Change is definately essential

It's the first league game of the season on saturday, i've not made it to any of the friendlies. Something of a mixed blessing, the games are usually dull but sometimes the day out can be fun. I should be writing about how i can't wait for the big kick off but i just not got any enthusiasm for it. We're at home to Celtic who we stuffed in the dying minutes of the last game of the season to ruin their title party and even better than in 95 i think, when we won at Ibrox, we cost them the title rather than merely delaying it for another week.

The club however has started this season the same way it finished last, by pissing of the fans. I had sympathy the first time because they did ask the fans opinion and stuck by it. Well they didn't move the fans but then had absolutely no restrictions in place for the sale of home end tickets and profited on a situation that could have turned ugly allowing away fans to purchase home end tickets in the hundreds. This time however they have just decided to move the fans despite it being made clear they wern't keen on it. I can see the business sense behind the decision but they handled it so badly and it's been another PR bungle. Anything to do with running of Motherwell Football Club outside of the playing side is an utter shambles!

The biggest problem is that we had a susccessful season, we got to a cup final generating a substantial unexpected bit of income. The sell out on the last day of the season will have added a little bit more than expected, and even the 6000 or so that paid to get in for the Everton friendly is money that wasn't in last years budget. Yet the club still insists we're struggling financially. Now maybe we are but to the fan in the street we've been told that we're now getting run at no or a minimal loss and we then go and generate significant extra revenue and it is apparantly spent already.

We've also just sold a player for £150k, not a huge sum of money but we have yet to see any new faces come in. We got a decent squad but already injuries and suspension has ruled out most of our potential strikforce. 2 suspensions and 2 players carrying injuries, even if it isn't much you need new faces every year to keep things fresh and generate that bit extra interest in the new campaign. To be fair there is time yet and noises have been made that we can expect a signing or two this week. However whoever comes in now has missed pre-season training and is likely to be off the pace for a few weeks.

Added to the fact that i've not got the money for a season ticket this year and i just feeling quite down about the whole thing. The club treats fans really badly, struggling for players, seems like no real ambition from the board to build on success and the stable squad we have. Don't get me wrong i appreciate the fact we're not blowing money like we did a few years back but it's an old adage you bring players in while your doing well, don't wait until things start slipping. 2 new faces in a few weeks ago would make a big difference. It's been commented on before but as a club we seem to wait as long as possible before signing players as there is no point paying over the summer?