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I don't think Malpas applied.

That was our Board's fault. A terrible appointment.

The start of a massively injury ridden playing career.

Agree. Brown was arguably done as a player when he moved to Aberdeen. He was definitely done by the time he stopped playing for them.

100% this. If you eliminated OF connections, we would have missed out on the successful spells from Davie Hay, Tommy McLean, Mark McGhee (1st spell), Stuart McCall and Craig Brown.

I had imagined when Brown took over at Ayr he'd be building a team in his own image. However, he has done the exact opposite, and I have really enjoyed watching them in the Friday night games I've seen. Would be a bit of a punt from a managerial experience perspective, but no doubts he knows the Scottish game inside out.

No argument there.

And sadly they have already qualified for the knockout stages, so even a hammering doesn't prevent that.

It's win-win in these games. If Celtic get stuffed, it's hilarious because it's Celtic getting stuffed. If Celtic win, it's hilarious, because the English media have to deal with their precious EPL teams losing to a Scottish pub side. Then either way, we get to hear Brenda moaning about the finanical gap between the two teams.

I know it's a bit easier from 3000 miles away, but I don't even bother with the media at times like this. The days when they reported news rather than looked for clicks has long gone.

The Fleetwood Town Boo Boys?

He might bring back Danzaki from Western United. (Of course, he might also know how to get the best from him).

There might be a few more interesting candidates in the hat purely because we are not in the standard managerless position of anchored to the bottom and 15 points from safety.

We had a club captain convicted of knocking a man unconcscious. A week of SK sniping will pass even quicker.

It will all be digital fish and chip wrapping by the end of the month. Need to stop wasting time on PR and focus on getting a new gaffer in place. Media chat won't be putting off any candidates and if anybody cares about what is written in The Sun or The Rancid there's no hope for them anyway.

I thought Naismith was pretty terrible, and only got away with it thanks to Shankland hitting a hot streak.

There are better ways to change things at fan owned clubs than moaning on the internet.

Our form has been inconsistent this season, but so has the form of our immediate competitors. That's why it's such a tight league. I've seen plenty of relegation-form Motherwell teams and this doesn't look like any of them (yet). There's certainly good arguments to made about changes being required - whether that includes tactics, playing personnel or manager. I don't think that argument needs to involve relegation struggles because we lost 2 league games in a row. If we'd done an Aberdeen and Lost 8, Drawn 2 of our last 10, then relegation would be 100% in the mix.

I can't remember the media correctly predicting our new manager since around the Tommy McLean appointment.

Maybe our fans need to grow a thicker skin and not feel hurt or alienated?

As I said, I appreciate the league is tight. However, our form has been win a few, lose a few, and I don't expect that to change much over the coming weeks. Our last 4 league games have been W D L L. Nothing to write home about, but not panic stations either. Even our normally horrendous December results gave a L W W D L D return, and that included two Old Firm matches. So I am nowhere near worried about relegation at this stage

Aye, I wouldn't any of them for free, never mind wasting money buying out a contract.

Of course McCall had a lot more credit in the bank, so much easier to leave on good terms. It's also quite funny that some posters (not you, btw) are happy to hurl dog's abuse at someone and then moan about lack of respect or dignity when they leave.

I know the league is pretty tight, but we're still more involved in a fight to stay in the top 6 than a fight to stay out of the bottom 2.

Where do you see "disturbing" or "disgusting" mentioned on the official site's statement? The Sun, on the other hand, has a long track record of dishing out disturbing and disgusting personal abuse for profit. See "anything they wrote about Hillsborough" and take it from there.