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Another point would be trying to not rely on loan players. It’s something I highlighted last season under Kettlewell. I think I was trying to make the point that loan players should be the exception and not the rule. Plus, I’d rather we didn’t spend our time and budget developing numerous other clubs’ players each season, only for them to bugger off and leave us back to square one, again.

Stuart McCall, please! His win % and PPM are the best I've seen in my four decades as a 'Well fan. Halcyon days.

"Callan Elliot spent a spell at Motherwell but admitted the weather had not suited him." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx8pllvpv7o I guess him being too afraid to remove his tracksuit is what led to him playing zero competitive minutes for Motherwell.

Aye. You have to wonder who may be leaving if that's the case.

The manager bought a bunch of forks and tried to use them to consume a bowl of soup, but the soup was actually water and the forks turned out to be ladders. Apart from the odd success here and there, it's generally been a total clusterfuck since late 2023.

When can he start?

It, therefore, seems that regularly conceding 70% possession was the result of us just being total shit due to Kettleball. However, at least Kettlewell now has a highlight reel demonstrating the art of turning an active possession approach into a passive one.

Frail confirming that Mair has the same injury as Oxborough confirms for me that someone has indeed placed a hex over the club. Or perhaps Kettlewell has been breaking mirrors to save him from taking his rage out on the match officials.

I would suggest that if you (and others) do take the decision to not renew your season ticket, that you put the reason in writing to the Club and the Well Society. They need to see that their (in)actions that negatively affect the fans of a fan-owned club have real financial consequences.

There's clearly a better balance to be struck between quality vs quantity at a club like Motherwell, and I don't think Kettlewell and Daws ever got that balance right.

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And in doing so has also done himself no favours at all. I think we’ll see the new Chairman address things, hopefully in a much more diplomatic way, to try to smooth things over.

I guess we’ll be waiting a while to find out as the CEO seems to be in mourning instead of doing his job.

This isn’t going to end well.

For the hard of hearing and illiterate amongst Scottish football, please note Kettlewell did not lose his job, he quit. Putting the concerns around Kettlewell’s reasoning for quitting aside for now, a red flag for me is that Caldwell seems to have been watching a different run of games and performances to the fans of late. And let’s not forget that bad run in 2023. We have been utter shite and have clearly been at risk of free-fall, but Caldwell’s words would have you believe otherwise and suggest that he was generally content with Kettlewell. Perhaps he wasn’t, but him appearing to publicly side with a former manager over the fans will only fuel the unhelpful ‘us vs them’ narrative that has developed following that resignation statement. This whole debacle has unnecessarily grown arms and legs, and I don’t think it’s over doing so.

Kettlewell and Caldwell have shown us that the limited budget line is a bit of a red herring. We can’t be skint at the same time as being able to build a squad as big as it currently is. I’m certainly not suggesting we’re flush enough to afford Campbell, but we’d be a helluva lot closer to affording quality players if we didn’t pad out the squad with a quantity of injury prone guff and gambles.

The sooner we accept that the holier than thou and zombie brigades get preferential treatment from the authorities, officials, media, etc, the sooner we can get on with it. We have to make peace with the fact that we’re pissing against the tide, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stand up for ourselves when we’re held to a different standard than others are.

Which is exactly what all fanbases across the world do when performances are shite.

We should definitely keep this thread open to see how Kettlewell reacts in his next job once he's found out by the fans and they start to put the pressure on him.

Says the moderator of a fan forum.

I'm sure if the club continues their PR disaster and further alienates the fanbase, Caldwell will be getting a fair few emails from longstanding season ticket holders explaining why they are no longer renewing. Perhaps then he will conveniently remember who funds his and the players' salaries.

Someone who doesn't bring their family to work.

No booing from me. I'm merely making an observation on a forum. He does, however, need to improve his performances.

Edit. Back to a cricket score. https://x.com/CorkCityFC/status/1884303331570639351

The club - in its infinite wisdom - is doing its best to create an us vs them scenario. I mean, how dare the fans of a fan owned club express their discontent at how their club is being managed. Disgusting fan behaviour. All of this is very unwise and won't end well for Caldwell or the players who comment negatively about the fans in the media (e.g. SOD).