The African

So basically Butcher has wasted our time with his application and interview.Wonder if we will ever find out why he has decided he no longer wants the job?Still, we have dodged a bullet as he is a shite manager.

So much for the "astute businessman" quote then?

Maybe not exciting, but more positive than it might have been.The whole South American thing is laughable, as anyone who remembers the situation at Dundee when they tried it. History repeats itself twice, first as tragedy, then as farce.Nobody is making money in Scottish football at the moment an clubs like ours are stuck between a financial rock and a hard place. The WS may struggle but short of an idiot willing to splash the cash on a vanity project, and we know how that will end, they are the option that will have the clubs best interests at heart. No, not exciting, but it may get us through to better times. Good luck to them.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish the happy couple all the very best.

Really disturbing trend for us. I will hold my hand up and admit that my moving to New Zealand won't have helped.When you look at how recent success has not helped at all, you wonder if there is a solution.

McCall has gone. Next please!

My late father used to wax lyrical about the Ancell Babes. They might not have lifted a trophy but legend status at Fir Park. Sympathies to his family and friends. RIP.

Stark does not inspire at all. Beggars cannot be choosers but surely we can do a bit better than this "has been". I would rather take a chance with someone young and hungry.

Leitch is tarred with the McGhee brush.

Somebody of the names being listed by the bookies are just daft. Brown? McGhee? After walking out on us? Butcher? After getting Hibs relegated? Doyle? On what we can afford to pay? Just seems crazy.Hope we get someone who can get the players fit and organised. That would be a good start. None of the internal options really inspire.

Never good when a manager goes, but the time was right. Personally I was never a huge fan of McCall but you cannot argue that in the league he achieved amazing results for a club of our size. I sincerely wish him all the best. One thing you could not fault him on is his honesty and this looks like an honest decision to go as he knows there is not much more for him to give.

Would seriously struggle even though I am on the other died of the world. I follow Anderlecht and Shalke in Europe but it is not the same. Motherwell have a part of me that no other team has, or will ever have. If they die, then that part of me also dies.

Can we not invest some of the money we are saving on win bonuses on a new signing to freshen things up?

Anyone championing McLean is borderline daft. A Motherwell legend but from a different era.McCall is not my favourite MFC manager but he is the man in place so we have to get behind him. He will hopefully I still the necessary fitness and organisation and get us out of the mire we are in. The other option is too much of a gamble.Let's hope, if he stays beyond the end of the season, he learns from the experience, which will be to everyone's advantage.

I think we still have a couple of games before we need to make a decision on the manager's position. After having played each of our rivals once might be the time. Whether a change is the right decision will also be tricky. Things look bleak now but we have enough talent to turn it around. Basics such as organisation, fitness and, dare I question the motivation of professionals, desire need to addressed. The fact that we are doing this mid season is a question for another day, but we are in a serious rut and need to find a route out of it, and quickly.

Do not have a problem with the manager going off on Scotland duty. The break might do him good.Seeing as very few of our squad will be involved I would give them a couple of days off to think about things. Get them back in on Thursday and do nothing but serious fitness for a week. We need to get back to basics and a fit team is just the start. If the players don't like it, tough.The next few games should be played with a view to pick up whatever we can. Simple four four two, hard to break down and fighting hard for every scrap. This season is now about retaining our premiership place. We have to earn that and only hard work and organisation are available to us in trying to achieve this end.

Good luck to Faddy. If he is fit then he will do Saints a decent turn.Looks like we may have missed the boat with this one, mind you, looking at the condition of our side, who would trust our management team to make a decision on "fitness".

Faddy was and always will be one of my all time favourite 'well players. The fact he had the skills to take it to a higher level and perform at EPL and international level put him up with the likes of St John and McAllister in terms of class. If he is not worth a contract then he is either completely crooked or McCall is an arse. He obviously loves the club and would want to play for us.The issue now is that he does seem to be fit enough to get a deal elsewhere in the SPL and we have spent our limited budget on players who are comparatively shite. Not good business if that is the way it works out.

Would love to see Faddy back but seems unlikely to say the least.Unfair to compare him with Law. A legend and a current make weight. I hope Josh can make the step up and provide something worthwhile, even if it is not this season.

He would be out of his depth in any of these jobs in England. He should look at all the people who have left for better things and fallen flat in their faces and realise that Motherwell are a good fit for him.

Should we worry about a "new manager" bounce for county?

Personally I'd have rather had Clarkson than Pearson.

Actually I do remember that, but I was over here in New Zealand when that match was played so it was on around Saturday morning our time.

Out of interest, have we ever won a Friday night fixture?

Thanks for that. My late father was at that game and never tired of telling me and my brother 9who had stayed from the family tradition and follows Hibs) all about it. We had some team coming through at that time. A shame they never won any silver-wear while at the club but we were a selling club even then.