texanwellfan

While a win at ibrox has many positives to it, all of them are meaningless with respect to SPL position and european football. Our priorities must lie in taking as many points as possible from Abrdeen and celtic. i think the goal should be 6 points, good is 4 points, acceptable is 3 points, anything less then we have underperformed and need to work on improving over the next few games. For the league cup game I would not be averse to fielding a team that is not our starting 11. Excellent run out for our fringe players on the cusp of making it into the team. I certainly would be overcautious on using any players with knocks, they MUST be preserved for SPL. While not as important as the SPL games a win could lead to additional income for the club plus of course there is always added excitement of a good cup run. But again, the downside of a good league cup run is that it stretches our resources and may lead to us lossing out on income form european games next season. if it was my call, I would be making sure my key players were all going to be fit and ready to face Celtic on the Saturday. This approach does also have the advantage of taking the "emotion" out of the game and treating it with the level of importance that it is a league cup game against the team 4th in division 3 By treating the game as anything other than that, is a victory for the mass unwashed. We have already given way more attention than merited. Roll on the Celtic game!

loooked kind of windy today? did that affect the game? Thought it was scrappy game but as always 3 points welcome however we can get them.

I suppose players were still people back then and not the over paid petulant tantrm throwers that some of them can be nowadays. Very nice of him to do that

have you been able to read them ok? i thought i was just pasting the links and you would follow the link and size appropriately to read. But i see now that the images are all there and parts dissappear when i enlarge the image? as long as u are able to read what i have been posting i'll just keep doing the same if not let me know and provide some hints for me to make it more readable

Ah'll need tae hae a "rummage aroon ma drawers" this weekend i kept a scrap book that particular season but i know i have other stuff around too just not sure where.

my uncle lived in stevenage so my mum and dad packed me on the overnight bus at hamilton and my uncle got me somewhere close to stevenage and i was able to ride with him on the spurs supporters bus to the first leg at white heart lane. Make no mistake, spurs were a good team and did not play their reserves!! then 21 years later i was able to travel back from texas and go to the '91 cup final with him. it was my uncle that wsa responsible for me supporting the well. Sadly missed now but lots of fond memories.

here are another 2 for your reading pleasure v Bahia and V Flamengo

Ok this is my first try at this kind of stuff so be patient. I hope I am pasting links to enable you to read some old motherwell reports from the texaco cup spurs game at fir park

...and either of those are aceptable as they should have little to no detrimental effect on our efforts in the SPL.

Yes! Yes he is.

agreed faddy already said no but i thought he would have been playing down south by now. for the most part don't care where our ex players go ............ as long as it's not to any of our rivals helping another team in the SPL get points. agree also that he would give the club a lift...........despite weeyins point, which is pretty valid, i think faddy would certainly get the place buzing even more and help us perhaps stay at the top. its one thing getting to the top, harder trying to stay there! also agree that top priority should be replacing jennings but that does not seem to be happening. We may just have to relay on one our existing players developing into that role. If we are not signing a jennings replacement then again perhaps faddy would give us more going forward so that we start to win games 3 - 2 4 - 3 instead of 1 - 0 . Either way I trust McCall and the board to be doing what's best for the club and will not grumble whichever way it pans out.

One of my old favourites was ian Clinging. never see his name mentioned much on here at all for some reason. Hardly a pick on him but he could beat players and score goals and a local lad from wishaw ( i think ) did he ever play for anyone other than us?

Shouldnt be too much of a risk if McCall has seen him in training with his own squad of players for the past 3 months ?

thanks Yabba sounds like i'll need the wifes help on that

yes wilson humphries was my English teacher at Dalziel and an officer in the BB's at company 2. I touhgt it was terrific having a legend like that around. i have some scanned newspaper reports ( jpegs ) from spurs game but i have no clue how to get the on here help anyone?? i also have reports from Bahia game and flamenco in which we beat the brazilians 3 - 0 and 9 - 2 i still got to scan these 2 though

Crowd was 22,688 that evening !! I have a stack of newspaper reports I'll need to scan them and post them up.

1987 UEFA cup final Utd lost 2 -1 on aggregate to FC Goteborg and yes i did look it up :-) interesting fact also that utd have 100% record against barcelona in european competitions

I've decided not to go.

Not playing for anyone can't be good for Faddy and certainly isn't getting him any money. Since we already had negotiations with him you would think that bot h sides could give a little and come to some sort of an agreement ???

i think we have enough players that can play wide. The main area of concern seems to be filling the role vacated by Jennings.

WHY?

I would say so daver.

So do teams have to declare squads now for the season or part of it? how does that work for signing free agents? i remember when football was a much less complicated sport.

i hope we give them a real drubbing and I can't wait for the game to be done and over and out of the way regardless of the result. So we can get back to focusing on SPL football. Im already tired of all the talk surrounding them again.

So what's the average age of that team ?