Bert the Sailor
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Yes we’re in the top 6 but that was more a relief so we couldn’t be drawn into the play off equation. But serious thoughts to next season must already be taking place by the board? We’re in end of McCall, Robinson era form here. The players aren’t reacting to Alexander anymore and we look like we run out of ideas about 3 months ago. It’s becoming harder and harder to justify letting this play out next season the way it’s inevitably going to go.
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Fully onboard the Alexander out train now. There is zero defending him now.
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Make a sub, honestly. What are we fucking waiting on?
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It would be fair to say looking at our form you’d be worried. But what’s more worrying is you’d say we look further and further away from winning a match each week. I wouldn’t say Alexander has lost the dressing room. But it’s clear to see that the players either ain’t buying into what he’s asking or whatever he is asking them to do is the problem.
It’s easy to say that we’re one point of Europe. But so are more than half the league. The worrying trend is that we’re looking less and less settled and confidence is draining from the team at an alarming rate. I know Alexander likes to keep his cards close to his chest. But unless he comes out and starts explaining to the fans the likes of what he sees in Donnelly, why Slattery isn’t starting. The fans are turning quickly on him and tbf who can blame them.
No win in 10 games which is over 1/4 of the leagues actual games is a horrifying stat. One that’s only getting worse each week. Serious questions on his future can only be round the corner. Maybe a cup run will be the saviour?
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It’s inexplicable when you see Slattery come on and be the best midfielder on show time after time. That every week we see Donnelly on the team sheet. The stubbornness to leave him on week after week is killing us. The midfield unit isn’t working and none of the answers to that include Donnelly.
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This long throw patter can also GTF
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He’s losing the plot
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Now would be the time to make some positive substitutions as opposed to waiting till Dundee score again.
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The Refs must fucking hate Alexander. We just don’t get those decisions go for us. But consistently against us.
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Persistence with the same wrong players is getting pathetic now. You’d be as well subbing off O’Donnell now. Taking the stuffing out of us and you’d struggle to see us recovering.
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9 hours ago, Spiderpig said:
A hammer blow and a half....OK then , we have been shit for weeks, can't buy a goal etc and our form has been no different to the teams around us, but we find ourselves still joint 4th and still well in the mix for top 6 and Europe so 7 games and 21 points to play for before the split so no time for pant wetting just yet.
Just as I’ve seen this line that we’re joint 4th a few times. We are 5th as that’s how a league works. We are 5th because our GD is pretty dire for a team in the top half of the league. If the league finished today we wouldn’t be going round saying we finished joint 4th. But as you say, the fact we are 5th is more an equally damning statistic on the rest of the league. The fact that United, Hibs and Aberdeen have rookie managers in charge is the only reason we are where we are in the league at the moment. I wouldn’t exactly say it’s something to be celebrating.
But we are still in the hunt somehow, but it’ll count for nothing if the form doesn’t seriously turn around.
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Not spending any of the banked £3million to leave Watt playing with the juniors for the rest of the season is seeming like the wrong call at this stage. He’s absolutely done our club a kipper and we’ve bent over and taken it without so much as a whimper.
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This Ref wanna shag Watt? How many fouls has he let this cunt away with?
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Honestly just take Efford off, looks a downgrade on Woolery which is saying something on recent form.
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Reckon the formation could be with an eye on the upcoming tough fixtures with a view to trying to shore and tighten things up at the back and midfield. Make us tougher to break down. But doesn’t look like much excitement on the cards. We needed to try something different, so why not.
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Look at the positive, we have to change the midfield on Saturday now.
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I mean really, I’m glad another charity case has been taken off our hands, before we did anything stupid. Dunne was ok when fit, benefitted greatly playing with stronger players in the back line when he went through his purple patch with us.
But his injury record is simply atrocious, not a player we should’ve even been thinking about offering another contract too. Quite frankly St Mirren offering him 2 years is wild. If it pays off for them, fair enough. Wish him all the best and hopefully he has fully recovered and get a proper run of games.
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1 hour ago, Yorkyred said:
There is no way we would have replaced Gallagher and O'Donnell with anyone near their level in January, the pair of them staying is huge.
Tbf my point was to do with people talking about money from Scotland squads. As if it’s a given that they’ll make it. I think neither could be guaranteed a place due to playing for Motherwell and their form being far from great.
Gallagher would be harder to replace than O’Donnell. But you’d be hard pressed to convince me on the showings O’Donnell has shown for us since he’s been here that he’s irreplaceable. The fact is both the players should be performing much better for us than they currently are doing. It doesn’t help when you’ve got leaked stories to the press about contract clauses and players signing a contract extension when the window shuts and for the second window in a row you’re here because there is no better offer.
Both should be irreplaceable to Motherwell but it’s about time they showed that on the park.
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I wouldn’t be counting our chickens just yet. No guarantee that either will make the squad unless they seriously screw the nut over the next 4-5 months. You’d say on form that neither of them should be near the squad.
That being said we’d all love for that to change, the good thing is even if their heads were turned, the window is now shut. We have some amount of players that need to get the finger out to secure them a decent next contract, wherever that may be. So hopefully that’s a benefit to us as a club and our position at the end of the season.
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So any news of potential incomings, my definitely not accusing you of being ITK friends?
Feel free to be cryptic as you like, bored as hell.
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1 minute ago, bobbybingo said:
The only new manager bounce we'll get is if Alexander jumps out his bedroom window tonight. Who'd blame him?
Comments like this can GTF. Pathetic
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If its money to install a grass pitch I’m sure nobody will have any complaints....
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39 minutes ago, Yassin said:
I think Campbell is overrated by quite a lot of people both inside and outside of Motherwell. He's a good player for our level and maybe one or two steps up but he's never going to go significantly higher than that as a scrappy midfielder that isn't particularly tall, fast, strong or technically gifted who also regularly goes missing for weeks at a time.
Would agree largely with this. I always wonder what Campbell brings to the position he plays. An advance midfield role where he isn’t that guy to find the pass. Isn’t particularly a great striker of the ball from distance (I know there’s a few exceptions to that). Campbell is a spoiler and grafter, I always seen his natural position would be a defensive midfielder who’d sit in front of the defence to mop things up. But when played in that position it’s not naturally his best and it hasn’t really worked.
That being said, the start of the season he was by far our best player. Just on sheer effort alone. But I often wonder if the team would benefit from a more natural attacking midfielder played in his position? After years of watching him I still don’t really know what would be his best position? Feels like it’s a natural parting of ways that’ll happen fairly soon. Been a terrific servant for the club. But will inevitably end up at Aberdeen/ Hibs or Dundee United before long.
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4 minutes ago, Big Wispy Flossy said:
So after all the criticism of mugabi it was given for a foul by Gallagher???
It would appear so. But Mugabi was on the pitch so it gave Madden a decision to make apparently.
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ECL Sligo Rovers v Motherwell 28/7/22
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Never a free kick. Where was the wall? Kelly absolutely sleeping. Game over