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  1. #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Handsome_Devil View Post
    I don't follow everyone else in that much detail any more but there's plenty of realism that I see from fans and players/staff at other clubs as to their position in Scottish football.

    It's definitely a shame we've not won anything in so long but alternatively while others have won things - often with slices of luck almost comically large - some others are on an even longer drought than us.

    Despite this, we have been incredibly consistent instead and have a record which stands comparable to most city clubs never mind our provincial peers. We've been in the top three seven times since our last trophy and reached another four finals plus however many semis...I just find it bizarre people make broad sweeping statements about 'losing mentality' because we didn't benefit from a defender playing volleyball on the line (ICT) or Celtic missing a dozen sitters (Killie) when it mattered.

    The vast majority of clubs our size have won zero to five or six titles in over 100 years of trying. If you think that this is down to attitude, mentality or whatever that's up to you but for me it's just the reality of what Scottish football is when you have two absolute giants, a few city clubs then nearly 40 minnows of various sizes living off scraps - of which we are, obviously, one of the most successful.

    I don't love having a meh season by any means but I accept that in our situation they are unavoidable because there is no way ourselves, Killie, St Johnstone and goodness knows how many others can all do well at the time. So instead I look at how we're doing long-term and in medium windows of, say, three to five years, and keep the toys in the pram when it's our turn to have a bad one.
    My first visit to Govan was in 1958. We won 3 - 2. The programme notes - I've still got it - showed that in all the previous league meetings between the clubs, Motherwell had won just 14. And the playing field was a lot more level then, and though we only played them twice a season, I'm not sure that our recent record is really that much different.

  2. #22
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    Holy Moley ... hat's off to you being at Greyskull in that era. That said, can we really do a sort of 'like for like' comparison some 60 years on? Respect, all the same

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