spurs bite the hand of him.
£200k for a nonentity that's played less than two games in 5 years and only cost them £50k. The laughter still rings around White Hart Lane when the name McLeish is mentioned.
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he is and has always been a tosser of the highest order, the ultimate media darling who buys all the tabloids on a daily basis to see whats written about him, then throws a huff if someone writes a bad article about him.
yet again this week he speaks to the press about his future....oh sorry a leaked story to the press...yeh right alex!! just incase his side blow it on the final day of the season and he can leave before he gets sacked, siting indifferances between him and his interfering board, so he can leave to get another half decent job as people still think his stock is high!!
he did make a muck of things at motherwell and left us in a complete mess even though he spent a fortune on sub standard players. ive spoken to a couple of ex motherwell players who were there during McLeish's time and they also think of him as a twat!!
anyway i'll not reserve judgement on him at all, he's a cock and an extremely fortunate one at that!!
ps, dont get me started on his stuttering imbecile of a sidekick...andy watson!!
Cant disagree with that, I too know a couple of players who were at Fir Park when McLeish was there and they have nothing but contempt for the guy. From what I hear from Birmingham as well his jacket appears to be on a shoogly nail, more than a couple of players are whispering in Karen Brady's ear and she seems to have taken against him in a big way. The problem with Mcleish is, he will take you to a certain level but after that when yopu need to bring inj new and better players, you better bring in a new and better manager, because McLeish just hasn't got what it takes in that department. Hemdry, May, McSkimming ffs. If Birmingham want to consolidate in the premiership they need a quality manager and that is not McLeish.
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Even if you win, I don't think the Cup winner's deserve a place. It was different when there was a European Cup Winners' competition that could be entered. The UEFA (and its replacement) Cup should be for consistency over a season; not winning 5 games.
This has been mooted for a while, I believe Gordon Smith spoke with UEFA and wanted the extra place to go to the next in the league rather than the runner up, but UEFA vetoed that idea.
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If its good enough for Mark McGhee then it's good enough for me -------> skip to 5.50
Excellent interview, I think he's got Stevie Hammell to a 'T' eh? It looks like Big Bad Boab won't be here much longer either.
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That picture of him holding up the Cup, I managed to copy that cut out all the extraneous surroundings and print it out as a transfer, which I then ironed onto a T-shirt that I wore to the Cooper Final when we lost 5-1 to Rangers.
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I don't think that's true. The Trust want the club and the fans to communicate better - we've been saying that for years. I'm not displeased at the club correcting wrongs - quite the opposite - but when it's the same people making the wrongs as fixing them, I won't go OTT with praise. However, the vast majority of measures taken by the current chief executive have been positive and also the way that she has gone about it in terms of constantly communicating with the fans, etc has met with nothing but approval from me. I would also go as far as to say that Leann Dempster is possibly the most open, honest and clued-up member of MFC staff I've ever spoken to (no disrespect to anyone else when I say that) and I'm genuinely positive about the direction that she will take the club in.
What I will admit is that, as a result of all the positive stuff happening at the club, it will make it more difficult for the Trust to attract members. It's no secret that our membership numbers soared when the club was in crisis, and began to dwindle when the club was back on a sound financial footing. However, what I can identify that perhaps past MST board members can't is that Motherwell Football Club is a helluva lot more important than the Motherwell Supporters Trust, so I'm quite happy with the situation at the moment.
I hope that clears it up for the cynics!
Frazzle
I think it's worthy of even higher praise when the one who made the error holds his hands up and sets about amending it themselves. It shows that person is able to recognise the error and do something about it. It's also a lesson for the future maybe they will look at things from a different viewpoint in the future. I think the club should derive a great deal of credit from this episode and deservedly so.
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i hate strips with the badge in the middle
I hate strips where the Logo is more prominent than the badge.
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"I am committed to Motherwell and my position hasn't changed just because we have failed to make the top six," McGhee said.
"I am committed to Motherwell. I have no other offers on the table and I don't have an agent or agents out there trying to get me a job. I have no intention of job seeking or punting myself elsewhere.
"I still feel there is a lot more to come from this team and I feel I can get it out of the boys.
"I have already sat down with John Boyle and Stuart Robertson to start making plans for the new season. I am also trying to arrange pre-season and to bring new players in for next season."
Despite the disappointment in missing out on the top 6 I for one am glad that he still appears committed to the cause. I think we stand a better chance of success with him than without him. My main concern is the lack of finances to add decent players to the squad for next season. I am sure that will also be his main concern!!
I have had a shit day today but that has really cheered me up. I am delighted he has gone on record and been quite unequivocal about his committment to the club.
Terrific news.
The Ground Is Getting Me Down.
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Thanks, much appreciated.