Yassin

How did you get on?

You think we could play Stephen O'Donnell in centre midfield?

I liked Kettlewell as manager more than most and I think there's a kernel of truth there about how our fanbase treat managers- but on a whole the way he left was more disingenuous and self-serving than anybody else in my time supporting Motherwell.

I like Hale but he's a nippy wee guy fairly similar to a lot of our other attacking options. I'd be surprised if we dont bring in a bigger, focal point type striker instead.

Given they've won twice, drawn once in Europe is it possible we made them look worse than they are?

I'd disagree with this tbh. There were a few goals like the chip against Livi or the one at Ibrox where he skinned a defender or pulled off some pretty technically impressive finishes. I do agree that he's probably out of his depth in Ligue 1 where the base technique and proficiency will be a lot higher but if I think of recent guys that were all blood and thunder I think Bair had much more ability on the ball than Bowman or Main etc.

I'm not reading anything else into it but I do find it a bit odd he's starting tonight.

He's behind Sparrow at about 5 seconds here https://x.com/MotherwellFC/status/1937888523849511076?t=Q_ZiVVVLZqlGhkmTATAbhA&s=19

I love McGhee. The man is absolutely hilarious.

I don't really get why we'd have gave SOD a clause in his favour. He was hardly going to have loads of offers from clubs higher up the foodchain.

Not having a go but I would quite like to see an MJC league table like the BBC used to do with Mark Lawrenson's predictions. I'm not sure we'd hit double figures.

I don't think we'll go down but if we do get relegated from here it's hard not to see it as a pretty massive failure on his part, I'm not sure there'd be much justification for keeping him on at that point.

He's called up Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, St Mirren and Dundee United players to their squad so I'd hope he knew a bit more than most outsiders would.

Can English teams not only loan out 5 players abroad at a time? Arteta might think Kettlewell is an absolutely cracking guy but it doesn't mean they can just give us half their u21s.

Could you compare Valikari's start to Kettlewell's first few months post-Hammell, then?