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Folks wanted some deadwood out. Some of the boo boys biggest targets are gone. They wanted fresh blood in. We have signed a CB, LB, attacking MF, Winger and 3 strikers (albeit one is now injured). We still need that defensive MF and another CH, but Flow has stated there will be more announcements today. Given the absolute negativity on here for weeks about how we are doomed under Hammell, how about we give the guy a chance and get behind the team until the end of the season? The areas of weakness in the team have been identified. Hammel, Burrows and the board have done something about it. As supporters, we also have a role to play. That first win could be huge. Lets try and help it over the line tonight.

I'm afraid starting 3 new players all at once exposes the lack of experience Hammy has. As for dropping McKinstry, absolute madness. Only one that looks like scoring last week. Last time McKinstry was sub Hammy had to put him on at half-time and he won Motherwell's man of the match (again). Although that isn't hard these days. As an aside. Did Van Veen have a single shot at St Mirren?

As much as it’s great to see the new players I’m pretty disgusted at the dropping of our only two performers lately. Johnson and mckinstry do not deserve getting dropped to the bench.

I’m failing to see shoehorning McGinn into our starting 11 curing our ills.

It was, he slipped on a crisp poke and looked for a foul. Absolutely incredible

Hopefully his love of the club is enough for him to walk

I’ve been a great fan of stevie hammell over the years but we just don’t seem to have any sort of plan, so either he just can’t communicate his plan or the players are just ignoring him, it can’t go on, the definition of madness is doing the same things over and over but expecting a different result.

We reap what we sow. Cheap option, the outcome of which many of us saw coming. I genuinely believe hammell is the worst manager in my 40 years watching Motherwell

Im in disbelief at how far we have fallen and I can't see how Hammell gets us out of this. He doesn't have a clue but strangely I don't blame him, he couldn't turn down the job but even he must see its beyond him at this point. We should have appointed him as assistant or gave him someone with experience as his assistant. The simple fact remains............we have f****d it

I posted earlier in the week that this game was not going to be any different regardless of new signings. Lots of problems but the main one is on the touchline. If he isn't going to fall on his sword then someone must remove him fucking quickly.

It's good to see on here that Hammell is going wrong both by not changing the team and then tonight for changing the team.

Win or fuck right off.

Id guess since Flow was still at work at 3am he is probably just getting up around now! Hopefully more news this afternoon. Ideally we would want both those positikns filled, but Id take one. If I had to choose it would be CDM as I think thats our big problem area and would take a lot of pressure of the defence, which hasnt actually lost that many goals in comparison with other teams.

Googling league two midfielders named aragorn.

Faddy's getting on a bit surely

Fans need to be positive and up for this, as I keep saying if you have negativity coming from the stands it plays into opposition hands and doesn't help our lads .. COYW

It's more like some of them have downed tools on the club. O'Donnell, Goss, Slattery and Kelly will be happy to see us relegated.

My money is on disappointing 😇

We have a way of playing. Keeper throws ball to a defender , who passes it along the line a couple of times , then to one of our other six players in our half . Then pass it to the opposition. At least that looked like our style in the first half. Absolutely awful. Hammell must be telling them to do this.

I've applauded my team off the park after a defeat on a few occasions just for showing fight and desire,but I'm sorry,i left tonight shaking my head at what I'd witnessed, absolutely nothing, not one leader among them,I fear for us now

FINALLY GOT MY ACCOUNT UNLOCKED AFTER ABOUT 2 YEAR!! Thanks Yabba. Anyway, fuck me that was Shite!

I was enthused about SH's appointment . Other than Simo it wasn't obvious which experienced manager wanted the role and I thought Simo's lack of Scottish football would be a challenge with such a limited transfer window. He started reasonably well and I backed him through a pretty tough run of fixtures pre xmas. Sadly the decline has continued and we're woeful. I can now see why GA benched some of the players who I thought were decent. SH is a good guy, doing his best. His lack of experience and willingness to change formations, bring in the types of players we needed (more defensively minded than attacking) is costing us and likely end up relegated. Hard to see how he'll turn the ship around. Which is gutting to be honest.

In terms of impact from new players and getting some sort of a positive reaction from senior pros, that's about as big a disaster of a performance you could ever wish to see. The body language and effort from almost everyone was horrific. Big favourites to go straight down after seeing that.

Disappointing.

Time for a complete reset must play with 2 up front, why we don't start the only players that score in McKinstry and Tierney is beyond me.

there will be plenty of managers willing to take the job. Whether they can salvage anything is a different story. Sadly this is now as bad/if not worse than Malpas' time.

Great social media though and the flattest park you could ever hope for....

St Mirren with 5 ex well players, four are playing tonight are now 4th in the league. Nice to see old players and manager doing well.

I personally don't see how he survives but if he isnt pushed he will surely walk for professional pride???

I would hope that Hammell himself walks after this, it’s beyond embarrassing.

Could we at least try without Hammell in charge rather than just accepting it ? Maybe we turn it around second half but we’ve surely got this transfer window badly wrong leaving us in terrible position in both central defence and midfield, you really could not have tried harder to make the mistakes.

how ????

Even if you’re out of form, the very least we should be doing is working hard and making it difficult for your opponent. We just don’t, we make ourselves far to easy to play through

Slattery and Goss better with Laurel and Hardy

Totally with you on that,what exactly have they done to deserve to be dropped,head scratcher that one,time will tell

Do you Fancy taking one for the team tonight and just stay in and watch Eastenders instead? I promise I'll like every one of your jokes from now on if you don't go and we win!

Get the Tequila song ready for Jon Boy. "Di Di Di Di Di Di Di.....OBIKA"

Random thought, mcginn to do the CDM as he recently did v RC, sod in at lb ??

Now thats a post I can work with....... No one would argue that our midfield hasnt been dysfunctional. The problem we and Hammy has had is that without a transfer window he had to go with what he had. He has tried Maguire, Cornelius, and your 3 stooges in various combinations. None of them were significantly better than the others. We have brought in 1 midfielder in Danzaki and loaned out Maguire. So whilst the quality may have improved, numbers have not. It would be suicide to jettison any further midfielders until we have replacements, particularly since the 3 you object to are all on decent contracts and will be in no hurry to go anywhere. A decent DMF this afternoon would change the dynamic of our midfield significantly and allow Hammell to rotate on the basis of performance. That will also allow us cover for injuries / suspensions. We should always be trying to improve our team, but it has to be done with an element of reality.

True, it’s a fine balancing act for Hammy to try to get it right tonight. At the very least, we would hope that the arrival of several new players would give rise to more effort and fight from the existing flock of under-performers, particularly the midfield.

Thats the kind of black & white nonsense you always serve up. I dont know if you mean it or are just constantly trolling, but ever thought there might be a middle ground? Firstly, the board have just backed Hammell in the window with 7 signings and possibly 1 or 2 more to come. There is no way he is getting emptied any time soon, far less tonight. Secondly, the 3 stooges, as you call them, all do have some ability. But the mix isnt right and their form / confidence has suffered as a result. They shouldnt all play together tonight, and I doubt very much that they will. But until we see the final make up of the squad after today, I wouldnt be ditching any of them as we may need some or all of them individually at some point between now and the end of the season. The whole point of this window was to give Hammy choices. Choices that until now he did not have and forced him to play players together that clearly you dont like/rate. You are entitled to hold that opinion. But you never give an alternative as to what you would do differently. Lets just see what happens tonight. And PS, if you are just trolling for juvenile fun, well done, you caught a whopper!

Have the 3 stoogies been shown the door the answer is no so the deadwood is still here . You need midfield grafters and guile these three bring nothing to the party . Honestly if SH plays them tonight and we lose then sorry Stevie yer time is up

I’ll give you “training with the team” not “fitness”. Aitchison played and scored last weekend so should be up to speed. Obika is just back from his loan spell. Awe hell who cares we need freshening up. Throw them in cant’t be worse than what we’ve been watching. Suppose we only get 60 minutes out them - we’ll be 3 or 4 up at that point 🤣

Louis has never changed his Twitter photo back from one holding a ‘Well top when he last signed. #justsayin

All three we have signed must play tonight there is no reason not to play them and let’s face it they can’t be any worse than the players we have persisted with

Well said sir

We seriously need a new commanding centre back and a fighting midfielder.

There was no need for the full stop and space after the T

Or maybe that was always the level he was destined to play at..?