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1 hour ago, betting competition said:
Motherwell with an easy win!
1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said:Comfortable home win, 2 or 3 nil.
1 hour ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:I'd fancy Motherwell to win this.
28 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
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This definitely feels like an Aberdeen win.
Supporters on our side who haven't learned their lesson looking at the Top 6, us coming off the back of scudding the **** and generally being in alright form (we've only lost 2 of our last 10 league games).
Everything points to us just not turning up and losing 2-0.
So aye, there's every chance we do Burrows a turn here.
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I genuinely feel sympathy for Obika as I can't imagine it's a good place to be if you're trying to work your way back to fitness only to break down again. Even more so when you factor in the time he missed with his hamstring pinging when he was at Morecambe as well.
Having said that, it's almost like a bit we're doing now:
QuoteMeanwhile Jon Obika has suffered another hamstring injury in training having already had three lay-offs with a similar issue over the past 12 months.
“I don’t have a specific update, we will have him scanned and find out what’s going on,” Kettlewell said.
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3 minutes ago, Sortmeout said:
Am I right in saying that if ourselves and Livingston reject this proposal then it’s fails under the 10/2 rule (or 11+1 or whatever it is called)?
Depends.
QuoteThe SPFL board haven’t yet made it clear if a 9-3 majority will carry the day or whether the issue needs an 11-1 majority to pass.
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23 minutes ago, Cloontang said:
Always felt Clark was too easily beaten tbh. I remember once under no pressure he sliced a clearance right onto the bonce of Scott McDonald who headed home.
This will never be beaten.
Tbf, I think @crazylegsjoe_mfc absolutely called it right about Kelly here:
On 13/02/2024 at 17:20, crazylegsjoe_mfc said:I might be miles out and others might disagree, but my perception of Kelly is that his performances often reflect the mood in the camp.
When we are doing well (his loan spell, the run-in last season, when Alexander was shitfesting wins), you tend either to not notice him, or only hear good things about him.
As soon as the chips are down and we are playing badly, he seems more likely then to make things worse than better and that's when all of his mistakes come out.
Goalkeeper and captain are two roles who you need to step-up during a crisis. Unfortunately, ours is the same guy and he doesn't.
Stick him in a team that's confident and playing on the front foot and he's...fine. Good, even.
He just seems to go to pieces when things aren't necessarily going our way.
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3 hours ago, chris1883 said:
I feel we have similar mindsets. My issue is the argument seems to be ANY grass pitch is better than ANY synthetic pitch... which we all know is 100% not the case. In the SPL as soon as a synthetic pitch is mentioned, the mind goes immediately to Livingston's surface - which IMO is one of the poorest synthetic surfaces out there. You then look at the carpet at Starks' - it doesn't look pretty, but I haven't heard any major blame levied at it for anything.
Look, I am absolutely an advocate for grass pitches in the SPL, but there needs to be a standard and we need to bin the silly grass is always better than plastic ideology. Ideally hybrid systems should be in place in Scotland... that, however, would be extreme folly at the cost of around £1.5m.
I'm not sure that is the argument tbh.
The argument as far as I can see is that after several seasons, rightly or wrongly, it's increasingly been viewed as an absolute fucking riddy that we've a top flight league with games being played on the sort of surfaces that you'd see at the local Power League. Now, the Starks Park pitch may be a proverbial bowling green but currently, they're not in the Premiership whereas Killie and Livi are and it's their surfaces that have presumably motivated the lock out.
Whether it's true or not there's a general opinion that players don't like fully artificial surfaces, managers don't like them, fans don't like them and I'd imagine clubs who have prioritised investment on their playing surface to get them to a high standard are generally quite scunnered by others not adopting a similar position.
I mean, both are choices. No one's saying you *have* to spend £1.5m on a nice hybrid pitch just as two specific clubs in the Premiership decided it was worth trading off the quality of their pitch against on the money they'd save by having their 3G.
Killie and Livi both used to have grass pitches, but their going the artificial route presumably wasn't dictated by footballing reasons. I've noticed a couple of posts in this thread talking about how Killie are only reverting to grass because Bowie is putting his hand in his pocket which is fair enough but the rub there is, I guess, if they have a wealthy backer and money isn't an object why aren't they sticking with an upgraded version of the kind of surface they have just now?
Is it because despite all the Lovejoying through this thread there's a general acknowledgement that grass/hybrid surfaces are generally going to be preferable or "better" compared to a fully synthetic/artificial?
I mean, that's not for me to say.
It seems pretty clear there's now a view (presumably with Livi sinking in the way that they are) that for the top league the standard should be that games should not be played on fully synthetic surfaces and chances are they'll be able to implement this without being seen to be penalising any single team (assuming Livi are relegated and neither Raith or Airdrie are promoted).
Is it gatekeeping? Sure you could look at it that way. Should it be a priority? Maybe not. Will this improve Scottish football in any meaningful way? Almost certainly not. Is this being tabled in order to save Aberdeen from relegation? Yes. That's definitely what's happening here.
That said, as things stand, of the top 22 clubs in the country there are only Killie (who AFAIK are replacing their surface imminently), Livi, Airdrie and Raith currently playing on plastic. The rest - a significant majority in anyone's language - are either hybrid or grass.
It begs the question, if the vast majority of clubs in the top two divisions are able to maintain grass pitches is it that unreasonable for that to be a standard for the Premiership?
I guess there's a view that "convenience" and "it's more cost effective" or "our Youth Academy can train on it" isn't really enough of a justification when you're talking about top flight football. Is that particularly fair if you're talking about some of the small clubs with artificial surfaces currently installed? Not really.
However, again, as far as I can tell no one is "banning" artificial surfaces. If you're a team cutting about the Championship. League 1 or League 2 then you can be "maximising income" til your heart's content.
The proposal seems to be that they're just not being allowed in the Premiership and respectfully, if fan owned clubs like Thistle and Morton are able to maintain grass pitches in the Championship then you'd think teams competing at Premiership level should also be able to.
Either way, it's a fair point to mention that if the SPFL are going to get all particular about the quality of surfaces at Premiership level then they should equally be making recommendations on standards being met and maintained on all their grass surfaces.
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16 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:
Don't disagree...and playing Gordon for every minute when he was approaching 40, bringing in Gunn from nowhere when he got injured and only using Kelly/Clark at all when there was no choice suggests there is a strong preference for when the decision is made.
The counter-argument is Gordon is obviously either not fully fit or back to his best. The logic of that is irrefutable tbh. And the follow on is then taking a guy to the Euros when not fully fit or at his best having - barring a change at Tynecastle - probably played only four competitive games, three of which will have been against lower league opposition, in 20 months following a serious injury is daft.
Similarly if it’s as much about presence/non-playing stuff with Gordon then there’s presumably nothing to stop us taking him along for ‘vibes’ and sticking with the goalkeepers who have been consistently part of the squad while he’s has been broken.
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Just read the wee preview of the Aberdeen game on the official and genuinely laughed at the injury news.
https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2024/03/12/aberdeen-visit-north-lanarkshire/
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19 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Isnt that all a problem of clubs like your own, and mine, that walked away though? Cant remember who started it, but once one team walked away (did Celtic or Rangers not claim theyd play friendlies v European sides every week instead? Remember thinking it was just an attempt to kill the reserve league to strengthen their "B teams need put in the league" shite) it felt like others starting thinking it was a waste of time.
Tbf, although what you're saying there is probably true the 'rebrand' of the Reserves after they did away with the Dev league was an absolute shambles.
To that end it wasn't a massive surprise that teams walked away from it.
The idea had been that the Dev league wasn't fit for purpose because largely you had players playing against their own level with no actual challenge so you got the rose tinted, 'it was better in my day' pish from ex-pros which eventually led to them half-arseing the changes and the result was a total mess.
We binned it this season (but didn't bother telling anyone) and tbh, I think our rationale was as much down to not wanting to have the extra players on the books as it was the general feeling that it was a waste of time. We now have our u18s playing in their league and seem to fill in the gaps with regular bounce games.
It's some laugh that the Dev league set-up gave us specifically the likes of Turnbull, Campbell, Scott, Cadden and Hastie all in broadly the same group along with Dom Thomas, Jack McMillan and a host of others who, granted, didn't make it with us but you'll still see turning out weekly at various levels through the SPFL but you still had all these ex-pros seething because they weren't getting a game against older pros rehabbing from injury because apparently that would have given them a better grounding in *men's football*.
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Nicholson mentioned during a press call a while back that he was “technically” still under contract with MLS so I’d imagine the weirdness around the way they handle registrations would need sorted out one way or another.
I guess it’s a question of what that actually means.
It’s around 6:08 here:
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5 hours ago, ropy said:
I vaguely remember we signed a new guy but don’t remember his name
IMO, there's been absolutely nowhere near enough acknowledgement of the look Moses' agent is serving.
1m followers: https://www.instagram.com/drewuyi/
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Fwiw, I think it's a really good video and shows both big Theo and Rossco in a good light. It's the sort of thing we've done well in the past in terms of platforming players and telling a story. I'm definitely not knocking the creative.
My minor issue (and it is minor) is really just with the ham fisted language and the choice we've made to frame the message in the way we have. I made the point ages ago that a lot of the discourse around Bair has been really quite weird and it has. Having journos and pundits overtly saying "LOL, everyone thought you were shite..." felt odd in so much as I can't think of many other players who've had that sort of treatment.
As I said, everyone knows the background to him being here but there's a way to make the same points and talk him up without reminding everyone (again) that he was viewed as a joke.
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1 minute ago, well fan for life said:
I, for one, respect the hell out of the media team for keeping a shoebox full of receipts.
Shitebags for blurring out the handles though.
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53 minutes ago, well fan for life said:
I think we were all a bit sceptical of Bair's signing tbh. But is it fair to say that Kettlewell might know what he's doing with forwards?
We all laughed about the whole Random Motherwell Fan account noising up KvV before his mental goalscoring run but it matches up with when everyone started to pick up form. We're the 3rd highest scorers in the league despite the weird patch in the middle of the season, he's managing to get goals from a few players to balance out not having a big weird Dutch guy up top.
This is a great point.
I know KVV's purple patch was only just starting around now this time last season but in the end he accounted for 45% of the team's goals for the entire season.
As it stands, after 29 games, we're only 3 goals off last season's total and big CareBair only accounts for 27% of those. Compare that with Hearts and Aberdeen who are wildly reliant on Fat Shankland and Miovski with 53% and 41% contribution respectively.
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47 minutes ago, Neil86 said:
All about the brand.
I think that's the thing, although as @joewarkfanclub says it's a dig at the folk who "doubted" him there's a probably a way of wording it that gets the point across without pointing out he had a poor goalscoring record when he signed (even though it's objectively true).
Just something like "Since arriving in ML1 Theo Bair has found himself in the best form of his career so far..." or words to that effect.
You can talk him up without having to remind everyone that folk thought he was a joke when he signed.
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1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:
Feel a bit sorry for Theo Bair that your social media department seems to relentlessly remind him how shite everyone thought he was.
Aye. I had a laugh when I saw that. Like...you don't actually need to say that now. Folk like him. It's fine.
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Spittal gets the actual cinch Premiership Player of The Month.
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Stepping away from the kit chat for a second, I see we apparently won that bounce game 2-1 yesterday according to the Ayr thread.
We cannot be stopped.
16 hours ago, Finlay21 said:Correction on Friendly v Motherwell
Full time result was 1-2
Dowds scoring for Ayr
i missed Motherwell first goal
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12 hours ago, YassinMoutaouakil said:
Can you still wait until the end of the season and buy the current kit for cheap btw? Been years since I got one but this seasons has grown on me.
11 hours ago, YassinMoutaouakil said:Hmm. Don't want to play my hand too soon.
They've sold off overstock pretty much every season so I don't see this one being any different.
The last time I held off and missed out was the Scottish Cup final season in 17/18 where they (understandably) kept everything full price until then by which point all my size had sold out and they didn't re-stock.
Just checked the online store and they're out of S in the home but have every other size and it looks like they're out of S, XL and XXL in the away.
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19 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:
I was a wee guy but I am sure that was suhin like "McEwans Sports" on the main street. Maybe near the bank of scotland.
I am sure they had ones that said "winners" and "Runners up"under that bit about the final.Aye. The only embroidery on mine is what's in the picture.
I was just a wee guy anaw but my memory was that my Da got it from Fir Park. Which makes sense as it's where I got every other Motherwell shirt. As like @Swello I have memory of going up to that wee hatch in the main stand to get them.
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3 hours ago, Al B said:
This was my first, just after we changed from Ian Skelly to Motorola but kept the same top.
I have the Ian Skelly one of that with added Cup Final embroidery. They’d sold out of the home one that was actually worn so I ended up with an embroidered away (I already had the home one anyway - still have both).
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12 hours ago, Gianfranco said:
My first ever Motherwell strip was a Xara Motorola effort.
Mine was this Matchwinner one.
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Just now, MurrayWell said:
Is that maybe just a rule for "league" clubs? I'm not sure but that's my guess.
Yeah, I think it's a FIFA rule or something like that.
As I say it's mildly interesting that there's a level it doesn't apply.
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This is mildly interesting from a rules POV given he's already played for us and Stirling Albion this season.
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Motherwell - Aberdeen 16/03/2024
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