steelboy

agree 100%. surely we've learned our lesson after malcolm and gow. i wouldn't get too excited about senior players, it's more likely to be craggs or hammell adding another year than jenno or sutton agreeing new deals.

dougie dougie had obviously sent off his quota of 'well players for the season hibs 3 mothewell 1 23/11/02 Dubourdeau, Cowan, Segewald, Corrigan, Partridge, Hammell, Fagan (McFadden 66), Adams, Pearson, Ferguson, Lehmann. Subs not used: Woods, McDonald, Kinniburgh, Khemas. Motherwell scorer: Ferguson (47). Yellow Cards: Sengewald, Adams, McFadden Red cards: Sengewald (56), Pearson (87), Partridge (88).

would it not be easier to register than ask here?

what else is there to do on a freezing cold wednesday in january except crawl through the guinness record breaking road works at cumbernauld, stop at auchterarder for a chippy and a couple of jars then head into perth to see a top class spl match? roll on wednesday

i mentioned four games but i also mentioned that he was in the top 3 of our player of the year twice. in his first season he played his way into the scotland squad and after his final season had a few clubs chasing his signature. he had a dodgy spell when malpas was in charge but he came back from that and had an extremeley solid two years under mchghee, he's clearly not as good as ruddy or randolph but it's revisionism to say that he did nothing for us.

is it still the case that the flag on the main stand only flies on match days? i've got vague memories of being a very young well fan and my grandpa saying games were off because the flag wasn't flying but that might not be right. is there/was there a tradition around the flag?

either st johnstone game this season. totally agree about hutchy and saunders. the pair of them are incredible in the air, saunders should be scoring 8 or 9 a season from set pieces he's unbelievably good at winning headers.

how much does it cost not to drive a tractor over the pitch or not pour sand on it?

harsh mate. the season we finished third we wouldn't have done it without him. he had incredible performances up at pittodrie and at falkirk in feb 08 which won us points, was man of the match when we won at parkhead and then made a total wonder save at 1-1 at home against aberdeen the day we got europe. he was right in the poty running for us in 05/06 and 0/9 as well.

that's not how it works with the tv deal though. you pay your money to sky and take whatever games your given. with your season ticket you pay for your own team's home games.

went for hammell as well. saunders was superb too. can't really blame him for the penalty either as hateley's flying bodycheck on him would have been a foul in the nfl. hutchy in third. an easy first half for him then when nish came on he gave him a few bumps to let him know he was in a battle. props to jonny page and meechan as well.

100% correct. it was much worse when some fanny kept everyone up late at the end of the last window with a pack of lies about a loan signing from man u.

i've never seen him play so i don' feel i'm missing out on anything. he was just a name to me. now he's a name with a strange link to the well.

i've a horrible day and this was about the only thing that raised a smile from me. who gives a france if we don't have some american naebody from leeds, he'll be good banter for years to come in the hom kraska mould.

nae chance. i'd rather we stood on our own two feet than be subsidised by old firm fans anyway. season ticket sales would collapse as well, it'd be gutting knowing that you were giving 150 quid to motherwell and 13 quid to every other club. it'd also be sickening to see a team like gretna and accies with no fans getting millions from other clubs every year.

anyone launches a motherwell season ticket on the park it'll not be there long.

the germans have low gate prices because there's 90 million of them and they have a massive tv deal and sponsorship. the netherlands has more than 3 times the population of scotland concentrated in a small area.

they both know they're going to get relegated at some point and they want the league below the spl to have decent funding.

netherton 1. scotland already has better per capita football attendance than holland. 1 in 373 people attend top level matches in scotland, in the netherlands it's 1 in 849. 2. we had decent crowds during the ten team 90s so it can't have been that bad.

a top half finish is a decent achievement. there's also an outside chance of 4th getting a euro spot if the winner of the old firm cup tie goes on to win the cup but not the league.

how did it fail miserably? we keep on hearing that it was changed due to "negative football" ect but that's a load of made up pish which seems to have been accepted as fact. it changed from 10 to 12 because that was part of the agreement with the sfl to allow the spl to be formed in the first place, the decision to expand to 12 was made before the ten team spl even kicked a ball. thinking back i can't remember any overly negative teams in that period.certainly no one along the lines of accies. looking at wiki the first spl season with ten teams had 2.61 goals per game and last season had 2.57, not much difference at all.

maybe they think it's just a load of bluster and they heard the same shit about the split and nothing came of it? i can understand people chucking it if they're not enjoying it, can't afford it or have something else to do but to chuck it because we'll be playing 9 teams 4 times rather than 5 teams 4 times and 6 teams 3 times seems mental to me. what's the difference?

don't forget the cypriot! he had the day off from washing dishes to go on the bench on saturday. progression.

i don't think we can be too choosy at the moment. it's not like we'll be over run either, there's only 7 players at the club who didn't come through the ranks.

every time i'm in an airport i wonder exactly who buys the raffle tickets for the sports cars. now i know