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  1. I'd like Alexander to go. The players don't want to play for him. I doubt they are able to with his tactics anyway but I don't think anyone likes him. He's killing my interest completely. The players look like they don't know each other. They look like they've never spent the last 8 months playing together. 2 midfielders in a team is a fucking joke. He can try tell you it's a 3-4-3 but he's fucking at it if he thinks we don't see it. I am fucking scunnered.
    3 points
  2. That’s it in a fucking nutshell. The key phrase is “the manager is responsible”. So let’s mark his report card in the areas you identify. Recruitment: Fail. Brought players that are no better than what he had and brought players on loan and hasn’t played them. Tactics: Fail. Has none. No midfield. Defenders pelting passes forward from deep like cruise missiles. Team Selection: Fail. Doesn’t know his best 11 and as a result there’s no consistency in selection leading to inconsistency of performance and poor results. Shape: Fail. Obsessed with 4-3-3 which is failing miserably - seems determined to stick to this like a lemming going over a cliff. Since beating Livingston 2-1 at FP on Boxing Day we’ve played 11 league games and only got 5 points (5 home: 3 draws; 2 defeats and 6 away: 2 draws; 4 defeats). On that form we’d be bottom of the league as Dundee in the same period got 7 points. We are quite clearly in relegation form.
    2 points
  3. It feels very similar to the Maurice Malpas season . Is there anyone out there who can say this season has been an enjoyable watch. Any results we’ve had have been grounded out which is fine when your going through a rough patch but it has been like this for the whole season.I can see people staying away from the remaining games but the real danger is that the fans are not getting entertained and this will have an impact on ST sales . There’s a few people I’ve spoke to who won’t be renewing to watch the same again next season . Will I renew ? Not so sure now tbh as not enjoying it at all . As I said earlier same kind of feeling we had when Malpas was in charge . Seriously how the board are watching this closely and act before it’s too late . Tbh I have trust in the board and would be surprised if there not watching the events carefully . If we get beat at home in the next game I’ve got a feeling the fans patience will finally runout . That’s never a nice scenario but can see it happening with the call for Alexander to go
    2 points
  4. I thought he was ok without ever standing out, St Mirren seem to like our fringe players and that’s being upped with Robinson taking over. Would I want OHara, Tait, Dunn, and Main as four of our starting 11, not really. Signing players from a rival that are not quite good enough is not going to end that well, especially if it’s half your team at some point.
    1 point
  5. We couldn’t retain Lamie if he didn’t want to accept our contract offer. Dundee blew us out the water with their offer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  6. How are the club, or someone in it at fault FFS [emoji2357]. The player is open at anytime in the last 6 months of his contract to sign a PCA. The club has no control over when that might be or who announces it - geez. There’s a lot wrong at the moment, but being critical of something out with the clubs control is just crazy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  7. As I see it, we have three options available to us with regard to Alexander. Option one, sack him now. Option two, let him finish the season and then sack him, trusting in the fact that the rest of the league, out with the Old Firm, are equally rank so our Premiership status is pretty much secured. Option three, continue with him for a further year, in the hope that things turn out alright. Option one has little to recommend it, despite the run of poor performances and results being such that it would have resulted in the trigger being squeezed at other clubs in our division. I like to think that one of the reasons we have stayed so long in the top flight is that, as a club, we have not been too quick to change manager, and history has shown that clubs that choose this route more often get it wrong than right. Throw in that there is no obvious replacement, the season is nearly over so the likelihood of any worthwhile " new manager bounce" is limited, and that his new contract will make this expensive and this option looks unlikely. Some might even contend that we could still finish fourth, but I think recent performances make this argument both spurious and delusional. Option two seems the obvious route to take. As long as the fates don't conspire to somehow land us in the bottom two. A few more crap performances and results to add to the argument that we gave Alexander every chance to turn things around and it just isn't working. He might even do the honourable thing and walk away and save us a few bob in compensation (yeah? Nah, doubtful). Option three doesn't really appeal. Yes, the league is generally poor quality, and, as our league position shows, we are probably not the worst, except on current form, but to continue as we are for another season seems like a recipe for relegation. Alexander seems to have run out of ideas and is what he is repeatedly trying with 4-3-3 isn't working. Getting someone new in for the start of the next season seems the obvious solution. Yes, getting rid of him will cost us, and there is no obvious candidate for what will always be a difficult job , given the state of our league and our limited finances, but continuing as we are is not a long term option that fills me with any hope.
    1 point
  8. Watt going to United can argue the case till the cows come home. Losing Lamie and Oharra to pisher teams than us does suggest not all the players are onboard with GA. Fair enough if these guys were fringe men but aside from Kelly & VanVeen, they are in our ever rotating starting 11 as much as anyone else
    1 point
  9. I'm not fussed hes away and it's not surprise he's away to st mirren,I wouldn't be surprised donnelly ends up there as well.our midfield is poor and in need of serious attention come the summer so the more we get out the door the better.
    1 point
  10. Ohara is one of the few genuine talented players we have. I sort of despair of supporters who don’t recognise this. Everyone has an opinion I suppose. They can’t always be correct like me
    1 point
  11. As far as his recruitment goes, I can't remember the last time we had a squad where there's only one player I'd be gutted to lose, and for the record, at the time I thought we'd recruited well. This seems very Gannon-y, where we dont find out the signings are good until another manager uses them.
    1 point
  12. Not too fussed to be honest. Was never a fan but was a decent back up option. Onthefringes will be delighted [emoji3] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
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  14. Like I said, without getting into the rights and wrongs of it - story was done to death at the time. Lad (has held his hands up) aimed it at those hogging the perimeter rather taking a seat which was problematic for those around them including our disabled supporters.
    1 point
  15. Given the situation we are in, ask yourself - Who game after game instructs the full backs/wing backs to play narrow, surrender the wide areas and concentrate on defending the multitude of crosses that will inevitably come in? Who game after game instructs our defenders to hoof the ball forward in the hope the opposing centre backs cannot head the ball and we might even win the second ball? Who game after game instructs every player to come back to defend free kicks and corners, leaving no out ball should we win the ball? Even the expected hoof ball has no target in those situations. Who game after game sets us up to be outnumbered and overrun in midfield? In fairness, if you bypass midfield that might not an issue when we have the ball. Does anyone genuinely believe it is the players making those decisions? Who thought it clever to play a decent central defender but suspect tackler at wing back in an important cup tie? And then who acts amazed that one piece of poor control and attempted recovery tackle results in a red card? Who game after game leaves our most creative and/or energetic players on the bench or sitting in the stand? Who drops players to the bench that did well when starting the previous match? Who stands watching a substandard performance, chatting it over with his mate for 75 minutes before making a change? Even then any change is like for like and makes no difference to the style of play. Who is prepared to blame the players, pitch, officials, weather, bad luck for every shambolic performance rather than accepting that just perhaps a change off approach now and then might help? Who spouts the same rubbish game after miserable game, but actually says nothing? You can blame the players and the poor quality of Scottish football and our League all you like. But we are stuck with a Manager who is doing nothing to help and in many ways is hanging his players out to dry. His stubbornness, reluctance to attempt a fresh approach when his game plan is failing coupled with his perceived persecution of players who raise questions is harming our Club and turning fans off big time. Somebody said it earlier. " It is now a chore going to watch this team". It is also galling to have to accept that teams such as Livingston, Ross County and St Mirren play far more entertaining football than we do despite operating in the same marketplace and therefore being similarly hampered by the poor quality of player available and the League we have to compete in. We may well escape relegation...just... this season but if Alexander continues with his same approach then we are only heading in one direction.
    1 point
  16. My dad used to always say that a team who keeps losing closely by the odd goal is a team who are going to struggle against relegation. Which nowadays means the play-off spot too.
    1 point
  17. The amount of space we offer opposing forwards from our (lack of) left back presence is laughable. That goal against St J and also against Hibs and various other examples. And another worrying fact is that it doesnt seem to matter who is playing left back. I think its coaching/management and duff players.
    1 point
  18. What you don't do is hand a new contract to McGinley, so he doesn't feel left out next to Carroll or Mugabi. As for the non functioning midfield, who should take the blame for that, after endless months of fans pointing that out?
    1 point
  19. The tactics are basic and awful. Fair enough if you have players who can capitalise on the long ball game, we don't. We just surrender possession time and again and when you do that you lose goals.
    1 point
  20. It's outside the managers influence of the team captain makes an absolute rick of it in the box and gives a goal away. Or if a player gets sent off in the 1st minute. Or if the referee gives a penalty that was outside the box. What the manager is responsible is recruitment, tactics, team selection, shape, etc. He's had one summer window so I'll give him a break there, tactics aren't pretty but I understand that we don't have technically gifted players and maybe our style maximises our chances with the current squad, although I think we should aspire for better in the future. I get that some people will disagree on this point but if I look at what we have and ask myself if it's through, round or over the top I've got to say it's probably over the top. Team selection has been made difficult by injuries, Watt being transferred out and inconsistencies. If you have four full backs at the club and none of them perform, what exactly do you do? I think Alexander is damned if he does or damned if he doesn't in certain aspects of team selection. People complained when Woolery and McGinley were starters every week. Now they've been changed out and it's 'tombola' chat. In our last 5 matches we've used 16 starting players and 9 have played in at least 4 out of the 5 so it's hardly even that extreme. And it's not like the Robinson days when there were better players on the side-lines absolutely screaming out to be in the side. Shape is difficult when you don't have a functional midfield, but I think a lot of the goals we've given away recently have been down to individual errors rather than the way the team is set up.
    1 point
  21. Shaw is probably better than him...but then again , unless you have saw him playing elsewhere , you would never know. Why bring him in from Celtic and not play him.... The more you look into the gaffers selections and tactics , the more baffling it becomes... Maybe now that he has got his new contract , he is trying to get himself sacked....selections and tactics would back this up....maybe he has had enough and doesn’t know how to turn it around ala Robinson.....so just put out a side with 6 defenders , 1 young inexperienced midfielder , and 3 forwards , 2 of whom have no presence , can’t hold the ball up or win headers...... sorted ... Oh , and wait till about 25 to go ..have a good chit chat about how to change it for 15 mins , so that when the changes are made , they have no time to do anything.... The more you look at it , the more it all falls into place..
    1 point
  22. To be fair, since January, GA has rededicated his tactics to playing without a midfield anyway so it doesn't really matter who we put in there. Peak Viera, Scholes and Gerrard wouldn't be able to do anything when all they have to work from is a punt from defence to Van Veens head, hoping that who ever is selected from Woolery or Roberts can run onto the second ball......
    1 point
  23. What's the difference between a bison and a buffalo?.........you can't wash your hands in a buffalo.......ba boom
    1 point
  24. Put Lasley in until the end of the season, get a consistent established 11, try and get a bit of confidence, and play a midfield, then on to next season.
    1 point
  25. I still can't believe we resigned mcginley,the thought of him and carroll battling it out at left back for another season is grim.
    0 points
  26. There is no question that Alexander has to go. I feel insulted by his team picks, tactics. He has also obviously attended one of Mark McGhee’s arrogance work shops. What about Alan Burrows. It’s very well being a fan and going from tea boy to the top but In any CEO job you have to be decisive and lead from the top. Communication to the staff and to the fans is vital, especially when things are not going to plan to prevent gossip and inaccuracies spreading throughout the club. It’s not the players job to question the managers tactics it’s Mr Burrows job. The Motherwell family ethos is in danger and I am embarrassed at the way some players have been treated. Liam Grimshaw is an example. It’s disgraceful. As fans we do not want to have to protest outside the main stand because it causes a toxic atmosphere and it’s not our job to make it easier for Alan Burrows to sack him. Alan be a leader and stop this now. If not then milk and 2 sugars please.
    0 points
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