MJC

I’ve not worded that well so I’ll try again. I do enjoy going because it’s a life long passion following Motherwell FC. I know however that I’m not always going to ‘enjoy’ the game because that’s just the way it is and always will be for a club of our stature, but I go regardless and wouldn’t miss it, even though it often has me tearing my hair out. So I’m afraid Motherwell FC are stuck with me.

I don’t go to the football to enjoy myself and be happy and merry, I go to support my club. If I wanted a good time I’d join the Tartan Army. Of course and I will give him my full support, certainly to start with. However I just get a bad feeling about this appointment. Managed/coached ten clubs and he’s only 42 and has no track record of hanging about anywhere for any length of time. Not what we need imo and it looks like we have went ‘left field’ for the sake of going ‘left field’. I would have been much happier with a Robbie Neilson or Tony Doc type appointment.

Firstly, I am very glad that it isn’t Richard Foster. Secondly, best of luck to Jens Berthel Asko. But thirdly, this appointment gives me the fear big time for some reason. I will be very surprised if this works out.

Involved in both goals so far and certainly playing well.

Good luck to him. This is thoroughly deserved.

Don’t let the truth get in the way of a nonsensical dribbling theory which can be easily disproved.

Don’t know. But I have a feeling conversations will have been had with Richard Foster about taking the job…

The choices left out some obvious contenders. The mid 90s Motorola classic home and away kits, some of our earlier Puma kits, the Canterbury kit from 09/10, the home kit from the lockdown season and the Bukta home kit from McGhee’s first season of his first spell would all be contenders for best jerseys in my opinion, obviously others will disagree. Same token they left out some of the howlers we’ve had like last seasons and the horrific 22/23 effort.

Steve Clarke is undoubtedly a dour faced arrogant individual who is stuck in his ways. But i would take him as our manager in a heartbeat and I think he would be brilliant for us same as he was at Killie. He would be much more suited to managing us than he would Scotland imo. It won’t happen obviously.

Exactly, it wouldn’t simply been a case of Wimmer completely out of the blue on the 23rd May saying “right folks that’s me off it was nice knowing you”. That had clearly been in motion for a period of time before that otherwise he wouldn’t have walked straight into another job. I sincerely hope you are right.

It would be Kettlewell/Hammell levels of depressing with the added bolt ons of Foster coming across as a smarmy arrogant prick into the bargain. Don't get me wrong if he did get the job then I would get behind him as best I could but it would be the most depressing appointment I could ever imagine or remember us making.

The longer this drags on the more worried/convinced I’m becoming that it’ll be Richard Foster.

Nah I’m not convinced of that. You tend to find that the people who buy the kits will buy them regardless of what they look like and those who don’t, won’t buy them. I genuinely don’t think that chopping and changing the design and template of the kit makes much difference to sales, or any difference atall.

The argument of experimenting or “something a wee bit different” with kits is something I’ve never really got. It’s just my own view but why not keep the “wee bit different” to our training/leisurewear? That way the people who are going to buy the cheaper training/leisurewear (and there are plenty who do, myself included) have that top to wear for five-a-sides/going to the shops/lying on the couch scratching their baws or whatever. But at the same time keep the kit that the players representing the club on the park are wearing as a kit which is traditional and easily recognisable as a Motherwell FC kit?

Plain and mostly Amber. No pinstripes.

I don’t and never have agreed with this idea that we need to “mix it up” when it comes to our home kit. I’m not expecting or demanding a claret hoop every season but our home kit, in my opinion, should consist of a predominantly Amber jersey with the Claret worked into it in some form. I know the shorts colour splits opinion as many prefer white but for me it should always be mostly Claret shorts. That keeps it simple and true to our classic home colours. Why stray from that? Someone said the other week that we have two home colours so that’s why we don’t stick with tradition like other clubs do, but the same could be said for Newcastle with their Black and White….do they ever release home kits that are miles out from their tradition just so they can be a “bit different”? No chance. We’ve done well with this new one. Band/hoop or not and that is largely how a Motherwell FC home kit should look as it properly embraces our colours.

Also pleasing that we are avoiding white shorts again. The last time we had a home kit with white shorts was back in 20/21.

Very pleased with that on first viewing. 👍

I rated Stuart McCall up to a point as he oversaw an incredible league performance with us. Unfortunately his cup records seriously sullied that and some of the cup defeats/exits during his time were absolutely dreadful. I also thought Mark McGhee did an excellent job in his first season of his first spell but ruined any good will with his appalling attitude towards the club during his second season and he did little to change that during his second stint. Butcher took us through a very difficult period and gave us some great times but probably stayed on a year too long and the same could be said for Robinson. Craig Brown was excellent for us imo. The only managers whom I have genuinely thought were dreadful for us were Harri Kampman, Maurice Malpas, the aforementioned Ian Baraclough (playoff aside) and McGhee second time around. Hope that answers your question.

Baraclough was a poor, poor manager, let’s not pretend otherwise. Yes he came up trumps in the playoff and he’ll always get a big pass for that but tactically he was hopeless and struggled to manage games. We saw that before and after those two games. However the playoffs were one off games and he approached them in the best way, he didn’t allow us to be intimidated by Rangers simply because they were called Rangers like so many others did, none more so than Stuart McCall. Him being Rangers manager for those playoffs was a big part in us winning too as we all knew from experience that he was utterly hopeless and gutless when it came to knockout/big games.

Folk were dancing on the tables in the New Century singing Twist & Shout. They actually stopped serving alcohol for an hour. 😂

His finest moment as our Chief. He genuinely fought our corner and stood our ground where many of his predecessors would have folded and given Rangers whatever allocation they wanted.

I know it’s been said many times but I’ll say it again. Having an ‘outsider’ in charge like Baraclough who didn’t pander to Rangers and allow us to play the name rather than the team in front of us was a major reason why we won that playoff. His predecessor and opposite number in those games would have had us beaten before the team bus left Fir Park and the fact that it was McCall in their dugout made that all the more satisfying given the number of big games we had bottled under his watch.

The feeling when Ainsworth scored to make it 3-0 at the start of the second half was one of the best I’ve ever had following Motherwell. It was actually hard to believe it was really happening at the time seeing us 3-0 up at Ibrox, limbs going everywhere in our end while the rest of the ground sat in utter disbelief and despair. I still thought we’d somehow blow it though and that didn’t change until we went 2-0 up at Fir Park on the Sunday.

“as he was running out of ideas” I think that that was patently obvious and I suspect Kettlewell, like Alexander before him, realised this too. And had he just left rather than creating this smokescreen about fan abuse being the reason he had to leave then I don’t think there would be half the amount of bad feeling towards him now. Unfortunately he chose to go down that route and to compound matters the club, WS and certain players aided his crusade by jumping on the same bandwagon. I actually liked him while he was with us even though it was clear he had ran his course, but he soured that with his bullshit about why he decided to leave. Don’t kid a kidder.