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Goggles & Flippers

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  1. Agreed, just hope a long term injury at such a formative part of his career doesn't hold him back and not realise what we saw glimpses of before.
  2. Yeah what bits exactly, if I'm working on a higher comedy plain than I even recognise myself I need to know. Where I sit is of no consequence. By I'm guessing you're attempting to belittle me than address the questions I asked you to answer shows you are intent on peddling you're bile.
  3. I'm not gonna deny, when he left and for the amount he left for, it left me scratching my head. I thought that was our first piece of decent transfer action for a couple of years.
  4. As per Weeyin's post, Steelmen Forever was created in the aftermath of the Ranger decision where the club explained if this is what they wanted us to do then there was going to be a financial shortfall. Just because you were unaware of it Waldo, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
  5. Think some of this heat is a tad unfair, I think the behind the scenes people were responsible for not selling our assets for top dollar. For that they are certainly culpable. However the £1m operating loss over 3 years thing could have been wiped out if Stuart and the team managed to beat Albion Rovers and Stenhousemuir would have been a game at Ibrox, 9 months later beating Stjarnan would have resulted in Lech Poznan and potentially Inter Milan. 3 games against much lower opposition (on paper) and therefore definitely winable. However lets not ignore we all dined out on the success that this perceived short termism funded. I don't think its right to call the budgeting idiotic to plan for top 6 and a decent cup run when you are among the top 5 performing teams in the country. Losing key games and failure to sell have been our downfall.
  6. OK, do you think Leeann was good at her job and would you be happy if she was still at the helm? If so, tell us what you know of her business background before she was appointed. McMahon and Weir determined he was good enough, I have a lot more trust in their business acumen than some keyboard warrior with as OTF points out, a degree of jealousy with half arsed reasoning. So tell us, what capabilities is Flow lacking? What errors of judgement has he made? (make sure your accusations fall within his remit). You're confusing a poor run on the park with inefficient administration of the club.
  7. Yet another idiotic statement in the days after a poor result. I'm looking forward to your reasoning for such an ignorant statement.
  8. 2 decent points among a mountain of bullshit
  9. I've ran out of +/- in the past 24 hours, otherwise you would have another + mate. While I'm happy with Bara's appointment I don't fully agree with the Gaag comments star sail. Tony Pulis has shown you can arrive somewhere and have an almost immediate effect (talking Crystal Palace, but WBA look like they have something about them already). We won ugly against St Mirren and Partick however many a league winner has managed that and if we're all honest that's how we finished second last season. However I agree I don't think his appointment over Bara's would have been some sort magic wand, can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear with the mindset and ethic currently exhibited by too many. Our players started the season unfit, that's lead to our horrific injury situation and not competing physically. The first few results lead to a malaise and we've been unable to lift it. The initial things Baraclough can address in my opinion is mental. Yesterday the first goal went in and it was a deflection, OK it was 3 minutes in, there's things happen and there's not a lot you can do about freak happenings like that. Difference is you recognise it as a fluke and disregard. But too many did and the second went in primarily due to the fact Stewart didn't give up, granted the ball could have rebounded anywhere and he was fortunate it fell in his lap (or onto his napper for accuracy). At this point too many gave up and that's where I have an issue. I was encouraged when we got one back but the Ojamaa appears to let frustration take over and walked. I think Ojamma, Faddy and McManus are guilty of thinking they were better than Motherwell at stages in their time in C&A. A few lack the mental toughness, a few don't have the tools and a few I'm sure would have contributed but are sitting on the sidelines due to injury. We've also had no consistency, how many games this season have the same back 4 lined up week to week? What's key is get to May intact and wipe the slate clean, 2015-16 is a fresh start. It can be done, we've seen it twice in recent memory when a competitive team has been built in a summer.
  10. Baraclough Reaction He's not hiding his anger
  11. Why's that exactly? Dundee and Hamilton were on fire last season, that's why they were promoted and with the extra cash available for being in the top league they've strengthened. They have consistency and cohesion. There's absolutely no reason they shouldn't be pasting a team who have too many with no fight any more. Not going to deny the lack of goals is awful but that is down to Stuart not recognising that in this league you need pace to have any effect. That was overlooked and we're now paying the price. Regardless my point still stands, as bad as we are, SM and RC are equally if not worse.
  12. Bloody hell, geez peace! 6 points clear of RC and SM and they are rank as week, difference is we have a buffer. While far from safe no need to be jettisoning fuel and throwing anything heavy out the windows. If we're going to get shite threads like this every time we get a defeat between now and May I sense my time on here will be coming to an end.
  13. Neither were the best candidate now looking back with hindsight which is always easy. Based on their league form on paper they were suitable to do the job. In reality, Burley's drinking and losing the dressing room and Levin's negative tactics and malaise cost them their jobs. Motherwell don't have the luxury or budget to pay off people to walk, so the quicker we understand this and realise Bara has to make a silk purse out of a sows ear the better.
  14. Time will tell on that front. However I'd welcome a return of the Managers email. It's something that McCall did early on that became less and less frequent until it petered out. I don't know how much McCall was involved in writing it or if AB did a fair bit of ghost writing but it was a welcome addition and looked upon favourably here. McCall's reasoning behind his tactics for the 2011 Cup Final certainly went a way to make the result outcome a smidgen more palatable.
  15. Take it we talking McGhee's first season and not his second?
  16. We've scored 13 in 20 games (1 goal every 1.5 matches or 135 mins). A lot due to a lack of foresight in our assets and personnel we required in pre-season. Our league thrives in pace and we have been deficient. On paper we now have pace between Ainsworth and Ojamaa (of course both have issues with an indifferent work ethic in the former and decision making with the latter), trickery if Thomas' display today is anything to go by and big bruising strikers in Sutton and Erwin. We will eek out results, however its not going to be pretty. Despite Baraclough's suggestions of possession and building from the back, I wouldn't be surprised if we go a little route 1 going forward if it helps him get to mid May, mop his brow and maintain our status. However, impending apocalypse stuff on here tonight as a reaction to this one game is woeful .... the best team in the country beat us 2-0, get over it. 7 points from 15 in the past 5 games most would have probably taken. I accept the manner in which we conducted ourselves in those games leaves a lot to be desired but .... reality check, we're not going to dominate games with exhibitions of free flowing football as we did 2 years ago. This season won't be defined by how we perform against Aberdeen, Celtic and Dundee Utd and regrettably Accies. It will hinge on our performances against the likes of Ross County, St Mirren, Partick and Dundee. While we won ugly against a couple of these recently, we still won. I do think our shrinking fanbase will use this season to excuse apathy and finding alternatives for their Saturday's next season.
  17. I'd be interested in the adult tickets if still available. If so, maybe switch to PM's
  18. Twitter feeds I take it? I don't use it. If so, just reeks of lamentable behaviour and does nothing when giving a number of this mob the benefit of the doubt. With respect to Baraclough, in 18 months he'll have all the legacy contracts he inherited up. I agree, I think if we are going to be sensible then we have to look at giving him 2 years from now to sort things out and mould it in his way.
  19. The only advantage (and I thought I was pretty clear) was the 6 months to assess the players.
  20. Come the summer we'll face the exact same as we did in 2009. Lots of players out of contract or underperforming in McGhee's 2nd season. Baraclough will have a slight advantage over Gannon, in terms of being in the job 6 months before wholehearted changes, however I suspect a much smaller pot available. He's also has contacts and has extensive knowledge of the lower English leagues. One thing I'm pretty sure of even this early, we will start 2015/16 as one of the fittest teams in the country, I don't doubt Baraclough's work ethic and what he expects from his players. With respect to Kmac's suggestion we've had no long term vision (5-8 years from memory), I wholeheartedly disagree. I doubt many people in Scotland would have predicted Rangers being demoted potentially for 3 years plus before 2011, the loss of Hibs and Hearts from the league, the apathy of Celtic's fans and ours increasing avoiding OF matches due to the bile. Also the lack of securing a top league sponsor. I also think the people making the projections rightly should expect a team performing consistently in the top 6 get past a few cup matches per season. Losing to Albion Rovers and Stjarnan cost us close to 800k in potential revenue from the following fixtures. The comes pretty close to wiping out that operating loss over three years. Regardless, we all accept we are a selling club, for one reason or another our prize assets have not commanded the interest and revenue's they should have. ie. Goodwillie goes to Blackburn for £1m, doesn't do much, Murphy goes to Sheffield Utd for £150k and is holding his own regularly. Randolph has been discussed to death. I don't know how much the club bean counters can be held responsible for this.
  21. You have no idea of how a football club like ours operates in the transfer market, contracts in place and financial restrictions, not to mention we can only offload someone if there's someone willing to take them. The naivety of your points is astounding without even a hint of a caveat that your list is wishful thinking and as likely as seeing a unicorn cut about the Dutchy.
  22. Done, however in the interests of continuity and brand awareness you may want to adopt the new and correct club badge going forward.
  23. The criticism is unjustified, but it rarely is justified on here in my experience. The detractors have tainted him with association. Secondly as he appeared to be primarily responsible for taking training and few will disagree the team weren't prepared physically for the curtain raisers so blame was levelled on him. He did get a reaction out of the team after SMcC's departure but I suppose any new regime (regardless of caretaker or permanent) would have got that. I think he's generally behaved well and with a degree of class.
  24. I'm all for being cautious but a team that has performed as best of the rest consistently since since Hampden in 2011 has been nothing short of cataclysmic in cups when a decent revenue stream from them should almost be a formality. For example 2 games 9 months apart were the difference between where we currently are and that £1m operating loss over 3 years being wiped out, even more frustrating as both teams concerned were quite a few levels below us on paper. All I'm saying is by all means employ a degree of caution but don't cut our cloth so much that we're not even in a place to compete in the first place.
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