MelvinBragg
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8 hours ago, Spit_It_Out said:
One thing for me is we look a bit lightweight in midfield on the tackling front when Butcher isn't involved think would like to see a tackler brought in even on a 6 month deal if possible should Butchers injury come back to bite us.
Pretty sure out starting midfield will be Slats,Spittal and Butcher when he is fully fit.
Butcher has never played midfield for us...
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52 minutes ago, wellsince75 said:
That’s a good point. 2 midfielders would be ideal , a reall ball winner and someone who can make a pass or 2 .
bring back wee Al and Turnbull
I'm a bit torn on midfield. We probably need another body but I don't want to only see Miller when Slattery is suspended...
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9 minutes ago, thewelllfan said:
Am i missing something
SK saying he was happy with the defensive and midfield options personally think we need at least 2 central-midfielders and 1 CB as don't trust Mugabi or Lamie to do a job there and placing that much faith in Miller at 16 is a recipe for disaster.
I was surprised by the chat about midfield but if you think we're signing another defender when we have six players who play centre back (even if one is injured), I think you're being optimistic. If we move one on, maybe...
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8 minutes ago, Mintymac said:
The Mugabi /Lamie partnership just doesn’t work . This is feeding into the team in general compared to the Casey /Butcher partnership where it felt we had a good solid foundation .
Think we’ve given them umpteen chances to prove they can do it but time and time again over the last few seasons the combination doesn’t work .
Persevering with them imo will cost us big time this season
Remember it's a back three so you need to factor in McGinn has been third wheel in both lineups.
If anyone thinks that simply putting Blaney and Casey in for Lamie and Mugabi will be a vast improvement, they're wrong. Blaney and Casey are solid enough defenders when they have had Butcher organising them and pushing them around. Dundee United last day of the season showed that they were lesser players without a talker alongside them. Either we try an experienced player like McGinn in the middle of the three or we need to find a Aldred/Hartley type figure on loan for six months. If you're playing a back three, the guy in the middle of the three has to have a degree 9f football intelligence and leadership. Don't see an obvious candidate in the squad currently...
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48 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
Maybe that's why it's only a six month deal initially to see how it goes and if he keeps fit etc
Possibly. Although it could also be that like Johnston last season, they feel Wilson needs another six months just to be totally ready for the first team...
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While he has some pedigree, over the last four seasons Souaré has played under 40 games. I'm assuming that we feel his fitness won't be an issue having looked at him in training but I have my concerns...
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42 minutes ago, mfc said:
Kettlewell is hoping for a new addition in time for the game tomorrow.
Did I really hear him say that he feels we have enough in midfield, it's just wide areas and up front?
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Find the absence of Efford interesting given he had seemed to be featuring heavily in preseason. Maybe injured..?
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5 minutes ago, gaz7 said:
Think that's harsh on board and im sure contract was offered. If you look at any club in Scotland im sure we do as good or better than most in bringinging in funds for our youth so the slight on board is easy to make i dont believeits true..As has been said by others max's dad would have had huge impact on his decision and I feel he was never going to sign new deal. He is going to sturm graz maybe for seemingly 10k a week but if he hadn't played last 13 games of season for us he would likely still have been able to get a better contract than we would have offered at an epl 1 or 2 club. Dean Cornelius is away to Harrogate Town and I'm sure max johnston would have got similar as a minimum.
Indeed. Someone on here used a story from March last year in the Record (I think) mooting interest from Sheffield United and West Ham as evidence we should have offered him a contract last summer. For me, that story is evidence that there was no point in offering him a contract last summer as he would have known better offers were forthcoming...
EDIT Checked back. It was Luton not West Ham, but the general point still holds...
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9 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
I suppose if we signed him , we should have done some due diligence, so that's kind of on the club
I've no idea if he was any good or not, never saw enough, only cup game v Raith , he wasn't the worst that day, worryingly.
Get the feeling the Scottish game was too physical for him
It was clear he was going to be rubbish given the amount of hype the club were putting out there. Kettlewell clearly doesn't rate him at all.
To offer some mitigation for Danzaki though, he arrived as the wheels were falling off the Hammell regime. Van Veen had downed tools. Players that were brought in to steady things were getting injured (Blaney, Mandron), experienced professionals were performing hilariously badly (O'Donnell, Slattery), Hammell was throwing any shit at the wall to see if it would stick (the 4222 with Spittal and Slattery as two 6s and Tierney and Danzaki as two 10s seemed extreme, just wear a T shirt saying 'SACK ME, I HAVEN'T A CLUE'). Danzaki may have been pish but it was hardly the ideal situation for a young guy trying to adapt to a new country to land in. Had he arrived to a semi functioning team, we could have made a better assessment. His Motherwell career was 126 minutes...
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2 minutes ago, Casagolda said:
Yes.
There is the Record reporting he was on the radar of Luton and Sheffield Utd last March.
Instead we signed another right back and punted him out on laon again.
And given there already was that interest last March, it wasn't in Johnston's interests to sign a new contract even then. Paul McGinn's signing was nothing to do with Johnston and more to do with Alexander trying to run O'Donnell out of town...
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I see we're looking at bringing Furlong back on loan. Wouldn't be be a bad thing....
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Maybe I should have substituted 'think about' for worry as like you two I'm more philosophical as time goes by. But when the season starts, as a shift worker, the process of making sure I'm off for home games begins.
I know the World Cup was a factor this season, but generally close season seems shorter than before. Not a fan of the league cup format although I know it's here to stay. If you add in 'non-Motherwell' football like the Scotland games at the end of the season, sometimes it feels like football never goes away at all. And I like football, but sometimes even I feel like my wife who doesn't when she says 'I thought the season was over?'...
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I must confess as I get older, I enjoy rhe close season more than I used to and frankly if the football didn't start back til the second week in August, that would be fine by me. Our last league game was 28th May and pre season started on 19th June. I'd like a longer period of time when I don't need to worry about Motherwell...
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27 minutes ago, weeyin said:
The article says "they don't let their young talent out on loan until they have signed new deals and they protect their football club, their investment and time spent with them."
but it doesn't say how you make young players sign new deals. That's where it gets difficult in Scotland, because we can't offer anything close to what's available in England or elsewhere, and the players (and their agents) know that.
Indeed. And with that extra money in England, they're also able to gamble on a larger number of youngsters. We need to be more careful. Club gets more right than they get wrong...
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47 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
He did however tie up defenders and keep them occupied to allow KVV to do his thing. So far that, I thank him greatly!
His late goal at McDiarmid Park won me around £180 so for that I thank him greatly...
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54 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:
I wonder at what point (if any) do we write them off? While I’d like to see both stay, we have to know, sooner rather than later, if we need to replace them.
I'm told Casey is definitely away so I'm guessing we've wrote him off. Goss, I haven't heard anything but you have to assume he's gone unless he's doing a Scott McDonald for an extra long summer holiday...
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2 minutes ago, dinnae-punt-it said:
Who’s number 12 on the bottom right hand side of the first image posted on Twitter earlier today:
Paton, I think...
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4 hours ago, steelboy said:
We have signed strikers with better pedigree in recent memory. KVV, Cole, Watt, Lang even Long.
It's not a position we should be gambling on.
You want to have a look at the goal records of Long, Cole and even Van Veen before they signed for Motherwell. Pedigree isn't the word that springs to mind. Even Watt's goal record hardly marked him as a good bet...
Am I certain Wilkinson will be a success? No. But don't make out his record is that much worse than those you mentioned...
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2 hours ago, steelboy said:
Given that he couldn't get a game for Walsall for most of last season he's likely another Mandron.
Not encouraging.
Tom Aldred wasn't wanted at Bury. Scott McDonald had one foot on the boat back to Australia. Kipre was second choice of the trialists. We've got the best out of any number of players that didn't fit in anywhere else. Is he a sure thing? Nope, but I'm struggling to remember the last 'sure thing' we signed..
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2 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
To be fair KVV's stats werent exactly inspiring, so happy to wait and see what the big man has in his locker........
I was just thinking the same about KVV...
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7 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Time to move on and get someone else in. Unless the plan is to develop Lennon Miller, but thats a huge gamble on the young man, and we would probably need another body in their as back up given we have lost Goss and Cornelius.
I tend to agree. I would like to see a lot of Miller this season but we don't want to be relying upon him. Paton is another body in midfield, but I'd like to see another. Maybe see more of Tierney but that would mean Spittal playing slightly further back which sounds like a bad idea given how well he's been playing further forward under Kettlewell...
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15 minutes ago, MJC said:
Yeah I certainly wouldn’t trust any Motherwell team to get a result against Airdrie. The same goes for games against Accies. We always go into games like that as though getting a result isn’t as important to us as it is to them.
I think what Dave was referring to was the 'men vs boys' aspect. In the literal not the metaphorical sense...
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Anyone idea the shape we're playing tonight? Can't see anything other than a 433 with that personnel unless Spittal or Efford are playing wing back...
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