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So your an educated bilingual prick then, take a chill pill ffs.

McKinnon was excellent . To be fair we had about 20 years of consecutively good left backs . McKinnon , McMillan and Hammell.

He was on twitter criticising my jokes, never forgave him and reported him to the club!! Lol

If that’s improvement, trouble is just around the corner. Today should put an end to any notion of Hammell moving office. It’s folly.

Goss was outstanding today.Thought he ran the show.

Agreed. The problem is that whoever gets the job now, whether that’s Hammell or whoever, they are basically snookered as to carrying out any rebuild of the squad before the window shuts and with the season already started. Anyone who had their eyes open and didn’t have their heads firmly planted in their own arses could have told you that the team and the squad just wasn’t good enough in the second half of last season. The best thing for us would have been parting company with Alexander at the end of last season, appointing a new manager and letting him make his own moves in the transfer market over the summer to at least give us the chance of serving up something better than what we got last year. As it is we are stuck with the majority of the same shite we had last season that won a grand total of three league games between December and May and had the majority of their support’s eyes bleeding. Only this time we have no Tony Watt to grab goals in the first half of the season to keep us out of trouble.

I must admit I wasn’t a fan of goss last season, but he looks like the only player who can pass a ball in our midfield today

We can’t even do the basics right. St.Johnstone are no great shakes themselves but they defend a lot better as a unit than we do and can actually string more than two passes together.

Rab McKinnon was one of my favourite ever players, just slightly behind Joe wark as best ever left back

The fitness levels are nothing short of disgraceful. To go in to a competitive environment that under cooked is shameful. It’s worse than last seasons league cup carry on and I didn’t think that could be trumped

Utter dugmeat. Only upsides were Goss and that Hammy probably won’t get the gig, thus saving a club legend from potential relegation rinsing. Zero creativity feeding into KVV, whether it’s via wingers (yes Effords quick, but he literally cut inside today, and when most other wingers would’ve got a shot away, crapped it and the chance was lost), a no. 10 with something resembling physical stature (Tierney literally can’t compete at SPL level) or a sharp second striker but, hey, that’d require a shift to a front 2. Plus a reasonable level of fitness and ability to press. I honestly can’t comprehend the utter paucity of transfer activity and basic fitness and preparation during close-season. Alexander must have been looking for an exit and pay off, and the board/CEO need to take a long hard look at themselves. Remember Andrew Wilson tweeting after the Sligo defeat along the lines of “Oh well, hey, its a slow start”. It’s 6 potential figures worth of revenue to the club FFS and you, as an alleged economist, know what this means. Serious corrective action with the managerial hire and correcting the squad *needs* to happen, and quick.

I have to agree. The second half today was an improvement. It was good to see us moving in-field from the halfway line, get the ball central in the final third to give options of going wide, play a through ball or take take shot.

On another issue it was nice to see the ‘Well Bois’ disrupt the game at the start of the second half with yet another “Look at us, Look at us” type protest. When the team is getting beat that really helps matters eh? Still, who cares what happens on the park? As long as they can have some sort of ‘grievance’.

Were definitely in a horrible spot right now,the previous manager has left an absolute mess behind.we look to have been a badly coached side for a while now and it's going to take the new manager,whoever that is time to sort the mess out.were a soft touch that can't defend but yet at the other end our options are shocking,to find ourselves relying solely on a 31 year old up front is a disgrace,you could combine morris,efford and shields and you still couldn't make a competent player out of them.the squad we have is piss poor and I just hope there's enough of a budget left to bring some new faces is cause no matter who the new guy is there's to many that aren't good enough,normally in the past when we have been between managers you could still point to enough within the squad that will do a job but I just don't see it with this current lot.

First, I’m not your mate. Second so anybody that disagrees with you is talking pish? How very democratic of you. So in closing, all I’ll say is va te faire foutre.

Longer term I can’t see either maguire or Morris being in our preferred starting 11 .

Good to see he will pull players that are playing shite

That’s 3 of the 4 midfield players Hammell started with been hooked!

What are you talking about? Goss is running the show. Put a bit of quality and energy in beside him and we’ll see what he can do.

Fourth game of the season and we’ve not scored or looked like scoring a goal from open play in any of them. Another poster described our attack as toothless but Pele and Maradona would struggle to score for us because there’s absolutely no service from the so-called midfield players. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, we simply do not have a creative midfield player at the club. Morris, Goss, Maguire and Spittal just won’t do!

Toothless is how I'd describe our attack today

Amazing how many auld boys in the O Donnell stand look like Marcelo Bielsa….

Does VPN + international subscription work? Disappointing line up.

Great answer

Boyd and McKinnon were decent full backs in their time, Boyd might be an obnoxious celtic obsessed arsehole these days, but he was a decent player back in the day.

His performance was better than this feeble trolling attempt.

I have several Ipswich fan friends and you’re on the money. Yes, weeyin is also correct, the club has been in decline before and after Lambert but it’s fair to say that Lambert got access to more resources than his long term predecessor (the much maligned Mick McCarthy) who worked minor miracles to keep them a mid table Championship club. In short, Lambert is still living off of his Norwich days where quite frankly, he was fortunate to have what he had at the club. Motherwell’s player budget is a fraction of what he would have had to get out of League 1 and the squad he inherited would romp our league outwith the top 2. in short … if you think Alexander was a bad move, Lambert would have burning effigies outside the main stand by next summer.

I tend to agree. I would like a Manager that would be happy and grateful to get the Motherwell job. Even as a stepping stone. Already you can sense by his comments that he considers himself above the role to even bother applying. Not an encouraging sign imho.

I suppose it's really how you view it. For me most of the fans that wanted SOD dropped never wanted him at the Club in the first place. I'm not going to trawl back but the comments when he signed were out of order. Some even held his supposed liking of Celtic against him. So when he had a dip in form it just played into their narrative. When he had a decent game those fans were noticeably quiet. His winner in Europe some time back as a classic example. So his form was not their main motivation, even when it was poor. When he had a decent game for Scotland those same fans also used that against him. I think we agree he was probably our best right back whether he was playing or not. We were certainly both supportive of him and thought some of the comments against him were OTT. Where we differ seems to be when it comes to Alexander's part in things. Even when Mugabi was really struggling and becoming a liability out wide, Alexander insisted on sticking with him in that position. Not only on a game by game basis, but also during games when Mugabi was almost pleading to be replaced. And O'Donnell was on the Bench, fit and unused. When Alexander eventually decided to change things, he ignored SOD and even turned to O'Hara in one game. So, if O'Donnell was injured why was he on the Bench? If he was not injured why was he ignored when everybody could see Mugabi was struggling. If Alexander did not rate O'Donnell why pick him in the first place, even on the Bench. The logical answer I can come up with was that it was personal between the two. Otherwise, when the team you are responsible for is struggling badly and ultimately your job will be on the line, why not turn to the best, fit right back you have at your disposal. Nobody is saying O'Donnell is a world beater. But Alexander's treatment of him was mystifying and in my opinion hurt the team (and Mugabi as an individual) . And to finish it off I believe the signing of McGinn was another attempt at forcing O'Donnell to leave. It clearly was not with the intention of playing both on the right in a formation that just might have gotten the best out of both players.