FirParkCornerExile
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We’re going down!
Afraid I cant think of any defensive combination we can assemble from the squad we have that isnt utter guff. A draw at very best at Rugby park is all I think we can get.
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My shout would have been John Hughes but we were too late.
Peter Houston is worth a shout but might be to pricey.
Surely to god if we were interested in him we couldnt be outbid by Falkirk although I suspect ur referring to cost of buying out his contract and in that ur probably right but hes one Id have ahead of many of the other names.
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2nd,11th,5th place finishes in his 3 full seasons at the club so far. Probably an above average period in our history all things considered.
We all see t differently I dont rate him at all other like your good self have a differing view. Stevie Woods was a regular in goal from 1994 to 2003 he was probably the worst goalkeeper ive ever seen in a Motherwell Jersey and we had 2nd, 4th and 7th in that period.
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Jim Duffy certainly the option that appeals most to me right now. Whether we could actually get him on board though is another matter.
Duffy is one of the Scottish Establishment on Scottish Football merry go round mob aka , Alex Smith, Paul Hegarty, Jocky Scott, Sandy Clark, Tommy Craig..... hes in a temp upturn with Morton but wouldnt touch him.
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It's one of the most important appointments in recent years, given the on the park transition the new man will need to oversee as we eventually move on from the Lasley/Hammell/McManus era. Can't afford to get this wrong...
Id hardly class anything Mcmanus has been involved with us as an era ... The word Era conjures up commitment longevity love of the club.... the "McManus wilderness years" are more apt. Theres been as much space in our defence as there is in the wilderness under his stewardship.
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Do you think Pearson, Cadden, Heneghan, Clay, Chalmers and Jules were giving 100% on Saturday?
For me, the only ones that I could see genuinely busting a gut were McHugh, Moult and McDonald.
I thought Cadden tried really hard but had two men on him every time he got the ball. My pass marks were Cadden , Moult and McDonald.
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It's the right decision and I applaud the board for making it.
I still think we're down though as McGhees signings have been appalling and that's all the new guy has to work with.
Could well be bottom after the games tomorrow.
That is my worry I do genuinely think the squad is cack and we have some piss poor players who walk into our team.
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Well done Flow and the board. Right decision!
Its a brave decision and like many I didnt think it would happen. Have to say I agree with it even if we were to get relegated. McGhee was taking us nowhere and you never saw him actually inject and change into a game when it wasnt going right. I always thought he had his game plan however if it went astray he didnt do anything to adapt / change it
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Never mind at least the pitch is lovely
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We slipped to 11th last season then won 7 out of 9, including wins against 2nd and 3rd placed Aberdeen and Hearts and eventually finished 5th. I'd call that rising to the occasion.
We could go on forever claiming and counter claiming Im still pretty confident we fuck up more often in big games than we win out. You know how good this season is when all we celebrate is the state of the pitch.
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We've won 5, drawn 5 and lost 11 of our last 21 league games. Dundee have won once more and drawn one less, which would suggest they are just as dire as us.
I never suggested Dundee were good , I'm just confident in our ability to shoot ourselves in the foot. We rarely rise to any occasion and please don't anyone start by citing the play offs, for every case where we rose to the challenge I could give you 5 we fuck up.
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Milo, I remember your posts on here 2 years ago during the run in were equally pessimistic and we got into a debate, that's why it sticks in the mind. It was every game we were going to get cuffed. All it says to me is we lose you get to spout the "I told you so" and if we win its "I'm glad to have been proved wrong, but we were lucky". Seems you are covered either way.
Gaz makes a valid point he finds echoed with me, if following Motherwell only increases your doom, gloom and blood pressure, why bother? You rarely have anything good to say and while this team is far from 2013 or 2007 its not leading many others to reach for their Wilkinson Swords to do damage to their wrists.
I've shared my apathy with the game in Scotland and were we go from here to the extent its affecting my attendance at FP, however I do find your posts bloody irritating.
Supporting Motherwell can be down to a multitude of reasons, from having a visit at your school from Terry Butcher or Faddy as a child, proximity to Fir Park, liking the colours, fancying a player (Las), your favourite uncle being a die hard, to definitely not wanting to have anything to do with those religious focused bile merchants from town. So what's yours? It almost reminds me of the albino monk from the Da Vinci code whipping himself and wrapping his leg in barbed wire.
We can all be critical of this and that. However, after reading these boards for some time now, the only thing we all agree on is 3 points on a Saturday. The merits of who we recruit or release, how the manager sets us up tactically, how the funds are raised off the pitch and how the club is governed will result in a unique response from every one of us.
I thought Leeann left Motherwell in a better place she found it, I felt the league messed up our fixtures through incompetence, I support summer football, I appreciate TV makes up the lions share of our finances so unfortunately as paymaster they get to call the tune, I don't see how McManus ever got a Scotland cap, I would prefer it if the SFA followed the example of Iceland than this super academy pish, I'm glad Robinson is back, Instant replays on the sidelines for major decisions, I wish we move to a new stadium at Ravenscraig and don't support a 16 team top league as yet. You find me one other Motherwell fan that agrees with all of that in addition to 3 points on a Saturday and I'll doff my cap.
I agree with it all .... except the 3 points on Saturday
we are truly dire and I expect the same p1sh Ive watched all season. If we take our Claret and Amber specs off 3 wins since September out of 21 games tells it all. -
I'd start Las and get 50 or 60 minutes out him and then bring on either Clay or Lucas depending on how the game's going.
McDonald and Moult have to start together up front.
Id start with a prayer.... cos if we are relying on ability we're fucked
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Should be capable of winning more than we lose. Top 5 teams are distances in front, but there's 6 teams we should be beating.
Need a manager that will unleash the team and stop experimenting / playing defensive.
Is that formation supposed to offer comfort ... if it makes you feel better fine the result speak for themselves
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I'm sure Mark will remind us in upcoming interviews that his remit is to keep us in the league.
Most irritating manager in my time. His discipline is a disgrace.
While I think there is good team, that should be capable of sixth place, McGhee is totally lost! Tactics and selections this season have been a joke.
There is zero entertainment / value for money and I have to question my season ticket purchase, not to mention, the embarrassment I have for encouraging some of family to take the 5 game package. Have no hope of getting them to return when it's done.
No more excuses, his time is up.
We havent got a good team mate open ur eyes a midfiled of has beens and a central defence that couldnt keep a pig out a tenement , a left back who is done and a keeper that flaps more than Orville Wright
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it will be interesting what pish mcghee will come away with after that
One thing you can be certain it wont be interesting it will be banal sound bites and fuck all substance.
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Against the teams round about us ,Kilmarnock at 6th tae Inverness at 12th our results 2 be honest are no better or worse than any of them.
That's the games that will count at the end of the season, if we can keep in there we have a fighting chance.
You are looking through rose tinted specs only two teams worse than our pitiful lot Accies and ICT and we all know how bad we are in head to head with them most of the time. Play off spot at best under McGhee and he'll have us going into that more worried about the opposition.
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Totally agree it looks like they are not interested. Maybe he has lost the dressing room. Disgraceful.
We havent the balls or the money to sack him , sadly.
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So given the fact that the club has no money who should we be signing ? We would all love to be reading that Motherwell have submitted a 5 or 10 million pound bid for a top player but thats not the world we opetate in. The English and Scottish lower and non league sides are our market so we need to try to find another Moult or Johnson
I never said we had other options Im just painting reality and there is no happy ending where we are going.
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Better just stand on the side lines with your thumb up your arse than try and change the game.
We had been shite from half time until the goal. It was always coming. Doing nothing was trying to hold on to the slim hope we could keep a clean sheet and escape with a point. I think most people would like to see a positive attacking change to get Rangers out of our half.
We have been shite all season this was as predictable as rain. We have a dodgy manager at best and can only sign guys from English non league football.. We are heading down, if not this season we will miss it by a baw hair, but medium to long term are only going one way. I remember the days I used to bother.
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Aye, anybody that thinks a professional footballer wouldn't be down after playing so well but by having such a monumental blunder, clearly isn't thinking straight.
I dont give a flying fuck if McManus was upset he played like a complete tit sold the Jerseys for the umpteenth time since he came to Fir Park. Instead of being down do your job on more than 50% of the time you play, if you cant leave.
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They are definitely beatable. Hopefully the manager has been taken off suicide watch and can send out a team with the necessary ambition to do the job.
They have been beatable every game since they went t1s up but that makes no difference, they are utter shite and will beat our hapless mob without breaking sweat.
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I'm in Alcudia and see this games on TV. Anyone know of anywhere that'll show the game?
Download Mobdro app onto your android phone if you got one and get every channel incl all sports channels for zip all.
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Not really.
If you bought a house at £30,000, made minimal improvements to it, then sold it again at 10 x the price 18 months later, you'd be doing cartwheels.
People need to get this into their heads, Marvin Johnson is not that good.
OK, here's a hypothetical situation. If some old lady died and left £1,000,000 to be spent on transfers to Motherwell FC, would you be happy with us spending £500,000 or even the whole lot on Marvin Johnson having seen him play 60+ times?
I'll say it again, he's just not that good.
Been saying it for months , Motherwell fans loose the ability to see a player for what they are when they see pace. I remember Motherwell fans going overboard about Eliphas Shivute . I said then he was utter pish all the pace in the world but never a player in a million years. I was howled down by many a Motherwell fan at the time who thought the guy was the next messiah. The same applies to a lesser degree with Johnston. He has plenty pace and will destroy diddy teams but put him up against competent SPFL team from the top division and he'd disappear. The guy is at best average and £1 gets you £1000 the headlines tonight are the last headlines Johnston will ever make. £500,000 is an excellent deal for him.
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Have they won the lottery and no told us, although out of work I would suspect Coyle would look for bigger pay and resource than we can offer.