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Stuart McCall, please! His win % and PPM are the best I've seen in my four decades as a 'Well fan. Halcyon days.
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"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.
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7 hours ago, fizoxy said:
Frail mentioned they're still trying to recruit.
Aye. You have to wonder who may be leaving if that's the case.
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5 minutes ago, Big Stall said:
That in itself tells a story. If it wasnt deliberate then we really were poorly coached & really, not a very good team
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.
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12 hours ago, wunderwell said:
Evatt frequently decides against naming a substitute goalkeeper on the bench, preferring to have more attacking options and has had outfield players do goalkeeping training, just in case.[71][72] Evatt will sometimes bring on attacking players when winning matches rather than defensive players, preferring to score more goals than defend a lead.
When can he start?
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50 minutes ago, wellsince75 said:
also faced into the possession stat and was clear it’s not deliberate tactic .
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, ppower said:
All the narrative from Stuart Kettlewell, Brian Caldwell and the media is that the Motherwell fans hounded the manager out with abuse directed at both him and his family. Caldwell further confirmed this when asked about why Kettlewell resigned. At least we, the fans know where we stand with the current regime running this club. They don't give a toss about the fans. It's nice to know how unimportant we are. I will show them how unimportant I am by not renewing my season ticket. The incompetent bunch running this club should have joined the manager and resigned. They have instigated a plan which is to bring in players from the depths of English football. Not once have they looked at the top 4 teams in the Scottish Championship. These are the teams battling for promotion and have better players than the garbage we have been signing. I will enjoy spending my season ticket money on something else.
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.
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2 hours ago, weeyin said:
The problem is we can't just splurge on one or two quality players, because we'd left with an even thinner squad that wouldn't make it through the first two weeks in December.
Let's not forget the big spenders like Dundee Utd - a club whose financial model people on here used to say we should follow - ran up millions in unsustainable debt and then got themselves relegated to the Championship and stayed there for a few years. If we did that, we'd probably die.
The reason we are a fan owned club is because Boyle, however well-intentioned, thought all you needed to do was splash out on those quality players and you'd have a better team. Adminsitration followed pretty quickly after that.
So any time a club our size decides to start splashing the cash around, that's the risk they are taking.
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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8 minutes ago, andalg said:
Shout for new manager ?
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3 minutes ago, Wellsince1976 said:
A very good point was made in the Facebook post last night about the amount of abuse Kettlewell dished out to the ref/linesman/4th officals resulting in his numerous red cards. A bit two faced of him if you ask me. This is just a total mess and Caldwell has done us no favours at all.
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.
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I guess we’ll be waiting a while to find out as the CEO seems to be in mourning instead of doing his job.
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This isn’t going to end well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, star sail said:
Anyway we will be busy putting the pressure on our own new man.
Which is exactly what all fanbases across the world do when performances are shite.
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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.
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20 minutes ago, weeyin said:
There are better ways to change things at fan owned clubs than moaning on the internet.
Says the moderator of a fan forum.
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5 minutes ago, Graene-mfc said:
also not the best message to send out when you will be begging said fans to renew season tickets in a few months time.
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.
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Someone who doesn't bring their family to work.
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7 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:
Jeez can we please not start booing SOD on Sunday if he plays?. Really fed up with the pelters that lad takes. Yes he hasn't been playing well but seems to get blamed for everything, anyone got proof? Hmmmmm
No booing from me. I'm merely making an observation on a forum. He does, however, need to improve his performances.
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22 hours ago, wellfan said:
I've now downgraded my prediction to a rugby score.
Edit. Back to a cricket score.
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1 hour ago, steelman1991 said:
And not a mention of winning for the "fans". Kinda says it all. Was this before we got beat by fuckin Cork City 🤣
33 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:A few folk have mentioned that to me.
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).
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Former Motherwell Fc Players Thread
in Club Chat
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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.