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Wrote this earlier, my take on the last year under Robbo.

You're not really a football fan unless you've recieved a stadium ban after Motherwell u21s vs Sligo Rovers in third round of the Irn Bru Cup.

5I don't think our problems can be solved without two or three signings. I tried to pick a team in the match thread last week and gave up because there's no way to put out a decent 11 despite the bloated squad we have. We don't have a centre mid who can screen the defence but also bring the ball out and play a pass. Rose runs around and makes a few interceptions but most of the time he's hiding and he's a man down when we have the ball. We don't need a world beater just basics. The 3-5-2 is killing us. In the second of half of games i can see what Tait, Cadden and Aldred can see and there is nothing on for them to pass to. Our tactics are basically technically poor centrebacks playing 40 yard passes to technically poor strikers. And expecting Tait and Cadden to be able to defend, bring the ball forward and create in the final third. My initial reaction to us signing Sammon was that Robinson had just wrote his own P45. Main and Bowman can be good players for us with a partner who can take the ball into feet and play with their head up. They are never a partnership. Johnson looks miles from the required standard the now and Sammon is shite plus Robinson is scared to play him at Fir Park now as it will put him under more pressure. Personally I think the guy hasn't got a clue. He's been playing Grimshaw ahead of Turnbull. He kept putting Petravicius back in. He gave starts to Blyth and Shea Gordon. He signed Sammon. These aren't minor mistakes they are massive misjudgements and they are accumulating.

I think you'd need to add a column to highlight the "where are they now" factor for it to be worthwhile starting point.

I don't think defence is a problem other than the tendency to concede free kicks outside the box, our problems are our lack of forward looking options, no goal threat, no opportunities created, no decisive through ball (Turnbull excepted). We have enough reasonable defenders to keep it reasonably tight at the back. We need to convert 0-1 results into 2-1 results.

Two more than we currently have.

Lasley, McManus, McCall FFS are people seriously puting names like that forward for the managers job if it ever becomes available, have a look at yourselves. So until we are actually looking for a new manager, can we resurect the H.O.T.D for this pish