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£1000 per week = £50000 per year times 20 players = £1m add in coaching staff etc and £1.3m is not an unusual amount. I would think that wage bill could be anyone of ten clubs. I would be very worried if an entire budget was based on TV finances, surely no one is that stupid

Damn, I wanted to say that.

I don't know, I know we have been linked in the press with several players (ok, I don't believe any of the shite they print either) and have apparently lost out to other clubs of a similar, or arguably lower, standing to ours. I think that is due to finance, and not McGhee's desire, or otherwise, to change jobs. It may, however, be contributing to his (alleged) desire to change jobs.

So you think that if targeted players would rather sign for St. Johnstone or Dundee then that is not down to money? I agree that if McGhee is going to go then he should go now, personally I hope he doesn't, but I don't see that the new guy, if there is one, will be any more successful at bringing in players. Lee Beevers is, apparently, going to snub us, and with us European football, for a lower league English club. That is almost certainly down to money.

We know where we stand, we have a manager who is under contract, and that will not change until and unless someone approaches us for him. Last season everyone was moaning that McGhee was touting himself at every opportunity, now everyone is moaning that he is saying diddly squat. We didn't sign anyone last year 'cos we don't have the money, we're not going to sign anyone this year 'cos, guess what, we don't have the money and whether McGhee or anyone else is in charge that isn't going to change, so calm down and wait till the roller-coaster starts moving again in July.

David Clarkson, without a shadow of a doubt.

Ah crap, I was hoping for a first round league cup tie away to Montrose.

Thanks Leeann, I think I can cope with that arrangement.

Hi Leeann, I have a question about this, my daughter is leaving school this summer and will be going to college in the autumn, how can she prove her eligibility for a student ticket in the absence of a matriculation card?

Surely though McGhee is just replying to a journalist's question regarding Mixups quotes in yesterday's papers about the pressure being on us, I agree that a better response would have been "Don't pay any attention to what Mixup says, he's a fat fud" but I prefer to hear someone speak his mind rather than trot out the usual manager speak clichés.

You could be right, my memory isn't that good. I checked back the fixtures for those seasons and we lost 4-0 to the mankies in both seasons late on. Which game had the scum in the cooper (officially) I have no idea.

I think it was 2002-03, the year we finished bottom and Falkirk's stadium shambles saved us. It was a pre split game played after the split, possibly the game when Cowan got his leg snapped by Lambert but I'm not too sure about the last bit. Oh aye, good decision at last, pity it's three years too late but hey-ho.

Whole hearted agreement from me. I've signed.

Seeing as the poll wasn't up when I first posted I'll add an amendment. I don't really fit into any of the options in the poll, my Dad was from Fife and didn't bother with football. My Mum is from Motherwell but her Mum was from Ayrshire so of my four grandparents, only one was from this area and he died before I was born, so I didn't have any family influencing my choice of team. I went with my brother to games and it didn't occur to me to support anyone other than my local team. We went all over the country following the 'Well in the late seventies and early eighties but after he moved to Manchester with his work for a while, we got out of the habit of going so it became an occasional game rather than an obsession for me. It was only when I had kids of my own and I was determined that they wouldn't be influenced by peer pressure to be old scum fans that I started going back to games with them in tow. The oldest doesn't really bother now, although she is still nominally a 'Well fan, but the younger one loved it so I got us season tickets and we still go every week. She is now old enough to head off to away games without me so she goes to even more games than I do. It reminds me of when my brother and I started going to away games. Ah, the circle of life. Great topic this

First game was a League cup game versus Clyde in about 1967, tagged along with my big brother (I suspect my Mum told him if he didn't take me and keep an eye on me he wasn't going) For years I was convinced it was a nil nil draw till I read 'Well again and it turns out it was a 2-2 cracker I remember just about none of it. I'm still going now but my brother isn't. I got him and his daughter those free season ticket jobs for the Hamilton game, I doubt he'll rush back.

Dixie Deans, until he signed for "them" then it was Keith Mcrae and Joe Wark, couldn't put a rizla paper between them.

Three curses, Ian Brines is refereeing the game.

Wishy Well That was so good I think I'll just come on here every two months and ask that question, it'll save me wading through some of the cack on here to find the interesting bits. Numbers 2 and 10 made me laugh out loud.

Nah, just your bank details so the money can be paid directly into your account.

Went for big Maros as he was prepared to stand up to Scott Brown when the ref wasn't, the wee git was at it from the first whistle when he tried to mix it with Sutton before any Motherwell player had been within ten yards of the ball, obnoxious little toad that he is. No failures today but the Loanee superstar is top dollar for me.

At the time I couldn't understand why Mensing's goal was chopped off but having watched the highlights on the BBC site the handball is quite clear, especially from the camera in the South stand, turns out that Dougie McDonald did make a correct decision on Saturday after all.

The author Quintin Jardine.

I was in the home end for the first half and couldn't see a thing, went out at half time, along the front of the main stand where loads of people were demanding their money back (They had no joy, somethings never change ) and went in the gate at the away end, in those days they opened the gates at half time, and stood on the side of the ash slope where the rest of the main stand should have gone. I could see about a third of the pitch but could at least see Pettigrew's penalty hit the net. Sheer bedlam and as most of us oldies have said the "ahem - official" crowd of 26,000 was at least 5,000 low if not more. By far the biggest crowd I have ever been in at Fir Park.

I was at that game too and KMcAlpine is quite right, Willie McLean just outdid Fergie at his own game. If St. Mirren fans really want to moan about something from that era of their club, I suggest they start with their board for getting rid of Ferguson and allowing Aberdeen to snap him up and see him turn their club into the success that it was, that could easily have been St. Mirrens glory had their board had any balls.

Motherwell awarded a penalty Motherwell score a penalty Get in there!