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So, Luca Ross, who is a forward according to our website, is playing RWB?

Free link?

Not got the stream. How have we set up today?

Yep. Number 39 on the website isn't Luca Ross, although the website has been wildly out of date or slow to update changes for a while now.

Looks like: SOD Mugabi Blaney Wilson Slattery Miller Spittal Ross Wilkinson Obika Or some variant of that, but odd that Ross is listed after the goalkeeper with the other defenders. Also no Shields or Efford on the bench.

Lots of belters here (http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Motherwell/Motherwell-change.htm), but these 3 are favourites from my youth.

https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/stephen-robinson-denies-trevor-carson-27327799

Yeh, I just clocked that. The official website says he signed a short-term deal in summer 2023 and is contracted until May 2024.

Too diplomatic. No place for that on this forum.

I think we'll see Shields go out and get replaced by another English lower-league striker and Furlong come back in.

It's our European strip. Aim high.

Let's hope he signed an extension beforehand.

I didn’t know that about Campbell but, after hearing what you’ve said and suggested, I agree.

Unlike the home top with its horrendous huge G4 Claims logo that was designed in MS PowerPoint, the away top is the winner for me with its subtle front of shirt sponsor.

I see Kev is still playing like Superman.

3 or 4 more, please.

Growing pains?

The date in this thread title also needs the flux capacitor treatment.

I think your being in the future has messed your dates up in the thread title. The date for the game is Saturday 15 July for us back home. You better look for your flux capacitor.

The shitehawk love-in continues.

I don't disagree that players need to move out before a club can bring others in to balance their squad. However, a significantly greater number of players have left than have come in, and the new 45-man squad list contains only approx. 17 recognised 1st team players, and that's me being generous. Instead of replacing the likes of Casey, Goss, KVV, Cornelius, Johnston, and Furlong, we've filled the 2023/24 squad with the boys, and then the manager has come out in the press and said we need to reduce this squad to bring in new signings. That is why I've used the 'odd' terminology and alluded to a lack of cash, be that correct or otherwise. My point is that the squad has already been reduced by a factor much greater than the two signings, and that's even when it's acknowledged that the squad was bloated due to Kettlewell inheriting the (re)signings of two previous managers. Considering that reality, perhaps the plan is to operate with a much smaller playing budget and reduced squad, which is fine but means we will undoubtedly struggle if we fail to move certain players on this window, and Kettlewell knows that. So, perhaps Kettlewell's dig was at previous management and their poor recruitment and forward planning apropos the promising youth, or it was directed at the Board and their 2023/24 budget because he knows they have the wages of KVV et al in their coffers. Whichever it is is a matter of opinion because neither of us knows what he meant. Let's see what the next few weeks bring, and I include the forthcoming League Cup performances in that.

I'm not panicking yet, as the window doesn't close until the end of August. However, this threadbare and uninspiring squad has the hallmarks of the weak squad that Alexander took into the start of last season, and we all know how that panned out. It does, however, seem odd that Kettlewell has said we still need to move on some players to secure the budget for further signings, yet we apparently had the budget to put offers to Johnston, Cornelius, Goss, Casey, and KVV. And we've only signed Wilkinson and Obika and released several others. The Board needs to enable Kettlewell to clear the decks of rubbish and bolster a few key positions. If not, I fear he will also be forced out the door in 6 months, and Clarky will be handed the job and another blank cheque to save our season. In short, it feels like the Board has had a habit of behaving reactively instead of proactively in the recent past, and it seems like that is set to continue, as Kettlewell's bemoaning of the lack of budget would suggest. We may be completely skint, which answers my above questions; however, reactionary solutions, which we've seen a few of recently, are even more expensive than proactive strategies. Perhaps a hard reset is needed somewhere behind the scenes?

An update was given on 31 May. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2023/05/31/end-of-2022-23-squad-update/ PLAYERS OUT OF CONTRACT- NEGOTIATIONS WITH A NUMBER OF PLAYERS ARE STILL TAKING PLACE Jake Carroll Logan Dunachie Daniel Hunter Kian Speirs Jack Aitchison Matty Connelly Max Johnston Ewan Wilson Dan Casey Dean Cornelius Sean Goss Mikael Mandron David Devine Corey O’Donnell Harry Paton

Harry Paton. The bald spot is the clue.