TheLip69
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Once again that article opens up more questions than it gives answers.
The main one being who does his ironing?
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Get Andrew Little to fuck. Its of absoluty no benefit to us to be loaning players in the SPL. EPL yes its beneficial to both parties, but no chance in the SPL.
Dead right, why give Old Firm benchwarmers SPL experience they wont get at their own clubs at the expense of our own youngsters.
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I think the delay comes from the facts that the sponsorship was signed late on.
The strips will be coming from the far east, by boat I presume.
If they were to get flown in, it would probably put the cost up.
Do you really think the shop wants to sell them as late as they can?
Really? I'm pretty sure the new sponsor was announced last season, just before the Cup Final if memory serves.
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I've washed my old Xara 2006/07 home top many times and the badge is still perfect. A properly stitched badge will always suggest quality, a patch merely suggests convenience.
I have to say my Xara tops have all washed well over the years and are still quality.
Isn't that right Eddie?
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isn't the Land fir park is built on worth next to nothing?
would like to see us at a modern but unique stadium within a decade. so no flatpack quick build.
If your first point is true, explain how we are going to acheive your second point.
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The cost of anything other than a flatpack stadium a la St Mirren is prohibitive for a club our size. Our problem is that virtually the only asset we have is the ground, and the cash isn't there to do the kind of remedial work required. So the only viable alternative is the sale of the ground and a move to new premises, which will be, whether we like it or not, one from Ikeas cheaper range. We dont have the wee extra bonus from Europe that we have had the past few seasons and John Boyle is no longer funding us so I think things are going to be a wee bit tight for ome time around Fir Park. I love Fir Park and would want to stay there for ever but teh reality is we have to get the hell out of there before it collapses round our ears. Sell up and move on.
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I hated Novo in his Rangers days, mostly because he was Rangers through and through and never hid his passion for the club. If he came to Fir Park, banged in some goals and showed the same level of passion for Motherwell and the fans, I'm sure my opinion of him would quickly change.
I dont mind signing players from the OF but it's those with that attitude, on either side, that I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. When they are too closely associated, in everybody's minds not just the bigots, with one side of the great divide I would leave well alone.
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Wee Keith is my particular favourite at the moment, cant really say I dont like any of the current bunch. Wasn't a fan of Jeffers signing but he's moved on to bigger and better things, Accrington Stanley wasn't it?
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well, with fir parks days being numbered, whats next for motherwell?? With a move away, what else is going to change? Im sure most of us have thought about it at some point so I want to see what everyones opinion is.
the first obvious question is with the relocation, will the club change the badge? I mean we will no longer be at fir park so having it on the crest would seem a little silly wouldnt it? and if they do that, will they move to change to colours? to somthing more marketable perhaps?
now I know what most of you will be thinking.. "dont be rediculous" "outrage!" "its our history"ect.
but when I thought about it more i started to come round to the idea of some changes.
now as much as we love our C&A colours, what harm would it do to change them? well, I know a number of motherwell fans off hand that dont buy home shirts because they dont like the colours. I have never seen a non motherwell fan wearing a motherwell top. i mean most of us pick out tops from other leugues by colour of design, so to change to apeal to a bigger market would only do good for the club right?
and to the people that say "its our history, tradition, ect". well, whats wrong with making our own history? i mean im not sayin we should remove everything that makes us who we are, but some changes for the better are good. i can imagine when our colours were changed from blue to C&A there was alot of people made unhappy by this, but they got use to it, and now its part of our history.
anyway im interested in finding out what everyone else thinks and feels.
and can you think of any other changes that might come up?
How can you imagine that? It was almost a century ago, and given that the reason for the change was because so many other teams played in blue and we wanted to ensure fewer clashes of colours, I can actually imagine quite a few people being very happy about it.
Given that it would be more than half a century later that club colours would take off in the shape of replica strips, scarves etc it really wouldn't have made much difference at that time.
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Well your memory must be playing tricks on you as his record was actually 5 goals in 17 league appearances for Tottenham, twelve of which were substitute appearances.
Its worth putting the fee in context too. Around the same time we paid something like £150,000 for Andy Roddie, Shaun McSkimming £400,000, Mitchell van der Gaag £400,000, Scott Howie £200,000. Even Stevie Crawford was being linked with us for a £700,000 move around the time!!! That perhaps says more about McLeish's lack of acumen in the transfer market than anything else but in that particular era but the fee for Hendry wasn't uncommon and was in keeping with the market prices of the day.
I don't think McLeish would have been alone in thinking okay if you can manage a return like that in England's top flight then there may be a possibility that you might be able to replicate or better than in Scotland's top flight. Particularly as was suggested at the time that he had been understudy and learned from Klinnsman at White Hart Lane.
Might sound like I'm trying to defend the player, certainly not there is little that can be said to defend his 'Well career, but I can fully understand why the old ginger tosser went for him.
I was aware of McLeish's overspending in the Transfer market that's why I put it in context with another player with a fairly similar background at the same club, rather than list McLeish's idiocies.
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He played more than once for Spurs I'm sure. Maybe not loads but he played more than once for them. Was held in a sort of David Ferrere like admiration by Spurs fans for two goals he scored in what was then a rare win for them at Highbury.
It didn't work out obviously, he was clearly honking at Fir Park, but you can see McLeish's thinking behind the signing surely?
According to Soccerbase he played twice, once as a substitute.
I remember at the time he signed it was said he had played once and scored twice, and he was headlined as if he was the second coming. No-one actually mentioned he'd been down there 5 years and done sod all else.
Had we gone down there and taken the guy either on loan or given Spurs the £50K they had paid for him, FIVE YEARS EARLIER, then yes I would say I can see the thinking behind it, but to whip down there and offer them £200k for someone who was basically a squad player, if that, defeats my thought processes altogether.
Let me put it into perspective for you, in the same season Spurs sold defender Gudni Bergson, (who had signed for them in 1988 as a youth for a fee of £100k twice what they paid for Hendry), he had played over 50 games and had scored the same amount of goals as John Hendry. He would go on to play over 300 games for Bolton and score 26 goals, all for the princely sum of £65k.
So, who saw who coming?
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For me it's got to be John Hendry, Spurs had signed him from Dundee as a schoolboy about 5 years earlier. He only played one game for Spurs and they loaned him out all over the place, they were on the verge of letting him go when Big Eck went in and offered them £200k. The question that has been puzzling me ever since is, WHY???????
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Didn't we give pro contracts to some of the U19 players? That could account for some of the cash even if they aren't on huge wages.
Jennings and Gunning will definitely be on improved contracts, and Craigans new contract will be equally lucrative.
The budget doesn't just go on new signings, I'm pretty sure Hutchisons extended contract will have made a decent dent in the budget also.
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it does seem a quieter pre season than usual but i think thats mainly down to mccall keeping silent over potential signings unlike mcghee and brown who couldny keep there traps shut about what players they wanted to sign
Point taken, but I wasn't actually meaning Motherwell specifically, just that the whole pre-season apart from the Rangers takeover, has been pretty quiet.
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Does anyone else think this has been the quietest pre-season in years?
Our first friendly is only a week away and it feels like months since the Cup Final with sod all happening in between.
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So he's just a Shrewsbury fan?
Aye just a fan, and a shareholder, mainly due to his Dad who was on the board there in the 70's and 80's, and is still in touch with things at the club.
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What Motherwell fan would have 'contacts' with Shrewsbury anyway? I smell shite.
A contact I met through work. I never knew he was a Shrewsbury Town fan until I mentioned going back up to Scotland for a Motherwell match and he asked how Chris Humphrey's was doing. From there we got chatting about football and every now and then we discuss how our relevant teams are doing and he mentioned a few weeks ago that we were back to steal another of their players, he is still a bit miffed about Humphrey, and gave me the info. He took great delight yesterday in e-mailing me the BBC page about Taylor signing a new contract.
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so basically your contact revealed details of a deal that wasn't finalised? Is that not what you're always slagging our own chief exec aboot?
Nope, there was no deal, as far as they were concerned he'd knocked it back and was heading for Fir Park.
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Jon mentioned in his video interview today that you were definitely in for him, as were some other SPL clubs. It seems he went with the advice of our manager and chairman over those trying to persuade him it was in his interests to move up to Scotland.
It was, apparently, an extremely surprising turnaround for everyone at Shrewsbury.
My contact at Shrewsbury says that up until last night they were sure he was Motherwell bound. They aren't sure what changed his mind they're just glad he did.
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For what it's worth my contact at Shrewsbury believes John Taylor is on his way to Motherwell as he knocked back a new contract yesterday.
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Can't understand the feeling that Hibs and Aberdeen will be better.
Aberdeen have signed Mawene, who may well be a crock. They've got one full-back, one striker worth anything, one centre half of note in Mawene and are putting a lot of stock in Milsom and Folly playing like they did before they got injured last season. Langfield looks like he'll be out for a while as well, giving them the total of nae keepers.
Hibs, from the outside looking in, look like they're in disarray. Calderwood looking like he might go, Adams heading back north. They've sign O'Connor who is a rocket and probably a crock, Ivan Sproule with nae pace and have brought the slowest player in the world, Edwin De Graaf back from loan. Their gameplan seems to be based on 'give it to palsson and hope for the best'.
We've lost Sutton, Jeffers and Ross. Sutton, the only mainstay replaced with Higdon, the other two, less than vital. Our form in the last six games was shocking, but with other, more important things coming up, I can understand it. If the season started tomorrow, I'd be far more confident as a Motherwell fan than I would as an Aberdeen or Hibs fan.
I never said Aberdeen would be better but I dont think either them or Hibs could be worse. I believe we need to strengthen and all we've done is replace Sutton with Higdon, our league form at times was pretty woeful and if anyone below us had come with a late run we might not have made the top 6. As it was everyone below us cut each others throats and we remained in sixth. For me the boost from the Cup run and the unexpected win over Celtic saw us through.
I really dont know what to expect next season but at the moment I'm more anxious than excited.
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There's no use getting all het up about it because the fact is we haven't been given enough info to form an opinion.
Lets wait until we've got the full details before we start wringing our hands in anguish, or singing it's praises.
Frankly, I wish the club would just shut the f**k up about this until they have a concrete proposal to put before us. Then maybe we'd get some sensible posts on the subject.