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Kevin Nisbet.

So what's the point in Nick Daws?

Gutted for Louis, but I can guarantee that the Club will not learn that lesson.

Yep, please don’t. They already have too many retrograde ideas of their own.

Sherwin Seedorf is the exception to the nominative determinism rule.

Better options than Shields at the very least.

I can cast that aside when my point was specifically about our past form and its relevance to fans’ attitudes and expectations. We have to look after ourselves instead of relying on other teams being worse than us, with or without their bigger/smaller benefactors.

That aside, our average league finishing position across 2004/05 to 2021/22 is 6th place (mostly thanks to Stuart McCall and his players), so it's not unreasonable for fans to expect better than the recent and current shit being served. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/motherwell-fc/platzierungen/verein/987

Lots of fantasy on this message board these days, so my contribution to that is my prediction that this game will be a repeat of the 6-6 classic.

Most bigger clubs only send their players out on loan to clubs with an experienced coaching staff they think will help develop their players. So I think we’ll be relying on free agents, which is bottom of the barrel stuff. We would’ve had better financial resources and more experience at the helm had the Board/Burrows not messed up. None of this is Hammy’s fault. His faults are that he is inexperienced and failing to learn quickly on the job.

A contract extension award for someone doing just fine was not the right thing to do. There was no need to award anything additional at that point, and we should've waited to see how the rest of the season panned out, which wasn't great to be honest. The less said about Sligo, the better. I was content when he got the job in January 2021, but by November 2021 I was hoping he would be gone soon. The performances at that point were often enough to get football cancelled as a spectator sport, and it was only Tony Watt who dragged us across the line for the most part. So, yes, I personally still think the Board/Burrows shot their load too early in extending him, which led to it being too difficult to get rid of him at the end 2021/22, and that has now left us with a rookie manager and no real playing budget for 2022/23.

If we only sign 1 or 2 more players this window, and don't try to engineer some of the dross out of the club, it signals to me that the Board/Burrows are content with potential relegation. I.e. they shot their load through stupidly extending GA and then having to pay him compensation. The word rudderless springs to mind.

Exactly this. Shields is utterly crap. He offers worse than nothing, and has done for 18 months.

New year, same shite squad 😂

Livi will shithouse their way to a victory at The Spaghettihad. We've not got what it takes to win such a fight.

The best player of my generation (born 1985) as a Well fan was Faddy during his first spell in the early 2000s. He's my GOAT.

On what evidence do you think that the current squad can kick on? There is no fight in them, and their manager is evidently out of his depth, sadly.

Shields is complete mince and Hammy doesn't have a clue. This awful squad and weak mentality will see us relegated.

They'll hump us.

Yep, we need a whole new spine to the the team, which isn’t a problem easily solved in a January window.

Take it out of Burrows' wages over the next wee while. It was his fault for extending a duds contract against all common sense.

I never though I'd see the day where I found myself praying for Efford to return from injury to show Shields how to attack the right wing, beat a man, and cross the ball.

Shields is crap; he offers worse than nothing, but my concern is with Hammell as he keeps picking him.

Putting the formation chat aside, the bottom line is that the squad needs to be entirely turned over before we can start to properly set up to be effective in different games, and that won't happen in January. Hammy is a rookie manager and it is concerning that he doesn't seem to be learning from his mistakes, but he is still hamstrung by the utter shite he inherited. 10th place is the best we can hope for this season.

Can someone send Hammy a huge sign for Christmas that says ‘442 and get Shields to fuck’, please?