Kmac
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5 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
have u watched the game today...better team , if we don't get anything today, its not for want of trying , so don't see him firing him today
Watching it now aye. Same for the last 4 months, utter garbage
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Any chance Burrows could grow a set at half time and fire this arsehole?
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31 minutes ago, El Grew said:
Ah, the old argument “the ends justify the means”. Well I’m sorry not for me. Claret and amber runs like blood through my family from my grandfather, my father and my uncles down to me. I love it and wouldn’t change it. Like every provincial club we’ve had our ups and downs, highs and lows and doubtless this will continue ad infinitum.
However, I like to be able to see footballers, either as individuals or as a team being entertaining first and foremost. I remember a few years back when the late. great Davie Cooper signed for us. I’m the first to admit that I was against it as I thought he was well past his best. Well I went to see us playing Dundee Utd at FP not long after he signed for us. He produced a couple of moments of sheer magic. For the first, he picked up the ball just inside his own half and proceeded to slalom past 3 defenders and placed the ball into the corner of the net. For the second, he produced a sublimely disguised reverse pass into the path of Dougie Arnott in the penalty area and Dougie duly dispatched it into the net beyond the advancing keeper. Genius at work even in the twilight of his football career. I was forced to admit I’d been wrong and remember telling my mates that those two moments alone were worth the entrance money.
To see people doing something that you can’t is what entertainment is all about. I’m afraid however that it’s in extremely short supply at FP just now.That’s really the point isn’t it?
Some of us have been crying out for years that we needed quality over quantity. No one can tell Me that combining the salaries of Amaluzor, Neirenoold, Parker and Roberts this season wouldn’t have seen us land a relative top quality player for our level. Given the nature of the league, sometimes one is all it takes to excite people and propel a team up the league yet for some reason we continue to splash the cash on bodies rather than having a plan of exciting the support.
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5 hours ago, El Grew said:
For my own sins, I’ve been a diehard fan since 1967 and like countless others I’ve ridden the Motherwell emotional rollercoaster that comes with that and I can honestly say that in all that time, the present squad of players is the worst I’ve ever seen. As for the manager and his football philosophy (for lack of a better adjective or perhaps a piss-poor vocabulary on my part) I think that it can best be described as, well, shite.
Like many others, I can no longer work up any enthusiasm for going out to pay to suffer what can only be described as the equivalent of having your balls jammed in a vice whilst your teeth are pulled out one by one, and all without the benefit of anaesthetic.Make no mistake, if this guy is permitted to remain as manager, then at the end of next season, we will be relegated and consigned to the Championship and as other clubs of our ilk have discovered, it is no easy task to get back out.
This 100%
Yesterday should have been a screeching siren warning sign to the board if one were needed. Yes, our home support for old firm matches is always poor but yesterday was exceptionally woeful and as a fan owned club, that is a red line. Why is that the case? There’s nothing to buy into, no youth being brought into the squad, no technical quality and absolutely not a clue tactically. Getting beat by a better team is never an issue - getting overrun by a hungrier and fitter side with 10 men is an absolute no-go zone.
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In normal circumstances, a goal with the last act of the game to take us into the top six would have been met with utter delight and delight alone however I, like many others, believe it may just have prolonged a problem.
There is no escaping the fact that we are AWFUL to watch. In a season littered with poor performances, yesterday was approaching top 3 greatest hits material.Again, time and again, I come back to the board.
Record earnings last year, no debt, budgeting for 10th and now finishing minimum 6th (an extra 300/400k) - extra post split gate money from at least one of the uglies.
How do we plan to use it?
For me, giving Alexander another summer to rebuild the squad shouldn’t be on the cards as it will simply alienate the support base even further given his style of football and THAT is what we cannot afford.
We’re going to need virtually an entire new back line and midfield next season and a starting center forward - he isn’t the man I’d trust to do that in a way that will A) ensure we stay in the league B) Be open to change enough to refocus the style of play to something that doesn’t boil the blood-
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Car crash defending
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40 minutes ago, Onthefringes said:
Right to ask the question, but, business model and longevity of the club will decree. The optimum to sell may well be this summer?
Good keepers are plentiful South of the border - it’s how we never realised financial potential on Randolph, Gillespie & Carson. Good recruitment would soften any blow and not foist a Craig Samson upon us.
But again, why would we sell? He's undoubtedly the most talented player in the squad - his passing actually puts some of our outfield players to shame. Business model or not, having 11 players on par with Nathan Mcginley next season gives me the fear and the boke in equal measures.
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12 hours ago, I'll*no*be*back said:
Wouldnt want to lose Kelly but he goes into his last year next summer if a big offer comes in we need to take it.
Why do we need to take it? We've just posted record profits
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Sinking ship
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Mcginley - Shite doesn't do him justice
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Christ almighty, we're the home side and set up with what a back 5/6?
We might get through, who knows, but questions seriously need to be asked.
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51 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
I've said it over and over, I don't think the football is good right now.
But people saying they don't remember a time when it's ever been so bad? It was worse just over a year ago.
Other folk saying we have nothing to play for but survival? We are 1 point off 4th!
We have a realistic chance of going further in the cup, finishing top 6, winning more games than last season, scoring more goals than last season, conceding less than last season, gaining more points than last season.
I think the whole thing with Covid and people not being able to attend games before the start of this season has put some peoples sense of perspective out of kilter.
The truth is we've been honking to watch, bar a David Turnbull inspired spell, since the money tap was screwed closed in the later days of McCall's era. It's nothing new.
You’re spot on.
It has been absolutely turgid for years and I do think a lot of the blame ultimately comes back to the board.
There is absolutely no vision at board level for the club on a footballing level - it’s crystal clear at the AGM’s.
Yes, Burrows puts a shift in and our social media is neat and tidy but when it comes to the direction of travel, we simply don’t have it.
No harm to the guys, but it’s a board of directors populated by old men with largely accountancy backgrounds that have neither the vision nor foresight to strategically plan for what we want to achieve in terms of product. If they don’t have it, we should be bringing in a director of football to ensure a top down vision or bottom up vision.
That lack of strategy at the top means that we come down to the whims of managers whom we entrust to provide the big vision and therefore you have phases like Robinson’s ‘throw enough lower league English shite at a wall’ or Alexander’s particular brand of eye bleed. Managers are there to facilitate the will of the club, not to determine the will; but that’s not the situation we have.It means that we have season after season of turnaround - stop/start youth progression and a complete feeling of disillusion which manifests in what we see now. The atmosphere is dreadful and how could it not be? I, like others have said, found myself last season and this thinking for the first time ever in 30+ years - maybe I’ll give the game a swerve this week.
The league being as it is, means that it wouldn’t have taken much investment in January to have cantered to 4th but we didn’t. We sat on the record profits and rather than gaining a step on the rest of the league, we’re quite possibly looking at loosing near 600k in league money and the euro money that would’ve come next season. That decision again stems from a lack of footballing vision/ direction.
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That was awful
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This would get football stopped. Our passing is shite when we do try it - rather than the usual hump up the park
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Fuck off odonnel
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Last night was brutal but as others have said, it's absolutely no different to the shite we've watched for the vast majority of the season.
I genuinely have no idea what our intention is tactically other than pump high balls to the front three and feed off second balls. Our midfield however move as a line rather than one dropping and two pushing or vice versa, which means we are either miles away from the front three who become quickly isolated and spread so far apart that they have no chance (especially when they have the talent level of Shields) or they get caught goal side constantly; take the floor Liam Donnelly and Liam Goss.
We are absolute dug meat. A relatively expensive squad which is packed full of shite. Our best midfielder is warming the bench and we've handed out long term deals to players like Mcginley who is worse than Carroll (who in himself is a liability).
We had one quality forward in Watt that left without an investment to replace him and if Efford was that attempt then the Scout should be getting his jotters.
Grim stuff which could quickly turn into a relegation scrap.
ps. could someone tell O'Donnnell to stop smashing knee height balls into the centre forwards from the touchline. There is literally nothing good which has or will ever come of that.
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Paton should be off
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Just now, Great Balls of Shire said:
why foul him?
That’s a fair point, but seriously, it wasn’t even close to a penalty… it wasn’t even on the edge
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What a joke - a yard outside the box
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Very Good point
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Just now, Robbos boy said:
Donnelly is in midfield with 2 weans, get aff his back. Cornelious is getting the run around, but pick on the older guy, pathetic.
It’s not about him being older. He’s slow and gets caught wrong side constantly. Those are basics that playing with kids or not, shouldn’t happen
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1 minute ago, Heisenboab said:
Doing our best to ensure they have their easiest game of the season. Started the game just playing to their strengths. Sick of this attitude against the OF away.
Tbh, home or away. It doesnt matter - we’re powderpuff against the arse cheeks. Attitude is all wrong
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Pathetic. O’Donnell looks burst, tierney is a wee boy and Donnelly is well, Liam Donnelly
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This performance is a fucking farce
Dundee United v Motherwell 30/04/22
in Club Chat
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Fuck off Alexander