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Set us back light years?! Sorry, but that’s a lot of hyperbolic bollocks. If anything, this debacle has highlighted the need for the existence of the Well Society and has proven that fan ownership works in the longterm interests of the Club. With competent stewardship, appropriate and mutually beneficial investment will come. And I think we can all agree that McMahon has not been a competent steward of the Club towards the end. As you say, it’s now the Well Society’s turn. Give the new Board a break and the chance they’ve earned.

Wilson has done okay and hasn't made any mistakes of note, but he's no Georgie Gent, and the latter is the type of player required for Kettlewell's system to be effective. I'd say that Wilson is probably more comfortable at LB than LWB, and that this is his season to impress Kettlewell or be moved on. It's a tough one. Paton is a central midfielder and was all over the place because Kettlewell is trying to convert him into Spittal. Spoiler alert: it's not working. Halliday has a good footballing brain but his body is miles behind that now, which makes him a very limited player, although he's likely useful in certain limited scenarios. However, unless injuries dictate, Halliday, Davor, and Paton should not be starting at the same time. We need creativity. Just imagine we didn't have a 17 year old to hold shit together amongst them?! Speaking of youngsters, I'm looking forward to Wells getting more minutes in the attacking midfield role, but he needs to be managed appropriately. Ferrie needs to go out on loan and get a lot of first-team minutes. He's not close to being ready for the Premiership level, so I don't think it's fair to judge him too harshly yet. I also have no idea what type of attacker he is.

The quality of the coverage was appalling. The single camera was all over the place and completely out of focus, particularly at the start. Displaying it on a screen larger than an iPad led to seasickness. Not worth a tenner.

I think we're all roughly saying the same thing. He's signed a lot of players but there are still some very obvious deficiencies. His downfall is his one-dimensional approach, meaning he rarely has the players required to adapt to an opposition manager who is able to chop and change their formation against us. It's so predictable and easy to play against that type of set up. See Steve Clarke's Scotland in the Euro group stage. I know he doesn't like wingers, and it's bloody annoying, but he can get away with it when he has pacy wingbacks, which he doesn't currently have. Maybe Seddon and Marvellous are pacy, but one is broken and the other is an unknown. I think the he'll probably use the loan market again to address this issue, if necessary, but it would nice to have a capable squad before we're 1.5 months into competitive games. Stuparvević may just be the number 10 we need, I hope, so that's why I think an attacking midfielder and Bair-type striker should be top of his list, especially if he want's to stick with one up top. We can't afford to wait for Slattery to come back and hope he's the messiah. The early positive is that he seems to have addressed our central defensive issues with Gordon and Balmer coming in, not to mention that all our centre backs also seem dangerous at set pieces.

I see Kettlewell has blamed the lack of creativity in the final third and individual errors for costing us the victory tonight. No shit Sherlock. The latter point is a fair comment to make, but the former is on him. How many players has he signed now?! The single striker with no creative attacker(s) to support them for the majority of the games is the problem. We’ve seen this script before. If he starts with a single striker again on Saturday, we can only hope he also starts Stuparevic as the creative connector behind them, because insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Big game on Saturday now to turn it around. The League Cup is and should be massively important to a club of our size, and, by Kettlewell’s own words, we should be beating every team in the leagues below us.

Striker, creative/attacking midfielder, and fast winger all required, preferably before the league starts.

It's not Paton's fault that he's not an attacking midfielder; it's Kettlewell's fault for playing him as one. The blame for Paton getting a target on his back lies squarely at the manager's door. As should all squad failures.

Because he's got the tactical nous of a conservative cabbage, which was apparent for most of last season as well, so it's not an overreaction to be pissed off at a scenario repeating itself. Fortunately for him, however, he's got time and a player budget to try to build a better squad and develop a better shape with options, but if he signs another fucking wingback and holding midfielder instead of a striker and attacking midfielder, he'll be on his way out before the Club has a chance to extend his contract.

Ox. He saved a penalty.

Pathetic. Miller aside, that squad has zero creativity. Kettlewell needs to replace Spittal, stop relying on duds from last season, and stop being a one-trick pony in his tactical approach to games. As it stands, this squad and those tactics can’t even cut it against League 1 opposition.

According to Graeme McGarry. https://x.com/graeme_mcgarry/status/1813238457445101686?s=46&t=wehikD-exiutCByWu64YEQ

Thoughts and prayers with Davor at this difficult time.

Feely is the Chair of the Well Society Board, so sits on the Executive Board in that capacity. He hasn't resigned so remains on both Boards. Dickie resigned from the Well Society Board, but, as far as I understand, he was only on the Executive Board to represent the interests of the Well Society Board, alongside Feely. Therefore, as he resigned, surely his position on the Executive Board is untenable, unless he was an Executive Board member first and Well Society Board member second. Someone else might be able to shed some light on this. McMahon will be resigning as Chairman, which will end his membership of the Board. Notwithstanding, today's statement from the Well Society indicates that they are looking to reset the relationship (and I assume clarify roles and responsibilities) between the two Boards. They state: "...now is the time for a significant reset in the relationship between the Club Board, the Well Society Board, Society members, and the Motherwell fanbase as a whole..."

As promised, I've just doubled my monthly Direct Debit to the Well Society and have encouraged others to finally join. I hope other members now follow suit.

Excellent news. That leaves McMahon, Dickie and Feely to be picked off next.

Marvellous.

Once CONCACAF or CONMEBOL, or whoever it is, has paid out compensation after their piss-up in a brewery last night, they won't have a pot to piss in, let alone cash to pay clubs.

Stuparevic is probably lined up to play as a 10.

Robinson looks the most likely to perform as a proper number 9, whereas Moses is probably more of a penalty box finisher, time will tell with Stuparevic, and I assume Ferrie will go out on loan. Therefore, I’d like to see us sign another big athlete like Bair, who can batter through the middle of defensive lines.

I’m relatively happy with the attackers signed so far, but, if Bair is sold, the Club needs to invest some of the fee received on a proper replacement with sell on potential, and not another project. We got lucky with Bair, so kudos for that, but it’s rare it’ll happen twice in a row.

Sensational. I can only assume you’re a landlord.

According to the scum: Auxerre have made an offer of around 1.5million Euros, which equates to just over £1.26million.

To be fair, most of us have held our hands up, but SK still talks a lot of shite.

We really need to sign a replacement for Spittal. Preferably someone who isn't made of cardboard or is Paton. The one man up top routine doesn't work without that piece of the puzzle. Halliday is still guff. You can see he has a good footballing brain and wants to make things happen, but his body isn't keeping up with his thoughts anymore. A benchwarmer at best now. Impressed by Wells today. Let's hope he gets more minutes and makes us another few million in a couple of years.