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Moore looked decent. Really? Thought he looked like an under 14 who had got a game at under 18. Steep learning curve for him which I hope he manages to climb. Can't understand the love in for Lasley either. His second touch is usually a tackle. Sutton at least ran about, won a few headers from terrible service and put in a lot of effort trying to stop the Celtic defenders moving forward out of defence.

It is very strange that there is no mention in the club honours of our team that won the second division at a canter in 1969 or am I missing something

Depends what you mean by a defence. Our back four and midfield are poor defensively but I reckon that Randolph is the best goalkeeper I have seen at Fir Park and I can go back to Keith McCrae and Peter McCloy. Without Randolph our goals against total would be higher and our points total lower.

As a supporter of 50 years and a season ticket holder for more years than I care to remember I thought long and hard about joining the Well Society. My heart told me to do it but then my head said what sensible person puts money into a football club. The decision not to reduce the prize money that can only go to Celtic, beggars belief and I am sorry to say totally vindicates my decision not to invest in the Well Society. The club with the most money that gets the Champions League money every year gets their money maintained while every other team gets their money reduced. Great move SPL. No wonder fans are turning away from the game. This shows the game in Scotland is fd and the people running it have no idea.

There was so much to be positive about yesterday. Our attacking play at times was brilliant. The move where Lasley dummied it got the return and passed for Murphy to shoot over was great. There was good hold up play from Higdon in the first half. Although the change they made at half time snuffed him out. Humphrey's pace makes him almost unplayable. On the other hand our defence was terrible. I can hardly remember Hutch having a worse game. He hardly won a ball in the air and that was against average size forwards. Every time they came forward I felt they could score. Our defending at corners was terrible. Early in the second half their forward had a free header and should have scored. Then right at the end Hollis saved us with a wonder save after another free header. At 3-2 I was not confident that we would hold out and win. I thought Hollis looked a bit nervous in his first home game and came tearing off his line a couple of times when he shouldn't have. He doesn't look too good at corners and with our defence we need someone to dominate. However his save in the last minute did more than enough to ensure that he should get his chance when Randolph goes. A lesson too for McCall. Subs can change games. I thought we were flat and had settled for a draw at 2-2 when ZFA came on. How refreshing to see a left winger who went round the outside and crossed with his left foot. I thought he sparked the whole team into action. However we will need to defend much better on Tuesday if we are to win. Heres hoping

My home page is BT Yahoo and they have a video of a cock up of a free kick in a Conference South game between Chelmsford and Hayes and Yeading. The eventual scorer is Yassin Moutaouakil who used to play for us. If you remember him you probably agree that he has found his true level. I do not have the ability to post a link for others to see it. Maybe someone else can.

Much of what I thought about today has already been said. We were outclassed but remember the wages of any two Celtic players probably adds up to the same as our whole team. Thank goodness for Randolph. God help us when he leaves. He must be worth ten to fifteen points a season. His distribution though was poor and I wondered during the game if he was getting a bit fed up with waht was happening in front of him. The defence is missing Craigan or a leader. Hutch is a good player but he is not yet ready to take on that role. He still needs an experienced man beside him. I was as surprised as the rest that Cummins was in the team today. He is a good prospect but needs to be nursed and should have been left out. I would have replaced him with Ojamma early in the second half, put Ramsden to CB and went for it. Hateley was posted missing at their second goal but put in some good tackles. He should never be considered for any other position than right back. Angol was the one bright spark of the day. He recoverd well after his horrendous mistake that gave them an early chance. Great attitude and another bright prospect that needs to be introduced carefully to the side. Our midfield was completely over run. I would give Humphrey 30 minutes and if he is not cutting it get him off. He performs one game in ten and is honking in the others. Law was anonymous. Lasley as usual ran about a lot but did very little. At 32 he is going to be less able to get about the pitch and I feel that his days are numbered. Tin hat on after that considering the love in on this forum for him. As for Murphy many people on here questioned the board when they accepted £200000 for him last year. That is beginning to look like a good deal. He is too predictable cutting inside every time or turning back when he realises he does not have the pace to beat his man. He is far too light weight. Having said that he put in two good crosses early in the first half but there was no one on the end of them. Ramsden was lying too deep. Maybe not the best day to judge his first game in midfield and whether he can replace Jennings. It will be interesting to see if McCall keeps him there next week or moves him back to CB. I thought Higdon did his best up front but with no support any passes he made were backwards as there was noone from the midfield running beyond him. Then there is the horrible Celtic support. Every time I come away from an Old Firm game I feel dirty and polluted. They have the gall to put up a banner complaining about TV interfering with KO times. Every team in Scotland apart from them would survive without TV money. Each club would find their level and we would have a competitive league. But they need the money so that they can pretend that they are a big club and can compete in Europe And please MFC never again make a statement telling supporters to sit during a game. Everyone in the South Stand stood for the whole game and no action was taken by the stewards or police.

Great result without playing particularly well. I thought even without his goals Higdon was superb. He created at least two chances with his lay off and his turn and shot that hit the post were great. He benefitted because we played the ball into his feet much more. Thank God fro Randolph. His save from the mishit shot in the first half kept us in the game. I thought Nish gave young Cummins a tough time and for the first time since he came into the team he was bettered by his opponent. Surely we can put to bed the idea of Hateley in midfield. The irony was that when he went to right back he completely snuffed out their left side with some great tackling and passing and forward runs. If we manage to sign anyone then it should be a defensive midfielder.

Left the game angry at the refs decisions about Hutchie's red card and the throw in that led to the equaliser. However I have just seen the highlights and I am sorry to say I think the ref got both decisions right. Hutchie needs to learn to keep his mouth shut. If someone whacks you get up and walk away. Don't draw attention to yourself and get your revenge against the guy the next time the ball is there. If you have been booked don't dive in like he did. Having said that if he had still been on the park he would have won the header with Thomson that led to their goal. The players looked tired after the game in midweek. We don't have the squad to cope with so many games. Thankfully Europe will be over by Thursday. Maybe we have been unlucky that we have been given two winnable games after Europe. Maybe Celtic and Hearts away would have been better games. Cummins looked a real find and Kerr impressed at right back. We are really missing Jennings as Lasley and Law do not have the insurance of him behind them. Lets hope we do not lose anyone before the window closes and hopefully we can get a couple in. My big fear is that Randolph will be off. In my opinion he is worth 10 -15 points a season.

They should apologise because the SFA wanted us not to pick him until the matter was resolved. Suspect he will be off in the summer now that he is in the clear. Championship or League 1 club will offer much more than we can. So in one sense great news but on another, very sad as in my opinion he is our best player and would love to see him sign on for another year.

Since we never do things the easy way my bet is we need to draw the last game at home to United. We go 2-0 up then with 20 minutes to go they score. Five minutes from time up they score again and we hang on to get third place with the supporters too worn out to celebrate properly when the whistle goes.

Thought the whole team was great today. Randy looked to be very aware of the young guys in front of him and his save in the second half was breathtaking. Young Cummins grew into the game and got better and better as the game went on. Hammy had his problems early on but I don't think Law gives him much help. Solid defensive display though and contender for goal of the season. Humphrey 's pace caused them problems all day. If only his final ball was better. Jennings is possibly the most important player in our team. He covered every blade of grass and how we missed him when he was off for ten minutes. However after a couple of iffy perfomances against Queens Park and last week against Aberdeen I thought Page proved himself today. He really stepped up to the plate. He won most of his headers against taller players and gave a super performance as we held on to win the game . He is my choice.

Rarely have I been so proud of the team as I was today. Ok it wasn't pretty but the young players did brilliantly. I thought Page was the pick of them. He seemed to relish being the senior partner in the middle of the defence. Carswell looks so like Phil O'Donnell. Thought Jennings did a great job covering in front of the defence. Stevie's goal must be a contender for goal of the season. I felt Dundee United beating Rangers was only a good result for us if we won today and we did. Great afternoon.

Lasley is an honest hard working player with very limited ability. (See his record in England) I have never understood the hero worship he gets from the support. Recently I have been watching him closely and yes he often wins the ball but more often than not a passing move we have ends when he gives the ball away. The reaction today when he got stupidly sent off and virtually ended our chances and was then clapped off the park just made me laugh. If Higdon, Hateley, Craigan or whisper Forbes had done what he did the same happy clappies would have been foaming at the mouth. To me Jennings is a far superior player and if we can only afford to keep one of them next season then we should push the boat out to keep Jenno.

Brilliant game last night. How many times have we reduced prices, got a big crowd in and then played crap? Surely some of the extra fans who came along last night will be encouraged to come back after watching that.

I really fear for the day when we start to struggle. I remember relegation from the old first division in 1968 and the years in the eighties when we were in the first division. Then there was the administration season and then the Malpas year. Present day fans do not know they are living. I wonder how new supporters who have seen regular European qualification in recent years will react to a season like one of them. If fans can get into right state bad performances at home against Dundee United, St Mirren and Inverness when we are safely in the top six just wait until we are in a relegation struggle which believe me will come some day, maybe quite soon too. Remember Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen and Dundee United have supports much bigger than us and if they all got their acts together at the same time they should be in the top six. Enjoy what is happening just now. You do not know what you have got until it has gone.

If the ref had seen Higdon's gesture and thought it was inappropriate he would have given him at most a yellow card. He misses it (or thought it was not inappropriate) some wally in the SFA looks at it thinks it is wrong and Higdon gets the equivalent of a red card. You could not make it up. How about the SFA take action against the refs who are shown up as incompetent week after week.

Great to see how different people players performances differently. How anybody could vote for Keith Lasley last night is beyond me. He repeatedly gave the ball away. Yeh he ran about a lot to win it back but a very poor performance from him. Hutch Higdon and Jennings were top men in my book but the vote has to go to Ojamma

I don’t often post my opinion of games and players preferring to read others opinions and keep my thoughts to myself but… I cannot believe the reaction of some on here to Higdon. He is playing probably the hardest position on the park, lone striker with the ball being pumped up to him, back to goal and a defender laying into him from behind. Despite this he wins more balls than he loses and makes good flicks or passes out wide to bring others into the game. To me the problem lies with our much praised midfield. The service to Higdon is poor but also if we are to benefit from his lay offs and flick ons we must have players in midfield who are able and willing to run beyond Higdon. Lasley, Jennings and Hateley are all defensively minded and don’t seem capable of making those sort of runs. Hateley is a good right back but despite what he seems to think he is poor in midfield. He was bad last week against Queens Park and that should have been enough for McCall. Our build up through midfield was far too slow. Contrast how we moved up the park with the way Caley did. When we broke up a Caley attack we passed it around, out to Murphy or Law who both then cut inside and Caley had regrouped I also thought Craigan had an excellent game yesterday. OK he was turned by the guy for the goal but he was commanding otherwise and even his distribution was good. It is interesting to read how differently people see a game and their opinions of different player’s performance. I thought Higdon and Craigan were our best players. If you are looking for players to criticise then top of the list must be Murphy and Law. Murphy has been found out by the opposition. He makes to go down the outside and then turns back inside and gets crowded out. I can’t work out why Murphy was left on. Daley on the left, Humphrey on the right with Ojamma and Higdon through the middle might have stretched them in the last twenty. Murphy was getting nothing out of their right back and Daley might have given him a different problem. As for Law he has been anonymous for weeks. Either get him back on the left where he can combine with Hammell or get him onto the bench.

I thought at the time Jennings was daft. He lost the plot when he did not get the foul for the first tackle and took at wild swing at the player when the ball came near him again. However am I missing something here? Surely if the ref had decided to book him for the reckless tackle (which he deserved) and then decided that the whole thing with Goodwin deserved another yellow card he would have been off and as a result would have got an automatic ONE game ban. How do they think it is fair to give him a two game ban. Or as I said have I missed something?

How does this work in practice. Say if the club says if we sell 8,000 season tickets they will be £100. Do fans then have to promise to buy a ticket and by a certain deadline the club counts the numbers and then decides on the price. What happens if the number falls short of the magic figure. I assume fans can withdraw their offer of buying. What happens if 8015 say they will buy but when it comes to the crunch 300 pull out and don’t buy their ticket. Can’t see it happening personally but I wish we could attract enough people to make it work.

My season ticket works out at £13.50 per game if I get to them all. That for me is good value. I have gone to fewer and fewer away games over the last five years. £20 -£25 is far too much especially when the money is going to the opposition not the Well.

Motherwell has a tradition of great left backs who played for the club for years. Baldy Shaw (before my time) played right throught the fifties. Then Bobby McCallum who others have mentioned. I saw him play and he was outstanding. But as someone else mentioned liked a drink too much and did not achieve his considerable potential. Then there was Joe wark in the late sixties and through the seventies. After them there has been Boyd, McKinnon, McMillan and Hammell, all great players. However to be the best ever you must have played for years and so on this forum there can be no other than Joe Wark as very few posters will remember Baldy Shaw who became groundsman for many years after he stopped playing.

Just looked at the official site and a reserve team beat Dunfermline 3-1 today. Number 4 in the team was listed as Hughes. Was anyone there and was this Stephen Hughes. If so how did he play?

Like others have said I always feared Higdon when he played against us. He seemed to bully Craigan every time. I'm sure I saw him score a cracking goal against us at Falkirk a couple of seasons back. A big strong forward who should get on the end of crosses and hopefully Humph and Jamie will provide them.