El Grew
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Hammell has used 6 subs and there was more than 20 minutes to play. I can’t ever remember seeing that many subs used outwith extra-time.
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As I’ve said many times on here - Goss and Slattery should’ve been shown the door a long time ago and still Hammell keeps picking them!
Right on cue Slattery fucks up!!
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7 minutes ago, steelboy said:
McGinn and O'Donnell a shambles there.
Great work from the Aberdeen medical staff letting Hayes play on. A wee assist to go with his brain injury.
FFS!! Why was O’Donnell a shambles? He’s on the right hand side doing his job by marking the Aberdeen man at the back post.
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Why were we not doubling up on Hayes?
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Calum Butcher’s goals and disciplinary record.
Year 
2021-22 20 0 9 1 2020-21 35 1 13 0 2019-20 27 3 9 0 2018-19 15 1 4 1 2014-15 20 1 7 0 2013-14 8 (1) 0 2 1 Total: 125 (9) 6 He averaged 8 Yellow Cards per season. In the SPL this would be about 1 every 5 games.
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Can’t believe some posters want to keep playing Slittery in midfield. Him and Goss should never get near the first team ever again.
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12 minutes ago, Electric Blues said:
This just smacks of panic!
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He must be called into the Boardroom in the morning thanked for his service and told to clear his desk asap.
It won’t make any difference anyway because because I think we are too far gone now to retrieve the situation.
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3 hours ago, Well Well said:
KVV, Kelly, Slattery and Goss are needing long spells on the bench
Disagree. What they need is a really long spell on the dole!!
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I did say when he was appointed that I thought it would end very badly for him and the club. He now has to go - either he resigns or he gets the Spanish archer.
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Must have been a belter of a half-time team talk!!
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39 minutes ago, Wellfan90 said:
I couldn’t agree more mate, reading this forum baffles me at times !!
He’s changed some of the personnnel but hasn’t changed the formation. Nuts. He seems welded to 4-3-3 and that will be his downfall because he’s got Slattery and Goss in the 3 again and we know they are useless!
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44 minutes ago, Bart Verheul said:
Just signed for Barrow
Dodged a bullet there then!
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Our home league record against St. Johnstone:
P81 W45 D15 L21 GF158 GA91
Win 56%; Draw 18%; Lose 26%
Likely outcome = ???
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Went for Crankshaw. He only came on in the 56th minute but showed more appetite and creativity than the rest of them put together. Begs the question why he didn’t start!!
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Comments from the Herald on our performance against St Mirren.
“Did Motherwell play badly? In truth not really but it was just all so meh. Goss and Slattery struggled to get to grips with Erhahon and O’Hara in the middle. They also lacked variety in their play, too often falling back to pelting the ball vaguely in the direction of van Veen or McKinstry hoping one of them could magic it into a goal.”
It’s been like that for a long time as Goss and Slattery have served up the same insipid, weak performances since the season began and Hammell continues to play them. In truth, we have no midfield, and this has a twofold effect on the side:
1. When we don’t have the ball, they provide absolutely no protection to the defence.
2. When we have the ball, they provide absolutely no support or service to the strikers.
Hammell sees this every week but fails to take action to sort it out.
Under normal circumstances it would be foolish to say the club won’t sack him given he’s been allowed to bring in new players, however they allowed Alexander to do the same thing and then sacked him before our season had begun.
At present the club appears rudderless and lacking in direction or leadership. I feel they are in stasis at present perhaps exacerbated by the CE’s resignation, a £1M loss and the current state of the team. A statement in the recent financial accounts is quite telling:
“While the Club’s financial position is healthy in the short term the Club is acutely aware of the challenges it faces both in terms of operating in the current economic climate and running as a fan-owned club in an increasingly competitive and owner financed top flight. The main uncertainties to the future wellbeing of the club remain as; first team performance, broadcast income and match day attendance.”
If they don’t get the playing side sorted out fast, these uncertainties will all hit and pretty damn hard.
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We’re utterly hopeless but the sad fact is St. Mirren are not really much better.
Don’t want to be a doom monger but I’m afraid the club had better begin to prepare for Championship football next season.
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Found this on Twitter:
“Jim McMahon and Alan Burrows went on to advise and discuss that this year's £1m loss would be higher next year barring a long Cup run or player sale and that we are at a crossroads as regards plugging this size of shortfall in the coming years. The plan to resolve this is by going to a wider audience to promote our club values ethics and ideology in the hope of attracting a company or individual either local or worldwide who buys into our ethos and would be willing to inject regular cash to cover shortfalls”
Mmm!
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Sad to hear that another one of our former players, Benny Cairney has passed at the age of 77. I can remember seeing Benny playing I think about 1965/66. Thoughts and prayers are with Benny’s family. RIP.
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Our record away to St. Mirren:
P104; W31; L45; D28; GF120; GA162
St Mirren Win 43%
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15 hours ago, Mad Dog said:
Slattery can go for cash. Need a midfielder that can stay on his feet.
I assume you meant that WE would pay cash to get rid of him!
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2 hours ago, Yodo said:
I’m reading that former Killie defender Stuart Findlay could be available on loan from Oxford . A big no nonsense defender just what we are looking for I wonder if he’s on our radar
Rumours are that Hibs are after him as a replacement for Ryan Porteous.
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11 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
Give the guy a game first, vv may be injured because last week he hardly moved
Well if that’s the case he shouldn’t even be on the bench.
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Einstein once said that the definition of madness was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Well Stevie Hammell fits that definition because he has yet again named a midfield 3 of Goss, Slattery & Spittal!
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Aberdeen v Motherwell 04/02/2023
in Club Chat
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It’s been obvious for quite a while now that Hammell is completely out of his depth.
Bringing in 9 players in the last transfer window of the season is just sheer panic. I doubt that any club has ever brought in as many players as that in an entire season!
As for those “running” the club, it’s been obvious since they punted Alexander that they too were out of their depth. They should’ve been questioning Hammell as to why he thought it necessary to bring in as many players at this stage of the season, but they just let him plough on.
For me, today was the final straw. I thought it was bad against St. Johnstone, and it was but Hammell’s reading and management of today’s game was just embarrassing. Making 6 subs albeit one for an injury, with 20 mins to play, shows just how lost he really is.
He made 3 subs after 10 mins of the 2nd half going from 2 up to 1 up when we were 1-0 down and the performance deteriorated as the players didn’t seem to understand what he was trying to do. Thereafter, it just descended into farce and it was obvious, to me anyway, that the team had switched off.
Sure all the stats show we are bad; however for me, the true indictment on Hammell is that there’s been absolutely no discernible improvement in the team’s performance under his tenure - not even small incremental ones - and sadly, there is nothing there to suggest that this is going to change.
If Hammell can’t see that, perhaps because he’s too close to the coal face, then the board must step in, point this out to him and remove him.