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  1. For me the main concern is that we have now played all the teams in the league and all of them have looked better than us and like to get the ball down and play football. 

    Alexanders tactics are poor and mean that for most of the games we are under pressure and the hope is we defend our box and get a goal from a set piece.

    At no point in any game I have watched have we had a real period of sustained pressure. More often that not we are chasing the ball.

    He needs to change this awful formation and get us playing football and trying to dominate possession, if he doesn’t then we will end up in a relegation scrap, no doubt about it.

     

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  2. Getting pumped by Rangers is not the main worry for me. My concern is that against all the other teams in the league we have looked well off the pace and results have in the most flattered us. 
     

    We need to be much sharper and quicker with the ball. 
     

    The St Mirren game was the game that alarms bells started ringing for me, they looked so much better than as in all areas of the pitch. 
     

    Needs to rethink the formation and the line up, much more pace is needed and also needs to set us up so there is more protection for the full backs.

  3. 23 hours ago, MJC_mkII said:

    I think in Watt’s case he’s seen as a ‘journeyman’ who’s struggled for form at several clubs before joining us and perhaps that counts against him in terms of national team selection.

    But as I said, I hope he doesn’t get picked any time soon. I’m not a Scotland fan I’m a Motherwell fan and I want him fit and fully focussed for us without the distraction of international football and the exposure to other clubs that playing for Scotland would bring him. If he stays with us, below the radar, focussed and playing well it will benefit us and himself in the long term.

    LOL. Hi Tony, I hope your career doesn’t progress and that you miss out on international football so you can continue to  play for Motherwell under the radar!
     

     

  4. Quick question, I can't make the game on Saturday so was wanting to watch it on the TV stream. Now I phoned the club and was told to go here:

    https://live.motherwellfc.co.uk/

    And then login using my name and season ticket customer number, but that hasn't worked.

    Any ideas, or will I need to create a new account?

    Cheers!

  5. As much as it was a tough watch at times I didn’t think Dundee had that many clear cut chances for all their approach play. Our defence looked solid, something that has been an issue for us last season.

    Also I think once we have a fully fit squad we actually now have a very decent first 11 and sone good options from the bench.

    4 games in and all of them have been very close, can’t really grumble to be honest.

  6. People are really over reacting here. Yes it was a bad result, but there is no way that starting line up will be our final squad by the start of the season. We almost have a totally new team and a few of them are not fit yet, to me it looks like GA is being careful with squad rotation and not wanting to risk injury. 
     

    Also we need to factor in the current difficulty in bringing players in. All teams have the same issues across Europe so the idea of us picking up a Portuguese or French  midfielder is just not going to happen right now due to travel restrictions. 
     

    Yes a bad result, but all this relegation chat and I even seem some sack the manager posts on Twitter! Calm Doon!
     

     

  7. 24 minutes ago, C&A not the shop said:

    14 senior players currently under contract. Putting out a 4-5-1

    Carson

    O'Donnell Mugabe Lamie McGinley 

    Crawford Donnelly Maguire O'Hara Lawless

    Watt

     

    Subs:

    Morrison 

    Carroll 

    Grimshaw 

     

    I don't hate that team, lacks flair but 11 players that will put in a shift. No goals though.

    About 75% of that team are squad players. I am expecting a very busy summer from Motherwell.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Stu92 said:

    Excuse my ignorance but I've not been online in a few weeks now and so have missed a lot of the chat over players leaving and falling out of favour, etc. What's the story with Polworth and Seedorf? Their absence from matchday squads has been pretty noticeable since GA came in, but didn't know if there was any back story or simply GA not rating them.

    Polworth chucked it and Seedorf is not good enough at SPL level. 

  9. 35 minutes ago, Goggles & Flippers said:

    BBC highlights on the website: Missed out Long's goal .... Decided to go with only the goals and missed penalty, nothing else. United's first, missed pen, their second, ......... Devante's net buster. Seems like a shocking oversight. Embarrassing.

    Can you imagine the seethe if they managed to do that for either of the OF.

    Yeah I just noticed that when watching them this morning. No doubt they will fix it, but pretty poor from the BBC!

  10. 2 hours ago, Yassin said:

    O'Donnell should have sprinted the length of the pitch to cup his ears to the empty South 

    ha! 
     

    have to say I think He has been a great signing for us. Best right back we have had for years. 
     

    Fantastic that we have managed to get him in on a two year deal.

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  11. I think other than a few really bad performances against Killie, St Johnstone and Hamilton I think Alexander has come in and steadied the ship and saved us from the drop.

    For me it’s job done.

    He has inherited a squad in decline and his job over the summer will be the rebuild (the January signings I am not including as they were panic buys during Covid. All were a risk and most will be punted)

    He has made a good start in getting O’Donnell on a long term deal. 
     

    Let’s see what happens in the summer.

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  12. 9 hours ago, smiddy said:

    injured ,,,,, happened at the right time with one game to go before he triggers an extension

    how do they do a lot of things,, agents advice, toys out the pram, head turned ,who knows

    one more game triggers his extension then another team would need to buy him as heez our player for another 12 months, if he doesnt play again due to injury etc he fecks up his euro chances

    so heez in a dilema, answer ,get your agent to look at the small print and see if there is any way out of the situation, while he gets FIT again, 

    time will tell if / when he gets back to playing and what happens with the contract he was happy to sign for us

    image.jpeg.61e010ddd96112b7af93cc48cc5b05e1.jpeg

     

    WHERES DECLAN?

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  13. I agree with most people on here that it’s been a decent window. The key was not to loose Campbell, Declan and SOD. 

    Most of the guys signed are there to provide competition to give the first team players a kick up the arse.

    Also we need to factor in Covid as it surely will have made this a very difficult window. Greg Stewart for example has stayed at Rangers and no doubt that’s to hold onto a decent wage for a few more months and then move in the summer when things are a bit more back to normal. A year ago he would probably have moved to get game time.

    Right now players want stability with family life and moving club in the heart of winter in a lockdown is probably not what they want to be doing.

     

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