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As has been said, utter pish today. What has happened? Randolph made a good save but in general looks a shadow of last seasons self. The two centre halves were a bombscare. Jennings looked like he had just got out of bed. Didnt notice murphy was playing until the second half. Higdons had his worst game for us...yet still not the worst player. We have a very strong starting 11 and our early season form shows that but they have become unbelieveably complacent. We need to drop a few and bleed in the youngsters to give them a wake up call. Folk will say that we cant rely on youth but one way or another we have to i'm afraid. Its part of our club to bring through youth and sell on so that we can compete at the top end of the spl. For the hibs game we should be dropping clancy for page, humph for daley, murphy for lawless, jennings for forbes, higdon for mchugh and call me mental but hollis for randy. I'm actually looking forward to the tuesday to see how we react. But I for one will not be a happy chappy if its the same, predictable starting 11 again.

It might just be me being a bitter, paranoid well fan but from the highlightds on sunday night did it look a bit like stokes left the boot in? I remember thinking that when watching the tv highlights but its not showing it on the online highlights. Real shame for Hutchie, doesnt seem to be getting much luck in the injury dept - just hope theres some silver lining from this.

Exactly. If Page is ever going to make his breakthrough with us, its now. I know that he was a hit at stirling and he seems to have done well in the cup games he's played in (all be it against lower league opposition). Hopefully he will take his chance and give mcall a real selection headache when hutchy and saunders return!

I think you have completely missed the point here. McCall has done a fantastic job since he came in - I dont think any well fan will argue with that. End of. But I for one do care whether or not we get pumped by the old firm. As i said before, I dont always expect a result but I expect a game to watch and hopefully enjoy. If we get dogged every time we play them in the league and never expect anything, how are we ever meant to beat them in the cup? If the team arent going to turn up then why should we? Why bother buying a season ticket if we can immediately write off 3/4 games a year - thats not including the ones we cant make anyway.

Totally agree with ya bezzer on this. 9 goals to 1 is shocking by anyones standards. Totally disagree with this too (other than the first bit of course). If I pay £26 to get in to parkhead/ ibrox then of course I dont expect a result every time but I expect to see a battle. If we lose 1-0 fighting then fine, but to get pumped and then have to put up with the neddy, scummy pr1cks the other side of the barrier is NOT how I want to spend my weekends!

My thoughts exactly...don't really understand this whole situation! Is it just me or is this quoted figure of 25k from the old boy getting bigger all the time??

Interested to know if i'm the only one to disagree with this? IMO all Kyle has that sutton doesnt is his thuggish nature and being a moaning faced b*****d. As much as I hate to say it i think sutton could be awesome in the hearts team if he is given time to settle...

Seconded, would hate to see a meldrum or a smith back. If randolph is sold, we should go for cerny... Any news on sutton or jennings signing a contract yet?

Say what you like about Boyle but Brown should know better than to react in that way. He left the club under very bad circumstances and knows how Boyle felt about it. So anything Boyle said (unless it really was something shocking) doesn't justify that response. If he is as dignified as he likes to think he is he would have ingnored it. And for what it's worth, I reckon hes full of shit when he says he knows things that could embarrass the club. If he did he would have been away at aberdeens first offer. Basically, he's made an arse of things, knows it, and is trying to hide it.

Did the wee h*n not get booted out too? Thats shite if not, he was so clearly the problem and that is just sheer incompetence on the stewards/ police behalf. As for the ref...all refs in this country they are all scared of bad limelight by giving a wrong decision against the old scum and it being all over the papers and news. A wrong decision against a diddy club though is fine.

To be fair the bookies never actually said they have evidence against Jennings. The papers/ media said that. Reading between the lines though all they really said is they had evidence to take the investigation further...could mean anything really. Still doesnt answer the question why they haven't gotten any further with it though.

If he is better than hutchison and page then he'll have a good half season here and then be back at blackburn pushing for a place. This will mean hutchy/page's development as a motherwell player will be stunted as both look pretty capable just now. Totally agree with shaka on this one. IMO we should be looking at replacing craigan, I like him and reckon hes great behind the scenes but hes been skating on thin ice a lot recently. I hope hes just there to groom hutchy into the role and then let page step in next year. Having said that good luck to the boy and to halsman off to dumbarton as well. Never seen him play but he must be quite highly thought of in the lower leagues now. Does anyone know if hes better left back or left mid?

Im sorry but the most embarrassing thing surrounding this incident is the reaction on this forum. Leanne Dempster came on here to post and (im assuming) read pages and pages of shite, ripping into the club and directors. This is OUR club. Support it. If anyone thinks this tiny wee incident is embarrassing then you obviously werent sitting in the away end at pittoddrie when some arsehole fans were chanting "mcghee is a peado". The last few months have been unfortunate, we have made a couple mistakes and been shafted a couple times but dont kick the club when were down. Get to fir park today and cheer the boys on and do what fans are supposed to do!!

How? No one cares except what appears to be the majority of fans on here. A similar thing happened with kyle letheran last season but no one was overly bothered because he was signed as a back up. Now when we sign someone who appears to be more than a back up its an outrage/joke/embarrassment/disgrace etc? Its a blow and I think most of you are letting that take over the fact that this really isn't a big deal. Support the club ffs. I for one am fed up of moaning support and people on here branding OUR club a disgrace for this nothing incident tops it off. If he had been shite, there would be people on here branding mccall a disgrace for bringing him in. Onwards and upwards. EDIT: none of that necessarily aimed at you milo, just wanted to highlight the point you made

I know its unbelievable! Disgrace?! Fuck me!! Lennon and celtic are a disgrace, rangers fans in manchester were a million times a disgrace. This little incident is a different ball game!

Agree with you there! Its very frustrating as we could have had someone else in for tomorrow instead. I just dont see how it disgraces us, if anything its a disgrace of a rule! Whats the logic behind it?!

No i dont feel embarrased and i dont see why should we. Its a stupid wee rule, the guy hadnt even played 90 mins for leeds. Not the same situation but what about kyle letheran last year? His transfer was cancelled for some other daft reason. So things like this happen. I'd agree with the whole season generally being a bad run of events but thats no different to a lot of other clubs. Its a big kick in the balls but we'll survive, grella wasn't the only option. Mccall will have other targets.

For fuck sake its a mistake made because of a daft rule. It doesnt make us a disgrace or a joke or embarrassing. Its a kick in the balls but as motherwell fans we should be used to that. Dont start mocking and slagging our team and the clubs staff because of it. We wont be out of pocket and were not the first nor last team this will happen to.

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I liked Dougie Ramsay. Was i the only one? I still, to this day, am surprised he never made it with us long term. Though I was quite young at the time so maybe not such a critic back then!! Well theres add ons to the £100K. This could be something like a 10-20% sell on clause so could be worth a lot more in the long term. I cannot believe this grella situation by the way. Still think we should let bob go to partick though

Ha! Na i hadnt noticed that - makes sense now as Hughes has legs like a flamengo! Think we might have picked up a couple players today that could do a job for us. Things looking up! Mon the well!!

Why? He was a brilliant player for us

Sorry if its already been posted but are entry prices not set by the SPL as opposed to the club? That was my understanding anyway. I agree that the price is too high but don't necessarily think the standard is worse than ever. Were are a little short at this moment in time but thats all IMO.

For me, its a combination. 1) TV 2) Old firm greed 3) The fact that people dont stop going on about it. Every time the radio is on before or after the game all you hear is overused cliches such as "The state of the scottish game...", "sums up the financial position of scottish clubs", "not value for money" etc etc. Surely this negativity is putting people off going? Think about it with any other product/service e.g. a restaurant - if a handful of people tell you its shite then you steer clear.

+1 Does no one remember the nick of the pitch 12 months ago?