texanwellfan

i think this would be an ideal game to start Dom Thomas. Give him the ball and tell him to take on players in and around the penalty box. Either sets up chances or perhaps win penalty. Either way, if you think a team is going to park the bus then, I'd like to see someone who can dribble past defenders as an option to long shots or countless side ways passing looking for openings.

Exactly!! It was horrendous last year the number of times we had players on the park apparently unable to do that. One of the traits of a good team is eliminating needless errors. If all he can do is win the ball for us and give it to one of our players i'll consider that as hime doing his job.

We can dictate play from the back Apologies if that has already been done but I don't always go back and read everything ( Can you blame me? ) If it hasn't been used then apologies for using it

i don't have a problem with McGhee saying that. To be honest I don't really care what he says to the press 'cause i'm pretty sure most of the time it's not even close to what he really thinks. Just feeding scraps to the press.

Hope i did'nt miss it or I'll feel really stupid but didn;t see a match thread started. So any players rulle dout from injury or suspension? Not feeling good about the game but still, great to back to sme regular good old Motherwell football instead of all this interntaionl pish

Yep! Fan ownership just means they are using your money.

I'm not looking forward to this game either.

Let's hope we get a good offer from an english club. Wouldn't want to sell him to our competitors.

I thought I read this was supposed to be a busy week on the in/out front, as in we would see some announcements but seems to have been pretty quiet for the most part.

is that when they called it the Dryborough cup ?

Don't know if they use it in Scotland but I like the 10 point format they use here in youth soccer tournaments. 6 points for a win 3 points for a draw 1 point per goal up to 3 1 point for a shut out 3-0 winner gets 10 points loser nil 0-0 draw both teams get 4 point 3-3 draw both teams get 6 points 1-0 winner gets 8 points 4-3 winner gets 9 points loser gets 3 points Edit: I did also like the old league cup format of 4 in a group home and away, followed by 2 leg knock out ties then semis and final at Hampden. I remember Morton beating us 3-0 at Cappielow then we beat them 3-0 at fir park. Replay at Ibrox Jumbo muir scoring the winner with a header, altohugh I think he may actually have fell over someone which helped him get his head onto it.

LOL I remember him

Chris Cadden was the only one outfield player that looked like he gave a fk You can't always be good but no excuse for not always trying

I remember going to the reserve games to watch Dixie Deans before he broke into the first team. One one of my vivid ( or so it seems now ) memories was Dixie scoring a peach of a goal Against St Johnstone in a 2-1 scottish cup win at Fir Park. Pulled it down with his lef t foot and leathered inot the net with his right foot from about 20 yards

Dreadful stuff I got up at 6.30 am just to watch this So many times we just give the ball away

I think this thread was done after the scond post

Would love to hand them an embarassing defeat and see Moult score 2 or 3 COYW!!

going by the stats seems like a pretty even game. How did we play?

.or maybe he's been sick all week like it says in the Tweet in the shout box :-)

First game I remember was in early 60's Motherwell V Rangers at Fir Park 3-3 Don't recall a whole lot about it other than I was up in the stand with 2 of my uncles and that Wullie Hunter was the best player on the park.

Ruddy was tryin to get on the score sheet but ddin't quite make it

When I looked at the replays I think the linesman got it right. and if he didn't it was tight enough that I don't think you could fault him for calling it.

Thats the first time I have seen Gomis. I would not have put him back out for the second half. Although we defended in numbers the first half I thought we looked very vulnerable so hopefully we can tihten that up. Much better positive attitude in the scond half but we give the ball away too easily when we have time and space. So all in all when you consider how much room we have for imporvement next season mght be a good one COYW lets get 4th

Like someone else mentioned, a bit nervous in that we have realistic expectations of taking something from this game. Hope it doesn't turn out that we get hammered. I'm going for 3-1 to the mighty well. 2-0 up then celtic get one back then close to the end Griffiths ballooning a penalty kick over the bar then we score in stoppage time. Edit: Moult hat trick

Good that the game is on Saturday then! That was my "weeyin" impersonation