Jonesy

I loved the relative peace and quiet of that window. That's what the January window of a properly functioning team looks like. 1 or 2 additions to add a bit of quality or something different and keeping hold of all the main squad (despite all the paper/social media talk it never felt likely to me anyone was in danger moving on). All while managing to trim the numbers down slightly getting rid of guys on the periphery, after a few seasons of having a stupid number of players on the books, and still with time for Robinson (if fit) or Halliday etc to go out on loan and cut that further. Much better than scrambling about signing any old Eddie Nolan, Luke Plange or Steven Lawless that you can get your hands on just for the sake of it or out of sheer desperation.

We were covering a fraction of Welsh's deal, probably about 10% at best. Any idea of us taking on his entire wage is pie in the sky stuff. If we're getting him back now it should be on reduced terms from before since they've gone and cup tied him.

If there's any truth to it I'd imagine Levitt is being lined up as a replacement for Slattery (or maybe even Watt?) in the summer. We'll not be signing a winger, the days of signing guys just to take the place of players with slight injuries left with Kettlewell. We'll sign a CB (probably Welsh) and maybe a LB and that'll be it.

Ward was playing in Finland before joining us and played for a Norwegian team before that (I think) so that's not all that far fetched.

Other than us or Celtic the only teams he can play for before the summer now are those whose season is just about to start, so MLS, League of Ireland or one of the Scandinavian leagues.

How often should a Motherwell striker be scoring? 1 in 3 is a perfectly reasonable expectation. Any more than that and you're looking at someone putting themselves in amongst the all time greats.

This season only 2, last season probably all of them? If he'd scored some of the chances he should have this season he'd almost be sitting on a goal every other game, which would be incredible for a Motherwell player, but then we'd probably not have Maswanhise sitting on 12 either. Last season he racked up the numbers despite spending half the year injured and the other half chasing lost cause long balls with no other Motherwell players within 40 yards of him.

AP has a scoring rate of around 1 goal every 3 games for Motherwell. More than reasonable. Hendry is currently sitting on something like 1 every 16. It's pretty clear which is better.

We paid a fee for Hendry.

He's a midfielder

Former players thread for this prick

The last 5 years very much proved this not to be true. Even games we won under Alexander and Kettlewell could be soul destroying and just down right depressing when we lost.

Even if we have a total collapse in the 2nd half of the season and end up with a bog standard 5th-9th Motherwell finish, I'd much rather it be this way than watching an Alexander or Kettlewell style team.

Should have got it on target.

The header, I'm assuming, is the one he launched himself full stretch at a free kick swung into the box. Incredibly harsh to 'expect that to be on target' and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as the Hendry one