bobbybingo
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7 minutes ago, steelboy said:
McGinn done well.
Sorted.
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50 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Paddy Power were brilliant in that regard. Wasnt that fussed on the home one, but the petrol blue "Sampdoria" number is a classic!
Yeah, it was a clever marketing ploy. Think we were one of 5 teams they 'unsponsored'. Huddersfield got a £50K fine for wearing a spoof shirt with a huge Paddy Power logo on it to kick off the publicity campaign.
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The only way any sponsor is going to agree to their name being left off replica shirts is if the 'fee' they pay the club to get their name on all shirts is significantly reduced. Would any increase in shirt sales cover that difference or maybe bring in more money? Might be worth a gamble, if they can find a company willing to go along with it.
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47 minutes ago, alanos said:
This was the list of OOC Raith players (from the other week). Some are also on loan players.
Without checking any of the others, Sam Stanton isn't out of contract in May. He signed a 2 year extension in December.
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2 minutes ago, StAndrew7 said:
Aye, was there at least a couple of seasons, I think? Spent at least one of them recovering from a bad injury.
Yeah, played 50 games over 2 seasons.
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1 hour ago, steelboy said:
I get the feeling that because Kettlewell never played in the top division he's in denial about levels of quality required.
Funnily enough, he did play in the top division.
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1 hour ago, Cameron_Mcd said:
Lewis Vaughan signed a 2 year deal at Raith back in January
That's a definite no-go for us, then.
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12 minutes ago, Stevie73 said:
The boy Vaughn, think he’s a winger/forward.
That would be a really weird one, asking a guy who has spent his entire career in the lower leagues and missed literally years due to 4 ACL ruptures to step up a level at 28.
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15 minutes ago, Stevie73 said:
Heard the two boys from Raith have signed, I work with their scout, says both are decent in championship, but thinks they will struggle in the Premier. The joy.
Assuming one's Dylan Easton, who's the other?
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Has Callachan kicked a ball since he suffered an acl injury a year ago?
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Bair has clearly taken the dedicated coaching on board, learned from it and improved. Defensively, maybe we do need better coaching, or maybe the players in question just aren't capable of applying the lessons during matches. Maybe both. It must be nigh on impossible to ensure someone isn't a dozy bugger, no matter how often you drill it into them.
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14 minutes ago, wellfan said:
Yes, although I was referring to those who consistently refer to critical individuals who differ from the 'happy-clappy' views as 'doom-mongers'. It's tiresome.
In fairness, it tends to be the 'doom mongers' who refer to others as 'happy clappers'. Both terms get a bit tiresome.
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If I ever think there are gloom and doom merchants on here, I'll just recall the guy I encountered online on Saturday night. No point in celebrating a 4-1 win, because in 66 years of supporting Motherwell, he's had one single enjoyable day - 18th May 1991.
Mind you, he also wished we were as successful as East Fife and Dunfermline, so he might have a few cards missing.
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1 hour ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
But we concede virtually every match and you get points from individual match results, not end of season totals.
So far this season there have been 16 matches were we would have gained a point or points by keeping a clean sheet.
That's a massive number of points over a season. In fact it's 31 points. Probably enough that if we'd done that in half the instances we'd be in Europe next term.
If we don't tighten up at the back it will absolutely mean Bottom 6 again next season and it's quite clearly the main priority to be worked on during the summer.
I'm certainly not arguing with the problems losing those goals have caused us, or the need to tighten up at the back, but as Dundee have shown, success isn't just down to the amount of goals you concede or score.
As you said, conceding in virtually every match has been our Achilles heel this season, but clean sheets guarantee nothing either - County, St Johnstone and Livi have all managed several more than us.
Bottom line is, it's been a grey season for us. We could easily have won several more games, and just as easily have lost several more. I'm just glad we got enough bloody draws to keep us up.
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12 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:
Fair point but I still believe there is a lot of room for improvement in the defence. Some of our defending this year has been brutal and teams didn't need to work hard to get goals off us. The amout of goals we lost from corners and set pieces was frankly laughable at times. Of course others are free to feel differently just how I see it.
Yeah, we definitely do need to improve defensively because as you said, that should be easier to achieve than scoring more than we have.
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3 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:
"Our problem defensively this season has been losing a relatively small number of goals per game, but in almost every game" ... so does that not suggest we need to concede less goals thus getting more points from games that we narrowly lost or drew. I think it does. Sure you can argue if we score more the net improvement could be the same. However I think that's a seriously harder ask than cutting out some of the comedy gold goals we gave away.
Yeah, it does suggest that. Then again, Dundee have lost more goals than us and scored fewer, yet they're in the top 6, so it's not quite that simple.
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4 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:
You have a point but if we want to improve we need to look at being better defensively. The fact the number of goal we lose has been consistent doesnt make it good.
No, it doesn't. Our problem defensively this season has been losing a relatively small number of goals per game, but in almost every game. In previous years we had more clean sheets, but we took a fair few doings along the way too.
Our goal difference is the best outside the top 4 and only 4 teams have lost fewer games. God knows what all those stats tell us, other than we were as close to having a pretty good season as we were a disastrous one.
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53 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
If, like me these days, you just go to home matches you'll have got 5 wins in 18 matches this season. That's not good enough. Or if you like 75 quid a win on your season ticket! More if you are in the posh stand! 🤣
And 2 of those wins were against a team that have been hopeless all season and must have one of the lowest points tallies in the modern era.
If you take them away you get 3 wins from 16. Ain't great is it?
We've scored goals but our defensive record is absolutely appalling.
We've managed 3 clean sheets in the league all season. 1 at Fir Park and 2 away. I mean even Livingston managed more than 50% more clean sheets than us (7). That's got to be some kind of unwanted club record surely? 3 clean sheets in a season.....
I supported the manager through the tough period because I want to look at things more long term than a period within a season but there is definitely a lot of scope for improvement.
I'd keep Kettlewell at the helm but there are areas where we need to show considerable improvement next season.
We've currently lost 53 goals, the same number we lost last season. In the last 10 years we've conceded fewer goals on only 2 occasions. If we manage to score 3 goals in the remaining games we'll match last season's total, which was the highest return for more than a decade.
So the issue is neither the leakiest defence we've had nor a powderpuff attack. We've become harder to beat at exactly the same time we've found it harder to win. Doesn't necessarily make for great excitement, but it's not the worst we've ever suffered either.
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8 minutes ago, star sail said:
Whatever happened to Steve Diggle?
He's the last man standing.
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3 minutes ago, MJC said:
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with commenting on or offering an opinion on a game you weren’t personally at, it’s more the types who like to get arsey and snide with match going fans over opinions and views expressed that they don’t like. We’ve seen it on here for years, weeyin, Spiderpig, SteveDiggle, eddiemunster…. all big mooths trying to lecture and pontificate fans who have been at Fir Park more than the four of them put together in recent times.
10...9...8...7..........
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Appeal dismissed.
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51 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
Some truth in what you say, but I'm more optimistic. SK will have more money available to him for a start. Not in terms of the gross amount but certainly in terms of the net amount. Wages for the likes of Barry Maguire, Conor Wilkinson, Nathan McGinley, Callum Butcher etc will be freed up to spend on newcomers. These players contributed little to our campaign this term but did eat up a substantial part of the wages budget. Hopefully Jon Obika too. On the debit side, yes we'll lose Blair Spittal for sure. Maybe Theo Bair and Lennon Miller - but those moves are by no means certain. As for the rest of the OOC players, there's no-one I'm desperate to keep. Maybe some other youngsters coming through too?
There will be huge departure and arrival list this summer, but even if we only attain a 50% success rate in incomers then we should still strengthen. Add to that, that SK will now know his squad better and will be aware of weaknesses.
I know it doesn't sound like it, but I'm always optimistic, with a healthy dose of realism thrown in. The dosage is probably increasing with every passing year.
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39 minutes ago, steelboy said:
Aberdeen had five shots on target and Lennon Miller headed the first one off the line defending a corner about 55 minutes in. The second shot on target was the goal from a corner after an hour.
Of the three saves he made I can think of two. The shot from outside the box which was straight at him and the shot from the right hand of the box which he saved at the near post. Neither were great saves.
Add in his nonsense at the end of the game that almost gave away a goal and it was another joke performance from him.
I don't go with the 'worst keeper in the league' stuff, but Kelly does look awful nervy to me, which might well be having an effect on what is not the world's greatest defence. We could certainly find a better option out there, but we saw the list of worse options we've suffered the other day. Overall, a parting of the ways might be best for both parties at this point.
The success rate of transfers at our level is reckoned to be somewhere between 40% and 50%. That's about right for this season's recruitment, so we're unlikely to see much improvement next year unless we can hold onto our best players - which isn't going to happen. Any new manager would be in exactly the same position, looking to find gems on free transfers or loan deals, and a quick glance around our rivals tells you how often that happens. We'll have another meh squad because we operate in a meh league with nae money to buy proven, consistent quality.
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10 minutes ago, steelboy said:
I think we will struggle to replace Mugabi and if you look he's started in 6/8 of our wins plus the games we have defended well at Ibrox, Celtic Park and Easter Road.
I'm not going to miss reading the lazy stereotypes of "nice guy but has a mistake in him". SOD, O'Donnell and Casey all have far more mistakes this season. As for why he's so much nicer than Shane Blaney or Barry Maguire I'll leave that to the psychiatrists.....
SOD and O'Donnell. Are those psychiatrists Freudian?
Ross County v Motherwell 11/05/2024
in Club Chat
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Can't find anything other than some comments about them auctioning off 'goal scoring' balls at certain matches in Italy and Spain.
Edit: that is the reason.
https://spfl.co.uk/news/spfl-announces-partnership-with-matchwornshirt