joewarkfanclub
-
Posts
5,992 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
114
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by joewarkfanclub
-
-
1 hour ago, grizzlyg said:
Heard a rumour Maswanhise off to Villa, swap deal with Wan-Bissaka! 🤣🤣
Wan wan-bissaka......there's only wan wan-bissaka 🤪🤪
I thought for a minute you were trolling me! But I could actually make peace with that move!
😍😍😍
🧡❤️🧡 v 💙❤️💙
-
1
-
-
51 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
I hear what you're saying but if we stunt a players progress , they may down tools...faddy / manny dont seem that type to be fair.
Don't keep that much of an eye on English game but ive heard villa have sold a whack of players....are they in financial trouble?
Nah, but the fairplay regulations seem to be hampering any progress that they are trying to make (whilst Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool etc seem to be able to spend what they like).
Of the team that won the Europa League they have lost
Martinez, Digne, Konsa, Tiellmens, Rogers, Watkins.
That puts our troubles into perspective.
-
4 minutes ago, dennyc said:
I think we would sell to anyone if the right offer came in. That includes from Scotland. If Rangers offered 2 or 3 million for Maswanhise would we really say no? Or 1.5m plus Miovski on loan?
I think we would if the offer was right.
But neither Celtic nor Rangers view our players as being good value for what we are asking.
If they did, Jens would be Celtic manager, Just would be wearing the hoops and Watt would be turning out for Rangers.
-
13 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
Heard an interesting quote supposedly from Tony Bloom at Hearts, " dont get attached to the players ".
The model hearts and ourselves are using means players are going to be passing through all the time and if they aren't moving on for good money, they're not good enough.
You can't help liking big Manny and Faddy but its the football world we are operating in.
I guess its good advice.
But when you have the chairman going public saying we wont sell all our good players at the one time, you kinda hold out hope that we wont lose everyone.
Losing Ward, Watt, Just & Slattery was tough enough in the one window. If we end up losing Longelo, Fadinger & Maswanhise as well, that will be really hard to take.
It could be worse, my English team could be Aston Villa, oh wait!
🫣🫣🫣
-
1
-
-
37 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:
You've a bit longer to wait buddy. The Scottish Transfer window closes at 5pm on Thursday.
Yes but I dont expect us to sell to another Scottish club.
All the other major european windows shut tonight.
-
Well, I didnt see that one coming! Not sure we really needed another midfielder, but as others have said, it may signify that Fadinger is outgoing. That would be a hard one to take, but if he does go we will certainly get good money for him given he just signed a contract extension.
Hopefully it doesnt come to that and we are just going all in for a title push this season! (I am joking).
Its gonna be a nervy 24 hours (I dont expect us to sell anyone to another Scottish club).
If we can get through it unscathed, Im really excited about the season ahead and what this team could achieve.
Re Maswanhise. I kinda agree with others that we should accept any reasonable bid, purely as he is entering the last year of his contract and losing him for nothing next season would be silly.
It would leave us short on the attacking side though, so we would still need a replacement in. So we should be careful what we wish for.
Roll on midnight!
-
6 minutes ago, thewelllfan said:
I can't see us ending the window stronger than we are just now.
Rangers are interested in Longelo, Fadinger is apparently wanted by Hamburg and Swansea have apparently bid for Maswanhise.
If any of those moves happen we need to dip back into the transfer market and see who's available.
There is no way Rangers are signing Longelo.
They have Penrice and the boy Romens will be back at some point.
AND they would never pay what we are asking for him.
Someone else might come in for him but it wont be Rangers and Id say unlikely to be Celtic for the same reason.
Id love to hold onto Manny but we do have Williams to play there, albeit it would leave us short there again.
If Maswanhise does go, then I hope its for decent money and we have a replacement lined up.
Fadinger should be going nowhere this season. He signed a contract extension and integral to everything we do. His form is unlikely to drop off, so we will still be able to cash in on him next season.
We need to leave Alfred with something to build around in terms of experience/structure etc.
-
2 hours ago, MelvinBragg said:
Roma ladies away strip would be better..
Cracking top.
Personally Id have every Motherwell away top as white with claret & amber trim, but kit manufacturers are never gonna run with that as it would clearly effect sales.
I already have one of those above with no sponsor and we have flirted with those colours a couple times since. (Vertical stripes / champagne versions).
I do take the point with the colour clash though.
Not sure what we do against Aberdeen / Hearts and Dundee United. Unless we wear the 140th kit?
-
17 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
Good post Joe. Of course, things are still to settle down and we're still very much work in progress. AJ has still to mould the players into his system.
I'm not privy to all the detailed metrics that our recruitment team uses to identify and source players but I'd be shocked if physicality and experience don't come into the equation somewhere. Surely a keeper's qualities should dovetail with those of the defenders in front of him? Like it or not, and I don't like it, many other teams will test us out at set pieces and crosses and we have to be prepared for such tactics.
Years ago, I was castigated on here for wanting bigger, more physical, players in our squad. I had a hard, maybe impossible, task to convince some others that that didn't equal thuggish hammer throwers. Freiburg proved my point. You can be a faster, more skilled but bigger athlete than your opponents. Usain Bolt was hardly vertically challenged at 6-5 and 15 stones in weight but he was quite fast. It seems like an oversight in our summer recruitment, which to be fair, seems to have gone well in most other respects.
I think the problem is that to get players that can play the way we want to play, but are physically bigger and stronger, you have to pay more money than we can afford.
We can have good players, or we can have big players. Its a sliding scale with a definite price point.
Out of interest, I looked at our stats for today on the BBC match report.
We won 10 aerial duels to St Mirrens 5 and 17 tackles to St Mirrens 20.
So despite us both thinking we lack physicality, we actually seem to have stacked up ok today.
-
7 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
Persistent rumours on the P & B Ayr thread that they want Olly Whyte on loan. IF that is the the case then we'd need to bring in another central midfielder.
I think that just stems from Naysmith having him at Stenny last season.
I may have inadvertently started this rumour with my Ayr United friends a few weeks ago before it was clear that there was a good chance Olly could be a first team player fornus this season.
If we did let him go, it would be a step upnfor him from last season. But Im no longer certain he needs it, and Im not sure we would let him go now.
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, FirParkCornerExile said:
Probably unpopular view but that Strip today is streets ahead of the home strip.
Not unpopular at all.
I agree wholeheartedly!
🧡❤️🧡
-
1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
I would have taken a draw at 3pm after our Euro exertions and so I'm happy with the result. However, I'm not impressed by the manner of it after having been 2 goals up then losing 3 in a crazy 10 minute spell. That can't all be put down to tiredness. Plenty of positives though like TJ getting back on the scoresheet and our debutant scoring a cracker. Also a few returning from injury.
However, we are short of a fit right back just now and I'm not sure our defence has the height and physicality to cope with rivals. Midfield also seems talented but lightweight. Its a young side we have and we seem to lack leadership and experience.
Early days and our season won't really begin until after next weekend, but a few concerns starting to emerge.
Im pretty happy with where we are right now.
But I agree our season wont start properly until we get back to one game a week and the manager has the opportunity to get his ideas across to the players on the training pitch on a daily basis.
I think thats why it went from so good to so bad, so quickly today.
We were brilliant, right up to the point we lost our shape and structure, and then we werent.
Its very fine lines right now, with timing of runs and passes so important to whether we attack from a position of security, or leave ourselves wide open to counter attack. Its something that Jens took a little while to get on top of last season, but when we did, it was impressive.
I agree about the lack of physicality in the team though. Not sure what we can do about it at this stage, although I think Olly Whyte has a bit of dig about him. Do we trust throwing him in though and who do we leave out?
-
Would be good to get 3 points here as its a home game against a beatable opponent.
However, its just another game in the series of games with no real break or preparation in between, asking yet more of our players who have been full on for over a month now.
Dundee United have been a bit of an enigma in their performances and results so far, but the nature of their win on Saturday must give them confidence, despite being without their manager at the moment.
Id guess we will see more rotation within the squad and it will depend exactly how that plays out what success we can expect.
I will settle for us putting in another good performance and standing by our principles. Hopefully we can get our structure correct and minimise the goals against to give us the opporrunity to win it.
A point would be acceptable. 3 points great.
-
1 hour ago, Happy Dosser said:
No chance, my friend.
After the shocking events of our last game against Celtic in May, I actually asked myself what was the point of carrying on watching us since many matches last year were obviously fixed. Fortunately, my anger dispelled those thoughts.
I suppose all we can do is play our stuff under King Alfred and hope we can further embarrass our officials. After all, almost the whole of Scottish fandom (apart from Sellick and Hibs supporters) knows Nicholson did not handle the ball to give Celtic the penalty, hence the general btl delight on YT when Celtic were pumped in Europe on Wednesday.
Nicholson did handle the ball.
However, he didnt do it deliberately.
He didnt make his body bigger.
And he didnt gain an advantage as his hand was against his head, hence the onward direction of the ball.
Also, the penalty wasnt given in real time and there was no definitive camera angle available to the referee that proved conclusively that he had handled it.
So although he did handle it. It was still a shite decision!
-
1
-
-
20 minutes ago, Orinoco said:
Barely into the new season and it appears our officials have managed to be even worse than last season.
Clancey's performance today was equally embarrassing, bizzare and down right abysmal.
Surely the clubs need to act and get Collum removed. He is failing in his duties to improve standards.
Missing the Gogic handball was embarassing. The time it took him and VAR to award it even worse.
No issues with the majority of our yellow cards, but letting Gogic and some of their other players away with similar offences became very frustrating.
Im was sure their second goal was offside. Need to see it again on Sportscene.
The Lowry incident is a joke. Not to pull it back for the foul is bad enough, but to then stop the game bool tge player and make Lowry stand at the side for the minute and then give a drop ball from the wrong spot? Really poor stuff.
-
Paulsen made 3 really great saves in the second half. Thought Fadinger was really good for the most part, but Lowry was excellent today, he is a difference maker with his vision and range if passing. All doubts over his workrate and mentality are in the bin.
-
1
-
-
I thought a point was the least we deserved today.
Totally dominated the game for 30 minutes and should have been outta sight before we allowed them back into it.
Poor pen from JT. I dont like the stutter start and he makes it easy for the keeper to save the minute he goes the right way. Also thought it was another poor decision when he took the ball inside and shot wide. He had dragged the defender away from Lowry and should have played him in.
Unfortunately we seem to be playing much more open this season which is great going forward, but we are leaving ourselves wide open on the counter. The capitulation before half time was unforgiveable, albeit I think their 2nd is offside and the third is 4 minutes into stoppage time when only 2 were announced and nothing of note had happened to further extend it.
Second half was a game of basketball. End to end stuff with St Mirren having the better of the chances. We certainly had Paulsen to thank for keeping us in it.
Thought Kanga looked to be struggling to adjust to the pace of the game off the bench but what a way to announce yourself to Scottish football. Genuine goal of the season candidate!
Overall, a point at St Mirren isnt bad after a tough European game. Plenty to improve upon, but loads to be excited about as well.
Cant wait for Wednesday.
-
1
-
-
2 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:
I know they have the new rule about player goes off for a minute if they have treatment but I thought they still stayed on if yellow card was given to opponent who injured the player??
they got a yellow amd we had to play a man down for at least a minute. That makes no sense!!You are 100% correct sir!
I was screaming at Clancy!
Absolutely clueless.
Whats the point of playing advantage, stopping play and booking the guy, if you then disadvantage the team whose player was fouled.
-
10 hours ago, Happyhonest said:
Think we will do any further business?
With Kanga down as a forward and the imminent return of Thor and stama as well as sebwhere would you look to add a player to? Looking at the reel I think kanga will play more in the attacking centre mid role providing flexibility with Lowry in the middle. Leaving Said, TM Cook- ster and Vogt for the wings
whyte priestman and fad8nger as well as hodge for midfield. Longelo and Williams M Kl and GR as centre backs then Johnny Sod and sparrow as right back. Issue for me then seems to be if anyone does come in it won’t be for cover it will be as better quality than what we have.
with the fee involved for kanga I don’t think we will be opening the coffers again so maybe a loan
I dont see us doing any more business unless there are outgoings. The squad is pretty full and with the injuries starting to clear up we look in a fairly healthy place.
All depends on what Alfreds view is on Stama & Eythor. Id expect he would want to give both a chance before shipping them out in January maybe?
Obviously if JT goes that might free up a spot for another attacker to come in.
My biggest hope is that we get through the window with Fadinger and Longelo still at the club.
-
3
-
-
1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
No Buckfast in those days. It was Four Crowns or Eldorado. Otherwise known as paint stripper.
Excuse me but we had Buckfast in Lanark! 😍😍😍
-
1 hour ago, Happy Dosser said:
Ah, Billy Abercromby: one of the game's Corinthians 👹. We'll ne'er see his like again.
Corinthian = Dirty Barsteward
😍😍😍
-
1
-
-
3 minutes ago, Modernist said:
Back in the days when if it took your fancy, You could have rocked up and paid at a cash gate.
Pretty sure all gates were cash gates in those days.
Was only really ugly sisters and big cup ties that went all ticket.
Season books had tear out vouchers!
Jeez we are getting old!
😍😍😍
-
3 hours ago, weeyin said:
I was at the old stadium the night Billy Abercromby received 3 red cards.
One of the most iconic nights in Scottish Football! Wouldnt have believed it if I hadnt seen it myself!
-
47 minutes ago, Prestwickwell said:
Seems an exciting signing
but to people actually know who this boy is to back that up 😂
hopefully the boy smashes it
Can only really go on his metrics and his pedigree.
He has basically smashed it at youth level and made his senior debut at 15! You dont do that and then get poached by Leverkusens academy unless you have something about you.
Didnt work out for him there, but 16 goals and numerous assists in 68 senior appearances in Sweden by age 20 seems decent.
Also, Alfred has followed his career and is finally at a club with enough money to sign him, cause we are now massive!
😍😍😍
Motherwell v Dundee United 02/09/2026
in Club Chat
Posted
Trolls should live under bridges and be scared of Big Billy Goats....