Ya Bezzer!

If the bonus was agreed then we should just pay up. Maybe put in a wee handwritten slip with the payslip... "The last performance bonus of your career, from your former employer. John."

The way I read that he put in £435k up £300k on the previous season, ie he put in 135k the season before. Dundee Utd have big debts so they probably are paying out more on interest and repayments than we are.

Well Michael Stewart left the club, that probably accounts for about 4 red cards a season!

Hearts only have 2 red cards this season, same as us. Think Accies are the Red Card Kings this season.

If Randolph goes, I'm pretty sure Tomas Cerny is out of contract at Accies. Would be a decent replacement.

I'm guessing the vast majority of season ticket holders got their tickets today considering it was a public holiday. I think there will be a steep decline in sales over the next the rest of the week with it picking up again on Saturday. It's looking like we will sell all or most of the tickets but I fancy there to be a few thousand left for the ballot at the end of the week although I can imagine some folks will be sweating over getting one.

Totally agree, though he played him self out of the Final on Saturday. We had three players in contention for right back but if Hateley plays in midfield, I'd rather stick Saunders in there than Ross. Of course it depends on Saunders not being injured and keeping his form up but Ross had a bit of a howler it has to be said. I'd also pick Hutchinson over Gunning any day of the week and Craigan has to start to. Agree with the 4-5-1 formation with us looking to Murphy and Humphrey to attack. Celtic's full backs are better attacking than defending so it's important we try and given them something to worry about and not let them come on to us and push us back. I'd have someone follow Kris Commons all afternoon. Celtic are pretty strong across the midfield, in fact three of my four midfield picks for team of the season would be Celtic midfielders but I do think they are dodgy in defence and if you can pressure them we can definitely one or two goals.

Went up to Fir Park at 10.30am. Came home at 3pm! Only the 4 and a half hours standing then. Still, I've got my ticket even if my back and knees are jiggered. The 'wee wummin at the windae' said there would be plenty tickets left for non season ticket holders to pick up. I reckoned there was about 600 people in the queue ahead of me, at say, 3 tickets on average per person equaling 1,800. Then there was probably about 300 people behind me equaling roughly another 1,000, plus late comers. Then there was the people that got their tickets before I got there and those that went to the shop. So I'd 'guesstimate' that we sold about 3,500 at Fir Park and assuming the shop wasn't as busy say 1,500 - 2,000 there for a total of about 5,000 - 5,500 which is funnily enough roughly our core support!

Jennings and Murphy were the best players, in the first half anyway. Went for Jamie Murphy.

We never really played our top game today but up till 2-0 we looked like we could get a result. After that all the pressure was off Rangers and you could see our heads go down. Best forgotten, move on.

Wasn't the last win at Fir Park the first one Rangers had got there since Walter Smith came back?

Good shot stopper but hopeless on crosses.

Good stuff. Most be getting old cause I was at most of those games!

Celtic have Hooper, Stokes and Samaras all under contract for the foreseeable future, plus Maloney and others. Can't see Celtic coming in for him. Rangers on the other hand.... I don't think he will go down south though. He's tried that a couple of times and its not worked out for him. He knows this league, has been relatively success here and I think he'll stick to the SPL. He'll either go to a bigger club in the SPL or stay at Fir Park.

We've already beaten Celtic at home, we need to do over Rangers as well in this season of seasons. It will also probably end Rangers title hopes and put to bed any end of season controversy which I'm sure everyone wants to avoid. Rangers at Fir Park was arguably our worst home performance of the season but I think we'll be up for this one with the Final coming up and we will want to prove a thing or two.

Not a fan of Runrig or Celtic music for that matter but I was in a pub up in Crieff recently and they had some live music on. Guy ended with this, everyone was totally jaked and it got pretty wild, everyone singing and dancing around. Great stuff. Again, everyone knows the words. PS - Crieff pub guys version was much better than that Runrig pish! PPS - Oops, meant to edit. Delete the top one!

Just finished up my last job so it will depend on getting something else between now and then.

You can't win. We take 4,000 regulars and we get called a wee diddy club. We take 20,000 and our support is 'glory hunters'. Personally I want as big a Motherwell support as we can possibly muster. I'm sure it must be a big boast to the players to look to our half of the stadium and see it filled with flags, scarfs, colours and singing. And although I go to virtually every home match, there are plenty people who just can't make it with any regularity. People who can't afford the prices of modern day football, people who work weekends, people who work shifts or only get to see their loved ones at weekends, people who live in other areas of Scotland, or England or abroad. Then there are people who maybe aren't so interested in football but want to support the town in a high profile match. There are lots of reasons why people will go to this game but not turn up normally. And one other thing. Are they really glory hunters? If you are really hunting glory doing so by supporting Motherwell in a Final against Celtic probably isn't the ideal way to do that. If you hunt glory you don't support Motherwell, you support one of the other two, one of which we are playing in the final. The only glory hunters at this match will be in the other end.

No, not thinking of that game. Weird, I thought Derek Adams scored in that match and Spencer got the winner. Looked it up, 1-0. Memory playing tricks!

Mad televised rants against the Old Firm were classics. I suppose the one match I most 'connect' to John Boyle was the 2-1 win against Rangers at Fir Park when John Spencer scored the winner on his debut. Seemed like a new era of success and big name signings was coming...

Yeah, you get a sort perverse pleasure watching the celebrations of the other teamsafe in the knowledge that we come back, like 'Ha! 3-0 you think your going to win don't you?'

Strangely we've not had Willie Collum in a league match all season until now. He did ref the League Cup Quarter and Semi finals though against Dundee Utd and Rangers. Here's our Ref Record! (wins this season) McLean (4) out of 4! Cup final ref please! Tumilty (3) Brines (3) Allan (2) Muir (1) Norris (1) O'Reilly (1) Collum (1) Conroy (1) Richmond (1) Murray (1) Thomson (0) McDonald (0) Finnie (0) Conroy (0) Does anyone know if any penalty points picked up by players in the league run in can effect their availability in the Cup Final?

Semih Aydilek! Might as well but Nessie, Sasquatch and Chupacabras on the list!

Obviously we are not the favourites but it's a final, it's a one off game and we can definitely win it and I hope our supporters and club staff and players have that attitude. Celtic are beatable, we have already beaten them and our defeats have been close ones. One game away from glory, one great performance from lifting the cup. Celtic will be there next season or the season after that but it might be another 20 years or longer before we get this chance again so when the chance of victory is rare you better take it. The fans should give the team 100% backing and hopefully the players give us 100% on the field. If they do we have a chance of having the greatest day in the history of the club. 'MON THE WELL!

The 5-1 humping would have been under Labour/Blair. Might start voting Tory now!