weeyin
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Was light hearted joke just pointing out that the 2 main boo boys are black. Ment to have the wee ninja smile next to it
I thought Higgy was Caucasian.
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For the price of a ticket for fir park, they could probably see Barcelona AND Real Madrid at the ciudad de Valencia.
If they had charged more for their tickets they might have avoided administration.
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Would be good but we'd have to be taken him on a 3 year contract at £2k a week.
Then add in clauses.
Minimum sell on fee in the
1st year is £600K Faddy gets 40% Club gets 60%
2nd Year 500K Faddy gets 50% Club gets 50%
3rd year 300k Faddy gets 60% Club gets 40%
Sorted
Or pay-per-play until he proves his fitness. We can't afford to tie up a wage on a crock - even for Faddy.
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Can we please put the Jennings stuff to bed? He did well for us but we move on..
Good news for me is the suggestion that McCall realise we need an experienced midfielder in before the window closes. Even if Law stays, a signing to do for the midfield what Ramsden can do for the defence will be welcome. A player that will help ease the pressure on Carswell and Hetherington to step up week in week out could be crucial...
Need to bring him in from League Two, of course, so he isn't out of his depth.
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Just trying to make the blinkered amongst you understand life in League One is pretty tough.
Aye, you are the only person on this board who regularly watches lower league English football.
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Jennoe is not good enough to demand a first team place every week in Leugue One....Good player in SPL yes... Average in League One.
So support them then you numty!
If guys like McArthur (not McCarthy) can go from Accies to EPL first team, I think Jennings might just cope in League One.
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I'm with Cakes on this one. 2359 is the last minute of the day followed by the first minute of the next, being 0000. 2400 implies that there is for some reason an extra minute stuck in there. If people have confusion over when 2359 and 0000 are, then the time is the least of their worries
The military use 'twenty-four hundred hours' and not "zero oh-hundred' or 'oh oh-hundred'
It's not about confusion, it's about clarity.
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Sure you would. Not sure if we have beat Killie since McCall arrived.
Last time we beat them was August 2010.
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When John Boyle owned the club and was able to provide the neccessary funds, yes, but he's not here now so who's going to provide the funding?
I have been watching Motherwell since long before the Boyle days. Even when were dossing around in the First Division we still replaced outgoing players with new ones.
It's basic football club management that even the most depressed, pessimistic, naysayer can understand.
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and if we're not able to bring in replacements then we're in big trouble in my opinion.
But we have always brought in replacements, so why worry?
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I think history has shown nobody is irreplaceable. From Pettigrew to McFadden, players have moved on and we still have managed to win a trophy and get some decent league placings.
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add your own t-shirt
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Jay Cutler's burd just had a baby last week and that's what led the local news here. Bursting my tits.
Sport here is a household thing, not just the dominion of fans and, generally, people want their guys to do well. A whole world of difference to Scotland, as Al B pointed out.
The reason the local media loves NFL players is because there are so few teams and such a big market. So no rivalries to speak off and most cities are a one (or zero) trick pony. When there is a rivalry, the teams are kept apart so they are never in direct competition. It's smart marketing by the league, but the structure of the whole franchise business and the market for the game is so different as to be a pointless comparison with the SPL.
I still doubt, however, that any Broncos fans have any love for Cutler.
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some early moves in a game of chess?
preparing fans , every player has a price, but we're staying strong on it and not settling for any low bid
and at the same time making public that bids have bee received, so if anyone wants a piece of Motherwell they better approach sooner than later.
we'll also need a reminder that steelmen forever hasnt been embraced as had been hoped for, so funds are still tight
As a club with a requirement to 'sell a player a season' we have done pretty well in holding onto our assets. However, I think it was inevitable, even before new TV deal was signed, that we would need to offload one or two this time around.
I was expecting Randolph and Hutch to be prime targets and I think we have sufficient cover to avoid it being a catastrophic loss. It would be more difficult to deal with the loss of Jennings and Law.
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There's a Scottish apathy these days that will never change. People here would never be seen to be excited enough about something like football for there to be huge regular attendances.
For example, if the Bears quarterback was seen out for a meal in Chicago on any given night, people would be flocking from all around and be really excited, and people all over the city would be telling "Oh my god, I saw Jay Cutler last night!!!"
If he walked down the street in San Fransisco, even in a city other than the one he plays for, he would still be mobbed for autographs etc and even 49ers fans would be telling people "I just saw Jay Cutler, just walking down the street!!".
In this country, Michael Higdon out for a meal with his wife would generate a post on here along the lines of "Seen Michael Higdon out for a meal last night. c**t should be having a salad then maybe he could fuckin jump" "Autograph? Did I fuck...I pay the c**t's wages, he should be asking me for mine"
Or "Seen Scott Brown swanning up Buchanan Street with his Gucci carrier bags...dunno who the wee prick thinks he is"
There's a Scottish mentality of not wanting people to think they are any better than you that result's in a need to try bring them down a peg or two, rather then glorifying them. As a result of that, a regular football match will never be a huge occasion in this country, because there's no hype surrounding it from it's customer base.
I think that is a huge generalization of a population (and something that certainly doesn't happen in the North East, at least). If you are a Yankees player and brave enough to be walking down Lexington Avenue, you better be prepared for some stick!
Of course there are exceptions in certain parts of the country - particularly where there towns with only one professional team, but the majority of newspapers and sports talk shows are dedicated to slagging off A-Rod, K-Rod, Tebow, Bay etc.
American Football and baseball crowds have been dropping in recent years too as value for money becomes a priority. When I moved over here in 1997, there was a 10 year waiting list for season tickets for the New York Jets, for example, and no new applications were being taken.
In the last 3 years, not only have they burned through that waiting list, they now can't sell the remainder. They actually have commercials on TV now trying to offload them.
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I tried to buy one, but when it came to paying, I received an error message saying that 'product' was not available outside of the UK!
Works fine for non-UK folks now
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Boxes are in the last pages of todays programme. Noticed very few have been taken or at least have a name in them. Still to hear back from the club regarding me buying a box.
I tried to buy one, but when it came to paying, I received an error message saying that 'product' was not available outside of the UK!
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We're not a town team though. We're a 'shire team, with a sizeable proportion of our support coming from outside the town boundary.
The same is true for most teams though, so it's still a reasonable statstical measure.
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We need a lot more people going thru the turnstyles on a regular basis. 9k for our first ever Champions League game was poor imho European football for the 4th season in 5, 2 cup semis and a final in last 2 years and yet our average attendance is one of the lowest in SPL.
That for me is the most worrying issue going forward.
The problem is, while our overall average attendance is low, we rank among the highest in spectators per head of population for the town.
You want more fans through the gate, you need to kill or severely restrict live games (including EPL and Spanish, German etc) and stop messing around with kick-off times.
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he was on tv saying he wouldn't be playing for us a few weeks ago.
if he wants to play for us surely he could say to mccall?
Exactly. If he wanted to play for us I think we might know. Right now, he's obviously not interested and there is no reason why he should be.
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he's ok and posting.
it's in the athens thread.
Is that some new rhyming slang - he's OK, just need 5 stitches in the athens thread?
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From their forums it sounds like they are the Spanish version of us:
I read their forums, and speak highly of us .. scares me a bit as always happens to us .. when we have a weak opponent so confident that we will lose ... to see if this time we go with the record straight, without underestimating the opponent, and give everything.And just for steelboy
For me, his two best players are the front of 22 and 21 years, Murphy and Higdon.
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No way we could afford Beattie and, tbh, despite the doubters on here, not a position we need to address compared to midfield.
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Yet you were one of the most vocal about our team's defeat in the Champions League, weeyin. Cannae have it both ways.
I think if you bothered to check my posts over the years, my comments on the team performances have been pretty reasoned and balanced. Or even just my comments on the Ross County game. And there was no criticism of the team from me for the first leg.
I don't think, for example, being disappointed with Hutchy for making exactly the same mistake 2 games in a row is particularly harsh or having it both ways. I would say that was a constructive comment that we need to learn from our mistakes.
In the match thread, I laid out the reasons for my pride, delight (and yes) disappointment at the performance in the tie. It's OK to have more than one thought or emotion at a time. Sorry if you find that having it 'both ways', but not everything in life is black and white.
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2012/13 Ins & Outs Thread
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And then you can take all his marbles.