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I see Kettlewell has more or less admitted that the club didn’t do its due diligence in signing the Aussie boys, which means we’re now basically paying to nurse a couple of crocks for a while. Here was me thinking we learned the lesson of the Danzaki debacle, but clearly not. It seems to be that the majority of the A-League guys available to us don’t seem to be up to it for our league when they arrive. Time will tell on these two, but it’s been an expensive few mistakes so far.

A little story with a happy ending: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl10lvz14o

I repeat. Look at how the Spanish international team isn’t afraid to blood their youngsters in the A-team, let alone the U21s. The Scottish national team has a long way to go, but it’ll continue to go backwards under the current regime. Miller not getting any minutes is genuinely ridiculous from Gemmill. Ask any fan of Scottish football and they’ll likely echo that view.

Gemmill 🤝 Clarke Two clowns.

Including the reasons given by others, I imagine the club didn't want to potentially risk losing his Scotland cap money.

The Clarke era is over. His recent shit is embarrassing and offensive to those of us who shelled out to go to Germany. It’s the beginning of the end for him now, which is a shame because he’s generally done well in terms of getting us to tournaments. Delighted for Wilson. It must feel good getting called up after all those years of not being considered for any of the earlier age groups.

Do you think that fact will get in the way of Gemmill (and Clarke) picking their favourite players regardless of their current form and minutes with their parent clubs?! I hope my cynicism is misplaced and that Wilson gets the start he richly deserves.

But Kettlewell is a genius. How dare you/we question his methods.

It is a bit premature, but perhaps the ‘rolling’ nature of the contracts suggest we can terminate them without having to pay out the remainder of a defined deal period, other than say the remaining one year guarantee they had in their previous contracts. Someone will be able to better understand and explain this better than me.

Kettlewell and Frail have signed new rolling contracts, whatever that means. Their previous contracts ran until the end of this season.

Levein (4-6-0) vs Kettlewell (3-1-6)

As someone else noted, Vale is probably here to earn himself a new contract for 2025/26, and that’ll likely be with us. I suspect he’ll work hard and we’ll get a lot out of him.

It’s appears to have been announced on the WhatsApp channel and then promptly deleted.

Kettlewell makes buck with the one hand and throws it away with the other. It’s not even a strategy at this stage; it appears to be more of a scattergun panic. He can never use the we’re skint and subject to one of the lowest budgets in the league excuse again.

I’m looking forward to January to see how Kettlewell manages to choose between fielding his MFC A, B, or C team each game.

It’s fairly obvious that Kettlewell is a good individual man manager/coach, but it’s his overall team management and tactical approach that many of us continue to question. Let’s see how he does this season with his massive squad.

A sensible assessment to counter my sarcastic post. You’re probably right.

Vale to score 10 goals from midfield. Maybe.

The difference is that EPL clubs have an unlimited supply of fans willing to pay into their model, but we don’t. We need to hook local kids early and this will prevent that. The 14 and over is absolutely a Motherwell thing. It should be 12 at worst.

I’m not blaming the Society, I just think the Club’s policy is at odds with the Society’s drive to encourage childhood support. I’m sure WS directors are reading and will take action.

If you’re old enough to take yourself to high school, you’re old enough to take yourself to a football match. 14 and above is ridiculous. This policy is unbelievably shortsighted and will undoubtedly cut off a significant proportion of the next generation of kids from becoming regular paying fans. Access to football is already prohibitive enough without implementing this nonsense. I’m really disappointed in Caldwell over this. It’s completely changed my view on the Club in this context and made me question signing up my wee man to be a junior WS member, as what’s the point?!

Still a work in progress but we won today because every single player worked their socks off for the team. Hearts were poor but they also couldn’t handle our work rate today. A good game to watch, finally. I know a few folk have mentioned this and I heard similar rumblings in the stand today, and that’s the concern that Kettlewell is doing his best to ruin Miller and devalue him by wasting him in an advanced and/or wide role. He’s a deep lying playmaker and needs to be played in his best position to let him continue to flourish. I should also say well done to Halliday who worked hard today and special mention to Wilson for continuing to improve and grow into the first team.

The 5-1-4 season is upon us.

Don’t worry, next season will be the season of midfielders. Probably.

Future coach/manager? https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2024/08/20/peter-hartley-motherwell-will-always-be-home/