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Hopefully, although he did also spend 3 years working for Aberdeen and St Mirren, and his last job was being assistant to someone who played for Celtic for 7 years.

Brian Caldwell will know him from their time together at Shrewsbury.

Seems like a solid appointment and looks like we have followed a similar process to the managerial one to get the right candidate in. I wonder if there is a bit of succession planning there and we might be going down the old Liverpool "bootroom" route? Style, identity, promote from within.... Would certainly make things simpler as and when Jens moves on......

Nearly fell off ma chair when ah saw the photo. Thought Malpas was back! 😆😆😆

Would prefer not to see him go right now when its clear Miller will be away. But I guess we cant be too sniffy about any reasonable offer that comes in for any of our players. Quite pleased that we have a few right now that could command a fee with Slattery and Maswanhise being the other 2 obvious ones. Not the Miller millions, but as a club this is our business model and we need to roll with it. The timing would make things a little trickier for the new manager though as he tries to assemble his squad for the new season.

Someone out of the box and not indoctrinated in the SPL way of thinking. What's not to like. We're certainly blazing a trail and hopefully it all comes good.

A bit unusual these days new managers usually bring in their own team of assistants etc, but his CV looks decent so welcome to the club.

This should probably be in the Ins and Outs thread but I wouldn't dismiss it. 22 years old, runs all day, 6 goals in 21 starts most of them at wing back. Someone may show an interest...

Assistant manager appointed: https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2025/06/23/max-rogers-appointed-assistant-manager/

There’s a rumour on Twitter that Wimbledon are interested in Sparrow. Feels unlikely.

Looks like Dean Cornelius is heading to Ross County, with his contract at Harrogate Town not being extended.

I love McGhee. The man is absolutely hilarious.

Undoubtedly. There is no way Alexander phones up a journo after this length of time and begs to be given column inches to get something off his chest. The journo has clearly taken the SK line and decided to try and dig some dirt. Of course GA could have said, "thats ancient history, I have nothing to say" and clearly didnt, taking the opportunity to have a go, but really? Who cares......

Wait until we play Killie for the first time. You can just imagine the headlines.

That thought had crossed my mind also , after everything that happened with Stuart Kettlewell I wouldn't put it past the media to be asking our ex manager's for an opinion

He was probably asked about it by a journo.

Good post, we definetly need something to be cheerful about with a new season approaching I was 100% behind Michael Wimmer, and also 100% behind Jens now hoping he will bring some new ideas

I agree. Wasn't all negative

He's been with his wife 18 years. I understand the point you are making but I would think 18 years on and four kids later that she's happy enough to be marrying him

To be fair to both GA & SK they both added value during their time. Neither appointment is statistically poor - particularly not in comparison to likes of Kampman. Davies, Black, Malpas. Worth remembering both helped us get out trouble in their first season. both had win records of 40% over their total tenure. The article reads more as GA having a level of empathy for a fellow manager, which managers will always back one another. When he GA left he was very complimentary to the club. What I didn't like about either manager was their style of play and thought both came across as fairly arrogant, which many fans didn't care about until we went on poor runs. Anyway hopefully we can get some fresh blood in the team and give us all something to be cheerful about.

I don't understand why Graham Alexander waits til now , 5 months after SK has left and also just days after our new manager has just joined the club before saying a word Haven't heard him mention a word previously about us good or bad since the day he left

Every good manager has a degree of arrogance and swagger about them. And if their team is delivering on the park then it gets lapped up and is perfectly acceptable. Jose Mourinho with his “don’t call me arrogant but I am a European champion and I think I am a special one” quote at his Chelsea unveiling before taking that club to its first league title in 50 odd years along with a League Cup in his first season and retaining the league the next season is one of the best examples of that. At the other end of the scale you have McGhee with his self promotion and trumpet blowing about how he could have done so much better in his career had something happened in a playoff game years previous then overseeing humiliating results for the club he actually manages and constantly talking the club down. Likewise Graham Alexander needlessly changing his lineups and tactics every week and delivering dreadful football and losing but having the brass neck to come out in the media a claiming that we’d played well. As has been said, arrogance is fine but it needs to be countered by some kind of humility and perhaps more importantly delivering results on the park. (Flukey top six finishes don’t count especially when they are topped off with 0-7 defeats and European humiliations against Irish league sides).

Arrogance in a football manager is only ever useful when it’s balanced by self-awareness. Alexander has none. He’s an insufferable twat who humiliated us and still acts like he did nothing wrong.

Alexander was just shite, and as a result will be criticised by fans. Kettlewell was also shite, but thought himself above criticism and challenged the fans on it. The result of this was a complete collapse in relationship between management and fans. His whoring his self important story to the media in the wake of him jumping before pushed was just the icing on the cake.

Nobody cares if managers are arrogant when they're winning. In fact, they embrace them as being "a character" and "a breath of fresh air". When they aren't winning, fans use their arrogance as the stick to beat them with. As for The Daily Mail, there isn't enough money on the planet that would make me click a link on that publication.