Our New Manager

[wellsince75]

2 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:

I think Collins clearly had some good ideas due to his experiences with Monaco. I think he lost the dressing room though when he took his shirt off and challenged the squad to work harder so they could look like him! (Paraphrasing).

It worked for Mcglynn  

[Great Balls of Shire]

2 hours ago, weeyin said:

i take that story with a pinch of salt too. It might have happened differently to the reports, or it might never happened at all, but there's no doubt a few of the unhappy players went running to the media to dish what they perceived to be the dirt, so they could try and get rid of him.

Scott Broon again

[Ya Bezzer!]

On 6/2/2026 at 11:34 AM, David said:

Progression for me doesn't mean attaining more success, it's more about continuing with what we've been doing. I'm thinking more along the lines of establishing ourselves as a mainstay in the top six, for example. We've finished in the top six something like three times in the past ten years, so establishing a run of finishing in the top six would be progress in my opinion.

Continuing to play an attractive, exciting brand of football that attracts fans to the ground is also important. 

That's mainly what I mean when I say it would have been interesting to see how JBA would have fared in his second season.

We've finished Top 6 in 45% of all the seasons played in this format.

I think that's pretty good considering there are 6 much bigger teams and maybe another 4-5 similar sized teams.

[joewarkfanclub]

Anyone out by Wishaw Golf Club know if the helicopter has arrived yet?

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[robsterwood]

14 hours ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

We've finished Top 6 in 45% of all the seasons played in this format.

I think that's pretty good considering there are 6 much bigger teams and maybe another 4-5 similar sized teams.

Who are the 6 much bigger teams? I count 2 much bigger teams and 3 with bigger budgets but not massively bigger. 

[FirParkCornerExile]

11 minutes ago, robsterwood said:

Who are the 6 much bigger teams? I count 2 much bigger teams and 3 with bigger budgets but not massively bigger. 

I think Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeens budgets are considerably higher. Aberdeen had 3 players on >£20,000 a week and the average wage being £5000 a week, that's considerably more that Motherwell. Hibs and Hearts will pay similarly. 

[MelvinBragg]

58 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

I think Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeens budgets are considerably higher. Aberdeen had 3 players on >£20,000 a week and the average wage being £5000 a week, that's considerably more that Motherwell. Hibs and Hearts will pay similarly. 

I suspect that Dundee United in general pay much more than us as well although I gather they've blown a fair amount so may be cutting back a bit...

[David]

1 hour ago, robsterwood said:

Who are the 6 much bigger teams? I count 2 much bigger teams and 3 with bigger budgets but not massively bigger. 

I don't know if I'd classify them as "much bigger", but I'm not sure we can say that we're bigger than Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Hibs, Dundee United & Aberdeen. On crowd and budget, that collection right there should be the default top six. 

Granted, we rarely see a season where all six of them are on form and performing to their potential, which usually means one or two slip out of the top six, and that's where ourselves, St Mirren, Killie, Dundee etc can take advantage.

[Kmcalpin]

1 hour ago, MelvinBragg said:

I suspect that Dundee United in general pay much more than us as well although I gather they've blown a fair amount so may be cutting back a bit...

Dundee United will be paying about 25% more than we do. However they are a financial basket case. 

[0Neils40yarder]

Rangers, Celtic are monumentally bigger

Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs are massive in comparison to us.

Utd act like they are, but not by much.

Then its us and the other big 'provincial' clubs

[weeyin]

33 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

Dundee United will be paying about 25% more than we do. However they are a financial basket case. 

I remember when McCall tried to sign Çiftçi he said Dundee Utd were offering double what we could afford. I don't know if they are still as generous, but I doubt when Tony Watt left us he moved there for footballing reasons.