wellsince75

Pretty spot on in terms of what we’ve seen.

Hammel speaks from the heart . Hard not to love this guy and hope he gets the job .

What baffles me Is why don’t we in Scotland start our season earlier and benefit from being 20 games into our season lots of Scottish teams get pumped year in and out - I’d be a fan of finishing the season on Jan and starting back March /April summer football - yes please downside is the risk on international tournaments - I can live with that risk

I’d rather we play a back 3. For this game hoping ojala is back and play McGinn , Solhom and ojala That enables slattery as a holding midfielder to connect play and add width and depth to the misfiled Time is our biggest enemy , not sold 7 days will have been enough time for hammel to make the changes he alluded to

Either or both would work for me . not keen on lambert purely as he comes across as a boring bigger and his teams matched his personality - not too different from GA albeit at a higher level . Valakari has done well and shown he wants it . equally hammel is a good go guy and called out obvious gaps and needs . have them both please

I wish him well for the future and glad he's moved on. No argument from me with what he achieved. The issue was always how, it was ugly but people tended not to mind winning ugly. He'll go on to another role, prob in the 4th tier of English footy.

Lambert has been available for +18 months, be interesting to see if he wants to come north of the border . he often comes across as a bit dull as have many of his teams . Re Simo Valakari - I’m sure he was on the short list before and narrowly missed out . Had he not played for Motherwell his credentials would still be strong . He’s managed in 2 countries and proved successful . Having knowledge of European market could be a different avenue. Add to that he does know Motherwell is a huge bonus . Having people who already care and understand is a big plus for me . Hence if someone like Craggs wanted the job I’d hire them in a heartbeat

Great share - that’s the first article that I’ve seen that’s not just lifting the names from these types of forums . can see what Duncan Ferguson has been counted as purely a rumour. If he was moving north of the border suspect it would have been the Utd job . Overall sounds a sensible approach from the club - fingers crossed

Given he's only had 3 games and come in at a terrible time you're right, Morris will need some time. Compared him to Goss as a left midfielder with a bit of skill. FWIW I rate Goss, I think he's a lot to offer as long as we don't expect him to track back , win second balls etc. Morris for me is a strange signing, someone who's kicked around the English 4th tier for +10 years without doing much. GA signed a few people like that, people he knew, brought into the club and often didn't even play them but he knew he could work with them. Hopefully Morris can kick on and add value to the team.

I've got some sympathy for our midfield. Playing 3 has led to 1) being up against a much better midfield 3 against top 6 teams and 2) being outnumbered against bottom 6 clubs. If playing with 3 generally they all need to be good both defensively & offensively. I don't believe any of our players are all round midfield players and I doubt our budget can afford it. This is an over simplification but all players are limited. Maguire. Best attritibutes are as a defensive mid. Lacks pace but can be used to break up play and find a simple pass. Spittal. Too early to tell, looks an ok worker who can break up play and work hard. Slattery. Closest to our best all round player but tires quickly in games. Decent ball skills and be good player to collect ball from defence and join up to attack. Goss. Best on the ball player we have but don't expect him to protect left back, win balls or put in a hard shift. Cornelius. Great work effort and looks better moving forward. Morris. Early days but similar attributes to Goss albeit of a lower quality. Tierney. Most likely to score and should play in the hole between midfield and attack. Point being there's no combination I can see that suggests a 3 man midfield would work. Personal view is we need at least 4 of them in different roles to make the midfield work and if being brutal would only have Maguire & Morris as back up players.

As a club I'd like to see us nudge forward and have a longer term plan. I first started watching us in early 80s and we progressed into the top league, spent a few years battling relegation and steadily improved brining in better quality whilst bleeding youngsters. Bringing through players like Boyd, O'Donnell, McCart, McMillan, Faddy, Pearson, McCulloch, Lasley, Hammell, Reynolds, Quinn Murphy, Hutchinson, Cadden, Turnbull, Campbell. Whilst being able to attract some very decent players who stuck around from - Russell, Cooper, Coyne, Lambert, Martin Craigen, Sutton. Recent years we've been able to show in patches the same approach to youth with some exceptional players, our attraction of quality players has generally been poor. Over this period the quality has got worse, the fan base reduced. As club be great to see us move forward sustainably. Reduce the squad size, bring in better quality who are likely to stay a few years whilst bringing through youngsters. The Faddy's, Turnbulls, O'Donnell's are perhaps once a decade type player but even to get back to the quality of McMillan, Lasley, Hammell, Reynolds, Cadden etc should be within our gift and their likely to give a damn. Appreciate this means we'll lose out on some 16 year olds having their head turned but I can't see any other obvious way forward. Really don't want to accept we've come as far as we can and every year it's a battle for mid table. Really want to see us slowly but surely progress - even a most increase to gates to get 5-6-7-8k people through the door would be great. With this is mind it may be more than a new manager we need.

Was thinking along similar lines. At the early stages Hamilton took a punt on Alex Neil and it worked . What’s not clear is whether he’d be interested and like you say lots of reasons why it could work , albeit lacks experience

Was that the Kilmarnock game under McGhee v1. We moved the ball brilliantly that day and applauded the team off the park even though we lost. Touch of class from the announcer

like what this weeks gaffer said. Well done Stevie, good to see you with a smile on your face.

happily take the points. Was always likely to be 1-0 , just glad it was us. Lots to work on over the coming weeks, be good to hear a timeline /next steps re the new mgr.

there's a time and place to bleed youngsters into the team. this aint it.

At least he’d offer something different - not someone who’s been kicking around the English game . to be fair to him he’s had a reasonable managerial career and shown he cares about the club - not sure what standard of manager people think we’ll attract

Can only assume that Sod is too far off match sharpness . on paper there’s not an awful lot that suggests any change to formation

A player who never really settled and I suspect was never played in his best position, He had potential and pace yet the ball was never put a few yards in front of him to push past his marker. Other than the Rangers game. Thought he flattered to deceive , partly down to him, partly down to how we played him. Equally I don't believe SPL is for everyone, making a move up from England to live in Lanarkshire and buy into Scottish football isn't that attractive.

Picking purely on who Irate as our better players + a formation that suits them Kelly Mcginn Solholm Lamie S'OD Spittal Cornelius Slattery Goss Tierney KVV

I agree with that, it rarely works out brining the same person back. This may be disrespectful but the best value Robbo brought to us was as a number 2. In an ideal world we'd unearth the next Alex Neil - but we couldn't lure someone of that proven ability to us. I've no real issue with having Hammell and Kerr a few games. It's a bit of a punt but then so must Alex Neil have been for Hamilton.

Please don't rehire any previous 'Well manager. With Robinson we went almost 12 months looking completely lost, he ran out of ideas GA for almost a year we played poorly , lost our way, ran out of ideas. Someone with experience who knows what to do will be fab, wound's be against someone like Hammell/Faddy as the number 2 but some experience is needed. Saw a few comments about don't expect great flowing football , I don't expect Barca but I see different games at all levels and there's plenty of entertainment, excitement when teams are well organised and play together.

There's a few options. I'd prefer to move to a back 3 we don't have a decent left back so I'd prefer to keep 3 man defence with Lamie on the left of it. Bulk up the midfield and create a bit of width .

Keep googling my way through experienced mgrs out of jobs . Martin O’Neill hasn’t managed for a few years and don’t suspect he would take this type of role but we’d benefit from someone of his calibre and experience . I’ll put my wine down now

I had a quick look at previous well players who are now managers. Lambert was the only one I could see out a job. Difficult to say , always is. Don't mind taking a few weeks to get the right person and have someone like Hammel look after things for a few weeks.