Augh!

800 replies should give a fairly accurate representation of the views of the fans especially when they've got those sorts of 'rate such and such out of 10' type of questions. There will also be a fair number that will have filled in the boxes to give suggestions on it too so hopefully it'll be fairly useful. Just as long as nobody said they could cope with increased ticket prices...

I agree. It seems that for whatever reason we can't keep a good standard of pitch at Fir Park. If moving to a new stadium in Ravenscraig is still the long-term goal of the club I think it would make sense for us to try and be allowed to put in a plastic pitch to carry us over for as long as we're at FP. We're spending crazy money on that pitch ever year - as well as on other parts of a stadium that is really starting to show its age - and by January it still looks like farm, tractor marks and everything. Get a plastic pitch down to stop hemorrhaging money and then hire whoever the fuck planted the pitch at St Mirren's new stadium for when we move.

I'd like to see artificial pitches allowed in the SPL again. I don't know if there has been any significant change in design of those pitches since Dunfermline and Hamilton tried them but they're much more common now on pitches people are playing on recreationally and so I think they'd be accepted much more readily by the fans. I know I play on the week in week out and I can't help finding it funny that a fat lump like me is playing on a better pitch than most of the ones in the SPL. The players seemed fine going to play on the one in Norway in the summer, Craig Brown said the players were used to the surface in the run-up to that game as they trained on plastic pitches all the time. I also remember hearing of Archie Knox verbally abusing some council worker when we weren't allowed to use the plastic pitches at Ravenscraig as a permanent training base. The clubs would surely welcome the chance to be able to rent out the pitch in the stadium during the week, or at least not have to spend so much money on outside training facilities.

Well we're in luck - he's suspended! I hope Celtic leave on Sunday whinging about our pitch but I can't see it happening

Too early to say probably, but they certainly look very promising. Gunning in particular looked very impressive on Saturday there. I know Hammell has played well there all season but I thought Gunning looked even better, especially going forward.

Ah, god bless Hamilton Accies. I think we're being premature here with the comparisons to Maurice Malpas. Malpas was without doubt our worst manager. A man who played utter shite football all year long, didn't get the results and took in Calum Elliott, Danny Murphy, Paul Keegan and Trevor Molloy - all in one season and he payed a fucking fee for the last one there. He offended the fans, and signed Calum fucking Elliott. I don't think there is a more offensive comparison to make for a Motherwell manager than to compare him to that scrotum of a man. Yes we're on a shite run of form at the moment and yes we just got pumped by Rangers and McCall didn't do much to set the heather alight in the transfer window, but come on, Malpas he isn't... Not yet anyway.

Move to Ravenscraig and hope it becomes a decent town. Motherwell as a town is done, at best a split between commuter town/ned central. Nothing unifies the town, it's just convenient for the motorway and the train into Glasgow.

I'd like to go but it depends on the prices. I miss going to away games and I'd like to go to a game like this but unless it's cheap and the supporters bus doesn't cost too much then watching it in the pub will just be too easy an option.

I thought only fast players got hamstring injuries? I doubt it'd be anything too serious though if he didn't limp coming off the pitch and he didn't have to pull up out of a run. It's possibly just a precautionary thing, perhaps he had been concerned it was feeling tight before the match? I didn't see the game, was it definitely a hamstring injury? He wasn't just subbed because he wasn't playing well? He hasn't been in the best of form of late.

I think it'd be fine to have a blue kit during the 125th anniversary season...as an away kit. Its fine to have a nod to the past and to the original Motherwell colours, but in living memory of just about every Motherwell fan we've worn claret and amber and they're our colours. I know we knicked the idea off Bradford but its unique in Scottish football and we changed our colours specifically because of the number of clashes with so many other teams wearing blue. It wouldn't seem right to change what makes us stand out and has done for the vast majority of years of our club's history in order to celebrate the club's history. Blue might have been Motherwell's original colours but claret and amber were our best

Some acts are harder to follow than others. Randolph followed Ruddy, Ruddy followed Graeme Smith.

When we were in the European qualifing rounds earlier in the season and Sutton was the one doing the interviews and talking to the press it looked like he was maybe being lined up as a future captain for when Craigan retires. Obviously a different manager comes in and McCall might have different ideas, and we have no idea if he'd go for that kind of thing or if he'd even still be here by that time, but he would certainly be deserving of a position like that if he were to stay at the club.

When is the draw for the next round?

Ah right, I thought he was a centre back just being played out of position today

The new guy Gunning at left back? While its good for the new guy to get a run out even if it isn't his normal position, does this mean Jonathan Page is out of favour with McCall? Page always looked promising and he played well at left back on the odd occasion he played in place of Hammell. Not as good going forward perhaps but stronger, and good in defence.

I can't see why anybody would be interested in investing in Scottish football right now. Crowds are down, the football is boring, the clubs can't compete with even the lower leagues in England for talent and Sky have had us over a barrel since the collapse of the Setanta deal. Motherwell specifically have a small support, a financial black-hole of a stadium and realistically the best we'll ever do is Europa qualifying stages every so often. All things considered though, the current people in charge do a pretty decent job keeping the club going and competing for top six/a European place so any change in ownership could be worrying.

I wouldn't have been expecting much of a crowd for an away game in Perth midweek, especially as so many fans will already have spent the £20 for the semi-final. Just out of interest how much is it for this game? All I get is the 'Please login in or register' bullshit when I try to read it on that joke of a website.

Presumably they will only be able to do that while they're in the First Division. Can't see the SPL letting a team go off on their own and sell broadcast rights to their own games only. God knows the Old Firm would love to able to do that... The SPL certainly used to have international rights packages as well for channels in Ireland and Australia or anywhere else with Scottish populations. As for things like videos of player interviews, that would be a good enough reason to sign up to their pain-in-the-arse email newsletter, but it isn't something I'd pay for. You want me to pay you a bit of extra money for some techie service, how about wifi available in the stands? Internet signal is terrible at Fir Park, could be a nice wee way to make a bit of extra money off fans. Stick it on as an optional extra to the cost of a season ticket so those that know they'd use something like that can pay for it.

Is there anywhere on the Official site that says what you get if you sign up? I didn't see anything there maybe I'm just being an idiot though. If its just a case of 'Please register to continue reading' so the club can get a list of e-mail addresses to pester us with then thats baws. I get enough spam as it is, thanks. I don't like that I need to give an email address to read these sorts of things and I know from trying to use other clubs websites to find out things like ticket prices and how to get to their grounds that these sorts of registration restrictions are a pain in the arse. The new website looks good, and I noticed it doesn't need the 'www.' to get it to work anymore which is nice, but requiring a registration is just annoying.

Is there much danger the away end will be sold out or even busy enough that there will be long queues?

Yes, I would take him back. People on here have selectively short memories. They can remember answers he gave to the media after defeats and they can remember how many times he intonated a desire to go to Celtic or Aberdeen but they can gloss over finishing third in the league, playing excellent football on the back of the awful Malpas season, and they forget they way he carried himself and kept the team together after Phil O'Donnell's death. I also remember a video of himself shitting himself on telly when the lightning hit the stadium

How will it be any different from 'walking' to the game from the station? I think Motherwell fans will show displeasure in the usual way - by booing Brown and Knox as they come out for the start of the match and then calling each a paedophile as the game progresses.

Because he was a good manager for us, and being a good manager is the first criteria we should be looking for. Gus McPherson might never have fucked us over, by my god he's shite. Malpas never fucked us over, but again, he's shite. Mark McGhee went to Aberdeen and failed, and considering he managed to get gubbed 9-0 by Celtic whilst failing I don't think there's much chance of them chasing him up. His careerist streak is dead, if he can swallow his pride and realise he can do good things at Motherwell then I'd have him back in a heartbeat.

You'd rather have Gus McPherson than Mark McGhee? Is there another Gus McPherson out there? One that didn't play shite-awful football and didn't take St. Mirren to within a baw-hair of relegation year in, year out? McGhee played good football. His biggest problem was his ego, which will have been well and truly deflated by recent events. I'd rather we could just keep Brown, but McGhee was the best manager we've had in a good wee-while.

If Brown does go it'll be alright...it just so happens that the guy many of us believe to have been the best Motherwell manager in the past wee while just became available again.