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  1. Shit signings in the summer. players constantly changing position. tactically all over the place. But for me it’s the standard of football at home that is the nail in the coffin. It’s is fucking dreadful and possibly the worst I have seen at Fir Park for years.
    5 points
  2. 100% this. We've never had a striker (or supporting midfield) that can play 1 up front.
    2 points
  3. These managers you'd dredged up, none of them were any good at our club but I was defending a position on 'a Craig Brown type'. That's why I mentioned Craig Brown, a manager that competed well at international level, not as a defence of all Scottish born managers we've ever employed. As for Gannon, Baraclough and Robinson, I see them all as imported failures with a rather shallow level of expertise who managed to bluffed their way into a higher level in Scottish football than they would have been able to do so elsewhere. The very fact that these guys were non Scots, that they came from outside Scotland allowed them positions they would never have been appointed to if they had been Scottish. So while even guys like Davies and McLeish achieved success elsewhere at a higher level, Gannon and Baraclough achieved nothing aside from perhaps in Gannon's case, sealing the deal on a Y reg Vauxhall Cavalier. Davies and McLeish didn't work out for us. But Gannon and Barraclough they just weren't any good. If anyone see's Robinson going on to success post Motherwell than that's your opinion, it's currently an unknown, but I throw my hat in the 'don't see it happening' ring. As for your defence of Gannon - it's laughable. Even putting aside the turmoil Gannon created at the club in his time here he won 4 out of 17 league matches, won 1 out of his last 10, the last two of which were a shambolic 6-1 defeat to Rangers and a 3-1 defeat at home to St. Johnstone. Many of these poor results where down to the downright bizarre decisions by Gannon in terms of tactics, team selection and substitutions, the managerial equivalent of self harming. The man was a cancer yet many here took in his snake oil salesman patter for far too long and apparently some still believe it. Craig Brown came in and undoubtedly turned the club around and I'm sure deep down you know this. It's that apparent. Anyway let me reiterate my original point since everyone these days would rather react in mock outrage than absorb a point. I don't care if our next manager is foreign or not - but he has to be experienced and understand how to tactically organise a side (like Brown) and not some bullshit merchant from the fringes of professional football (like Gannon, Baraclough and Robinson).
    2 points
  4. Tanner seems to be getting better the longer he's out.
    2 points
  5. Charles Dunne is one of the fastest players in the country... Danny Johnson managed to out pace Shay Logan over a pitch long race.. Aryibi has pace to burn... Cadden is no slouch and neither is Frear. There's pace in the team. Elliot Frear is an out and out left winger, Jake Hastie is also a left winger. Aryibi is a right winger, he's probably the very definition of a right winger. Robinson's signings can be questioned, but none of those statements above are accurate!
    2 points
  6. With a few extra F words thrown.....made me laugh. But above all else I like the passion. I still think the break was a contributor to our loss v Ross County. That said the team formation and selection was a tad bizarre.
    1 point
  7. Said everything that I was thinking.
    1 point
  8. You can go back as far as you want and you'll find poor signings. The last manager that Motherwell won a trophy under and had a reputation for being something of a master in the transfer market signed the likes of John Gardiner, Alan Sneddon, Alex Jones, Dave McCabe, Paul Baker, Dave Shanks, Mark Caughey and Ally Graham to name but a few that spring to mind. The model they have I think is pretty transparent. They've been pretty clear for a number of years that alongside home grown Motherwell products they want to buy cheap from England and sell back at a profit because English players, rightly or wrongly, have more of a reputation and English clubs have more money. Its no coincidence that's where the Head of Recruitment is based. I share your sense of intrigue to an extent though as to how it fits together with some targets arriving even after changes of manager. There are times when Martin Foyle's role seems more Director of Football than the Head Scout as he's sometimes referred to. As an aside I find it quite interesting that we seem to have "hot spots" of recruitment like NE England (Gateshead connection?) SW England (Plymouth?) and across the Midlands. You've been a long term sceptic of that but I would imagine the club have achieved more in terms of a return than they probably dared hope for and will see the Fletchers, Blyths and Thomas's of the world as worth the gamble. Again I do share a slight concern of the longer term viability of that model given that as soon as you hit a seem of successes the number of eyes on that league and those players will magnify and picking players up from that league becomes more difficult. The positives I suppose are that if the right player is spotted we have the track record of sending them back south a division or two higher up from whence they came. Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk
    1 point
  9. Connor Sammon is big, strong and can hold the ball up, he’s just really bad in the air for a guy of his size.
    1 point
  10. It seems like the situation with McHugh last season all over again. Hartley’s not been playing well, but Robinson doesn’t appear to want to drop the club captain. Even though he’s either not fully fit or completely off the boil.
    1 point
  11. We aren't going to do anything playing 1 up front. You need cultured players to play 1 up front and we don't have them. We need to go 3-5-2, 5-3-2, 4-4-2, a formation with 2 up front. We've tried 3-5-2 so let's try 4-4-2. The objection is always that you can be over run in midfield but that to me is the terror of the tactics board. Out on the pitch, in real life, I've seen plenty of teams play 4-4-2 and beat teams with 5 in midfield, quite often this season when we've been beaten. A good manager should be able to set up a 4-4-2 against a 3-5-2 and be able to compete - although that involves hard working players that follow instructions. There are a variety of ways you can do it, not just two wingers, two central midfielders playing in defined areas. Aside from our woes, I wouldn't be surprised if we actually we get something out of this. Hibs recent record is poor (2 wins in 13 league matches, 1 win away in 6 was at Hamilton) and Robinson has a track record of pulling it out the fire just before it seems set to explode. And although I seem to have said this a lot this season "We surely can't get any worse that last time?"
    1 point
  12. One of the most interesting elemenys of following Motherwell this season is making sense of the starting lineup. There will no doubt be a few changes. Robinson will hopefully realise that Dunne isn’t a left back, Johnson is largely useless outside the box, Turnbull isn’t ready to play deep, Hartley looks done, McCormack is nowhere near ready and we need to play a midfield three. I don’t think we’ve beaten Hibs since their return to the top flight and it’s hard to see it changing tomorrow. Odds of 7/5 for an away win are tempting. Having said that, if Campbell and Grimshaw, it would at least provide a little hope. Will be interesting to see if Ryan Gauld still has a knack for ripping us apart.
    1 point
  13. Very much my view. We had several weeks off to prepare for this game and still blew it. Ok, I accept ring rustiness can be a factor. Surely the management must have known County's strengths and weaknesses beforehand and I really thought we'd be prepared and set up to handle a midfield battle. Unless he was unfit, Allan Campbell, should have been one of the first names on the teamsheet.
    1 point
  14. Not really. The upside for me is maintaining a reasonably steady ship to try and secure SPFL status. Sacking a manager can have a detrimental effect on a squad, which could lead us to go into a bit of a tailspin while the new guy finds his feet. There's also the potential upside of the new manager surge, and if we were in a realistic position of challenging for top six or even for 8th then I'd consider that to be a factor. But we aren't, so I don't. The downside of bringing a new manager in now is potentially falling into the relegation battle from the relatively safe position we're in at the moment. The upside is closing the gap on Hibs and still finishing 9th, but closer to them. I doubt the board would be mental enough to look at that and think the potential upside outweighs the potential downside.
    1 point
  15. To be fair, we'd kill this season for a player with 9 goals from 23 starts. I knew a few of them were penalties but he also created a few goals...
    1 point
  16. I would say since Tanner got injured we have not been the same attacking force. Other than a few great results against Aberdeen we have not really blown any teams away. Tanner was a huge influence on our team. Best signing out with Kipre that Robinson made.
    1 point
  17. Need a reaction here and a result. Interesting to see what line up is pulled from the “starting 11 tombola”! Motherwell 0 Hibs something
    1 point
  18. Gillespie Tait Aldred Hartley Dunne McHugh Campbell Ariyibi Turnbull Frear Main 3-1 to us.
    1 point
  19. So it's now changed to 'pace going forward' as opposed to pace? Johnson is unfit rather than having no pace then. He has pace, and I'd argue that the showed enough pace and fitness to score the late equaliser against Celtic. So there are left wingers at the club after all? Just that we haven't played with wingers and loaned one out? Aryibi has pace, has played all his career as a right winger, but because he's just signed that's indicative that the manager hasn't done anything to address the lack of pace and a right winger?
    1 point
  20. Taking it position by position GOALKEEPERS As others have said, Robinson's record is decent here. Carson and Gillespie are good goalkeepers. Xenodochov was clearly a short term fix, would seem harsh to judge him on that. Griffiths (for he signed him permanently too) was far from the worst back-up keeper we've had but wouldn't have wanted him as first choice. DEFENDERS. Maybe this should be in two sections. Centre halfs, generally he's done ok. Kipré and Dunne were both excellent last season. Hartley was great til January 2018, Aldred great after that (still unsure whether they should play as a pair). Giving Hartley a permanent deal while carrying an injury was a bad decision as he hasn't looked the same player since. Plummer was a waste of a wage due to injury and sadly Liam Donnelly looks to be heading the same way. On Donnelly, I don't think he's looked as bad as some have made out and certainly hasn't been helped by coming in at a time when we lost Dunne and Kipré and Hartley was returning looking half the player he was when he first arrived. Full backs, or to be more precise left backs is another story. Hendrie and Taylor-Sinclair are strange in that he signed them and you got the impression, having signed them, he didn't like the look of them. Neither of them have convinced in the role but without extended runs who can tell. A preference for playing Frear there or Tait, allowing Cadden to play right wing back certainly suggests they aren't doing anything in training. MIDFIELDERS Sigh. Where to start here. He has signed a fair few centre midfielders but they all look pretty similar. Rose and Grimshaw do a lot of unfashionable dirty work. In his few cameos, Gorrin looks to do the same job despite the suggestion he would be more creative (take better care of the ball was, I think, the phrase used). Bigirimana, has shown in flashes what he can do but as soon as Robinson stumbled across his McHugh-Campbell-Rose midfield and it fitted his plans, he's been marginalised. Doesn't track runners but certainly can pass. Would his defensive frailties have been as noticeable had he had last season's back three playing behind him earlier this season? Maybe not, but like the left backs, seems like a signing Robinson decided very quickly wasn't for him. Tanner is the real shame. A creative player that seemed to fit into our team. I suspect had he been fit, we'd be a good few points better off given one goal would have made a difference in so many results. FORWARDS Fisher and Sammon are guys that from word one, just haven't seemed to have fit in, it hasn't for whatever reason worked. Petravicius. Not sure of the point of his signing. Signed a winger at a time when Robinson would rather have cut off his own leg than play a winger. Ciftci just seemed like a bad fit, short term panic signing (I fear we may end up saying the same about McCormack). Main looked like a world beater for four months but for whatever reason, now looks like he hasn't seen a football before. Did he start to believe his own hype or were the first four months an anomaly? Starting to suspect the latter. Newell, like Plummer, a waste of a wage on injury record alone. Johnson is simply a goalscorer who doesn't add much else. Fine if you have another striker to do the hard yards (Still can't fathom why we didn't see more of Johnson and Bowman as a pair other than the manager's perseverance with Main). Looking at it (and obviously it's not just Robinson but the scouts that this applies to), he seems to do alright signing goalkeepers, centre halfs or hard working midfielders. Struggles to see a creative player, or spot one that he can fit into his tactics. Tanner being the notable exception. Guess that explains why as we get further into his tenure, we're scoring fewer and fewer goals...
    1 point
  21. I'm old. I forgot that people these days need to have every piece of humourous understatement or irony punctuated with smileys.
    1 point
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