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Mmm? I don’t think you read said previous post correctly and understood the context? You asked what would Ya Bezzer! say about yesterday’s shit show…. Quotation marks

Spot on,we needed to sign a proper right back in the summer and we never and now we're stuck with sparrow an ageing odonnell and johhny k who can't stay fit for any lengthy of time.

Ahhhh. Very true 🤪

I take your point Grizzly but if he did that I doubt we’d have enough left for a 5 a-side team.

Mmm? In a previous post you stated: “Some Motherwell fans really are deplorable individuals. Yet again they are showing just how poisonous and toxic they are. Deserve all they get after causing Graham Alexander to leave and shouting at Kettlewell. Selfish, parochial and spoiled arseholes who are lucky to have a team to support when a wee club like ours really shouldbe looking to merge with Accies, Airdrie and Albion Rovers for the good ofScottish football”

I am very much outspoken defending AJ, the individual errors and cheap goals aren't his fault. Those are basic errors from individual players. What he needs to do though is get players in correct positions and drop the ones we can all see for ourselves that need dropped

What a frustrating afternoon, we saw the good the bad and the ugly (downright shambolic) from this team. I seem to be in the minority now, but I feel for AJ given the crazy individual errors we’re making in nearly every game at the moment. Like a few of us I thought we played reasonably well for most of the 1st half and should have been ahead at the break, despite Paulson madness at the start. 2nd half we take the lead then immediately invite them on to us. O’Donnell horrific for Killies 2nd and 3rd and Sparrow just as bad for the winner. The leagues very tight and we’ve yet to complete the first round of games. I don’t think it’s gone yet, but the next 3 are massive, need 4 points minimum. At least if nothing else O’Donnell will surely take his seat back on the bench for the rest of the season.

He obviously meant after that which was accurate, guy has enough issues without getting pulled up for semantics.

I get that, but was the decision to give him a contract extension the right one in the first place? Its putting a helluva lot of trust in an unknown goalie coming in on loan. Matty isn't the biggest or best in the air and he'll have a lot less defensive protection than he had last year.

The 3rd goal sums up what I have been saying for weeks............Sparrow is not a right-back!

Reflecting on who I'd start for the game and there I've found a huge issue. There are so many gaps, this may be due to how we're set up From who's currently available I thing I'd only have 4 players who are automatically given a game. For Saturday Id be making us a lot more robust. For me I don't think Connelly is a better keeper but I do think he can distribute better. Mcghee to give the defence more protection. I'd wouldn't play with an out an out striker as I don't see Seb offering much In general play. I know the following isn't perfect but I'd go with Connelly JK JKL Moorman Longelo . McGhee Sparrow Fadinger JT Lowry , Said Hopefully Oscar would get some game time.

Alfred says post match that we started the game well? We were a goal down within two minutes with another howler ffs! We are in serious trouble if we persist with this guy.

Defenders shouldn't really have to be told to get first contact, blick shots etc ...sod had a decent spell last year but in general his time at Motherwell has been poor and now hes older. If even one of the 3 defenders had done their job for The 3rd goal , it could've been avoided.

But if we dont give Matty a shot, he shouldn't be there, we could be quite a few points better off with a competent goalie

Stood behind goal with son watching shooting practice,son piped up have you seen maswanhise shooting hes woeful,think he hit net with one out of seven shots,the rest of players not much better.

He’s had enough time already. And in that time he’s overseen our cup exit and a consistent decline in the league. What next? Relegation. Not true. Football is a fickle business. You and I could do a better job than Alfred.

Just watched the highlights and dear god, that defending is truly schoolboy stuff. Paulsen sets the tone with his weekly howler and we let every long ball from them bounce on the edge of our box. I could see from only 5 minutes that O'Donnell has probably had one of if not his worst game for us since signing. I wasn't there yesterday but caught the score at 1-2 and thought great it's Killie and we'll hold out. Not to be. The players genuinely don't look like they know what they're meant to be doing but that's no excuse for the persistent individual brain farts. Confidence is low and the body language from some on the pitch is alarming.

No I’m saying even Askou would have struggled to have us hit the heights of our November - February peak last season. I don’t think for a minute we would be on a five match losing run and getting worse by the week if he was still here though. Your last sentence tells the whole story. JBA is a manager while his successor isn’t.

My thoughts too. I thought he was a strange appointment at the time but had confidence in the Board. However too many factors just don't add up as you suggest. We started off well but our form has fallen off a cliff. The more time Alf has had on the training ground with the players the worse our form has become. The assistant manager and coaching staff have remained the same as last season and so there's been continuity. Yes we lost 4 important players in Ward, Welsh, Watt and Just; but we retained a solid core of decent players - SOD, Longelo, Fadinger, Said etc. The form of these stalwarts has fallen off a cliff. Reading reports of games now the words "the players chucked it" are occurring all too frequently. Either the players don't understand their roles or they've stopped playing for AJ. Something just ain't right. Our style is completely different from last season despite being promised continuity and thats something I can't come to terms with. AJ is not picking his strongest team and many of his substitutions are questionable. Players are needlessly being played out of position. He just can't seem to sort out our defence which has unravelled; there's no other word for it. Sure the players must accept some responsibility but we signed some decent ones (on paper at least) in the summer. Sadly, I've come round to Wellfan's view that AJ is out of his depth. I would give him until maybe mid Novemberish and if matters haven't improved by then, a parting of the ways would be best for both parties. In those circumstances, if the Board doesn't act by itself, then fan power through plummeting attendances will force their hand.

Agreed. I wasn't convinced of him when we first signed him, but he's selling just too many goals. He's a great shot shotstopper, but still prone to the odd howler eg at Dens Park. His distribution is poor and he's costing us a number of cheap goals from passing out. Add to that his lack of aerial ability and in short, his strengths are outweighed bu his weaknesses. Would it be possible to cut short his loan in January? Our alternative, Matty Connelly, doesn't fill me with confidence either.

Every time we talk about replacing a manger that seems to be the counter argument, the whole who do we get, but I always see that as a non argument. How are we as fans going to know who to get, the club are supposed to know that, there is supposed to be a process. It's crazy to me that people genuinely think that there is not a manager out there that would take the job that can do better than we are doing.

All about opinions which I respect but who would we get? Who woukd look at us and think 'well i have 6 weeks or else i will get punted'. Blueprint would be totally screwed. However......I aint denying that AJ needs to sort things out

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I know why you would say the board will likely go this way, but I really don't agree with it. The faster you get a replacement in, the faster they can look at what they have to work with and make needed signings in January. We won't do that though.

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