MJC

He’s done and we’re done with him as manager. It’s not going to work so the sooner we go our separate ways the better. The team has nothing, no leadership and no direction and the players don’t look like they believe in the manager. We will do absolutely nothing but continue to freefall under Johansson’s management. The longer he remains the more likely relegation is this season.

If he hadn’t fucked up that LCSF against St.Mirren and got to have a crack at a Wilfried Nancy led Celtic in the final chances are he would be a legend and forever written into Motherwell FC folklore.

Yes JBA made mistakes, all managers do and at a club of our stature we are never going to have the perfect manager. Overall Jens Berthel Askou was really good for us. He brought about a different brand of playing and management which we saw in the performances of several players. We were slick, well drilled and disciplined. When we were at our peak we were great, but at the same time you could look back and say things could/should have been better especially with the two dismal cup exits. He more than earned his big move in the summer and he and we move on. I don’t see Alfred Johansson getting anywhere near those levels for us and getting anything like a move like JBA got when he leaves us. Can you?

Hearts actually played quite well in spells during the first half yesterday according to the radio commentary but were undone by comically bad defending and Celtic being utterly ruthless in punishing them. We’re not Celtic and we have nothing up front to punish them with and if we defend as we have been in our last three or four games then Hearts really couldn’t have asked for a better opponent to bounce back against on Sunday.

Mmm? I don’t think you read said previous post correctly and understood the context? You asked what would Ya Bezzer! say about yesterday’s shit show…. Quotation marks

Alfred says post match that we started the game well? We were a goal down within two minutes with another howler ffs! We are in serious trouble if we persist with this guy.

No I’m saying even Askou would have struggled to have us hit the heights of our November - February peak last season. I don’t think for a minute we would be on a five match losing run and getting worse by the week if he was still here though. Your last sentence tells the whole story. JBA is a manager while his successor isn’t.

More than likely. Either that or/with David Clarkson involved. Whoever it is who replaces AJ when, not if, the time comes then it will be someone already employed at the club.

Jens himself would have struggled to recreate anything like our best from last season even without losing Just, Welsh, Watt, Ward and Slattery. Teams had cottoned on to us by late last season and we were nowhere near as effective as we were from November-February bar Ibrox and Easter Road. Whoever came in faced a very difficult task to try and get us playing at the same standard we were last season and for that I don’t envy Alfred. But unfortunately he just doesn’t look like he knows what he is doing and his lack of coaching experience is showing. I just don’t see this ending well for him and us.

1-5 Hearts McPake will tear Sparrow up for toilet paper and Braga will take full advantage of SOD, Moorman and Paulsen’s inadequacies. #Hearts fan #Jambo #FHW #Troll #Realist

On paper it definitely is too early to be questioning the manager but in reality he has shown absolutely nothing to suggest that he’s the man for the job. We are getting worse by the week…he keeps picking players like Sparrow and SOD who keep costing us goals…he delays making subs when we badly need them and it costs us. And without wanting to sound too personal he just looks and sounds like a wee boy who is completely out of his depth. I said it last week, but it just looks like we pinned our hopes on AJ being JBA mk2 but unfortunately he is proving to be Stevie Hammell mk2.

“Some Motherwell fans really are deplorable individuals Yet again they are showing just how poisonous and toxic they are Deserve all they get after causing Graham Alexander to leave and shouting at Kettlewell Selfish, parochial and spoiled arseholes who are lucky to have a team to support when a wee club like ours really should be looking to merge with Accies, Airdrie and Albion Rovers for the good of Scottish football”

I agree with your overall point but AJ really isn’t doing anything to help his cause with his selections, subs and overall management.

Levitt on for Fadinger

And there it is, 3-2 Killie We’re done

Here they come… Kanga, G-R and Thor

How he still gets a game for us after all these years is ridiculous. He’s been utterly hopeless in our jersey bar his initial spell with us in 2020.

Just couldn’t help ourselves.

No more than we deserve. Now let’s fucking make this count!

From what I’ve seen we’ve been the better team but as usual haven’t been nearly good enough at making it count. I think we’ll concede again so we will need at least one more to get something from this.

I did worry about us not bringing another goalkeeper during the window. Early signs are that that worry was justified.

Alfred McLean

The best player at the club by a mile and he’s produced for us again.

Lowwwwry!!!!!!!

He signed him, he’s coaching him/the team. That’s now two goals Paulsen has sold by trying to play football in his own box. We don’t have the defenders with the qualities on the ball to make that work so he needs to stop doing it. And yes, before anyone says it, I remember well that Ward did the same last year at Celtic Park and cost us a goal and a point but he/we learned from it. It helped that we also had something resembling a football team in front of him.