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If JBA stays, maybe Slattery does too. And surely the club can now afford to offer him a new deal on improved terms to reflect his importance.

Saying in the Guardian that he is in discussion with Jens. So maybe not so clearcut that he is going.

This team needs a Slattery. We saw exactly how much it suffered during his recent suspension, and if he leaves, he’ll be a huge loss.

Had an outstanding challenge in injury time on Sunday after Ward's great save

I hope McGhee is given a chance. Very well thought of in Dundee and as a friend said to me "He'd run through a brick wall for us and never gives up". Despite our undoubted quality, thats maybe a skillset/attitude we've lacked a little this season. In his sporadic brief appearances for us, he hasn't let us down.

Re Slattery , he used to annoy the hell out of me before his injury I thought he spent too much time getting involved in needless fouls however since coming back from injury he has shown real creative ability and has deservedly had a lot of praise. I think Slattery's departure might see Jordan McGhee nailing down first team starts. I'm interested to see if he was as good as Dundee fans thought he was. Any time he has come on he has looked promising.

Ffs!! That's far too positive from you.....get that changed to a 4-0 humping.......NOW!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Andy Halliday wasnt impressed. A valid point was we lost our star player in summer and we haven't missed him ( though I still think lennon woukd have ran riot) under a JBA side.

Draw written all over it. 1-1

The managers selected all have good reason to be there so I’m fine with that. they can pick JBA next year when we win the league!!

I think JBA and the players are going to get us 3 points from this one. COYW!!

It does seem a tad cliquey but it is what is plus they are saving giving him the manager of the year award for next season when JBA guides us to a league title. Up the Well!

All valid nominations, but I know who I want as MFC manager next season, and it’s none of the above

There's probably a combination of reasons, but there's no doubt in my mind that a segment of the voters chose McGlynn over JBA because they wanted to nominate a Scottish manager rather than some upstart foreigner trying to modernise the Scottish game. You don't need to go too far back in the season to find all the criticism doled out at the start of our project. McInnes will win it anyway, and JBA will be on the sportswriters' nominations no doubt.

It could be. But it probably isn't.

If JBA and the players feel he's been hard done by, the shortlist couldn't have come out at a better time.

Or it could simply just be that McInnes taking Hearts from bottom six to the brink of the League title in his first season, McGlynn getting Falkirk promotion, top six AND a Scottish Cup Semi Final and lastly Naysmith defying the odds with Stenhousemuir are all seen as more deserving of the award than JBA? There doesn’t need to be any kind of underlying resentment or anything like that I’d say it’s more that the other three have achieved more tangible feats.

I think thats it. Scottish football is a pretty small and parochial system and anything which upsets the apple cart isn't welcomed.

Voted by their peers. So it may be a confident foreign manager playing better football than everyone else, on a much smaller budget, isn’t particularly liked by certain old school managers throughout the country. Not a massive surprise.

East Kilbride manager should have been a stick on nomination.

Yes, he probably will. I once saw some advice online: "Never get down and dirty with a pig. The pig will just enjoy it and you always end up covered in shit." In any case, if Hearts beat them on Monday night, they'll be cooked. I love the smell of crackling in the morning 😈.

Pretty reasonable nominations. It’s impossible to see past McInnes this season for the job he has done at Hearts - taking them from bottom six last season to a few wins away from being League Champions - and I don’t see how there can be any reasonable argument against that. With McGlynn and Falkirk they have had a superb season and reached the SF of the Scottish Cup. For a side just promoted that’s pretty good going. Naysmith at Stenhousemuir is a bit of an outsider but he’s got them in a great position for promotion against the odds. And then on to our manager JBA. He has been fantastic for us and surpassed all expectations but I’m personally quite pleased he has been overlooked for this award as it might just keep his stock low enough to keep him here for a bit longer. Wishful thinking perhaps but anything that gives us an advantage as a club then I’ll take it. The reality is that Jens May very well not be with us next season but I still think there is a chance that he will be, and the less folk shouting about his credentials the better for Motherwell FC.

In 2 weeks time this same guy will be asking if Motherwell can do his team a favour and beat Celtic I absolutely hope we do , but not for him Haha

All valid nominations, JBA was probably fourth in the vote.