Ya Bezzer!

You are making him sound like Ross Tokely....

Oh. Oh dear.

Surely in this day and age it would be fairly cheap to produce a DVD and you could sell it at a decent margin. I'd love to have a end of season DVD with all the goals, highlights of the best matches etc. As for demand - surely there would be more demand for a DVD than some of the items you can buy in the shop like a decanter with the club badge on it! It doesn't have to be tremendously professional - just get good picture quality footage of the seasons highlights on a DVD. Bang! There's a tenner.

Come on! We were back in it for a wee while when Partridge scored. To be honest seems a lot longer than five years ago. One of the very few Motherwell matches where I left before the final whistle. I was absolutely raging! Main memory is waiting on the train having changed at Newton with the hundreds of other 'Well fans and not one person saying a word. Argh!

I don't actually think this is a very good idea. This is the first season in ages that I've not had a season ticket but almost everyone in my boat will know someone that does have a season ticket so I'll probably be taking advantage of his and getting in for free when I'd usually be paying at the game. Also 'Season Ticket holders you paid full whack and your pal doesnae'. As we've already seen this is likely to upset some people and to be fair putting aside all the arguments about the reasons people buy season tickets that is a little unfair. Would have been better to either reduce prices to a level that would actual attract a bigger crowd (say £10 or even £5) or give out free tickets at schools. Also one of the major reasons attendances are down in the SPL is that its so expensive most cannot afford to travel to away games. Are we doing anything to encourage away supporters to come to the ground? In my opinion its much easier to introduce initiatives to attract 500 or 1,000 away supporters to come to your ground than it is to attract neutrals. Not only does it improve the atmosphere in the ground (please don't put them in the top tier unless the bottom tier is full!" it also brings in additional revenue to the club.

I'm not sure where I got that previous figure. I actually have 292 but I think I've had that argument with people before!

Yeah those are total appearances not league appearances I think.

I have a post-war list somewhere but I'll need to find it and it will be a little out of date. EDIT. OK, a little out of date but gives you a general idea. League appearances - it's not my list so I can't vouch for the veracity of it! I found it on the internet somewhere. Obviously Stevie Hammell would be much higher up the list and Craigan has 200+ appearances. I think I'm right in saying David Clarkson would also make the 200+ list. EDIT - Started updating it. Corrigan, Craigan, Hammell, Clarkson. Anyone else likely to have gone over the 200 league appearances mark? Joe Wark - 469 Willie Kilmarnock - 452 John Johnston - 323 Charlie Aitken - 313 Archie Shaw - 313 John Philliben - 302 Andy Paton - 301 Stevie Kirk - 301 John Martis - 297 (Stevie Hammell - 291) John Gahagan - 284 Willie McCallum - 277 Chris McCart - 260 Tom Boyd - 256 Dougie Arnott - 240 (I have Arnott on a final total of 253 league appearances) (Stephen Craigan - 251 by my count) Bert McCann - 246 Ian McLeod - 243 Martyn Corrigan - 208 (I have Corrigan on a final total of 242 league appearances) Brian Martin - 237 Willie Hunter - 229 Willie Redpath - 226 (David Clarkson - 220 by my count) Jim Forrest - 215 Andy Weir - 202

We were 7th for one week, ironically after the start of Brown's good run with 2 wins and a draw. However by that stage most of the teams had caught up with us to to the poor run of Gannon's latter days. The stat that matters is that Brown has won 8 out of 12, Gannon won 4 out of 17.

It has to be worrying that we have a lower average attendance this season than Falkirk or Kilmarnock considering the contrasting performances this season. If you exclude matches against Rangers, Celtic and Hibernian we've only had one 5,000+ attendance all season and that was the first home match of the season.

Our home support should be bigger than it is, especially during a 12 match unbeaten run but Hearts are supposedly the third biggest team in Scotland, have something like 15,000 season ticket holders and the brought maybe 400 fans today. Hearts away form really is abysmal though so maybe you can't really blame Hearts supporters for not traveling!

Tough decision today - lots of good performances. Though Mark Reynolds had an excellent game, Lasley and Jennings were excellent in the middle of the park, Murphy was superb especially in the first half, O'Brien looked lively, Hammell was solid. Would give it to John Sutton though. Terrific in attack and defence.

You almost felt sorry for the boy Thomson. Murphy absolutely roasted him in the first half.

Hearts didn't bring a big support only about 400 or so. More than deserved the win even although we played in 2nd gear for most of the match.

On form we should be beating Hearts at home but then we have ridden our luck a bit in the last couple of matches. 2-0 Motherwell.

MOTHERWELL H v Hearts A v Dundee United H v Falkirk A v Celtic DUNDEE UNITED A v Aberdeen A v Hibernian H v Motherwell A v St. Johnstone H v Rangers HIBERNIAN A v Hearts H v Dundee United A v Falkirk H v Celtic A v Hamilton

Big sigh of relief, the unbeaten run continues, no goal conceded again and now let's beat Hearts.

Doubt it since St. Johnstone have about 4 games in hand.

I'd take 0-0 from this, say thank you very much and get then get wired into the Jambos.

Yeah but generally attendances are down. Our average attendance dropped by 1,500 between season 2004/05 and last season (6,960 to 5,521). Our current average attendance is the worst in the last 10 years although it might improve if we have some big Battle for Europe type matches; against that Celtic probably won't bring a big support and we might have them twice at Fir Park.

Probably right since Mehmet is on the bench. Ruddy - Saunders, Craigan, Reynolds, Hammell - Coke, Forbes, Hateley, Jennings, Humphrey - Sutton.

Broon has more or less said he wants to give guys a rest before the Hearts game so they are fresh for Saturday.

Formation change - back five with Saunders brought back in....

We've more or less put a flag up saying "someone please buy Mark Reynolds" but its not to finance transfer movements its to keep the wolf from the door. We need to sell Reynolds because we are losing money with gates down and tv money diminished and need to keep bringing in transfer fees. The idea that we could get 350K to spend from a 500K fee for Reynolds to bring in players its naive to say the least. If any money is made available it will be for a players annual wage, not for transfer fees. The days of us spending 350K on transfer fees are over, forget it.

Mowbray hasn't signed or even been linked (as far as I know) to any player in the SPL. Considering the number of changes he's made that tells you something. He doesn't see it as a market place for Celtic players. I'd be very surprised if Mowbray ever signs a player from another SPL club in his time at Celtic, however long that might be. OK, Ruddy technically isn't a Motherwell player but you get the idea.