texanwellfan

born in motherwell, went to Calder and dalziel high. Moved to Austin, Texas in 1989 and still here. A lot easier to keep up with the fitba now than it was in 19189. used to be out the back yard lsiten to whistling short wave radio. Made the 1991 and 2011 cup finals though 1989 not 19189

Judging by our home scoring record any game is going to be a hard one at fir park. Added to that the first thing the new Hibs manager will probably do is to concentrate on defending in numbers to keep them in the game and try not to loose. However maybe Friday night is the time when we start to hit some form and all the players actually start to play well. despite our lofty position I don't think it can be said that we have been palying well this season but yet the team keeps grinding out results. Being a typical Motherwall fan I am going to say that Friday night will see the start of a purple patch for us as the team clicks and all the players hit form at the same time and we go thru December undefeated taking 15 points out of 15! Europe here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGAIN!

Well regardless of all the preferences etc the game is a Friday night and I hope we can get the lads the crowd they deserve. I think it is a great gesture by the club and lets hope it pays off with a great result, great game and a GREAT atmosphere. .................... ok ok I'll settle for great result, which is us having at least one goal more than them !

Just as a matter of interest what is our longest undefeated SPL streak and what is the most games in a row we have won in the SPL?

No Arguments on that choice from me !!

Of course, part of the stigma may be that Motherwell had 3 players in the Scotland team that got beat 9 - 3 by England in 1961 McCann, St John and Quinn

pettigrew should have got a crap load of caps. He was the best goalscorer around at his time.

I was at the game....Fir park against Montrose I believe. We were getitng beat 1 - 0 with about 15 mins left i think and they threw Joe up front where he scored a Hat trick and we won 4 - 1. Also seen him play in goals too. Not sure but I thnk he may ahve ended up golaie during his debut game? other name i have seen NOT mentioned is Bobby McCallum. He was left back when Matt Thonpson was right back and Willie McCallum also played. Bobby had a face like he had been dookin for beans, smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish but still put in a decent shift every week. he could fair smack a ball from the PK spot too.

thanks Andy. doesn't look too bad at this point. Hopefully we have a big enough gap between us and the rest to stay in top 3 when and if any suspensions start to kick in.

Being a "Furiner" for so long now I am not sure how the disciplinary system works now with respect to supensions. Maybe someone could clarify that for me but my main concern is how will cautions and sending offs affect us. Who do we have ready to get suspended? Are we liable to have a few hit us at the same time? How long are the suspensions. Will signing someone like hughes help us through those kind of troubles? I know that being a motherwell fan is all about wondering when the good times will end so this should give us something to fret about for a few days

We got beat today but ..............i stil find myself going to look at the league table.........AND it stil makes good reading!!! We now go to the end of the year before we have to play rangers in January. i think this run of fixtures ( 7 games ) will determine where we finish. I think that whereever we are on Dec 29th is where we will finish in the league.

Ok I can take the blame for the defeat! I seem to have incredible knack of turning on computer and the opposition scoring against us!! Since game was a 6am kick off over here i was goign to just get up and look at result and avoid the torture of watching the game. However my son texted me about 7.15am askin if i had found a good stream so i figured it must be a close game. So i jumped up turned on and lasted about 5 minutes before Celtic scored. So i think i need just wait till end of games in future! Regarding what I saw of the game, celtic winner was onside and Clancy took a stupid kick at the celtic player so no complaints on either one of those. That now leaves the door open for Hutchieson to secure his starting place back in the team.

Could be. I have no clue anymore but regardless, it sounds like if you are in top 5 and one of the top 5 win the cup then you are in europe. I think McCall needs to get them all signed up now so that we can keep the team together. ( assuming we do get into europe ) I hate that making europe and then a brand new team has to be assembled. Of course this season we kept the same team but unfortunately no european adventure. Surely he could get them signed up now on the understanding that they will be free to move to any club once we are out of europe or if we do not actually make it into europe. It wil be hard to keep anyone whose contract is up and they hit a purple patch. Just like Sutton last year, we could have extended his contract early on, but by the time it was addressed he was playing out of his skin and a target for other clubs. We should learn from that and if we are happy with the palyers we have then try and ensure they are tied to motherwell for any possible european campaign next season.

So is that a change from last year then? Last year we only had one spot, right? Assuming we did not get an extra spot on merit of Scottish performances in europe did they change format to allow us champion and runner up?

Let's hope the tanker delivers their luck for games against Celtic rangers hearts and st johnstone :-)

We need the 3 points however we can get them to ensure we go into our following game as the second place team in the league.

Any links to streams for the game tomorrow???? will ahave to get up at 6.30 am my time so hopefully get a resposne before i go to bed tonight otherwise i might just skip the watching and get up to go find the result

yes would be great of they could set something up for us "foreigners" especially since the BBC stop us from lookin at their highlights. Yabba does a good job at putting stuff up but there are stil some I have not seen cause it takes forever to load. Maybe he could put them up as stand alone each wekk then archive them????? ( hope he's listenin )

Can't really join in here since I obviously don't get to many games and only ones I have seen on streaming are against old firm ......so highlight for me so far then would be the final whistle against Rangers and Celtic :-) However great to see we have made such a great start to the season for the first round of games. I think there is only one team that stands in the way of us being in the top 3 and can be a serious threat to us having a successful season............... I am sure we all know exactly who that is............. MOTHERWELL!!

At the risk of discusing football rather than religion or bigotry.............and this probably has been talked aobut before but in my short time here i haven't seen it...................how many of our players have went directly to Celtic or rangers? I think I can recall more going to cletic than rangers. I also seem to recall one a while back where,I think it was rangers, tried to sign one of our players. but we sold him to an english team. but within months was back up and playing at ibrox. Always seemed a bit fishy to me...................anyway i can remember the ones below but I am sure there are quite a few i have overlooked. Also not sure if all below went direct. To Celtic,,,,,,,,,,,Joe McBride, Dixie Deans, Brian Mclair, Scott Mcdonald, Paul Lambert, Tom Boyd, Phil O'donnel To Rangers...... Tom Forsyth, Gregor Stevens, Peter McCloy, be interesting to see if additions follow the attack/defense trend above .

Ok i think I have a good proposition to make.............lets get rid of the bigots that support motherwell AND have celtic get rid of the bigots that support them. That's fair right??? So then we would be above them in the league and have a bigger support.

Not that I am saying we should give up on getting points from the old firm, as points from anyone are always good but again, our league position does kind of vindicate McCall's statement about where you finish in the league really being aobut how you do against all of the other teams outwith the oldfirm. Hearts, St Johnstone, St Mirren, Kilmarnock all taken points from the old firm but still below us.

Yes well done TROPS you musy be catching my typing bug. Personally I don't think they make keyboards liek they used to ! Glad to see Murphy get score. damn! that wil teach me to try and poke fun at anyone. got mixed up between get a goal and score hence "get score" going back to my corner

jennings probably framed by Lennon in order to stir all this up.

Unfortunately all down to my typing being pish!! seems like my typing is just like Motherwell. Great one minute and pish the next for no apparent reason! Mon the Well!!!!!!!!!!