MJC

Take a break if you want. But you’re one of the good yins on here grizzlyb. 👍

Well then they are not fit for purpose if they are failing to properly address and deal with people who are continually harming the club financially.

My views exactly. These people, call them whatever you wish, just use football and the clubs they claim to support as a vehicle for virtue signalling and attention seeking.

As to the question of why the club have been taken a softly softly approach to this…could one of the top men involved in one of these groups holding a very high position within the Well Society have something to do with it?

Selfish, entitled arseholes who prioritise themselves and their own image ahead of that of the club.

We finished off that nasty, bitter shit stirring prick when he was there first time around in May 2005 and it would be poetic and justified if we did it again especially after the events of their last visit here in May. But it looks like he is seriously considering his future right now and even aside that I just don’t see us having what it takes to trouble them. But then again I thought the same ahead of 22/05/05…

He was handed a very difficult task with the players we lost, following on from JBA and our ever ridiculous catalogue of injuries so he’s been kind of hamstrung (sic) from the get go. All that aside though things just feel flat and not quite right. But it’s still early days.

I’ve seen absolutely nothing from us to suggest that we are capable of taking anything from Celtic, who by the looks of it will likely have a new manager in place for this one. 0-2 defeat

That’s a fair point but as I said in that post you quoted from last October, I liked what I saw from Askou and could see what he was trying to do even if it hadn’t clicked for him yet at that point. He had a plan and he was a leader, that was clear, the only thing we hadn’t seen by then was it actually yielding results, but they of course came. Unfortunately I don’t see any of that with Alfred Johansson.

As much as it was thoroughly enjoyable watching Del rattle auld Martin’s specky baws for the second week running, Celtic will be under huge pressure by the time they play us…and that never ends well.

Ahh there it is, that old holier than thou chestnut of the Motherwell faithers. ”don’t criticise the team cos that’s what Old Firm fans do, ride the well rollercoaster with pride” And as usual it is utter nonsense. No one is demanding the manager be sacked just now, no one is saying that we’re getting relegated, they are simply voicing legitimate concerns about the way we have been playing and the manager appearing to be out of his depth.

Yes that’s correct, which is why I don’t think anyone seriously wants to see him fail or us to say “cheerio” at this point. Any Motherwell fan worth their salt wants the manager and the team to do well but at the same time we can’t ignore some glaring concerns about the way we are playing and the results. And those come back to the manager I’m afraid.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. The similarities are there…walked into a near impossible task, started off okay but the cracks starting to show and looking out of his depth.

I’m very much at the same stage as the above posters saying “too early to be thinking about sacking the manager but at the same time getting increasingly concerned about him”. Sometimes you get that gut feeling about something and for me this is one of them.

He will get a chance and indeed I don’t see anyone saying that he shouldn’t. He is a very young coach and came into a tough job with big shoes to fill and had to contend with the heart of last seasons team being ripped away from under his feet. But there are worrying signs at this early stage, that’s all anyone is saying and from my own post on this thread earlier on today I was simply highlighting that there are some signs of what the Rosenborg supporter posted about him a few months back. It might well come good for him and us though and we all hope it does.

We did well enough in the European games, the HJK home game was a highlight. Hibs away wasn’t great but a massive win and a brilliant move to clinch it. Dundee Utd at home was a very good performance, our best of the season albeit we were playing against ten men from an early stage. Falkirk 0-0 was insipid and dismal, St.Mirren away was a capitulation after a good start and only a great goal at the death saved our blushes. Rangers at Ibrox was a pumping in everything but name. And last night v Aberdeen was a pumping, in both name and in the way we performed. I know people will point to them only having x amount of efforts on goal but I saw nothing from us that was in any way effective whereas Aberdeen were.

I’m voicing my concerns, yes.

It’s early days yet, but I think there are some signs of this already from AJ. Particularly about the football lacking confidence and identity and him not showing leadership. Alarm bells are ringing for me.

3-0 home win. We are ineffective and the ball is burst. Last night was not a blip it was a sign of things to come.

Trying to compare our start this season to this time last year is pointless, it is not the same at all. For all we couldn’t buy a win at the beginning of 25/26 you could see what we were trying to do football wise, even if we weren’t able to make it count yet. And JBA was a leader, a proper boss, a figurehead who you just felt had that something about him that would work for us. It was always going to be difficult to follow on from that, but sadly AJ doesn’t look anywhere near capable of bringing the same to the table. Yes we have lost some top class players and that was always going to hamper us, but we have no leadership in that team whatsoever.

Something tells me this will be different. 😬

0-4 You can dress this up any way you want but that is an absolute disgrace. Against a team who’ve not been able to buy a win of late too. I repeat, we are in trouble this season.

Absolutely disastrous night. No complaints, this team are going to do nothing but go downwards.

This team is ineffective and poor. We are in trouble this season.

Good strike in fairness but he should never have been in a position to shoot from there