MelvinBragg

Surely as a St Mirren fan, the correct answer is "He's Black and White through and through"...

No one tell you, big man?? Our season finished about three weeks ago....

I'm of the same mind, kind of. The only thing I would say, and someone else mentioned it somewhere else on this thread, if it were to happen you could use these games as your pre-season build up and consider entry into the UEFA cup proper a bonus if you make it...

Having looked at the Fair Play tables that some people have posted links to, it's not exactly a country mile we lead by. And we have Maros Klimpl. To quote the old maxim, it's not the despair that kills you, it's the hope...

Don't be silly, why wait for confirmation when you can get yourself hyped up over the slightest possibility? As Tweed hinted at earlier, we may be in the spot at the moment but we have Dougie McDonald as our referee on Wednesday night. And a Lanarkshire derby to follow...

Apparently it's in the Express that although Dundee's bid for Mackay and Davidson has been accepted, there is interest from SPL sides. I'm assuming we'll be one of them...

How many can you see??

Apparently, it's July not June...

Not so much a change, Tweed, as a depressing continuation. Though I have to say I'm glad that Frazzle has outed himself as the man to blame if we don't get there. As in "Who f***in jinxed it?" "That was Frazzle". Oh and the Dougie McDonald thing had occured to me as well...

And just to further dampen your spirits, we now face the prospect of four SPL games without a Motherwell player making a tackle...

Do they wear sombreros in Kazakhstan?? I'm not counting my chickens yet. Unless McGhee sends Klimpl back to Denmark...

Would you want this Motherwell team going into the last day against Kilmarnock needing something...?

I thought the Porter loophole had been closed by UEFA?

A lot of talk of our goal difference being too good for us to go down. A couple of 3-0 defeats in the next couple of games change anyone's minds...?

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!

McLeish also signed Valakari and Owen Coyle. Just to try and add some mitigation...

Sums up perfectly why I love the guy. Even if we get a player with the same level of ability (on our budget, doubtful), would we get someone as willing to run himself into the ground for the cause? At the moment, letting this guy leave would be folly of the highest order...

He was a novice when at Fir Park. It would be churlish to suggest that he's learned nothing in the last 14 years he's been a manager. He's probably a better manager now than he was then. Doesn't make him a great manager. And doesn't mean I'll remember his time at Fir Park with any more fondness...

As would I, big man, but don't kid yourself that Arsenal don't win the battle before they start playing football. The most successful of Wenger's team's had Patrick Viera in it. Shrinking violet, he was not...

The fact he's only scored one gaol fewer than Steven Fletcher and two more than Lee Miller, guys who get raved about in the media, tells me he's a more than decent SPL striker. The fact that he genuinely seems to love playing for Motherwell probably means he gets an easier ride or more praise from some of us. As it's always been for guys who give 100% for Well...

I normally agree with a lot of what you say but I'd say Reynolds is far more replaceable than Clarkson. Trying to find someone to score maybe 10 goals in the SPL in the summer is going to be hard enough, without looking for two of them...

Would take some money to replace Clarkson. IF we get offers for Reynolds is the key question. I can perhaps see Hearts coming back in for him, beyond that I'm not so sure...

Aye, cos 1 in 3 is a terrible ratio for a Motherwell striker. As Tweed pointed out in another thread, we don't exactly create much for our forwards. And without even thinking, he was pivotal in the build up for O'Brien's goal recently. I'm sure if you look at the other goals we've scored, he'll be in and about most of them...

I actually thought Clarkson's play had been pretty poor for the first half of this season. But even given that he's chipped in the goals. I love the guy, and I fear for us next season if he's not in Claret and Amber. He's the one guy in our team that you know will run through a brick wall for Motherwell. Sometimes this season he's tried too hard, to do too much. If you don't believe he's the main threat in our team, watch who the opposition choose to boot up the air at every opportunity, the next time we play...

I don't think anyone with half a brain expects us to be top half every season. I'm happy to stay in the league every year. I think what does rankle with me is the manner of performances that lead us to where we finish. One of my favourite seasons watching Motherwell was the season we finished bottom under Butcher. But the performances always had a bit of bite about them, we were in people's faces, and if we lost it wasn't for the lack of effort. Now I know it's hard to replicate that kind of spirit that came from being in administration, but I expect teams to have to work hard to beat us. If that happens, fair play to them. Being honest, I know where our place is in the grand scheme of things. I just want some of the doggedness of a McLean or a Butcher team. Far easier teams to love. These players are capable of it (the cup tie at Tynecastle last season). Just wish we saw it more often...