AndyRoss

Surely the cost/uncertainty of sacking the manager at this point in the campaign is more than bringing an experienced coach back to the club to help hopefully guide us to safety. It's not a Les Hutchison type scenario where we threw money at players with very little direction. Not referring to yourself personally but people have been screaming out for change and when that happens they still are annoyed - it's quite confusing.

McFadden is clearly still learning the ropes, appointing him as assistant may be one of those decisions that we have come to regret, but I don't think there's any harm in bringing someone else in to assist particularly when times are tough. As a few have already said, would imagine Faddy will be judged at the end of the season on his performance over the course of the last year.

I'm sorry but it's hard to be anything but defeatist after a 7-2 defeat. You must be at the wind-up?

I think the argument that the club as a whole has went backwards over the last couple of years while true, comes down to the fact that budgets have been brought in line with what they should be. We constantly diced with death with Dempster and Co with their budgeting for top-six, and cup-runs - it was only in the play-off season that it all came crashing in around our ears. Having given it a fair bit of thought since last night I think a lot of the issues we have currently come down to poor decisions made in the summer, I think despite our fifth-place finish perhaps papering over some of the cracks, the squad needed freshening up and it didn't happen, we turned to the same-old faces and expected them to contribute the same as they were six or seven seasons ago - for all I think Lasley and Hammell have struggled badly at times this season, we've only ourselves to blame that we not only offered both contracts but placed them right back into the team as regular starters. I've always taken the opinion that I don't really care about what Mark McGhee is doing as long as he's managing the team to reasonably good results and performances, It's now got to the stage where we are stinking the place out on an almost weekly basis and then have to put up with his stupid and more often than not bizarre side-show after the game. I don't think three days will be enough for Mark McGhee to get over his squabble with the fourth-official and his subsequent tantrum for the team to be anywhere near ready for the trip to Celtic on Saturday. Basically what I'm saying is McGhee's influence and presence at Fir Park is now a negative thing - I would have happily let him see out the end of the season and bow out then because I didn't think we were in any great danger of relegation, now I just feel we've got a manager in the midst of losing his mind and the dressing-room. Those in the dressing-room should be embarrassed by some of their efforts in recent times too, I watched back the highlights hoping to see that they'd be screaming at each other after goals, at least trying to gee each other up, there was absolutely nothing - they looked beaten and fairly uninterested. It's up to someone at Fir Park to show a bit of backbone and act now, the writing has been on the wall, whether anyone has actually picked up on our decline will surely dictate quite how far we're going to fall. I'm not arsed about Saturday, that'll take care of itself, it's the game in nine days time against Dundee that'll have a huge say in our season and with McGhee in charge you'll have a crowd of 3000 with the majority totally against the manager - lets not leave it that long!

Final yin on this for today at least..... Louis Moult's interview from the first 'Off-Air' - http://www.mfc1886.com/now-i-motherwell-fan-i-always-will-100-per-cent/

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Could make this more interesting is Eck gets the job at Ibrox, he didn't mention that in his interview last week..... We'll be really pushing the book in the next few weeks, have got a bit of a way to make our costs and then obviously the goal is to make a good total again. We've been able to add Mark McGhee, Ian Baraclough, Stuart McCall and Martyn Corrigan to our interview list. Copies available here.....http://www.mfc1886.com/product/pre-order-mfc-podcast-off-air-2/

Sorry folks the server on the prediction league failed on Friday and we couldn't get it resolved in time. It's back working and updated with the next couple of rounds of fixtures - sorry again.

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Like the first edition of ‘Off-Air’, ‘Imogen’s Dream’ charity will receive all profits from the project.

he MFC Podcast team are today delighted to announce the first 10 interview for our forthcoming charity publication ‘Off-Air 2’. In the next few days further names from the current Motherwell side as well as both players and managers from the past will be announced to complete the line-up. The first 10 names are as follows: Dougie Arnott Alan Burrows Stacey Cook Sieb Dijkstra Stevie Hammell Brian Martin Steven McGarry Alex McLeish Jim Paterson Bobby Watson ‘Off-Air 2’ is now available for pre-order and will be released March 31st. You can pre-order HERE We won't be able to get a further print-run done, so after the first 250 sell through there will be no more copies printed. Like the previous edition, all orders placed before March 1st will have their name printed on the back-cover. All orders placed in the first week will go into the draw to win a signed Motherwell shirt. The final four signed copies of the first edition are also available on the site.

Delighted for you Jay, I'm sure you'll be a real asset to the board.

Cheers for the feedback folks. Kmcalpin - Firstly thanks for your reply and kind words at the end, normally the podcast lasts around an hour, but there was that much to cover this week that we stretched it out.

http://www.mfc1886.com/mfc-podcast-2016-17-episode-21/ The latest episode of the MFC Podcast was recorded with the aim of discussing the implications of 'Project Brave' on the football club. Alan talks with great passion on a range of issues surrounding the initiative during the 85 minutes of the podcast. Hopefully this will help inform 'Well fans of the potential dangers to MFC if the project goes ahead, we also manage to get some information on potential transfer activity during the window and an insight on preparation for the weekend's Scottish Cup tie.

First Podcast of the new year is online now. http://www.mfc1886.com/mfc-podcast-2016-17-episode-20/

Anybody got a decent stream?

DM me your email address mate and I'll get them to you.

Just updated the fixtures up until the winter break.

We put 10 extra signed copies on the website today, there's currently four left. http://www.mfc1886.com/product/mfc-podcast-off-air-signed-copy/ Copies signed by Chris Cadden, Ben Heneghan Keith Lasley, James McFadden and Louis Moult. Earlier today there were only five copies left in the club shop, and there's a small number of unsigned copies on our website.

Not really understating anything given most of these guys you've added were already out well before yesterday's game. I reckon Dom must be wondering how he's ended up so far behind the likes of Cadden, MacLean and now probably Hastie and Ferguson too. struggling to see a future for him.

Without Cadden we lack imagination, urgency and strangely width too. As for Dom, I'm sorry but I don't think there's much hope he'll make an impact now.

We'll be outside the Cooper from 1:45 today.

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