MJC

He certainly was. In what was an otherwise dismal season he was the one consistent performer. I think a career in the media is more likely given he’s already made inroads on that with his gig on Clyde 1.

He’s been in semi retirement all season but this just makes it official. Best of luck to him and I thank him for his efforts with us which were always 100%. There was always an element of the support who didn’t take to him no matter what he did for their own twisted reasons but I think the vast majority of Motherwell fans appreciate what he did for us especially last season when he was ever present.

0-2 defeat.

Bookmark this: We are not winning another game this season.

Disappointing but not surprising.

Kettlewell just can’t help himself when it comes to running his mouth and playing the victim. Nothing is ever his fault but the facts don’t lie. And the facts are that since he left us in January 2025 amid his manufactured grievance with our supporters who were basically telling him the team he built on its arse and the football was dreadful, which it absolutely was, he has now been sacked by Killie after less than six months in the job and now overseen Ross County’s relegation from the Championship. Maybe, just maybe he isn’t all that when it comes to management. And while all this has been going on we’ve achieved top six, are on course for a 4th placed finish with possible European qualification in a season where we have played the best football seen at our club in years.

Draw written all over it. 1-1

Or it could simply just be that McInnes taking Hearts from bottom six to the brink of the League title in his first season, McGlynn getting Falkirk promotion, top six AND a Scottish Cup Semi Final and lastly Naysmith defying the odds with Stenhousemuir are all seen as more deserving of the award than JBA? There doesn’t need to be any kind of underlying resentment or anything like that I’d say it’s more that the other three have achieved more tangible feats.

Pretty reasonable nominations. It’s impossible to see past McInnes this season for the job he has done at Hearts - taking them from bottom six last season to a few wins away from being League Champions - and I don’t see how there can be any reasonable argument against that. With McGlynn and Falkirk they have had a superb season and reached the SF of the Scottish Cup. For a side just promoted that’s pretty good going. Naysmith at Stenhousemuir is a bit of an outsider but he’s got them in a great position for promotion against the odds. And then on to our manager JBA. He has been fantastic for us and surpassed all expectations but I’m personally quite pleased he has been overlooked for this award as it might just keep his stock low enough to keep him here for a bit longer. Wishful thinking perhaps but anything that gives us an advantage as a club then I’ll take it. The reality is that Jens May very well not be with us next season but I still think there is a chance that he will be, and the less folk shouting about his credentials the better for Motherwell FC.

All about making money but as I’ve always said the people who are going to buy the kits will do so and those who aren’t won’t buy them. This season we have only worn the change kit in the away games where you would expect us to wear it, ie. Dundee Utd, Hearts, Aberdeen & Livingston which is the way it should be. Other years though we have ‘overcooked’ the away kit especially it seems when it’s a mostly Claret effort. The one from 23/24 that we wore when we won at Ibrox two years ago got a fair few outings and the 18/19 kit we wore it just about every single away game expect ironically enough against Hearts and Aberdeen because it would have caused a colour clash. I really didn’t like that. (And I say that as someone who is a massive fan of the mid 90s Claret with amber pinstripes kit that we wore against Dortmund and was delighted to see the club launch a retro version of that recently.)

I’m a big fan of this years away kit but I really don’t like seeing us wearing our change kits when there is no clash of colour with the opposition. We should be in Claret & Amber as much as possible and thankfully this season we have been.

There definitely was a mental block that ran right through the club for far too long when it came to these types of games. IMO it could be traced all the way back to Butcher and then Alan Burrows banging the “punching above our weight” drum for years and numerous managers, coaches, players and supporters fully bought into that. Before the March ‘24 win at Ibrox I genuinely thought we would never beat either OF side ever again but breaking that duck gave us the shot in the arm that we had been in desperate need of for years. On a side note and I know this doesn’t matter much to many, but it does to me…I was delighted to see us beat Rangers at Ibrox for the third year running but this time wearing our proper C&A kit. The last three league wins there we’ve been in our change kits going back to Owen Coyle day in ‘97. So Sunday must have been the first league win at Ibrox wearing our first kit since 94 or 95. 🍻

I’ve never particularly liked Derek McInnes, indeed I always thought he was an utter prick when he was at Aberdeen. But I find myself thinking warming to him and also that his beard probably smells amazing. He most probably uses top of the range grooming products on it. Fair play to him and Hearts. 👍

Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this the first season since 2002/2003 that we have beaten both halves of the Old Firm in the league?

Never doubted us for a minute tbh… That is the best result of the season for me. It was a tough, tough watch and I would have been fucking raging had that finished 2-2 having been 2-0 up but to nick it at the death like that was brilliant stuff and showed a resilience and winning mentality that in all honesty we have lacked at the crucial moments this season. 4th place is still very much in our hands right now.