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35 minutes ago, pretzel said:
I seen a page on Twitter with a decent rep mention that Kilmarnock are weighing up an offer to sign Sherwin Seedorf. I don't think he has played for anyone since departing us a year and a half ago.
Sherwin Seedorf is the exception to the nominative determinism rule.
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46 minutes ago, Kris-A-Goalda said:
Hearing through Irish League chat that we are looking at Lee Bonis of Larne and Ronan Hale of Cliftonville to bolster attacking options. Bonis also wanted by Rotherham. Both have hit double figures in the last few seasons. Hale has a reputation for the spectacular goal while Bonis is more of a poacher. Conor McMenamin of Glentoran was also being looked at as an option but a fractured leg a few weeks back has cooled down the speculation.
Better options than Shields at the very least.
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9 hours ago, David said:
Hold on, you can't have someone bring up the fact that the clubs being mentioned have fairly significant investment and have fallen down the leagues in recent years and reply with "that aside."
You can't cast that aside, it's the very crux of the point being made.
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.
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15 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
Some of those clubs have significant private investment. And even then all of them have been up and down the leagues.
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-
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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.
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8 minutes ago, David said:
At best you're getting a few loan signings in, with maybe a free agent being available.
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.
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1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
At the time he was doing fine and the decision to extend his contract was the right thing to do. In the end he resigned and wasn't fired, although I suspect we came to some financial agreement.
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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, steelman1991 said:
Shields must be a fuckin world beater in training. Either that or he has incriminating photos of Hammell and Kerr ffs 🤦♂️
Exactly this. Shields is utterly crap. He offers worse than nothing, and has done for 18 months.
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New year, same shite squad 😂
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Livi will shithouse their way to a victory at The Spaghettihad. We've not got what it takes to win such a fight.
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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.
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2 minutes ago, David said:
Onto the next one. History shows we rarely get anything from the old firm (except last season, when Alexander managed to grab two draws at Ibrox. Probably a total fluke and nothing to do with him at all, mind) so we move onto the next games which are all winnable.
How many times have we been in a position where the fans are all saying "nah, we're done for. No points from the next three" only for us to go on and put three past our next opponents and manage to kick on a little?
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.
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Shields is complete mince and Hammy doesn't have a clue. This awful squad and weak mentality will see us relegated.
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They'll hump us.
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39 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:
Here what you are saying but there are much larger problems than goalkeeping area . Centre defence, midfield and forwards need sorted first
Yep, we need a whole new spine to the the team, which isn’t a problem easily solved in a January window.
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12 minutes ago, wellwell91 said:
Don’t think the board budgeted for £250K to get rid of Alexander
Take it out of Burrows' wages over the next wee while. It was his fault for extending a duds contract against all common sense.
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12 minutes ago, mfc said:
Aye he's absolutely shite,we simply have to find a right winger from somewhere in january,it's like playing with 10 men every week with him in the team,we can't go the next half of the season playing him,enough is enough.
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.
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19 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:
Have waited to post as was too angry last night . Our inability to play v 10 men is an absolute farce and psychologically I fear for us . We could have opened up 5pt cushion against a piss poor Killie team for first 70 mins.
1st goal was like watching an under 8's side and biggest surprise about 2nd goal was where Polworth discovered that pace for the celebration, showed none of that for us.
We need change of formation and we badly need someone up front. I have been critical of KVV recently but he was better last night but I am sorry and I know he's an easy target but Shields is never going to improve, that's 18 months now and just not good enough in my opinion.
We need 4 in midfield, Spittal fitness and lack of pace a concern and we need Cornelius's energy in there. Transfer window massive or I genuinely feel we could be ending our 37 year stay in top flight. COYW
Shields is crap; he offers worse than nothing, but my concern is with Hammell as he keeps picking him.
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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.
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Can someone send Hammy a huge sign for Christmas that says ‘442 and get Shields to fuck’, please?
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5 minutes ago, mothman said:
Hopefully KVV is fit for obvious reasons...
Never going to see 3 at the back with 2 wingbacks but my champ man starting XI tonight given our known injuries would be:
Kelly
O'Donnell McGinn Solholm Lamie Penney
Spittal Slattery Goss McKinstry
Van Veen
McGinn is injured.
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12 hours ago, Andrew160588 said:
Fr what I have heard. Kvv is going to Lincoln city. We are also meant to be working on bringing Gary Mackay steven in
Is this your source?
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25 minutes ago, Coatsy said:
Hammy its Difficult and Disappointing. I hope that we don't hear any more words starting with D like down.
I can only hope he is more confident/competent off-camera, as his form on camera is uninspiring and oozes repetitive negativity, a bit like a shrinking violet. I sincerely hope he succeeds, however.
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Former Motherwell Fc Players Thread
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Yep, please don’t. They already have too many retrograde ideas of their own.