El Grew

Regardless of the consequences (likely to be mostly financial) of the Newco being denied entry to the SPL our club must vote 'No'. We definitely will not be the only SPL club that will suffer financially as a result however what amazes me is that ours is the only club that is making noises about going into administration. If what our club has said is true about going into administration if and when the Newco is denied entry to the SPL then much as it pains me to have to say it, perhaps we do not deserve to be an SPL club at all.

If we are to believe and take serious these *rseholes of Rangers FC supporters or rather Rangers FC Trading in Adminstration / Rangers GC in Liquidation then if they are forced to apply to the SFL for entry to SFL Div.3 then by the time they play their way back to the SPL at least 50% of the clubs will have gone out of business!!! Well if that's to be believed then as well as not having a pot to piss in they won't have a league to play in!!!! The sheer audacity and bare-faced ignorance of these knuckle draggers beggars belief.

A definite No. Been a 'Well fan for yonks but have to say if our Club votes to let a newco Rangers back in to the SPL then I'm afraid I won't be going back to the 'Ark and paying my hard earned to watch us. I think people are way over estimating the effect that not having them in the SPL will have. It may be counter-intuitive but I think gates would actually go up with no Rangers and no TV deals. So I honestly hope our Club and others have the balls not to let themsleves be browbeaten, bullied and cowed here and vote to keep them out.

I heard the Dundee Utd chairman on the radio this afternoon basically re-iterating exactly what the Kilmarnock chairman said last week so the books closed on the outcome of any SPL vote!!! Incidentally the current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive), Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Derek Weir (Motherwell FC) and Steven Brown (St Johnstone FC) however Stephen Thomson said that he thought it was unfair that the vote should be taken only by the SPL Board but should be thrown open to all clubs to vote. Why?? So when a difficult decision comes up, those elected to the Board to make decisions on behalf of the rest want to crap out of it so they can everybody's hands in the blood. Oh and and the grapevine has is that the third club with a squeaky bum on this matter is ours.

Yes a truly great result. And what about 21 years ago - April 1991 - Us 3 V Rangers Millionaires Eleven 0. Wee Dougie does it again. Fair doused the party spirit that day as well.

Yet another fair sized support trooped down to Rugby Park and got an all too familiar result. This place has been a bit of bogey ground in the past few seasons and I for one have yet to see a winning 'Well team there. We got what we deserved - nada. Really disappointing display and worried that we still have performances like this in our locker especially at the business end of the season.

George Stevenson managed us. Wille McFadyen managed Dundee Utd. Andy Paton managed Hamilton Accies. Willie Hunter managed Queen of the South. Pat Quinn managed East Fife.

As others have posted this was a great result given the circumstances and the youngsters who stepped in are due all the praise in the world because apart from a shaky beginning they had a terrific game on this evidence have a big future. The are a credit to themselves and the youth coaching set-up at FP. These guys are the future lifeblood of the club and its great to watch them starting out on what will hopefully be successful careers. Some have mentioned Ojamaa maybe wasn't quite himself yesterday but he took an almighty thump from Considine early on (for which the referee rightly booked Considine) and hewas the subject of quite a number of hefty challenges thereafter so he maybe was feeling the effect of these as the game progressed. On the other hand he's only 21 and hasn't missed a game since he arrived and his style of play does burn up the juice so maybe he needs rested for a couple of weeks just to let him re-charge his batteries. One thing that did puzzle me yesterday,was how Considine was allowed to remain on the park - this guy's nothing but a thug - he was on a yellow card but time after time he commmitted fouls and was allowed to get away with them. Most un-Brines like as he usually loves flashing his red card. Oh and the point made by Noah Dosser about Aberdeen being a middle-of-the-road football club apart from the Alex Ferguson years was well-made - if you don't believe it just look at the records.

Well now I'm convinced there's a conspiracy against us! Ian Brines takes charge of the league game against Aberdeen! Jeez if you thought Craig Thomson is/was bad just wait until you see this b*stard at work!

Can't stand them but fair do's for over 2,000 coming all the way down on a Sunday for a game live on TV and with a screwy kick-off time. Not suret that we'd have taken as many up there if the game had been at Pitoddrie?

On yesterday's showing 3 Beanos and a packet of wine gums!

Jeez and I thought the corner that never was, was bad! How the f*ck did he get away with that! I assume UEFA will be looking at this! Grade 1 referee my arse.

The farce that resulted in a corner was down to the linesman who had a crystal clear view of it and he should be taken immediately for an eye test at the SFA's referee sponsors. That said the defending at both Aberdeen goals was schoolboy. The second was probably the worst. When the Aberdeen player skied the ball into the box it was so long in the air and yet none of our defenders bothered to mark Fallon who was under absolutely no pressure at all and all all the time in the world to see the ball and set himself for it right in the middle of our penalty box. Great goal my arse. When anyone gets as much time as that in your penalty box to do something like that then the defenders should get bull-fucked! On the whole I think the game was probably won and lost in the first half and Aberdeen certainly deserved to be ahead at that time although if Higdon scores with the penalty it may well have turned the game around right there and then. One thing that puzzles me is why McCall is starting Jamie Murphy in games. He is quite honestly a shadow of last season and was utter pish today until he got hooked. Maybe he's thinking too much about which club he wants to move to. Well on current evidence its the bench at best at FP for him. Felt sorry for Ojama and Higdon today as they both worked tirelessly without getting a lot of support. I thought Jennings had a really poor game and he and Lasley struggled from the outset and were pushed back onto our back four too often and too easily - in this respect McCall needs to start sharpening up on his tactics and learn to react far quicker when his midfield is getting overrun through being outnumbered as they were today as Aberdeen were able to have runners coming onto our back four almost at will. Another TV game and another sub-standard performance - need to keep live game TV coverage away from FP.

I am sure I read somewhere that the club finishing 2nd in the SPL gets £1.5 million while the club finishing 3rd gets £900K so 2nd spot is well worth aiming at. Everyone's assuming Rangers will win their remaining fixtures but as was evident on Saturday against Hearts and a fortnight ago against Kilmarnock that is by no means a given and we play them at FP shortly. I we could win that one..... Also if we finished 2nd we would be in line for a fair bit of cash from the Champions League excluding any gate monies etc. from games. And even if we fell at the first hurdle of the Champions League we would still go into the Europa League final qualifier for the group stages as a seeded team so more monies to be made that way too - remember if we'd beaten BK Odense we'd have gone into the group stages of the Europa League and been guaranteed a minimum of £2M for that. Anyway you cut it, if we do manage to get second in the SPL then the club stands to get a significant amount of money.

Agreed. Colleague at work is a Hibee and has been very impressed by the way Motherwell have managed this one. He was at the first game with his son and contacted the club to find out what to do about the re-played game. Club took his details and told him not to worry that they would arrange to send him vouchers nearer the time of the re-arranged game. They duly arrived last week and he is mightily impressed wit oue club - said if this had been Hibs it would have been a shambles. He has droppped an email to them thanking them. We are always quick to have a go at the club so its nice to be able to praise them too.

Personally I hope that Jamie stays with us. We have a really good squad of players at present with loads of options in the forward department which IMO is no bad thing as long as we can afford to keep them all especially with a good prospect of European football ahead. Oh and if Huddersfield Town of the English 1st Division (the old 3rd Division) are prepared to pay £300K for Murray Wallace (a defender mark you) from Falkirk then surely to goodness if Motherwell are in a selling mood with Jamie Murphy and Sean Hutchison then this has to be the level of the bids considered?

I would be dismayed to see any of our younger players being poached away for lowly transfer fees, for the obvious reason that the club gains little financial reward but more for the players themselves because as experience has shown those young players who left us in the past for so-called better things (money and playing at a higher level) have not found it plain sailing and most if not all have been or are being hawked around as loan players - David Clarkson, Mark Reynolds, Paul Quinn - to name but three. Also, look at Stephen Pearson, now 30 years of age and at that high spot of football Bristol City. Others that come to mind are Graham Smith, Brian Kerr, Stephen Hughes, Jim O'Brien and Jim Paterson who although not in the young players category also thought the road out of FP only led up the way and yet... This has to be balanced by the fact that like it or not we are a selling club and players do have to be sold to keep the club solvent - we simply do not take in enough revenue from other sources to do otherwise . Added to that we don't have a chairman and board and IMO this also hinders us because I'm sorry to say that I don't think the Membership Scheme that the club are championing is working and therefore as there may be an urgent need to raise cash the club will be forced to sell players and not be too choosy about haggling over their transfer values.

Folk need to take a reality check here. Our wee team are (and have been for most of the season) in 3rd spot in the SPL and have a right good chance of bringing us European football to FP again. A club in our position deserves to be pulling in more fans than we are at present - geez if Aberdeen, Hearts or Hibs were where are and have been for a number of seasons now they'd probably be filling their grounds. IMO the club has the solid makings of a right good squad of players at present - a right good base of solid dependable players plus some with no little skill and flair that can win games for us. I just hope we can manage to hold onto all of them and maybe add a few more in the close season. I've always believed that the time to strengthen is when you are in a strong position and that you need to speculate to accumulate. I believe we have now become a really settled SPL football club which now (righlty) sees itself as a top six club as opposed to a bottom six club and this is a magnet to attract good players together with the fact that FP seems to be a place where players are happy - every new player that has come to the club speaks highly of the great atmosphere at the club and in the dressing room. Also young players coming to the club do get their chance at the first team unlike at bigger clubs and that too is a good draw for them coming to FP. Having said all of that I appreciate that we have and probably will continue to suffer from a serious lack of funding and that it won't be easy for us to repeatedly do what we are doing season after season but as others have said, take a deep breath, suck it in and enjoy what we have at present.

One of the best all round team performances I've seen from us in a long time - the Craigan sending off seemed to galvanise us. Hope this kick-starts us again. The referee (again and I know he's an easy target) but he was very poor and his competence to be officiating at Grade 1 level must be questioned. Overall his decision making and handling was bad and in the worst of these he booked 3 Motherwell players needlessly in my view; allowed his main stand linesman to incorrectly rule Ojaama offside when he scored; and missed a blatant penalty for Dunfermline when Hutchison shoved one of their forwards to the ground in the penalty area. The accusation levellled against referees by fans week in, week out, is that the majority of them are simply not competent and when some of their major decisions get reviewed, they apologise for making an error (e.g. the ICT sending off against Celtic earlier in the season) but no action is taken.

If we can finish 3rd or 4th then maybe the prospect of European football could be a carrot for him + it might also bring the club some much needed extra funds.

Oh I don't know about that - what about John Gardner?

The attitude of some on this post towards Mark Reynolds is ridiculous! The guy was one of the best young players to come through at FP and he was, due to circumstances, asked to play in the wrong position as he was a left-back when he made his first team debut and not a centre-back and IMO had to play alongside one of the poorest centre-backs ever at FP. But he never complained once and always gave his all in a C&A shirt. I think he had to play far too many games too early in his career and he should have been introduced more gradually. That said, he matured into a right good pro and who can blame him for wanting to try playing at a higher level at Sheffield Wednesday who are IMO at best a Premiership club and at worst at Championship club. It wasn't his fault that the manager that signed him got sacked and the new manager does not fancy him - that's sometimes how it goes when new managers go to clubs. Personally I wish Mark all the very best for his future career and I think he will make a terrific difference to a mediocre defence at Aberdeen and will get his chance to play at a higher level again as age is on his side. Obvioulsy I hope that when we play Aberdeen he ends up on the losing side.

They will certainly be no pushovers but hey we got a home draw so we should be up for it and take full advantage. I'd have been more concerned if we had to trek down to Greenock.

Really sad news. He was a frequent visitor to my place of work and always took the time to pass the time of day and have a quick chat about the 'Well. He was one of the last remaining links at FP to my childhood days going to FP in the early '70s. A true gentleman in every sense of the word and a stalwart and diehard for MFC. His presence at the club will be well missed. Bill will be sadly missed by all who knew him (inside and outside FP) and my sincere condolences go to his family.

I've seen all the left-backs from Joe Wark onwards and IMO Joe was head and shoulders above everyone else. However the great Ben Ellis certainly must get a mention.