thewelllfan

Bit late on the Robinson front but hope that is the nail in the coffin for St Mirren and they end up going down would be good for them to get stuck in the championship for a few seasons so I don't need to see their fanbase crying on Twitter every other week, Wouldn't mind any of the 4 teams in the Play-off race up. Probably would rather it be Arbroath as I'd be confident of no matter who we lose that we'd finish above them.

We have to beat Hibs and Falkirk at Home and that will secure 4th from that point if we pick up another 4 points from the other 7 games we'll be 4th on 63 points I doubt Hibs or Falkirk will get to that tally.

100% will. Sydney have an option to buy in the loan allegedly so hopefully he starts smashing in goals and they buy him.

If we can get 4-5M for Maswanhise in the summer and that lets us keep hold of the rest of the team I'd be buzzing. The problem also is though that we market ourselves to players by telling them we'll put them in the shop window so if we start turning down bids for the likes of Just, Watt etc then we'll be left with unhappy players and most likely a new manager having to pick up the peices. Hopefully Sydney or someone else make an offer for Stama and we can shift him off the wage bill as well.

I think moving ground is only a matter of time the POD and John Hunter stands both need major renovation which can't happen due to things in the surrounding area that being said the cost of a new stadium while up keeping FP until it's ready would be a massive outlay I'm not sure the club can afford w/o massive player sales or us doing the unthinkable and winning the league/ending up in the CL group stages and using the £30M that brings to fund it. The talk since we sold David Turnbull for a club record fee is that we'd look to build a new training facility so I'm assuming there has been some form of groundwork done on that and could come to fruition in a few years time where that might be though I have no idea. The point about local business is fair but should we move that will likely create new businesses in that area.

Was the talk at the AGM not that Jens was on a rolling 1 year deal. On Olly Whyte you'd expect he'd be offered a new deal with a view of getting him involved next season. I think also as we have a co-op agreement with Stenhousemuir should the last few games end up with little meaning he'll probably play some minutes.

We never really had to get out of 2nd gear and won today. This season is literally a case of what could have been. We got hammered in the LC SF by St Mirren if we'd won that you'd have felt we can go win the cup. If Preistman doesn't get sent off inside 2 mins at Aberdeen and Gordon isn't sent off for a foul on the halfway line you'd have fancied us to progress in the cup. Then if Callum Ward had had a better start to the season we'd be right in and about a title race. (Hearts 3-3 should have saved 2 of the goals, playing the ball straight to Nygren to make it 2-2 at Celtic Park, Dropping the ball against Killie for their equaliser). We'd have been a couple of points better off and right in the hunt as well as taking points of the other teams. However a positive to finish off to have kept 21 CS this season is exceptional stuff to think their were seasons in recent years where we had 3 or 4 the entire season the change has been brilliant.

I suppose the weird thing about this summer is we could be JBA, Just, Maswanhise down but the club could be the best part of £10M up of the back of 1 good season.

I still don't know how we ended up in the T6 and Europe that season we were horrendous after Watt left. The fact we tried to build our defence around Rickie Lamie at a point in time is also concerning looking back on it.

I might be in the minority but if we're getting offered upwards of 5M for Maswanhise come the summer get him on the first plane there he's a good player but at 23 he's still extremely raw and I highly doubt he'll replicate his numbers this season again anywhere else.

I think it would be easier for them to buy into as they've seen what he's done with us they had a rough start under Ange but stuck with him because they could see the idea.

I don't think he'll be short of options either way however what he hopefully has done is make our job more attractive. If he leaves us in Europe with a strong squad obviously a few of those players will be sold but the club will be in a healthy position moving forward and can hopefully attract a good level of candidate. You do wonder had Wimmer not resigned how different a position the club would be in as I felt the early signs were promising under him as well.

I'd love him to stay a couple years and build Motherwell into a club that resembles Bodo Glimt I just think in reality he'll lose a few key players in the summer and we're not likely going to give him much of the money from the sales, he's got no real affinity to the club other than he seems to be enjoying it and from the sounds of it is on a couple of clubs radar. (Celtic and Copenhagen if rumours are to be believed.)

I can imagine he would but given he's rarely spent longer than a year at a club in his managerial career, I imagine he'll not be sticking around long enough to da that here.

He was likening us to Bodo Glimt on commentary v St Mirren I mean they are an excellently run football club so to be like them would be class.

A all day long. When we look back on this season we'll be like that was some team but it should have won something Cite McCall teams when we were 2nd and 3rd in the league. When you measure a clubs success you base it on trophies. Option B as enjoyable as it is right now is not going to become our new normal we'll end up needing a full rebuild as the majority of our better players will move on (albeit for hefty fees this time round). The recruitment in the summer was superb you'd argue every player we signed has made a positive contribution to our season. That realistically is not going to be the case every year as we know very well. While St Mirren might be in a bit of a mess they'll have a day they can enjoy for the rest of their lives, the guys that won them that cup as poor as they may be at the moment become club legends and Robinson will probably go down as their best ever manager. As long as they finish in the play off they'll be in the league next season as the system favors the premiership side.

So as is it stands we'd enter the conference league at QR2 and have to come through 3 qualifying rounds to make the group stage. I believe in only 1 of these rounds we would be seeded. If Jens fancies a crack at Europe with us then there's a real chance of progression but I'm not sure he will.

happy days then I think it would be harsh to drop Slattery given he got what 2 or 3 assists in the last game.

Realistically even looking ahead 9 of our last 11 games are against the T6. We've W3 D6 L3 against those teams so far I think for us to win the league we'd have to win 10 out the last 11 games and going of our record against those teams that doesn't look particularly likely hence the reason going out the cup was so gutting as that was our real chance for a trophy. Anyway team for Dundee Utd for me would be the same 1 that started the St Mirren game. It will be the last game of Fadinger's suspension so that's a positive.

Is he not supposed to be in jail for beating his mrs?

Beat county 5-1 away under Kettlewell and 5-0 away under Stevie Hammell

Some laugh hammering them 5-0 in their own ground and a great response from the cup game. We were basically perfect tonight, what a team we have. That goal from Blorgolfsson was unreal basically the budget Ibrahimovic!

I think this is what he'll go with. I don't know what to think of Slattery in the left sided midfield role he keeps playing him in he picks up some good areas but his pass selection baffles me at times. I kind of hope to see Nicholson get a run in that role but from the right side as I feel from the very limited amount we've seen of him he looks a very good player it's a shame he's been injured so much.

Next season is the final season of Scotland having 5 in Europe it's the season after it drops to 4. Champions enter CL Play off round 2nd enters - CL QR2 3rd/Cup winners - EL QR3 4th/3RD if team outside Celtic/Rangers win the cup- EL QR2 5th/4th if team outside Celtic/Rangers win the cup - ECL QR2 Realistically the coefficent is gubbed because This season Celtic couldn't beat Kairat Almaty, Hibs didn't see out win v Legia, Rangers haven't been as good as they normally are in the EL. Aberdeen got a terrible draw in the ECL realistically should have beat Noah but it wouldn't have made much difference and Dundee Utd should have beat Rapid Vienna at a minimum after going 2-0 up. Hearts didn't beat petroclub to advance in conference league last season. Next season we realistically need every team that Qualify for Europe to make it into the group stage and then at least 3/5 to make into the KO rounds of their competitions. I think next season should us, Hearts and Hibs keep our squads together it will probably be the strongest group of teams we've had enter Europe for a while.

Forgot professionals in every field get everything right and can't get anything wrong. I expect you'll never offer your opinion of what a manager/player/recruitment team you perceive to get wrong because they're in post.