Ya Bezzer!

Just back my hols but I'll make two points. First, the era of long term planning at managerial level, and indeed first team level, are gone. Clubs should and do operate season-by-season. You can hardly lay much blame then on McGhee for leaving us at a stage of transition. I'm sure any new manager coming in anyway will be pleased if he has more or less a blank canvas to work with and isn't tied down to the previous managers plans. Secondly, it's McGhee's fault that no youngsters have come through from a certain age bracket? I'd content that point in the first place (surely that is down to the people in charge of the youth set up) but youngsters usually come through at time of crisis (rebuilding after relegation, administration, poor performances from 'established' players) so young players have had few opportunities to come through under McGhee, not because McGhee was a bad manager, but because he was a good manager who managed to get good performances and consistent team line ups from a relatively small squad.

No rookie managers! I'd be very disappointed if Pressley was given the job. As for Craigan, I'm sure he sees himself as being a player for a few years yet.

Not necessarily who I'd want just people I think might be interested and would be within our price range and who have done reasonably well recently. Ian McCall, Derek McInnes, Billy Reid.... ...then you are struggling.... Calderwood and Hughes will both be looking for clubs down south and Craig Brown is more or less retired now (he's 68) and can't see him wanting to take on a senior position.

How do you squeeze a 10 month season into 'the summer' and what do you do when there are World Cups and European Championships every two years? And then what do teams in the Champions League or the Europa League do in November, December, January etc? Also, I've said this before, but in the summer people have better things to do. You would be lucky to get people into the stadiums in good weather never mind get 'The English' to sit indoors during good weather to watch Kilmarnock vs Dundee United.

Michael Doesburg.

Christian Dailly has been released by Rangers. I think he could do a job for a team like us but wages might be a problem...

Oh! I remember that one! The whole stand was laughing its head of. We also, I'm pretty sure, beat Aberdeen 2-1 that day as I think Eion Jess scored but I can't remember the 'Well scorers. Aberdeen were still a 'top' team then, it was a big win for the 'Well back in those days!

I'd take Hartley in a heart beat but I reckon he could still get a decent sized club in the Championship and therefore get a contract worth 5 or 6 times what we could offer him. I'd be happy to take him but surprised if he did arrive at Fir Park.

If you think Fir Park was bad last season take a look at FC Okzheptes pitch! http://www.okzhetpes.kz/rus/foto/

They should just appoint me then, I'd have the club at heart and I'd be cheaper. And LMA stats show the win ratio between former international players and managers who have no experience as players at the top level is only 1% in favour of the former internationals, i.e virtually insignificant. So it's decided, I'm the new Motherwell manager

Seriously, people are turning their noses up at the prospect of European football now?

We didn't bomb. We bombed before McGhee joined. Yeah, I'm sure his reputation has really 'suffered' from finishing 7th in the SPL with Motherwell! He's just not the hot ticket item he was last season since Coyle has won the play-off down south but when McGhee leaves he'll go to a bigger team than us.

Can anyone see McGhee wanting a player like Foran or Foran wanting to play for a manager like McGhee. I'm saying they'd both be keen to avoid one another.

Not true. For a start he's given a regular game to Jamie Murphy. He's stuck by Mark Reynolds who was only 20 when McGhee joined the club and selected him for virtually every match. Secondly Steven Saunders played 3 games on the trot in mid season. Thirdly McHugh has played 3 times for McGhee over two seasons.

Higdon? He's scored 2 goals since last November, nah, we already have a big lumbering striker that contributes nothing except putting it in the net and Sutton is better. Even at this stage Arfield probably isn't within our purchasing power. Apparently McCann did well this season but how many more seasons does he have in him at this level?

So we could get beat 2-0?

He's more likely to score a goal than any of our midfield!

Not much to pick from today but I went for Clarkson. Only player that looked dangerous and set up the goal.

Cowie has already gone and Black is going. Not sure if I'd have Foran back. I'd take Morais though.

The Killie fans had an inflatable alligator that they were passing around the a section of the away support so about 6 of our boys in blue appear, lift one of the Killie fans, go into the crowd and then confiscate the alligator, although only after a it was passed around the crowd some more! Probably the best entertainment of the day but stuff like that really pisses me off just a bunch of killjoys but when anything serious is happening they are nowhere to be seen.

The alligator incident. Seriously, the police in this country....

You may or may not have seen this on the BBC yesterday but McGhee was quoted as saying... "We tried to sign a couple of players yesterday who we weren't able to afford and who look as though they've ended up signing for St Johnstone, so that's our problem and we have to cut our cloth. "The youth system is really where our squad is going to be coming from, because we aren't going to be out there buying and selling lots of players."

Game of the season: Odd choice maybe, especially as we lost it but the Accies League Cup tie was a great game, so many chances and incidents. Goal of the season: Sutton's strike against Rangers was a beauty. Lets not forget Bob Malcolm hit a couple of brilliant free kick goals. Player of the season: David Clarkson. His best season in terms of goals scored but his overall work rate is superb and he rarely gives less than 100%. So our best player, our most consistent player and our best goalscorer adds up to Player of the Season. Best moment: The teams coming our on to Fir Park for our first Euro tie for a long time. Unfortunately it was only a moment! Worst Moment: Hearts scoring in the 90th minute at Tynecastle. Arrrghhhh! Suprise of the year: Qualifying for Europe (by the looks of it) through the back door. Worst player of the year: No one. Under McGhee I think the players have generally given it 100% effort over the season. Some are players better than others, some performances were under par but you expect that over a season so there is no one I would point the finger at. Young player of the year: Again no one. Jamie Murphy has talent but he's yet to convince me he can play at SPL level. Overall: If anyone was expecting us to repeat last season then their expectations were far too high. Considering the size of our squad which must be one of, if not actually the smallest in the league, McGhee has done a decent job to get us back from our sticky period mid season.

Are you serious! Corrigan got elbowed out at Kilmarnock, had a disastrous loan period at Dundee and is now by no means an automatic choice at ROSS COUNTY. Meanwhile Kinniburgh couldn't get a game at Partick Thistle and will be released this summer.

Naw it doesnae! It's too long ago. I'd only been coming to the 'Well from about '86/87. Within a few years we'd won a Scottish Cup. 18 years later I'm still waiting!