Motherwell Vs St Johnstone 19/05/24

[Ya Bezzer!]

1 hour ago, robsterwood said:

Kelly coming out for ball? 😂😂😂😂

The goalkeeper should be the boss of the box and therein lies the problem.

[Fairhill]

Thankfully the season is over and we ended up where we belong, mid-lower-level. With a new CEO and potentially an investor or two we might get one or two better players, otherwise next season will be no better. Perhaps a manager who understands outscoring the opposition on the park is more successful than all the talk pre and after each game. Enjoy your summer guys.

[steelboy]

The drop off in quality after Miller went off was noticeable. Paton was completely pointless and Nicholson hopefully played his way out any deal we might have offered. 

The St Johnstone keeper knew exactly where Bair was going to put the penalty because he's taken the same pen 4 times in a row now. He should try practicing shooting into the other corner over the summer. 

[Ya Bezzer!]

22 minutes ago, steelboy said:

The drop off in quality after Miller went off was noticeable.

As it was between November and January!

[SteelmaninOZ]

For the last time this season 

the gaffer said 

 

[FirParkCornerExile]

1 hour ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

Today kind of summed up the season.

1) Scored. 2) Didn't play well with no recognisable style of play, bit pedestrian. 3) Defensively hopeless. 4) No home win.

I'm mentioned it before but I will do again.  We conceded in 35 out of 38 league matches. Big, big improvements needed over the the summer, especially defensively.

correct if anything that should surely convince some that most of that squad need moved on. They will always keep us 9th/10th. SK has a real opportunity to clear the decks and rebuild. My fear is he offers contracts to most of them when he should be showing the door to more than half. 

[FirParkCornerExile]

58 minutes ago, Fairhill said:

Thankfully the season is over and we ended up where we belong, mid-lower-level. With a new CEO and potentially an investor or two we might get one or two better players, otherwise next season will be no better. Perhaps a manager who understands outscoring the opposition on the park is more successful than all the talk pre and after each game. Enjoy your summer guys.

to be fair how can the manager legislate for some of our comedy gold that passes for defending. He cant so he needs to move on the regular culprits. Im relieved that will probably be Mugabis last ever game for us. As big a bomb scare now as he was when he first signed for us. My worry is , if rumours are true, we've recruited Obileye who on the basis of what Ive seen is worse.

[wellfan]

2 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

My fear is he offers contracts to most of them when he should be showing the door to more than half.

If he does, he'll be signing his death warrant at the same time, so let's wait and see how smart he truly is. 

[davkel]

6 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

to be fair how can the manager legislate for some of our comedy gold that passes for defending. He cant so he needs to move on the regular culprits. Im relieved that will probably be Mugabis last ever game for us. As big a bomb scare now as he was when he first signed for us. My worry is , if rumours are true, we've recruited Obileye who on the basis of what Ive seen is worse.

We haven’t …

[FirParkCornerExile]

7 minutes ago, davkel said:

We haven’t …

i really hope you are right

[Mccus28]

13 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

I personally don't think that's where we belong. However at Christmas I'd have been more than happy with 9th place 

Your positivity is great but this season has seen an unbelievable winless run and some absolute eye-bleeding football..............i for one am happy that the season is over!!!!!

[FirParkCornerExile]

Just now, Mccus28 said:

Your positivity is great but this season has seen an unbelievable winless run and some absolute eye-bleeding football..............i for one am happy that the season is over!!!!!

dont forget the utterly inept efforts in the Cups....

[Mccus28]

17 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

dont forget the utterly inept efforts in the Cups....

I had blocked that out but thanks 😜

[wellsince75]

Given the budget cuts 9th is about where we expected for the season. 

Think most are in the camp that we don't want a rotating door for mgrs.  SK is a decent man manager and will continue in role.  I think he needs to improve though, both he and the squad need to evolve over the next period.

Like a few have said we need to clear out and be ruthless towards players that simply cost us too many goals too often.

Sounds like an easy job but our perm recruitment has been poor.  For me it's the loan signings + Miller + Bair + Spittal that kept us safe. 

Will also be tough to replace likes of Miller & Spittal.  

With a new CEO and potential investment I really hope we start seeing a better brand of football. Not expecting total football , for now a team doing simple things well with some hope for the future will be enough. 

[pretzel]

3 points from 12 against a pish St Johnstone side this season.

I thought the match was gearing up to be an entertaining affair as it went back and forth quite quickly without either keeper being tested. It was a great cross in to be fair from Carey for the opener but it's so frustrating watching everyone ball watching other than the forward. I had that feeling Bair was going to come up short with the penalty, he loves to hit them low to the left and I'm sure that was well researched by his former club. The less said about the second goal the better. They certainly identified Mugabi as a weak link as they kept pinging long balls right to him.

I thought the ref was frustrating again at times, a Bair effort was well blocked in the first half and you would think the goalkeeper and defender celebrating the tackle and with everyone heading into relevant positions was enough to convince him otherwise but no. He also seemed to take an age making his mind up at times denying Bair a great opportunity in the second half like 6 seconds after he won the ball.

I couldn't help but feel the footballing gods were watching over them today, a routine cross early in the game ended up being cleared off our own defender and it took a great save by Kelly to claw it away from the top corner. I'll give them credit for the three blocks on the line from our effort but when Spittal's shot came off the inside of the post and rolled into the keepers arms you just knew it wasn't going to be our day. However Moses goal was nicely taken, just typical it came on the 94th minute. Ross County hit the post twice late on in the game at Dingwall.

TBF I hate travelling up that neck of the woods so hopefully Raith Rovers can do the business but I feel they will come up short.

[TheoBair14]

Let’s be honest 

Poor result today tho positives we can take from this season like Beating Rangers and drawing to Celtic staying safe 

Let’s go and get in that top 6 next season 🧡💛

[Great Balls of Shire]

1 hour ago, wellfan said:

If he does, he'll be signing his death warrant at the same time, so let's wait and see how smart he truly is. 

I've not noticed enough of the guy to comment but most said the same about Bair...

[Happy Dosser]

2 hours ago, wellfan said:

Absolute shite. See you all in August for more of the same. 

If you're so sure of that why would you return next season? Some form of masochism? I don't understand such an attitude.

 

[FirParkCornerExile]

1 minute ago, TheoBair14 said:

Let’s be honest 

Poor result today tho positives we can take from this season like Beating Rangers and drawing to Celtic staying safe 

Let’s go and get in that top 6 next season 🧡💛

top 6 will only be a hope if we get shot of 75% of that squad. That squad will always keep us down amongst the dead men.

[FirParkCornerExile]

Just now, wellgirl said:

We just missed out even with that squad 

that Motherwell team was never getting into the top 6 as it proved to be. When you defend like a pub team you dont get the rewards. 

[Spit_It_Out]

4 minutes ago, TheoBair14 said:

Let’s be honest 

Poor result today tho positives we can take from this season like Beating Rangers and drawing to Celtic staying safe 

Let’s go and get in that top 6 next season 🧡💛

The only way we are going to to progress is investment of some kind until then we are just plodding along.

 

[Kmcalpin]

7 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

We just missed out even with that squad 

Sorry we fell well short. Given where we were months ago, 9th spot was fine. We deserved to finish 9th and not 10th or 8th. 

[FirParkCornerExile]

9 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

 The point I was making was that a few weeks ago we still had a chance of top six. 

mathematically yes , ability and performance wise it was never happening, however its all about opinions if you think that squad would serve us well next season id just need to respectfully disagree.

[wellfan]

30 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:

I've not noticed enough of the guy to comment but most said the same about Bair...

One swallow does not make a summer.

[wellfan]

30 minutes ago, Happy Dosser said:

If you're so sure of that why would you return next season? Some form of masochism? I don't understand such an attitude.

Because I won't stop supporting the club I've followed for 30+ years just because the current manager and the majority of the squad are crap. Most of them and the manager will be gone soon enough.