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  1. Any Motherwell Manager who has us better than 9th, has the team playing for them and has some form of long term plan should be considered a good manager. Played 51 games under SK now win rate is 40% draw 30% losses 30% Fair to say most if not all Motherwell mgrs will lose 1/3 of games over their tenure. Appreciate we had a very poor run but no different to many other recent mgrs. Hammell, Alexander, Robinson, McGhee. I'm a firm believer that we need to get back to having stability with managers with a long term plan who we stick with, avoiding knee jerk decisions.
  2. lots of results went in our favour today. Delighted to have back to back wins. Feels good to be looking upwards, well done team.
  3. Simply put - we would not have been awarded that penalty hard enough to beat this mob without var pushing their influence
  4. We’re not alone re injuries The article on bbc re the amount of players impacted with modern game . I believe our issue is having too small a squad and playing too many games , players being on pitch when not 100% mix to that bad luck , signing players with history all adds to the picture https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68423241
  5. I don’t see it . We’ve only won 6 games and our central defence is weak . i think we’re likely to get max of 5 points in remaining games pre split .
  6. Thankfully we go with no pressure on us. I much prefer facing them when they've been on a rich vein of form. They tend to be arrogant and dismissive , entitled to win with zero expectations that we can do anything. Expect little from the game but at some point lady lucky will help us turn them over.
  7. Certainly takes a bit of pressure off
  8. Must say Vale has had a bigger impact on SPL than KVV so far . proving to be a very decent addition p
  9. Ah - top tip , I’ll make the switch . Although it’s more entertaining than the game to be honest
  10. Somehow I’ve got livi commentators plunge McNugget and his younger sibling by the sounds of it
  11. Was just thinking the same small crowd joke of a pitch commentator ‘Motherwell are shooting towards the supermarket ‘ ! add another schoolboy lapse in defence Complete tosh
  12. Completely with you. Lots of teams have poor runs of form Personally I dislike references to the 2 wins in 23 games, conveniently ignoring we've played 27 and won 5 or heaven forbid only lost 11. We'd all like to have won more, we'd all like to win more games against the OF. Today we ran out of puff and they have a player depth that only the OF can match. We're still 9th and that position would do us just nicely come the end of season.
  13. Given the pressure Celtic have been under suspect they may put us to the sword today. Really hope I'm wrong.
  14. The challenge is we've not been profitable. The model hoped we'd sell players and hoped we'd be able to have cup runs to make things meet. That's not happened. Crowds are reducing and unlikely to ever increase, other revenues from tv etc have not been forthcoming. Our cost is 50:50 ratio on players v's other costs. Thinking from the eyes of an investor, if investing funds in a football club (even if I was a Well fan) I'd want control, I wouldn't want a well meaning society to have control the majority control. I personally don't believe we're any better off with a society owned model than we had for the previous +100 years of existence.
  15. If we were told a year ago that SK would come in and only at worse lose 1/3 of games whilst working with a reduced target I think many would snap the clubs hand off. The odd part and the difference between us and say StMirren whose league position we'd be delighted with is too many draws. Overall he's producing decent enough results. Re contract - just give a manager a 12 month rolling contract - seems an obvious solution and one all parties should be happy with.
  16. The idea of the society chimes nicely. A club that cares about the local community and society that it's part of. Equally being in the bottom 3 player budget of the premier league is a bitter pill to swallow. We've been in the top flight since the 80s, I don't see how we're progressing as a club. Expecting rich benefactor (s) to come in for a minority share is more whimsical than perhaps realistic. I'm ok with continuing down the society route but believe we need to heavily invest in youth and make that the USP v's brining in journeymen from lower reaches of English divisions and hoping to sell them on for a tint profit. Appreciate we may not always hold on to young talent, it's risk worth taking.
  17. @David I''d drop Mugabi, S'OD & Butcher. Sadly Butcher is a yard shorter of pace than when he joined us. This would mean stop playing 3 centre halves and go with a back 4 rather than back 5. Divine, McGinn, Casey, Gent I'd put the extra man in midfield and have both Miller & Halliday when fit in midfield rather than the either or.
  18. SK mentioned he's sick fed up with the same basic errors. STOP playing the same culprits then Stuart. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Stop the loyalty to those who hurt us regularly.
  19. Personal view - we don’t have 3 good enough and would be tempted to go back to a flat back 4 we went to a back 3 to solve a problem over a year ago - that problem may no longer exist as we have a much stronger midfield
  20. good summary as always . Re your who we solve the defence. I thought Casey made a difference and would keep him in the team. The simple answer is drop Mugabi. Neither Butcher or Mugabi would be in my first 11.
  21. We set our stall out to stifle Hearts and counter . Did ok first half started 2’d half well but completely toothless in front of goal , simply didn’t take our chances . Davor gave away a needless free kick - like he does . Led to them putting in a ball that caught mugabi flat footed - like what happens in many games . Shankland scores and from there only going to be on winner . Plan B , putting on all strikers and taking off midfield players is simply folly . hearts deserved their win today
  22. Sod was weak there - far too easily bumped .
  23. We’ve been toothless today - not really looked like scoring and can’t remember worrying the keeper
  24. Stupid stupid stupid free kick to give away - punished another set piece that we can’t defend
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