Scott Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Progression to Round 5 would mean just under an extra £30k in the bank, plus the outside chance of that game being on the TV. There’ll be a good few teams in the next round at our level or below, so a great chance to really progress this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopBrennan Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 10 hours ago, HamCam said: Nonsense. We should be expecting to win this tie with something to spare. At home against a team from the lower league. I'm still expecting us to get through the tie, but the idea that we will be cantering past a solid mid-table League One side in our current predicament is fanciful. 1 You address me by my proper title, you little bollocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 1 hour ago, BishopBrennan said: I'm still expecting us to get through the tie, but the idea that we will be cantering past a solid mid-table League One side in our current predicament is fanciful. Aye, I hate it when clubs slightly higher up the food chain expect to roll us over. We’ll rightly be going in as favourites, but a team at the arse end of the Championship has no right to expect to bludgeon their way past one of League One’s better teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Greacen2000 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 I know there has already been some reaction to the draw on the Montrose match thread but sadly that thread has also been clogged up/derailed by a load of nonsense from a certain poster, so I thought I would resurrect this one to continue the discussion on our cup campaign. It isn't the draw I was hoping for but I am pleased that we are at home, and on our day I definitely think we have enough to go toe to toe with Motherwell & have a chance of beating them. My biggest concern about this game is actually the turnstile situation. Surely the club has to start looking right now at ways of avoiding what happened before the Partick game (with there being every likelihood that this tie will have an even bigger crowd). Sure, turning up early might help, but if everyone were do do that it just shifts the same problem back by 30 mins. I would like to see us consider the following for starters 1. Purchase/lease/borrow some portable barricades so that a properly organised S-shaped queuing system can be put in place (avoiding the absolute chaos we saw last week) 2. Recommissioning some of the boarded-up turnstiles (if they are still in situ and it is practical to do so). If we could do this, then people with paper tickets could be directed to use these ones without the need for scanners or reverting back to handling cash 3. Use of handheld scanners with stewards then allowing ticket holders to pass through an open gate, (or turnstile if we implement no.2). 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Surprised by that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_the_builder Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 20 minutes ago, Jamie_M said: Surprised by that. Bit scunnered by this. I've got 2 Motherwell supporting mates and a long overdue Saturday session at the football was getting planned for this. BBC clearly think with our current good form and Motherwell's dodgy form, a potential upset is on the cards. here today, gone to hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Sigh. Hate tv games at Cappielow, watching through scaffolding. A Saturday game would have been jumping, this probably knocks at least 1,000 off the attendance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogs49 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Obviously the attendance will take a hit but there is the compensation of the 'facilities fee' paid to televised teams which is £24K for Round 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bewilderedbeast Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 On a purely selfish note, thsts brilliant, I'm in Cyprus and can now watch it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Half days all round. Peter Weatherson is the greatest player since Ritchie, and should be assigned 'chairman for life' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIBBYTON Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 You would expect the home crowd to be larger than normal with a winnable cup game against an inconsistent premiership opposition, but it feels like groundhog day the camera's in the cowshed are a real impact with the larger crowds. When you add in the current issues with turnstiles, these are the areas we need to start to show we are being run like a professional football club. Both of these issues have been around for a number of years, I also appreciate the club do not have the funds to resolve these issues fully without a significant impact on playing budgets. I just wish they would make steps to alleviate the issues, even work out a number of small changes and approach MCT / get a local company to sponsor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONofmemories Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Surely the turnstiles can be put into some sort of 'free-flow' state and the scanning can be done by a hand scanner? TIME FOR CHANGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madton Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) 1 hour ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said: Sigh. Hate tv games at Cappielow, watching through scaffolding. A Saturday game would have been jumping, this probably knocks at least 1,000 off the attendance. 1000?? Seriously?? Aye it's a pain having the gantry in the cowshed, but every one of the 2k-2.5k who have showed up for our big games in the last couple of years will hopefully show up again for a potentia shock and into a quarter final. Stand either side of the gantry, behind the goal or in the main stand, loads of space. You might actually get a few local neutrals( bigot brothers)show up on the Friday night too. Nothing better than a game under the lights at Cappielow, I'm buzzing for it. Edited January 24 by Madton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIBBYTON Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, TONofmemories said: Surely the turnstiles can be put into some sort of 'free-flow' state and the scanning can be done by a hand scanner? You would hope, these are the types of things the club should be looking at, spend a few hundred quid to buy some additional hand scanners, even if it gets 25% more through its a small investment and show the clubs willingness to not just blame people showing up 15min before a match starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 21 minutes ago, Madton said: 1000?? Seriously?? Aye it's a pain having the gantry in the cowshed, but every one of the 2k-2.5k who have showed up for our big games in the last couple of years will hopefully show up again for a potentia shock and into a quarter final. Stand either side of the gantry, behind the goal or in the main stand, loads of space. You might actually get a few local neutrals( bigot brothers)show up on the Friday night too. Nothing better than a game under the lights at Cappielow, I'm buzzing for it. The gantry doesn't help, but plenty of people can't make night time games for a load of reasons, and the away support will be significantly lower now due to being on the telly and being Friday night. The crowd will be a good bit lower than had it been a 3pm Saturday game, of that I have no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Motherwell have a game on the Tuesday before, can only be good for us. I expect to give them a right good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madton Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 3 minutes ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said: The gantry doesn't help, but plenty of people can't make night time games for a load of reasons, and the away support will be significantly lower now due to being on the telly and being Friday night. The crowd will be a good bit lower than had it been a 3pm Saturday game, of that I have no doubt. No doubt it will have an impact but I'm thinking a 1000 is way off. Its hardly far for Motherwell fans, I live in Bellshill so next door and it's 35 mins down the road. If you average a ticket at £15 quid, ( no idea what the ticket pricing will be obv) 24k TV money amounts to 1600 extra fans so we are well covered anyway if the crowd is significantly reduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat10 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Could they not bulid a gantry that goes up and over the cowshed roof? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONofmemories Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Cat10 said: Could they not bulid a gantry that goes up and over the cowshed roof? That sort of thing can't just be done at the drop of a hat. It'd require quite some planning and would Involved structural engineering checks etc, which all costs money and likely we'd be on the hook for those costs. TIME FOR CHANGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONofmemories Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Aside, if we've done absolutely nothing since the Partick game and subsequent social media posts to address this issue in anyway, the club are taking the absolute piss or are just refusing to see it as their issue TIME FOR CHANGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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