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no sponsor on Euro kit from photo on main site - seems a missed opportunity

Glad to see SPL have confidence that our pitch work is going to hold up. 3 home fixures on consecutive Saturdays in January! Also none in March (bar potential cup?) when the weather is improving.

While I obviously agree in principle that an attacking midfielder shouldn't follow the ball in at a free kick lest he give the assistant referee an opportunity to flag him offside I feel that the criticism of Forbes is unjustified. There are far greater culprits whose actions could have prevented an offside decision. Craigan had ample opportunity to slice his shot wide - he could, with a bit of thought on his part, just taken a wild swipe and missed it completely. My opinion is that it is Hately's fault on 2 accounts 1. his free kick - he could easily have played it into McGregors hands, into a ruck of players, or to be safe just thumped it high and wide. 2. he scored from the free kick in the first half. surely if Well were not leading 1-0 the linesman might have thought twice about flagging even given the unfortunate onside antics of Craigan and Forbes. JT

wouldn't argue against any for mom but voted for Sutton as he did an immense amount of work in attack, midfield and defence. JT

mmm seems like more than journalistic speculation - a wee bit of unofficial spin coming from MFC to give us an insight into some of the issues behind the decision, perhaps?

Agree wholeheartedly. We'll never know if he had the ability to develop his philosophy but we do know he wasn't able to impose it. He stated that you needed to treat players as individuals to get the best out of them but didn't seem to act that way.

This is just nonsense. No-one would realistically expect us to beat Celtic and we are not the only team to have been given a going over at Ibrox but against St. Johnstone Gannon played players out of position, needlessly changed tactics and made some bizarre substitutions. So are you saying that the great Jim Gannon having left Craigan out of the team for weeks miraculously coached him into playing a left centre role and it was Craigan's fault that he couldn't play to Gannon's masterplan. Any manager worth his salt knows that playing his players in their best positions will get the best out of them. I think it's closer to the truth to say that despite our young and emerging team doing their best they were increasingly let down by a manager who thought/still thinks he is better than he is. I will be very surprised if the next job you see Jim Gannon get is with any team higher than English League 1.

Not just that but experience working with (and motivating) young players would seem ideal. Possiblity of a shared post - helping out with U21s at match times? If nothing else the SFA owe JB for getting rid of Gannon

Seriously? If Gannon expects to run a football club for 3 years with no-one else having a say I suggest he look at his local boys team - although I'm not sure the teenagers would put up with his obvious huffing and mood swings. He has shown himself in a really bad light over the last six weeks or so. If he has talent as a coach he is going to have to learn some basic diplomacy skills to make a good manager anywhere.

Was the Everton link because Moyes and Gannon get on or just the proximity of Stockport previously. Surely Everton and the 2 players will care more about their player development than the JG link. If we appoint a new manager quickly and they/Moyes see that Motherwell is not going to be a complete mess then it may suit both to stay. fingers

Positives - - we're not bottom of the league. - he didn't get a chance to completely destroy the playing staff during January before sodding off. Believe it or not I'm being optimistic!

obviously the mere sight of the messaih inspired Stockport to come back from 1 down to lead 2-1. oh whoops they've thrown it away. welcome home Jim

He's a relatively young man and younger manager. It would be in his and our best interests if he spent a bit of time reflecting on his own performance sooner rather than later. I hope that his comments yesterday don't result in wholescale player changes - never mind top six I think rebuilding a team from scratch from Jan onwards is a recipe for relegation. When Gannon goes onto other things I will still be a Motherwell fan and I don't want Well just to be a learning experience for him which resulted in Div 1 for us.

echo this. craigan on right reynolds on left seems to be our most solid centre pairing. saunders on right reynolds on left seems to be way forward for passing game/greater mobility. playing craigan, reynolds and saunders (at right back) out of position other than when absolutely necessary doesn't make for either stability or longer term progress.

I was at the game but came to the same conclusion after Gannon's comments. Absolutely no grasp of reality. It was his decision to play players out of position, his team talk and tactics changes at half time and his choice of substitutions. not just a heat of the moment interview either since MFC have published it. Regardless of the arguments over booing or otherwise I suspect your own manager telling the world that you'll never keep a clean sheet is a real motivator - bound to inspire Ruddy to stay at Well I would imagine. I'm not saying Gannon should go but he needs to accept that maybe he has something to learn about management and not just blame the players.

Apologies - from where I was (M) it looked like ref was talking to him with book out but maybe that was just recording the goal.

He was booked for the celebration. He was then trying (genuinely I think) to apologise which of course just made some fans even madder!

today certainly wasn't his best - he got away with a clearance in the first half when he was well outside his area but two defenders were covering the hibs player (lucky it was lumbering Nish)

We let Hibs play to their strengths and we were lucky to get away with only 3 against. first time in league I would question managers tactics - Lukas on right wing was ineffectual and o'Brien has worked best when going up the left side with Hammell and Forbes for support - we tried JOB in middle against ICT and it didn't really work. Still, I agree with the bad day at office comments - hopefully we learn from Hibs how to turn the attacking play into goals and give Falkirk a going over.

notice Nicholas Bignall went to Stockport today (Monday) does that mean Stockport need to offload to balance the squad allowance?

now confused. i was initially asking why to link to Corry Evans. is he a contender for right back loan?

why?

O'Brien, Forbes, Gannon.

going for it - nice to see

JG definitely takes a different approach to MM. Part of that is personality but I think also part is probably his age. Early 40s is big difference from 50s in how the older players might perceive the manager. MM was more of an (elder) statesman to all players. JG not so much with the likes of Hammell, Lasley and Craigan - definitely a different dynamic and something both sides have to work through. A bit too early to say anyone should be leaving just yet.