MJC

Every good manager has a degree of arrogance and swagger about them. And if their team is delivering on the park then it gets lapped up and is perfectly acceptable. Jose Mourinho with his “don’t call me arrogant but I am a European champion and I think I am a special one” quote at his Chelsea unveiling before taking that club to its first league title in 50 odd years along with a League Cup in his first season and retaining the league the next season is one of the best examples of that. At the other end of the scale you have McGhee with his self promotion and trumpet blowing about how he could have done so much better in his career had something happened in a playoff game years previous then overseeing humiliating results for the club he actually manages and constantly talking the club down. Likewise Graham Alexander needlessly changing his lineups and tactics every week and delivering dreadful football and losing but having the brass neck to come out in the media a claiming that we’d played well. As has been said, arrogance is fine but it needs to be countered by some kind of humility and perhaps more importantly delivering results on the park. (Flukey top six finishes don’t count especially when they are topped off with 0-7 defeats and European humiliations against Irish league sides).

Wah Wah Wah It’s something relevant to the club I support so I will comment on it whenever it comes up. And as far as I can see two other posters have also contributed to this particular discussion today so we can put your claim that “nobody gives a toss apart from you, apparently” firmly to bed and tuck it in with a nice wee cup of cocoa and a lullaby to help it along its way. So like I say…Wah Wah Wah

I’ve never felt as disconnected and basically scunnered with the club as I did during McGhee’s second stint. He was clearly only brought back because of good relations with people in high places at Fir Park and despite achieving top six (commendable, on paper anyway) in 2015 his attitude and comments towards and about the club sullied that. “Let me be clear here, that is the reason why and please do not misinterpret me here, why I am managing Motherwell today and not Liverpool” whilst sitting in the club tracksuit in a pre-match press conference. We would go on to lose that match 6-0 and not win another game for six weeks and we would suffer losses of 7-0, 5-0, 7-2 and 5-1(at home to DUNDEE) before he was emptied in February 2017. People talk about Kettlewell throwing the fans under the bus - and he did - but he was nothing compared to that utter prick with the way he acted towards the club. McGhee should never, ever be welcome at Fir Park again under any circumstances.

The turnaround McGhee overseen during summer ‘07 was incredible. The team that kicked off at Love Street on the opening day of 07/08 immediately looked significantly fitter and disciplined and despite containing several players who had finished the previous season and we went on to have an incredible season. Unfortunately McGhee proved to be an absolute wank of a man who treated the club and the support with contempt during his second season and second stint but the impact he had in his initial stint can’t be understated.

That season Malpas was in charge was toxic. Apart from it being obvious from very early on that it wasn’t going to work out I’ve never seen so many arguments/fights in the East Stand as I did that year. Even by Motherwell fans tendency for infighting it was off the scale until just about everyone finally started singing from the same hymsheet on the final home game of the season against st.Mirren. And the song on everybody’s lips was “Malpas, Malpas Get to ****”. ”That’s just yer Donald Duck”

The last two times I can remember us playing Rangers at home on opening day were in 2006 and 2017 and we lost both 1-2. I don’t see this year being any better and looking at our first three fixtures I don’t see us getting anything. The home game v. Kettlewell’s mob looks like our best chance of picking up points early in the campaign.

Well the sun’s out I suppose…

Not the kit obviously but the new black training gear worn by our new boss looks absolutely amazing. A major upgrade on last seasons efforts!

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.