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Kettlewell genuinely believes in the tactics that surrender possession. He thinks his teams can give possession to opposition in areas that don't hurt them allowing them to make it difficult in areas that can hurt them. He did it with us, he did it with Killie and will do it with RC. The penny still hadn't dropped with him that if you give the opposition endless possession their opportunities are likely to be better than his team.
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2 hours ago, stv said:
Macclesfield is a warning. Best team available must play its a cup game one bad performance and your out til next year. We have a better than normal chance this year with the team we have and a favourable draw we could do well.
Every team is a danger in the Cup but the point remains we should have too much for Ross County with the quality we have and the style we employ. Sure fluke results can happen but I'll be genuinely surprised if Ross County turn us over.
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On 1/11/2026 at 5:07 PM, MJC said:
As is so often the case with Motherwell we save our worst performances for Cup ties even when we’re on good form. I don’t see next week being any different I’m afraid.
1-1 (3-5 penalties)
No team has dominated us this season, absolutely no one. Even the Stephen Robinson masterclass in the Cup was absolute bollocks. We just didn't show up in that one. As bad as we were had we not lost the 3rd goal when we did, we had momentum at that point, we shot ourselves in the foot with the 3rd goal gifting the game to a bog standard St Mirren team. We've only lost 3 games, in which we beat ourselves rather than the opposition turning us over. The kind of stats Motherwell have delivered this season I have never seen before in any of my 50 years watching us in the top flight so if we lose to Ross County it will be an enormous shock. I expect a hard game but we should be too good for them.
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2 hours ago, dennyc said:
My point was that we could afford the fee but the wages ruled us out. Sorry if that was not clear.
No worries, I may also have read it wrong 😁 I'd agree I think fee wise we could afford him but there it goes South.
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15 hours ago, dennyc said:
I heard we did and could afford him. But he is on £10k plus PW at Celtic for the next 18 months. I would not be surprised to see him playing for them at least until season end. Their current defence is shocking. Just look at how we ran Scales ragged. I suspected he would be recalled as soon as I heard Nancy had been sacked.
I can't believe for a minute we would have matched Celtic 10 grand a week and also don't believe the player would cut himself off from 18mths on 10 grand a week to join us on a permanent move.
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5 minutes ago, weeyin said:
You might have to, as word on the street is he's not going to Aberdeen.
That would be funny if they didn't get him.
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Just now, grizzlyg said:
Gutted, even worse is he will probably sit in bench
Not at Aberdeen he won't, I'd walk into that Aberdeen team
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8 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
A central defender added to our shopping list? Presumably we've been preparing for this scenario.
You'd like to think we've had alternatives identified for the expected departure of Welsh
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On 1/10/2026 at 7:12 PM, grizzlyg said:
Sign the striker and try and get Welsh. There is money there from Miller sale
Celtic have recalled Welsh, he won't be coming to us.
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11 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:
I thought Longelo done better today.
Need to disagree I thought he was one of our weakest players. I'm not saying he was dreadful but a shadow of the player we saw at the start of the season
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A decent enough game. The quality of our ball in the final 3rd was what stopped us getting 3 points. To slow getting forward to support some great position out wide forcing our players to check back and dither on the ball. Great goal from Manwanhise. Said off the scale frustrating today, great build up play but caught in possession far to often. We didn't win as many second balls as I would have liked. Longello a shadow of the player we had in first 6/7 games. Just was outstanding as was McGinn. A point a Easter Road is never to be sniffed at.
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4 hours ago, 0Neils40yarder said:
Im not a literary genius but the 'should of' winds me right up for some reason
😂me too, it is like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard.
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1 hour ago, Orinoco said:
Aberdeen can sniff all they like. Surely Welsh justs says nope not going there.
Aberdeen trying to be relevant. Basket case of a club. They spend plenty with no real planning or style.
Why do football fans suspend employment reality when it comes to players. Doesn't matter a fuck if Aberdeen don't have a manager or whether or not he flops. If someone offers you a 3 year contract on 10 grand a week you won't worry about fuck all else. This fanciful notion that players are motivated by places in the league, chance of European football really is suspending reality. Look at Jake Hastie took the chance was utter shite from the minute he left us but laughing all the way to the bank on the back of a 3 year contract with Rangers.. If Aberdeen want him and they are bidding with us it's extremely unlikely he would choose us. Happy to eat humble pie if Welsh is the first player in 20 years to take lower wages just cos he likes where he is.
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1 hour ago, weeyin said:
Exactly - so the non-native speakers have to try and translate their half baked questions.
There are no foreigners who speak English would ever dream of saying
Should of
I've did
I've saw
Unlike those in this country who get a decent free education and don't see anything wrong with those grammatical howlers. If you are Kris Boyd you can add "Rangersies" to that glorious list, e.g. "Rangersies troubles began" instead of "Rangers troubles began". It is even worse from him as he is getting paid good money to sound like an illiterate buffoon.
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1 hour ago, mio said:
I sort of think this could be the toughest game of the season tomorrow. Hibs aren’t a bad side and they are performing quite well at the moment. There’s no way we’ll do what we did to them at first park and with a full house it’ll be a tough gig especially without Watt.
id be happy getting a draw tomorrow as I think that’d be a great result.
if however, we come away with a win….. I think this could persuade me we do have a chance of winning this league…. No harm in me dreaming
I agree his will be very tough. However I'm reassured by the fact absolutely no team has dominated us this season in the league home or away. Our record of late at Easter Road is none too shabby. If Watt doesn't make it, as expected, this could be pivotal. Had he been available I'd go into this game with a degree of confidence without being cocky.
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McCalls a cock and the fact he misrepresented what Askou said led to a pile of from other pundit dumbfucks. All Askou said was we played a game to stop Hibs creative players getting forward forcing Hanley to play a game that's not his natural game. He never said Hanley was pish, we just made him play a game that's not his normal role. It was media nonsence.
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1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
I wasn't quite sure what to make of his presser. Some positive comments and he's happy with us but no clear denial of interest. Maybe just me.
Every manager and player could end speculation instantly if they had no interest in another job offer. They just offer bland word salad and that's what Jens did on that question
Folk who read anything into the I'm happy here comment ask yourself the question would any manager / player ever say they didn't like their current employer ? No they wouldn't so anyone looking for reassurance that he's staying you are onto plums.
Doesn't mean he's going , doesn't mean Aberdeen or Celtic will make an approach but you can rest assured if they did he'd go and listen to what they have to say ,as is his employment rights.
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13 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
STV news reporting tonight that JBA is allegedly the bookies favourite for the Aberdeen job 😱, so flow might have been on the phone.
Bookies odds mean nothing other than punters taking a flier. They are rarely indicative of anything based on fact. Although I'd be amazed if that diehard Motherwell fan Burrows hasn't been on the phone to screw us over.
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I doubt Celtic will rush an appointment, I think they will bring ONeill back to see them until the seasons end. If JBA leaves us it will not be mid season.
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15 hours ago, weeyin said:
And I'm discussing the fact that lots of people on here and over at P&B have our manager and half the team out the door already.
No they haven't, wild exaggeration
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1 hour ago, weeyin said:
Sometimes it feels like our fans are more keen for our managers and players to leave us than even the OF slanted media.
last time I looked its a discussion forum to discuss football topics and Aberdeen punting their manager is a topic that would generate discussion , particularly when the media are already mentioning our manager. For the life of me I cannot see any posts on this discussion reflecting a desire for our players or manager to leave .
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1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
Alex McLeish? Derek McInnes?
There could be some gentleman's agreement in place for all we know.
All that said, he may not be interested at all.
The fact that clubs chose to let an approach take place doesn't mean they have to and in cases with our managers and the contracts we have all the refusal does it prevent the manager leaving mid season, any departure would merely be delayed 6 months and that's what we should do should an approach be made.
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9 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
No-one should be shocked at Thelin being sacked. After yesterday's result it was odds on. Have they/will they approach JBA? Who knows. Will he approach them ? Again who knows. If there is interest from either side then our Board will have no say in the matter. Thats not to say he would be interested, but money talks and he could double or treble his salary with them.
Time will tell. The first test of his mettle.
Anyways he can't leave for both Celtic and Aberdeen.
If it came to that which I don't think it will the club most certainly can do something about it. They can refuse permission to speak to the manager .
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5 minutes ago, parko66 said:
I'm sure he is on a 1 year rolling contract
Correct. JBA won't be leaving mid season. Could I see him leaving in the summer? Most certainly if we continue going as we are. Whether that would be Aberdeen is debatable.
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Not for me, we paid £250,000 for Stama, the Shaun McSmimming of strikers. Hendry cost us bugger all.