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Another good cup performance from a Motherwell team this weekend, the women's team just beat Spartans 3-1 to make the SWFL Scottish cup final, well done to them.

You wouldn't know an excellent piece if Gordon Ramsay made you a sandwich.

O’Neill must have been shitting it last season, if we’d won any of those cups he’d have been forgotten. How long would Mclean have lasted in today’s climate? How long did it take him to produce the kind of football the 1993 team produced? The management and the team are deserving of criticism right now, but as said above O’Neill has had an issue with the club for some time, feeling like he’s owed something. For some reason he thinks he should be in the coaching setup instead of guys who have contributed way more to the club than he did, and are qualified coaches. If he was a coach at Motherwell all he could probably do is take the players down the pub to watch the ‘91 semi final and tell each player who they have to “go” in he next game. His analysis isn’t worth much other than riling up the folk that still adore him. The game has passed him by. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

O'Neill's entitled to his opinion of course but it's never particularly pleasant to see a former player, especially one so revered, stick the boot in. He might well have a point about the quality of the squad (time will tell) and the majority will agree on his views on the style of play but that's perhaps where he should have left it. He's forgotten perhaps that Lasley wasn't foisted upon Robinson but his choice for assistant. There's been a number of interviews and remarks attributed to him over the years and rightly or wrongly the impression I've built over that time he feels he's owed something by Motherwell and there's a lingering bitterness that he was never invited to take up a role in the way say Craigan, Clarkson, Hammell or indeed Lasley have. He speaks highly of Tommy McLean and well he might. Without McLean spotting something in a unknown journeyman he was, giving him several months to work on his fitness and developing his talent he wouldn't have those international caps, that Scottish Cup winners medal when he shouldn't have been anywhere nearer the team and the profile that his views are still sought more than 25 years after he retired. Perhaps he might do well let his countryman get on with trying to do the same without some of his unnecessary remarks.

The women's team won the league with a few games to spare, promotion to the top division at last

Is this something clever that I don't understand or have you just proved yourself to operate at the level that we all thought?

Only if the vast majority could agree on the same manager, and the chances of that are zero.

Spot on , really people need to stop making excuses for Robinson ( nice man) if you were at the game against Sligo you would have seen he does at least have three options from that team and he has to use them pronto and give up his formation

To be fair, other than the Lesley comment, he's not saying anything different from what most on here are saying.

“Their cup final over the last few seasons has been staying up.” Or... the actual Cup Finals we've reached.

Really, it reads like a 14 year old with 10 minutes to spare. I’m struggling to see how that could ever be described as an “ Excellent piece”.

To save anyone buying a copy of the Sunday Mail to find out: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/motherwell-legend-colin-oneill-slams-13413954 (Much as he’s a club legend for obvious reasons, I’m not sure he’d be top of my list to seek out for a reasoned analysis of... pretty much anything, really.)

Except we have absolutely no one like Hastie in the current squad. He was good enough last season to get time in the first team. A good manager would be making sure these players get to develop here but instead we are signing sammon, rodriguez, grimshaw, donnelly to fill out a bench instead.