Eddie Catflap

After the highs and lows of supporting Motherwell for 40 plus years i should know better than to complain after winning.. but... the hoof ball tactics adopted tonight are truly depressing, long diagonal balls to the front two every time an angle to play them was on. Sammon i have to say was excellent at holding them up and laying them off. The only role of the midfield appears to be to scrap for any loose ball headed back into the middle of the park. That is all they are there to do. and woe betide any of the defence who didnt lump it up the park. At the first break in play Robinson would tear into them individually for not hoofing it.. Embarassing behaviour. Hard to feel excited about what lies ahead. Even allowing for how fickle i’m willing to be when my team is winning, it should not be the way football is played

Sorry Mick, didn't realise you read the forums. Didn't realise you could read to be honest.

Some brilliant tactical analysis tonight from motherwells finest tonight. Surprisingly no-one has yet pointed out the obvious. McManus is shite.

you obviously think we've got Walter Zenga in goals and Lilium Thuram at full full back you spangle!

thats what a big back of smack does for some people

Chalmers. Fucking atrocious footballer but will be sitting mortgage free probably so who are the mugs. A fucking abomination of a full back. Ripley. Probably spending all of this weeks wage on kebabs and wonder bras the fat turd. Meanwhile Vigurs gets binned by that last prick in charge for the heinous crime of telling the last prick he was a useless prick. as for the rest..........

35 years of of following Motherwell home and away have taught me three simple things 1. Our goalie has the he biggest set of tits ever seen on a man. It's maybe his excuse for not being able to move the length of himself, the hopeless prick 2. Our left back in less than half a season is already a fully fledged member of the worst footballers ever to play at fir park 3. If someone introduced to that cunt Grimshaw for the first time was told he was a professional footballer they would have every right to not believe you.

perhaps Connor Rilpey might slim down to a D Cup. And maybe Clubber Laing will be transformed into a Franco baresi type libero. Or maybe not

Utterly horrendous performance. Laing in midfield! Chalmers unable to pass the length of himself and Johnston out of his depth. Strange strange set up for the team. Must change system for 2 second half.

I'm no fan of Mr Burrows and don't hide it well. However having heard the behind the scenes story of how we stood up to those bullying ex establishment thugs at castle grey skull I'm absolutely delighted that he dealt with them. Well done sir!

25 quid would be my maximum bid for Erwin. Plays like he has brain damage. A team of Tony Strakers, that's what we need.

At least our fans matched up to our disgrace of a football team today. Double giro week in North motherwell meant that fake stone island was plentiful amongst our throng of fifty year old drug dealer/casuals. The team were far less an embarrassment than the congregation of hard men bullying the 17 year old St mirren stewards. A waste of time and money the lot of them

A matinee drinking session in the pub is a better option. That shower of shite don't deserve a single person paying to watch them.

The signings of long, Laing and Straker should themselves alone be grounds for dismissal on the grounds of gross misconduct. If the owner has any balls he will sack him in the next 20 minutes

A fucking goalie who only dives after the ball is by him. Get him and these other loan imposters to fuck. Along with our league of fucking Ireland calibre manager. Shocking

Because that all he generally capable of managing

How dare you question St Burrows. We're going for loveliest website on the planet for the fourth year on the row didn't you know

Straker is comedy gold. Let's face it we are going down. Rather than getting stressed out about it we should savour the remaining games we've got left to see him in action. The ease with which his legs tangle themselves together, the look of bewilderment on his face as a winger approaches him with the ball or the vacant stare as he slices another hoof out the park. In years to come they will compare him to Monty Python at their best!

The source was one of our many right backs. Doesn't exactly narrow it down I realise but there you have it. i have to say I would rather have Vigurs than the clown who told the story

Given this is an in and out thread I will get back to the point. The week before Vigurs got injured, he and Barraclough had a huge fallout. IV sauntered into training an hour late with an excuse about traffic. Barraclough went mental apparently and reminded him he'd driven up from England that morning for an 8 o'clock start. iV has never featured since. As Jerry sadowitz used today, coincidence or magic you decide.

Kerr is atrocious, Ainsworth is a lazy sod and Reid is basically a 2nd division player who was unattached and then unbelievably signed up by an SPL team. He must know himself that's he's out his depth. What's just as worrying though is the long ball shite that we've adopted. The only one of the back 4 who is refusing to hump the ball as high and long as their legs will let them is the 17 year old. Fair play to him. Get 3 more youngsters on in 2 nd half and get Kerr, Ainsworth and Reid to fuck

He's probably too fat to climb the stairs now to the back of the pressbox

hopefully McCall and Black are penning their resignations letters as I write and our General Manager is on the phone to Mark McGhee about a return with Faddy as player assistant manager. In reality though MCcCall is probably right now thinking how many changes he will make next week with his overall objective to be to never name the same team twice. And our GM is whoring himself around the press box as usual! Grim

A couple of observations from tonight and indeed from the season so far. I accept penalties are a bit of a lottery but why did the captain not take one. Maybe he volunteered and was overlooked for a centre half but I doubt it. What makes McCall think Josh Law is an SPL level footballer. There is no point in having a go at Law himself, a player who has played over 250 games for the mighty Alfreton Town. It is quite frankly incredible that the manager chose to sign such a player and he appears to be a first pick in the team. What is the point of bringing back Ojamma to play 10 minutes here and there? Why does the manager change the midfield every fucking game? Does he think it is good for a player like Paul Lawson's morale when he is brought in to the team and plays reasonably well only to not get off the bench in the subsequent two games. Ffs get him in in place of Lasley. As above does the manager rate Francis Anglo or not? Personally I'm not a great fan but again there is no point to putting him in the team one week then taking him out then putting him back in and so on. Why was Faddy not kept on, it is clear from interviews that MCFadden was not asking for ridiculous wages so why not have him in the squad. Faddy has been very kind to the manager in interviews by saying it was a joint decision but that is the mark of the man, he doesn't want to criticise the club. In my opinion, McCall has run his course. Erratic team selections, a lack of flair in the team and an annoying habit of just appearing like one of the teams mates, rather than the manager. Plus wear a suit ffm rather than being a full kit wanker!

I will tell you what would be a treAt for Motherwell fans. Just one, just one time ever, Hammell would star a season in the condition of a professional footballer. Every year we have the same scenario with him being completely out of shape. What the fuck do we let our players away with over the summer. And he knew he was fucked tonight, because every time the goalie went to throw a ball he turned his back clearly not wanting the ball. The weakest link I'm afraid, has been for 2 years. The captain was even worse mind you, looked as if he was playing with a hangover, whereas Mcgingerbaws obviously was pished to replace our two goal debutant with Fraser Fucking Kerr,. The usual turgid start to a year! Onwards and upwards