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Killie v st mirren had 5,500 there today and Inverness v Ross county had 4,500 yesterday so steak pie dinners, timing etc must effect Motherwell fans more than others....

 

Our crowds are embarrassing, it doesn't matter which way you splice it. The above mentioned would kill for our current and recent years form as well.

 

So Killie had 3% of their combined Killie/Paisley population at their game and we had 5% of our combined population with Perth at our game.

 

Of course, I'm not stupid enough to believe it's as clear cut as that, but available population does play a part that many tend to overlook.

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Killie v st mirren had 5,500 there today and Inverness v Ross county had 4,500 yesterday so steak pie dinners, timing etc must effect Motherwell fans more than others....

 

Our crowds are embarrassing, it doesn't matter which way you splice it. The above mentioned would kill for our current and recent years form as well.

 

there was nearly 1500 st mirren fans at that game which makes a massive difference to the attendance when it comes to the smaller teams playing each other much like our support at firhill.ross county must have had a decent following at there game too so killie and inverness home support would have been less than ours

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Killie v st mirren had 5,500 there today

To be fair our crowd would have been higher if we had been playing either of those sides. St Johnstone only brought around 300 fans. Killie or St Mirren would surely have had more than that. Doesn’t excuse the poor crowd though and if we had any hope of getting 5,500 in the ground there would have to have been at least 4,500-5,000 Well fans in the ground.

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Here's our runs for this season and the last 5 seasons

 

13-14 - 4 league wins in a row; 5 league matches undefeated

 

12-13 - 3 league wins in a row; 8 league matches undefeated

11-12 - 3 league wins in a row; 6 league matches undefeated

10-11 - 2 league wins in a row; 4 league matches undefeated

09-10 - 3 league wins in a row; 12 league matches undefeated

08-09 - 2 league wins in a row; 9 league matches undefeated

 

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Actually going back one further season

 

07-08 - 5 league wins in a row; 6 league matches undefeated.

 

So there is the answer we managed 5 league wins on the trot in 2007/08 which was Mark McGhee's first season. The run was Inverness (a) 3-0, Kilmarnock (a) 1-0, Gretna (h) 3-0, Hearts (a) 2-1 and Aberdeen (h) 3-0.

 

 

So have you been researching 6 league wins in a row?? :thumbup:

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07/08 season I'm fairly sure 6 wouldve seen us breaking a personal record or something? And then if I remember correctly we got scudded 3-0 at home by falkirk

The nearest we've been to 6 consecutive Premier/SPL wins was in 1994/95 v United when Brewster scored a 95th minute equaliser in the 6th game.

 

Hopefully Saturday will break that record.

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Killie v st mirren had 5,500 there today and Inverness v Ross county had 4,500 yesterday so steak pie dinners, timing etc must effect Motherwell fans more than others....

 

Our crowds are embarrassing, it doesn't matter which way you splice it. The above mentioned would kill for our current and recent years form as well.

 

We are a poorly supported club, always have been, always will be. That's the sad reality of it I'm afraid. Even when we're performing well, like last season, the mid 90s and after we won the Cup in 91, our crowds have always been poor. We have 'fans' out there who only show up once in a blue moon, for Cup Finals etc but for one reason or another don't attend regularly.

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The nearest we've been to 6 consecutive Premier/SPL wins was in 1994/95 v United when Brewster scored a 95th minute equaliser in the 6th game.

 

Hopefully Saturday will break that record.

 

I'm pretty sure we won 6 in a row when butcher was manager I mind the papers saying 7 would be a record. Maybe a couple were cup games or something. I can't even mind what season that was but we lost a lot of games in a row in the same season

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How things change - folk can't make a game due to a steak pie dinner.

 

Back in 1999, we had 8,500 at Fir Park for the visit of Kilmarnock on New Year's Day.

Scottish football needs to market itself better and sell the product,New Year's Day is a traditional day for visiting, but that's just one of the factors which could have affected the attendanceGive people who are undecided next to no excuses , then it's time to give up tryingI am sure there could have been another 1000 on gate the other day if it had been played on 2nd jan, and just by chance the weather was better too

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Scottish football needs to market itself better and sell the product,New Year's Day is a traditional day for visiting, but that's just one of the factors which could have affected the attendanceGive people who are undecided next to no excuses , then it's time to give up tryingI am sure there could have been another 1000 on gate the other day if it had been played on 2nd jan, and just by chance the weather was better too

 

Also need to stop making teams travel ridiculous distances over the xmas/new year period. Making us travel to Aberdeen on boxing day was a joke.

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Going off at a tangent, our goals on Wednesday were our first in a New Year fixture for a decade! Back then a Clarky hat trick saw off Dundee United 3-1.

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