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Because it's easier to be contrarian than optimistic?

He's too busy being a nonce to care.

Like said above, he's a flat track bully, quite happy to be the big fish in a small pond and get everything his way. That's his choice, but I'm not going to have any sympathy for a guy bawling his eyes out because he didn't win his 25th trophy.

Nothing has happened yet to suggest the club are panicking in any way. Maybe they are running around with their hair on fire, but other than a press release 2 days ago not a single thing has come from the club, officially or otherwise. I'll be ignoring everything the papers put out over the next few weeks, and the bookies odds as well, as we all know it will be made up shite. The lack of names being posted on here so far is going to have them scrambling. On a similar note, when did we last go down the "safe pair of hands route?" When did we last hire a "usual suspect"? For better or worse, we've tended to do the opposite. Similarly, how often do clubs really do this? I'm not even sure who would fall into this group, Mcinnes seems like the closest to this currently, maybe Goodwin? But it seems that more often than not, premier league clubs are going the external or untried route, rather than recycling the same guys. There must be some genuinely decent young/modern Scottish managers around, and I'd love it if we unearthed someone like that, but the reality is that they'd be enough of a known quantity that our fans would write them off from day 1.

Nice to hear some names to look out for in the coming season. The u21 highlights used to be great for that.

Seddon, blaney, callachan, paton, and davor are out of contract, so not much work to do there, and based on their lack of minutes in the last few months, Seddon is the only one we look remotely like wanting to keep around.. SOD and halliday just signed contracts, so that's not happening regardless of how shite some folk think they are. We'd have to pay them off as well as pay their replacements. Robinson and Nicholson both have a year on their contracts and are injured (on our watch). No one in their right minds would take a payoff any less than what they're owed when they are not fit enough to secure another gig any time soon, as well as losing the rehab facilities they currently have. This isn't the same as giving an OOC injured guy a short deal to do right by them, they're our players. I know the inclination is to always go for shiny new players, bit I can absolutely guarantee that a proportion of the group we sign this year will be next year's "dead wood". We need a squad, and just like any other football squad, there is a drop from the nailed on starters to the squad players. In an ideal season everyone stays fit and you don't have to use the second (or third) string as much.

Healy is hard to judge, when Linfield are far and away the biggest club in that league. He's also coming up on 10 years there, so there's a decent chance that his next job might be a tricky one to adjust to. I imagine the same rumored guys from last time that are still unemployed will be brought up again, like Evatt, VdG, Ketsbaia, and the gobshite club of fotheringham, courts, and the like. At least last time we had the rumored german link which led to the papers phoning some random German i posted on P&B.

Just like every other time, the bookies list is made up nonsense, and fluctuates based on the betting patterns of a very small group of people who actually care about motherwell enough to bet on their next manager. We could probably get a random candidate at the top of that list just by sticking his name in here. I forgot robbie Neilson existed, hopefully he considers himself too big for this job.

We have a head of recruitment, coaching staff, and a CEO, amongst others, to keep things moving. Rushing a decision now could cause irreparable damage. The same due diligence should be put in to every appointment regardless ofnthe situation. We can't do anything about the manager leaving, but we can control not messing up the next steps.

Wimmer took 3 weeks. We didnt panic when the team was spiralling and we all thought we were heading for the drop, and we shouldnt panic now. The club should take as long as it needs to to get the right person in post.

I don't like VAR, but the problem is the people who run it. Our referees are god awful, and we've given them a tool that helps them find more ways to be the main character. There have been multiple occasions where the footage has given them what they need to make a decision, and they have misinterpreted a rule. However, as above, the complete abandonment of the "clear and obvious" requirement means that they spend 5 minutes finding a way to rule out a goal or give a penalty. So I'd bin it, and go back to still having shite referees, but with less stoppages, and even less opportunities for Willie collum to get himself on TV.

JTs against Aberdeen was my favourite.

I don't think the pre contracts are strong enough to need any clauses, they've been broken before. Ketsbaias agent is really putting in the work.

Jeez, how did I forget JT, love the guy.

This is where my 18 comes from, who am I missing? Gk: Ox, Ward, connelly? Def: SOD, mcginn, Johnny k, Wilson, Gordon, Balmer Mid: Miller, Slattery, Sparrow, Halliday, Ross, Wells, nicholson Attack: Stam, Robinson, Stuparevic

Surprised they didn't know already. Thompson, Paton, Blaney, and Seddon are the only ones that would be up in the air from the main squad I'd think. If blaney is still injured he might get a Tanner type deal. Davor and Moses must have had a good idea, and Callachan as well. Casey would be more in the "he'd be telling us" camp. There will be the young players as well, with Luca Ross being the only one that's been extended that I know of. I count 18 definitely staying, but that includes Luca Ross, dylan wells, and Lennon Miller. It doesn't include Seddon, who has an option. There doesn't look be much room for mutualing anyone who isn't long term injured.

We showed patience in breaking killie down. They pulled almost everyone behind the ball after the sending off, relied on counter attacks, and employed trademark mcinnes game management for most of the game. We did well to keep at it and not do anything silly, and kept knocking on the door. Once we got the opener we gained confidence and wiped the floor with them. Very professional performance in my book. I couldn't watch the game live because I had a meeting at work, so just watched it tonight with the benefit of not shitting it the longer it was 0-0. Unfortunately, due to my superstitious nature, the same people are going to have to join that meeting again on Sunday. Also, dundee were absolutely robbed with that County penalty, and st j must be furious that that was the decision that finally relegated them.

That's a take and a half 😆 Facebook is mental. People have been born and had kids of their own since Dougie last had any involvement in football, none of which involved coaching. Reminds me of when Colin O'Neil was complaining about not being considered, because he thought we should be handing out jobs on vibes.

Balmers head knock against dundee is up there. I'm sure if you ask supporters of every club, they will all say they've been shafted by VAR more than others this season, while ignoring the instances were they were beneficiaries of the shafting, like dundee with the above. It feels like we've got hosed more than assisted, but maybe I'm biased. A table of who had the most instances of "they got that one wrong" on the var review would he interesting. As far as the quality of games goes, we've had spells of good play all season, but have been too quick to revert to the panic punt, or backpass, when under pressure. The forced chopping and changing of the lineup can't have helped either. As mentioned above, no other team is playing like prime man city.

Staple of the pre-match music in the 90s

Surprised at the level of doubt remaining on the disallowed goal. Their player was actively involved in play, he was challenging Dom for the ball. You don't need to touch the ball for that to be considered active, and whether he distracted the goalie is moot, he came back from an offside positi9n to be involved in play. This is from the FA "player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched* by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by: ...usual stuff, then: challenging an opponent for the ball or clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent or making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball" You see similar given when a guy comes back to challenge for a header from a kick out or a long ball, just jumping to challenge with no chance of winning it.

We can pick apart the dundee goal all we want, but it was a cracking finish. I thought overall we defended well, and restricted them to set pieces and a couple of breaks. Outside of the 2 long throws, we were first to everything that came into our box. Crazy considering how makeshift that defense is. Not having the the Thompson hate today. At worst he was perfectly serviceable at LB and put in a shift, as did all the players. Dundee got no joy down the flanks at all, while we got a goal and assist from Sparrow and Thompson. Johnny K didn't need to do that, and I hope we don't waste money on an appeal. We're probably going to have to play Sparrow at RB in the 4 next week, or we could see Seddon come in and Dom switch over. Paton was fine, he played a great pass to slattery for his chance, and was involved in some good passages of playbwith slattery and Miller, but in general he doesn't have the cutting edge needed to play in a front 3 with no real striker in it. JT coming on allowed is to stretch them, and they had to be aware of his threat in behind. He did a great job of ghosting in front of the defender for the goal. He does that a lot.

Us fans will always get excited with new signings over keeping known quantities, despite the fact that we could end up signing the Austrian Harry Paton or German Tony Watt. We need squad players, and those two are just that, and ideally we can have a couple of our young players supplement the squad rather than bringing in the likes of Davor and Moses. I'm fine with keeping a core of players from this season for continuity, and also manage the risk of brining in too many unknown quantities. There's no player outside of Miller that I'd care about losing, but none that I'd be furious about keeping either. I doubt we will mutual any injured player, unless we're generous with the payoff.

Did he break his arm to spend more time with the baby? I don't know how unsettled he is, but I also don't see this as an Ian Vigurs "sore back" situation.