Jonesy

Wimmer has left Jahn Regensburg to become assistant manager at Holstein Kiel.

4 defeats in the league all season, the first in nearly 3 months and all of a sudden the players are full of themselves or we need X, Y and Z. Sometimes it'll just be an off day or luck won't quite be in your favour. If people can't just accept that without the character assassinations in this season of all seasons then I honestly don't know how you manage to go about your daily life.

Is there a reason she couldn't get to the hospital beyond him having her chained to a radiator? (Allegedly)

I don't think there's any new houses that would be affected by rebuilding either stand?

I'm not dead against it, but as I mentioned in an earlier post getting the location right it key. Get that plot of land behind the college and almost nothing changes. Get stuck lumped bang in the middle of it, near the Sport Centre, or away up the far end behind the BOC road to Cleland and it becomes an issue. In terms of distance covered it wouldn't look like a massive change, that only comes in if you start to look at what else it entails. St Johnstone only moved 1.5km from Muirton Park but I wouldn't have classed McDairmid sitting on its tod stuck by the side of the dual carriageway on the outskirts of Perth as feeling part of the community. It's only now with new build houses and everything else that brings cropping up round about it that the town is starting to catch up to it but that's taken over 30 years. The plans for Ravenscraig have shifted quite a bit since the original idea, understandably, since a fair bit of EU money was expected to help it along. It seems now it's heading towards being a largely industrial complex. There's long been talk of adding 2 train stations (one between Motherwell - Shieldmuir and one between Holytown - Wishaw) which might help and a football stadium appearing might encourage other things to crop up but that took a generation in Perth.

That would be a start but doesn't solve how anyone is getting there when there's no bus and the train stations are at least 30-40 minutes walk away. What about if all these other pubs start closing because they lose out on all the passing trade instead now stuck in the middle of nowhere, half way to Cleland, every other week? There's much more to ripping a club out of its community than just making sure we have a decent pub incorporated and some office blocks to rent 365 days a year.

The only bit of land worth moving to Ravenscraig for is right behind the college, where the new railway bridge is and where Airbles Road is about to be extended through. That way everyone's pre/post match routines pretty much stay the same. You're more or less the same walk from the local pubs to there than you currently are to Fir Park. Anything other than that and you're talking a minimum 20 minute walk from a pub and at least 30 minutes from the train stations (probably minimum 40 minutes), with no transport links cutting through at all currently. I had this conversation with a recently departed Society board member and his answer was "drive or get the bus", but if people are in the habit of walking to Fir Park or getting a pint before/after the game they're not all of a sudden en masse going to start driving every week and the only bus currently is a mini bus to the sport centre once an hour. Unless the club was to provide it for free at the time, but even then... There's also the strong chance of missing out on that ideal bit of land and ending up in Carfin or closer to Cleland rather than Motherwell. Not for me.

Maybe it's just me but last night does nothing to change the enjoyment I've got out of this season. Ultimately it takes more to winning a cup than just being good. You need a fair bit of luck as well which we clearly didn't have last night and we've not had in general for a while when it comes to things like the draw. It seems like for a good few seasons now all we've had, in both cups, is ties against a Premier League team, the recently relegated Premier League team or Morton. No trips to Auchinleck Talbot for us. Everyone needs to settle down a bit. We've had 2.5 bad games all season, it's just unfortunate (as much as it's a bit of a scunner) that 2 of them have been in the cups.

Why would crowds start to dwindle? People aren't turning up in their droves to watch us in the league because we might win a different competition.

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

I'm not having Stama's miss today as a sitter. He should have done better with it right enough but that's hardly a sitter. That Hendry header on the other hand.