This weekend sees the focus down Fir Park way turn televisual. Not only do The Well face Kilmarnock in a lunch time kick off on Sky on saturday, but Friday sees the launch of MFC TV, Motherwell's online stop for all things visual.
It has been a long while in the oven for Alan "Flow" Burrows, the main man at Motherwell when it comes to media, and if it is successful, should hopefully enhance the ways in which we supporters can enjoy our club. With a monthly subscription of £4.99, fans can get access to classic highlights, up to date footage, club centric interviews, coverage of the U-19 teams endeavours and much more.
Viewers will also get to hear the dulcet tones of Graham Barnstaple and Alex Horsburgh on match days for a Motherwell tinged Radio coverage on match days. As well as myself and occasionally Alan Temple on reporting and Tweeting duties, the match day experience, home and away, is going to be significantly better than what it is at present.
The subscription will be a 2 way thing, providing those who pay for it with a vast amount of footage of all things claret and amber, with their money going towards helping the club finaincially. Other SPL sides have their own video sections with varying degrees of coverage, but MFC TV seems to be going all out with what it is offerring.
As someone who probably spends more time online during a working day than he probably should, this will be a welcome distraction for me at lunch times, if I am able to watch some archived highlights, interviews and so on along with my Pot Noodle. Trolling Youtube for 'Well related stuff will be a thing of the past. I can see it becoming bookmarked alongside TV-links.eu and NHL.com for my mid day viewing pleasure.
And hopefully I won't be the only one. The online channel's success will rely mainly on the fans who subscribe, and having seen a fair bit of the work that has gone in to it, I really do hope that a lot of fans come on board for it. For those who have signed up to The Well Society, I believe they get it as part of one of their packages, so have already helped contribute to it's quality.
Hopefully the first radio broadcast will bring with it a result as Kilmarnock come to FP tomorrow lunchtime. If I wasn't at the game, I'd be really tempted to have it on on the Sky with the MFC TV commentary blocking out the audio drivel from the TV.
Based on how the season has panned out, it should be a cracker of a game. Based on it being live on TV, it probably won't. Hopefully Killie will be as generous as they were in the second half of their game last week and cave at the back. Tim Clancy lines up against his ex team mates for the first time, and I would maybe fancy him to trouble them from set pieces. He has come close in the last few games and has been solid in the last 3 or 4 matches alongside Craigan.
With Hutchinson almost back to full fitness, Stuart McCall certainly has a dilemma. Does Hutch walk back in to the team, or will Tim keep him benched? Would both play, moving Hateley in to midfield at the expense of someone else? It's defnitiely a tough call.
The performance of Michael Higdon in the last 2 games has been far better than in his last home game agaisnt Aberdeen. I would hope the boo boys would be off his back by now, or at leats enough to let him settle in to the game tomorrow. If he shows the tenacity and workrate of last week, then hopefully he will be cheered off the park as opposed to heckled like last time.
It's rare that a game against Kilmarnock is billed as a potentially entertaining match, but the way both teams are playing, it should be. Heffernan and Shiels have been on top form and if Cammy Bell is fit, it could be a battle fo the goalie's just like at Rugby Park in August. Attacking wise, I'd say both teams are as dangerous as one another, but at the back is where I see Motherwell winning out. Losing 3 second half goals from an unthinkable position last week will hopefully be lingering in the Killie backline's minds, and if deployed correctly, Murphy, Humphrey and maybe even Daley should run them ragged.
I'm going for a 2-0 home win, that would see us 6 points clear of Celtic and 4 behind Rangers for a few hours at least. I'll just need to work out which way to watch the highlights.
Up The Well!!
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