wunderwell

According to your predictions you have said we would have 1/2 points (depending on penalties v peterhead) after 3 games. Let's see how well your doing after Saturday.

Weird game - see a lot of positives we can take moving forward with drive and pace I don't think I need to point out the negatives.

Reverting back to this point. Firstly on FB - it has been pointed out on many on occasion on this forum how we revert to comments on FB and Twitter. I do think it's relevant to point this out. Second of all, I have pointed out that despite the posters frustrations why the manager cannot state the same rhetoric. Are you saying that he should have said we were pish yesterday? Are you therefore saying similarly that anyone that says "SOD was pish and should never wear the jersey again" has the same just cause - because he was frustrated? I'm not hear to cause a fight with you - in fact lots of your opinions I've backed - but similarly and I hope you see this in good light, I think it's fair to say I disagree with the initial poster.

I noticed your facebook comment - in response to another poster. The initial comment being "If it's anything other than sorry that was pish he needs to have a real think" Surely by now we know that what a manager has to say - he can't respond like a fan. As a manager of players he will choose his words wisely - and we hope he takes away what we all see. Managers who chuck their players under a bus don't last long. Good managers move the players who are not required out in the longer term and bring in others to take their place.

I think I'm really looking forward to this season if we get two guns in the defensive area.

I think it's fairly obvious that the 4 people who are vice captains are experienced pros who can guide the more inexperienced new signings in the football world. I don't believe it is a marker for how many times these individuals will play.

Why are we now ruling Sparrow out of the right back role?

Less popular that section than it was in the seventies.

Yeh based on that, and on the team I picked might be better Halliday/McGhee for Watt

I am your new back up account.

Team time! Ward Sparrow Gordon McGinn Wilson Miller Slattery Watt Maswahinise AP Sule

Hopefully we can avoid players who need Boots the optician more than fitba boots.

Looking at the academy league in England is pretty intriguing. https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/leagues/9084/table/premier-league-2 Ordinarily I'd be more excited about an Aston Villa youth than a WBA youth in that area, but certainly doesn't seem to be the case.

Exactly - and whilst I disagreed with 5, 4 of them I have put not proven and in time that could be as high 8/9 that I agree with. All in, this is what I prefer in the forum. I felt that your post got skipped over without acknowledgement or debate as it was in this thread. Hopefully this triggers a few more comments rather than it was a meaningless friendly and we move on.

So irrespective of people saying no no no Wellfan it wasn't you - this is the post that instigated all the chat over it's just a friendly but the points made are much deeper and can be taken over a much longer time period. 1. Not Proven! Oxborough has shown enough to be a Motherwell first team player. But when he is injured there is some serious question marks over a suitable number 2. Ward didn't impress on his debut and over the next 5-6 games we can see exactly where he is. Balcombe was not good enough last season. The point of getting a good second keeper remains valid but maybe answered by Ward or not in the forthcoming games. 2. Guilty! Not based on last night but over a 6 month period. Wilson looks the back up and we need to sign a first team left back. 3. Guilty! over a long term we cannot afford a player who continually loses us sloppy goals - we cannot afford that over a season. 4. Guilty! Again we need a first team level central defender. 5. Not Proven! Too early to say on Elliot Watt his description is very much a Lennon Miller type player. Halliday as we know is not that. Again after 6-7 games we will know. 6. Not Proven! He was on fire playing in a wide position of a 3 when he first arrived. Now he's playing as a number ten. Play him as a winger and see if he can be what we need. I think he may be. 7. Not Guilty! Stama I rate highly but only in the right system - alongside a big number 9 and playing off him or with two wingers either side. Play to peoples strengths. Don't make him what he is not. 8. Guilty! Every foreign manager (see Valakari) tries this at first. They soon learn! 9. Not proven! Last nights evidence didn't tell us much - but a little - what he is trying to do we do not have the quality to do. So irrespective of Twente game or not - these points should be taken over the course & considering they have all got very valid aspects to them - this is the real discussion.

Forrest?

I actually thought the youngsters created 3 really good chances.

Yeh we should try and avoid the types like seddon that have had over 200 competitive appearances before joining us.

Mark McGhee Mark McGhee drinking bottles of whisky!

Damn - I've had two vinos let me edit! Thanks guys!

Ok for a bit of fun here is my 3-4-3 Positives - pace on either side of a striker who can get goals, the negatives is the two wide players cannot in any way for me tackle and retreat when not on the attack. That means we would need to have defensive minded midfielders. No Miller presumed here. Oxborough McGinn Gordon Balmer Sparrow McGhee Slattery Wilson Robinson/Fadinger Stama Maswahine Someone fix it for me if it's terrible and ignore the posts below!

I was interested in your previous last take on Stama - doubting ability, or the fact he wants to be here?

Disagree. based on talent Stama could be a great player for us. Unless you mean based around a probable common sense hunch he wants out of Fir Park

Called it.

Derek Adams - the Donald Trump of Scottish Fitba, Couldn't even sort a wall.