Spiderpig

Prefers a 3-4-3 formation apparently https://totalfootballanalysis.com/head-coach-analysis/thomas-worle-ulm-202425-tactical-analysis-tactics

Did Jurgen Klopp ever get a new club? 😂

If you rush things you end up with the likes of Presley, Kettlewell, Naismith, Docherty etc, good to see we are taking our time as this appointment is massive. We need stability for a few season to allow whoever comes in to build a team. Another out of the blue appointment like Wimmer would be ideal, fresh outlook and ideas etc as opposed to the usual process of recycling failed managers we are used to.

Totally agree, I've never understood why we need to change the strip every season or two, its unecessary nonsense. Why can't we just find a design, in the club colours and keep it as do Celtic, Newcastle, etc who had had the same basic design forever. For me if I had a choice between the hoop or the stripes, I'd pick stripes as per the shirt we wore in the mid 1920's that was a cracker.

I'm long past the buying replica kit stage, but it looks like a decent top ruined by my pet hate, tacky sponsors logos. But no doubt it will sell well to those fans who like to be up to date.

Not really but hey ho it got you a laugh. And as weeyin says if Miller is as highly rated as we are led to believe why would a top club not be interested in him as a future prospect.

Is that based on anything other than pure speculation, that would be a great move for him.

Linfield are the big team in a bang average league so they are going to win more than most, so healys stats will look good, a bit like Rodgers at Celtic. For me he cant be thought of as that good a manager as he's been there for a long time , he must have applied for a few jobs but never got any. If he goes to Dundee that will be a big step up, so time will tell how that pans out. I hope we use the same approach that identified Wimmer and bring in someone fresh to the Scottish game.

That won't be on the kids replica kit then.

We did give them a big scare in Dortmund, to this day I still can't believe how Tommy Coyne never scored when he was clean through 1 on 1 with Stefan Klos, that was our moment.

From memory i think UEFA reduced it from a 6 match ban to 3 matches, but as he never played in Europe again it was irrelevant anyway.

A true Motherwell legend Dave, great news he is doing OK.

I done exactly the same, I think the number of Hospital and dental appointments in the shire that day was thousands above normal levels. As you say bad refereeing and play acting taking advantage of our European naivety back then, I think Rab Shannon still has a 3 match Uefa ban to serve after his red card that day 🤣

Whatever blend of C&A the new kit turns out to be, it will undoubtedly be ruined by some tacky sponsors logo plastered all over it. Start giving the fans an opportunity to buy a sponsor free version I'm sure it would be a big seller.

Enlighten me wtf is sensitive about the club confirming that a current club employee is still employed at the club?

It's basic stuff ffs, "Wimmer has gone but Ahmet Koc is still at the club and working as normal" that's all that was required, a 5 min tweet. The people running the club can look a bit amateurish at times, the optics are not great.

That's who I'm thinking as well now that its been confirmed he's still at the club, but if that was the case would the club not have announced it right away?

With you on that, the club should have announced he was still here, very poor communications. I wonder if he is in the frame for the job, or just staying on to oversee the required recruitment etc.

Good teams win league titles, its lucky teams who win cups, for me i would not care if we had an easy draw to the final then be gifted an OG to help us win.

There's a player in Koutroumbis after his long injury he looked good in his limited game time in the last few games, so I'd be keeping him.

The same old managers being recycled from club to club, making a good living from failure year after year. I hope we don't do the same, another appointment like Wimmer would be good

Every Motherwell fan still alive has only ever seen us win at most 3 cups, league cup in 1950 and Scottish cup in 1952, & 1991, and for the vast majority it will only be 1. Is that record vastly different for any other club in the league apart from The ugly sisters and Aberdeen. In Scotland only the uglies win trophies on a regular basis, the rest of us have to wait for a win every 35 to 40 years etc for a special season. We've had 4 major finals since 1991, 2 league cup in 2005, 2018 and 2 Scottish cup in 2011 and 2018 and faced Celtic 3 tines and lost them all and Rangers once again losing. All this chat about other clubs winning cups etc is nonsense, it took Hibs over 100 years to win one ffs, St J had a special season won 2 trophies but never played either of the ugly sisters in doing so, as is the case for most of the other winners. So in my lifetime I've been at 5 cup finals supporting Motherwell, 4 of them defeats against the best teams in the country, and 1 win our special season in 1991. So for a club of our size our record in major trophies is is decent. And I suspect if a comparison was done against the other teams, uglies excepted re finals reached, games won etc we would be high on the list.

In theory you need cover for every position and a bit of extra leeway so as a minimum a squad size of at least 22 should be the starting point. The main problem we have is whoever takes over from MW has not seen us play, formed their opinion of do we currently have the players to play whatever style of football they prefer etc so recruitment is difficult. That's why we need a new manager in ASAP, and I suspect it will be a rebuild over the summer and winter transfer windows to get anywhere near a settled team.

For me that's a big worry as whoever comes in will have a very short window with no idea of what the team needs re new players and probably be listening to Clarkson, Foster or Obika for advice which gives me the fear.

Get Stevie G on the phone, he needs a job the uproar and seethe from the blue uglies would be worth it.