MJC

I’m not fussed to be honest. As long as someone likes us and is giving us good fortune this season. It can be someone up Donald Trump’s armpit for all I care but if it helps us stay up then I’ll not be complaining.

We couldn’t have asked for better tonight. Now if we could just start turning some of these tedious draws into wins…

Full time 2-2 with Livi and Ross County. I’m starting to think someone up there likes us!

Kampman was a ‘strange’one. He wasn’t the worst but certainly wasn’t the best either. He was brought in on the back of McLeish bailing on us out of the blue and oversaw an entire clear out that summer. I’m sure Brian Martin, one of the players let go, was quite scathing of him after his departure, perhaps understandably, but was angry about how Kampman handled telling him that he wasn’t being kept on. He signed a lot of players in the summer of 98 and very few lasted the season but that also coincided with John Boyle coming in with Nevin as has already been said. It wasn’t a surprise when he left in the October of that season as it was clear that Boyle had his own ideas and vision for where he wanted the club to go and certainly came across ‘full on’ looking back. That a relatively unknown foreign manager who’d only been here a few months left pretty quickly wasn’t a huge shock, in my opinion. Plus the football we had been playing from the start of the season until Kampman’s departure was pretty awful and there were certainly doubts about where we were headed as a team.

This thread precedes many a worthy candidate, both players and managers! Hammell unfortunately would be up there, club legend or not. Baraclough too, playoffs apart. And McGhee second time around was just not a pleasant experience, top six finish or not. 0-6 v Hearts, 0-7 & 0-5 v Celtic, 2-7 v Aberdeen and 1-5 at home against Dundee. Plus McGhee being his odious, obnoxious self throughout. Player-wise we’ve had Anthony Straker, Zak Jules, Conor Sammon, Jacob Blyth, Sherwin Seedorf, Jermaine Hylton, Craig Samson and many more.

Depressing but not surprising.

We will sign a striker, I’d be surprised if we didn’t. Whether he’s fit and able to deliver for us from the get-go is another matter.

We need to win. Feel like a broken record saying that but we need to start winning football matches. Hopefully we will have another striker option on board by the time this game comes around. I can see it being another draw though unfortunately.

Good. Just remember that the next time you’re tempted to have a wee whinge about what I post. Bye for now. X

Calling someone a troll is a "get out" for people who have lost an argument and can't come back with anything constructive. They most probably don't actually know what the word itself means. I for one succesfully trolled the Rangers obsessed moonhowlers on Pie & Bovril for about four years and was eventually banned for it. But I did a pretty good job of it while it lasted. I knew exactly what to say and when to say it, all it took most of the time was a "Good luck Rangers, YATP" and that was enough. On here though I'm only interested in discussing Motherwell and our club and always try and be as constructive as possible.

I’m split on SK to be honest. On one hand I don’t like the idea of us changing yet another manager in the middle of a season and believe we do need some continuity. But on the other hand we have won one league match in eighteen and only scraped a win against lower league Alloa in the Cup. The football we are playing is dismal and we look poorly coached and managed. Either way something has to give.

But we didn’t win either, and we should have. That’s what is so frustrating. “If” and “perhaps”. We’ve been saying this for nearly five months now. We need to start winning games and putting points on the board especially in games against our peer sides like St.Johnstone, Ross County and Dundee. Scraping draws with the last kick of the ball or only drawing games we have dominated just isn’t good enough.

Hear fucking Hear!! 👍

I’m sure it isn’t. Any genuine Motherwell fan would never be miserable when we’re winning. Unfortunately we have won once in eighteen league games so it’s hard to gauge how anyone’s mood is when we’re “winning games” just now.

It’s “Hear, Hear”. I’m pleased for Bair too, his effort and workrate is never in question. It’s just a pity we don’t have a goal scoring striker to play alongside him.

Hard to defend him and the team to be honest. That stat is horrendous and regardless of how ‘well’ we played today doesn’t change it. Obviously with other results going our way today then we have gained a point on our rivals but there is literally nothing to get our spirits up about. We are guff and we are pinning our hopes on other sides being more shite than we are. It’s all just fucking awful. So, so fucking bad.

Another game another failure to win. It’s not good enough.

He’s not done too much wrong from what I’ve seen. He’s not been great but no one has.

Well in Thelonius!!!

Only positives so far are that Ross County and Livingston are both losing.

At least when Hartley was here we had Aldred in defence who was significantly better than any of our current options.

Same shite different week. And another ridiculously long VAR check to confirm the inevitable.

Halliday starts, by the looks of things at left back. Nicholson and Elliot on the bench.

That wasn’t a prediction though? It was a hope.

Of course you can express your opinion and I wouldn’t want you or anyone to think that I was suggesting that you shouldn’t. My point about Jim Gannon was that he seemed/seems to be a bit of an extreme example with some of our fans and that I find that baffling. He was here for six months, started off well and it seemed like an exciting and different type of appointment initially. But in reality that’s all it was. By the start of November ‘09 and up until his departure, his ‘feuds’ with the media/the SFA/referees and his general demeanour and comments about “juggling soot” suggested that he just didn’t have any enthusiasm for the job anymore and it was no surprise when he left. Then of course it started to come out from the club and senior players that he was applying for other jobs and was pretty much a nightmare to work with. I don’t think that the situations with Alexander or Kettlewell are in any way similar to that of Gannon.