David

The first step I would take if I owned the club would be free entry to every under 16 who wanted to come to the games, with the exception of games against the old firm. If we are going to build a fanbase we need to get them at a young age, and the best way to do that is to make the games easily available to them. I mean, we have enough empty seats most weeks anyway...

The tribal aspect attached to the Old Firm clubs in this country mean it's virtually impossible to draw a comparison with any other footballing nation. Both Celtic & Rangers draw a fair chunk of their support from the north & south of Ireland every week, along with a lesser amount of fans coming up from down south. Add to that the amount of people who travel from all over Scotland to watch both sides, along with the Glasgow based fanbase. The only real exceptions can be found in Edinburgh & Aberdeen, where Hearts, Hibs & Aberdeen can draw a decent home crowd most weeks (recent Aberdeen shenanigans apart). The west of Scotland primarily is always going to be faced with the Old Firm pilgrimage every week. The only way to put a dent in that is to make our football more attractive to the local customer. It just so happens that the local customer in Motherwell is pretty skint. We need to be letting under 16's into the games for nothing, and reducing the cost of matchday tickets, especially games that are televised. We can batter about ideas such as reducing the league, expanding the league etc all we want, but if £20 a ticket is too much for the majority when it's 12 teams, it'll still be too much when it's 10 teams or 18 teams. As the financial situation in the country worsens, we'll see less and less people coming to games.

It's not that big a mystery really. Less people can afford £20 to go to a game these days, not to mention the other costs associated with attending football. Simple as that.

Is Craig Brown being replaced then, aye?

I know it's been discussed before, but wouldn't a deal similar to the one being offered by Clyde be worth looking at for the future? I'm assuming that the money that Clyde have taken off the retail price of these tickets is being recouped through the companies involved? A deal like this would see some local companies and shops getting involved as well, which could only be a good thing. Something like this would certainly be worth looking at I reckon.

If we can't go to places like St Mirren and at least look to come away with a draw then we simply can't consider ourselves top four in the SPL. Those are the kind of places we need to be taking something from if we want to compete with the likes of Hearts, Hibs and United.

Fucking hell, that's optimistic!

He may be not too bad a player, but would we rather have him sign a new deal in January, or someone new brought in for another position?

It's still early in the week. Interest in the game will pick up in a day or so.

Remembering the Scotland team under Brown only makes me really sad that we have Levein now

The tabloids have never done that before, and they won't be starting now.

They can't really be blamed for that though. The media are primarily interested in shifting papers, and the Old Firm do that, not Motherwell.

Well, let's hope that at least a couple of his many connections actually does something about it then, eh? So far we've had fuck all.

What has shoddy officiating got to do with conspiracy theories? I haven't seen anyone on here mention conspiracies.

An away game to St Mirren is next on the 'Well agenda this coming Saturday. After the carry-on over offside goals and needless bookings at Easter Road last weekend i'm a bit more optimistic about this game. 3 points would put us right back on track for third place, and with Hearts at home to Accies I think we'll be needing them to keep in touch with them, especially seeing as we are playing them at Fir Park a week on Sunday live on Sky. Inverness are at home to Hibs, so hopefully we can see them dropping something this weekend as well. Any opinions on the line-up, tactics etc?

Fuck Lennon and his bandwagon. Complaining about shoddy officiating isn't exclusive to Celtic. Maybe if more clubs were vocal it would help to point out that Celtic have been the victim of shoddy officiating and nothing more, just like the rest of us.

Or you can raise the issue that the quality of our officials is shocking. The very fact that they face a panel of their pals when they do fuck up is a total joke.

Has anyone any idea what kind of coin he's on? I don't rate him too highly myself, but it all depends on what he's looking for I guess.

The answer is to not go off on one like Lennon does. He does that because he's been in management for 10 minutes and hasn't got a clue. What Brown does is raise the issue in an intelligent and constructive manner, as you would expect of someone of his stature. What I don't think we do is simply resign ourselves to the fact that our top officials are the drizzling shits. Will you still be willing to say "ah well, that's football" if it turns out that we miss out on the Europa League spot by a point? That goal, which could have earned us a point, could prove invaluable come the end of the season.

I don't know about all that, but he needs to get his hair sorted out pronto.

In other words, we just accept shite officiating, eh? Well, that's your choice, but you can't have a go at a manager or fans who go mental because they actually give a fuck. Whilst i'll be the first to admit that Lennon and the Celtic fans have went over the top, it would be nice to see us display a little bit of that refusal to accept shite every now & then

As much as I don't like seeing Scottish born players choosing to play for another country, I couldn't blame him for deciding to switch.

It was a stonewaller. We got played off the park for the first 25 minutes or so, but came into it after that. We deserved a draw I reckon.

I see no problem in refusing to communicate with the media, especially if they are turning a blind eye to any bad decision that Motherwell get. As has been mentioned, if it happens to either of the Old Firm it gets the front page treatment. I would also have liked to have seen a word or two from the club regarding the overlooking of both Mark Reynolds & Jamie Murphy by that fucker Levein.

We need a manager that is willing to call it as he sees it, regardless of what is considered "polite behaviour", and we need enough fans to kick up fuck about it. We have neither of those, so it'll be forgotten about by tomorrow.