Next up - Hearts

[Footymad]

Motherwell travel to Tynecastle on Saturday as league football returns after the international break. Hearts got the win in the League Cup clash at Fir Park last month. Will the result be reversed this weekend? - External Link

[Handsome_Devil]

Mixed feelings about this one. Tynecastle is perhaps not the Motherwell graveyard it has been in years gone by but it's still a tricky place to go. They are also under strength and 'there for the taking' - yet they were in the cup game as well when they beat us 2-1 going on six.

I wouldn't settle for a point beforehand...but won't be gutted if that's what we end up with.

[Wellup4it]

It'll be nothing less than a very tough physical game and I'd take a point beforehand.

[dazlhigh]

It'll be nothing less than a very tough physical game and I'd take a point beforehand.

Apparently, and unusually for Tynie, our ticket allocation hasn't sold out. I thought that there were fewer of us than usual at Livi, there were definitely fewer at Hamilton, and now our section won't be full at Tynecastle. Perhaps more worrying - though I don't have the figures - I didn't think we had as many home fans at Fir Park for a Hibs game as we usually have. Is it the cost, or is there a deeper malaise?

[Handsome_Devil]

We had a decent support at Livi for the opening day...Hamilton was probably a combination of pricing and the early optimism going out of the season. Tynecastle is definitely pricing - when you consider the fly one they're pulling with the lower/upper section thing the increase there from last season is huge.

[dasdeid]

Undoubtably it’s the cost and attendances will only worsen. Let’s be honest our game is worsening .. we have sub standard players on loan for 6-12 months ... foreign players who have been released either injured or just rotten ... youth teams plundered before reached puberty AND yet clubs think okay to pay in excess £25 to get in for 90 minutes of phish. Wakey wakey before it’s too late.

[Handsome_Devil]

Undoubtably it’s the cost and attendances will only worsen. Let’s be honest our game is worsening .. we have sub standard players on loan for 6-12 months ... foreign players who have been released either injured or just rotten ... youth teams plundered before reached puberty AND yet clubs think okay to pay in excess £25 to get in for 90 minutes of phish. Wakey wakey before it’s too late.

What's bizarre is that clubs have woken up when it comes to home fans - season ticket deals, particularly with virtually every club now doing special offers for youngsters, work out at very decent value. It's insisting walk up prices remain staggeringly high, particularly for away fans, that is the major problem.

[Gowboy]

I’m going tomorrow as I think this could be a very good game. It is pricey and I now go to very few away games, partly because of the cost but mainly because all my money is going to boost the coffers of a competitor. Years ago the away side got a percentage of the gate ( I don’t recall how much) and at least I felt my team benefitted to some extent financially. Now we get nothing, so I seldom go (and I appreciate there is an element of showing support that has nothing to do with finance) but that is my take on the situation. The fault of the Ugly Sisters, I think, as they did not want to give a gate share to smaller clubs. Result - a less competitive league. If it changed to, say, 15% going to the away team (or better still 20%) then I might go to more away games and I think others might do the same.

[Handsome_Devil]

I’m going tomorrow as I think this could be a very good game. It is pricey and I now go to very few away games, partly because of the cost but mainly because all my money is going to boost the coffers of a competitor. Years ago the away side got a percentage of the gate ( I don’t recall how much) and at least I felt my team benefitted to some extent financially. Now we get nothing, so I seldom go (and I appreciate there is an element of showing support that has nothing to do with finance) but that is my take on the situation. The fault of the Ugly Sisters, I think, as they did not want to give a gate share to smaller clubs. Result - a less competitive league. If it changed to, say, 15% going to the away team (or better still 20%) then I might go to more away games and I think others might do the same.

In fairness to the Old Firm - as much as I hate typing that - they were far from the only ones. Even when Rangers were climbing up the leagues again we missed the chance to change the top-flight voting structure because Aberdeen briefly perceived a threat to their own self-interest.

[Wellup4it]

In fairness to the Old Firm - as much as I hate typing that - they were far from the only ones. Even when Rangers were climbing up the leagues again we missed the chance to change the top-flight voting structure because Aberdeen briefly perceived a threat to their own self-interest.

When the day of reckoning came Aberdeen voted for the status quo and it rebounded on them short term and long term.