Ya Bezzer!

What are we worried about? A bigger team coming in at the last minute? Cos I'm sure the players agent, who presumably knows about the interest, would be dead against something like that happening and would be doing everything in his power to make sure other clubs don't find out.

Try telling those guys that due to its wooden construction the Main stand is a non smoking area. Love the hat social hierarchy - bunnet, trilby, bowler.

Being a journalist is a very difficult job. More and more newspapers are cutting back staff drastically meaning one man has to do the job that formerly two or three or even four did. Anyone who has been in that situation knows mistakes creep in. If you think the Monday guys had one and a half days to write their reports you'd be very much mistaken. Often journalists have to write three articles a day with strict deadlines. They just don't have time to fact check and clear everything. Standards have fallen badly but like everything else a lot of the problem is because of financial cutbacks.

He's tall but skinny. Another one from the bowl of rice and water Motherwell youth system. If you look at the team picture taken at Flamurtari, Forbes is significantly taller than McGarry, Hammell and Lasley and a little shorter than Sutton and Saunder, so I'd guess he's about 5'11 - 6'0 tall.

Football doesn't exist in a vacuum, in Britain it is much more expensive to run any business. We pay more for goods and services, more in rent, more in tax, more in wages etc, etc. At the end of the day the balance sheet rules all. If prices come down, then investment in the team comes down with it. Take your pick - but would you rather pay £18 to watch Motherwell or £10 to watch Clyde?

Little bit worried about this one. Kyle has been terrific since he joined Killie and scored some tremendous goals at the weekend, he's not just a head on a tall body, he's dangerous all over the field - probably the most dangerous striker in the league right now. Kilmarnock also look strong across the midfield - Hamill, Bryson, Taouil, Pascali, Invincibile. Might be a few goals in this one - at either end.

Craigan has a tendency to launch unaimmed balls up the field from the back. I don't think that is the sort of build up play Gannon is looking for. Interesting that's he's picked Reynolds for every match and introduced Hutchinson who are both more ball players who will pass out from the back. Craigan might just be a bit too uncultured as a footballer for Gannon but as a defender he's miles ahead of Hutchinson for instance.

I'd wait until November/December before offering anyone a contract. It's still way to early to judge players. Look at Ruddy - one good game, one average game, one game looked a total bomb scare. So what one is the real Ruddy? All these guys need two or three months of SPL football before we can really get a good idea of what they are worth.

Can't blame the ref for booking Hutchinson. The law is a stupid one but it is a law. It's down to the authorities to change the law. I actually thought McDonald was lenient on Murphy. Shouldn't deliberately hand ball into the net be a sending off offense? If a defender prevented a goal by deliberate hand ball he'd be sent off without question. As for Forbes. Week 1, goal of the season. You simply will not see a better strike than that.

Reality check. Most Scottish clubs are going down the grubber. They have to charge what they do to survive. It's not like they are ripping people off and posting huge profits like BP of millions of pounds a second. At the end of the season when the accounts are done and you are very lucky, you might make a small lose or scrap into the red and a lot of clubs don't even manage that. The prices are set by necessity and expensive as it is facts are Motherwell have generally been pretty good at keeping admission prices and season tickets down in comparison to other teams in the division. It's no good comparing us to Hertha Berlin, they get 40,000+ through the gates, have much greater merchandise sales, sponsorship etc. They live in a different world. If it costs £3,000,000 to run an SPL team for a season then it has to be paid for, no matter if there are 10 or 10,000 people willing to pay. Just so happens we have 4,000 - 5,000 diehards but lets face it no one else is interested. In order to reduce admission to say £10 per game you would have to increase attendance by about 1,800 for every home match over a whole season and that's with out any of the extra money being invested in the team. Not going to happen, I'm afraid.

He's played three times from the start and had one sub appearance out of seven games under Gannon. If the above is correct I imagine he's very much still in the frame, as he should be. We had the same talk about Hammell earlier and it turned out to be nonsense.

I think I heard on the radio highlights go up on the BBC SPL page at 6pm on a Sunday. Might be wrong though, find out in 56 minutes.

A draw away from home isn't bad. And St. Johnstone will give a few teams problems this season.

Same here.

Ha ha ha ha Jesus Christ, rollercoaster indeed!

'MON THE WELL!!!

Sounds like we got off lightly only being 1-0 down. My 2-1 prediction is still on!

Same team as against Steaua.

Terry Butcher did a good job not even taking into consideration he literally had no money to spend on players, McGhee also did a good job, no matter if people didn't like him personally, take a look at the history books and see how many times we've finished 3rd this side of World War II and how many European qualifications we've had. McLean is a legend because he won something but really, if you think about it we had three good seasons (one in a lower division) under McLean in, what was it, 10 years? I remember even before the cup final, being ecstatic that we finished 6th that season which was at the time the highest finish I'd ever seen us have in the league. Therefore McLean is also a legend because he got us up and kept us up in the Premier League (fortunately on occasion) rather than competing at the top end of the league. Expectations have obviously gone up since those days. For everyone that moans on here we've had a pretty successful few years. We've had 6 seasons when relegation was only really a concern once, a cup final, a couple of very unlucky semi final defeats, 3 top six finishes and 2 European qualifications. You probably have to go back to the 1950's and early 1960's to get a comparable period of success for Motherwell.

Maybe I'm wrong here but I can't remember us being at home on the first day of the season to often down the years. The one I remember most was 2-2 against Celtic in the early-to-mid ninties, if my memory is correct Alex Burns scored both of them on his first team debut. We thought we had a superstar on our hands! I remember it because I traveled up from London on a National Express bus to go to the game and went back down on the Sunday. Wouldn't be doing that these days I have to say! The other one I remember was a major let down, getting gupped off Dundee. Caballero and Sara ripped us a new arsehole and it wasn't a pleasant walk home!

I don't think a message board effects the players at all. They get yelled at by team mates, coaching staff, opposition fans and supporters and written about in the media. If you can handle all that you don't need to worry about a message board too much and if you can't then you are never going to be a footballer. It's like being in the creative arts, bad reviews are just part of the job.

It looks good but we can't wear it against Hearts or Aberdeen, surely! You take them out of the equation and we only really need an away strip against Dundee United.

I went 2-1 to Motherwell for my predictor score but I think it will be a tough match. Any 'Well fan with a memory knows McDiarmid Park isn't exactly a happy hunting ground for Motherwell and they have had some decent pre-season results and most of their squad are tough and experienced players have been in the SPL before. Obviously a win is better but coming away with a draw would be no disaster.

Malpas brought in players and for the most part they were all shite. Signing up players doesn't make you a good manager. As for the signing policy I'm a bit puzzled because McGhee was obviously aiming at a higher standard of player to bring in. He failed to do so but if he HAD brought in players from Shrewsbury, Northampton, Basingstoke etc, he would probably have been heavily cricitised for doing so. For some reason Gannon can do this and be praised when others would be getting pelters, probably because the squad was so denuded of folks will take anything to bring the numbers up. Remember McGhee had to bring in players that were better than the squad we already had, Gannon is having to bring players into a squad that has very little competition from established first teamers. It's a different thing altogether.

He's lost 4 out of 6, once each to Flamurtari and Llanelli AFC, not even played a league game and he's a legend? He does talk a good game but talking is the easy bit. No one knows what is going to happen, let's wait and see before we afford him legend status!