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No, we're just trying to run the place as best we can, and can do without barrack room lawyers who pipe up when people have stepped over the line, we run this for everyone's enjoyment and engagement, the mods do an excellent job.

Scotty needs to start asking the real questions n not the half arsed cop out ones, youv gave him an easy ride start askin him the ones the fans want answered or u can fuck of as well scotty boy

Apart from the score this performance is every bit as poor as last week.

Sat through that entire mind numbing rot today and this for me sums up why SK's time is up. Time and time again he shoe horns players in so as to stick to a preferred set up that is clearly failing to deliver. Thus exposing player weaknesses and hanging them out to dry. Same reason I suspect Kaleta was kept on after he was clearly injured. Yet again his substitutions did nothing to alter the pattern of the game. Like for like. Re Balcombe. He certainly does not like catching a ball and he did not inspire confidence. That said, but for a couple of outstanding saves the game would have been lost much earlier. Just about passable performance first half after being handed a goal of a start through no effort of our own. Second half was pathetic. We still cannot defend corners. Thought Blaney did ok and Sparrow battled away as best he could. St Johnstone were even poorer than they were last week. Anybody who believes we are not in trouble is deluded.

Maybe you should arrange the lunch with Stuart that you won sooner rather than later.

I have heard from someone trustworthy that SOD went to higher ups and complained about Hammell and let's remember Alexander dropped him because he was Guff inthink Alexander treated him how his performances in a motherwell shirt warrant him to be treated. If I took over tomorrow he'd be first out the door.

Now now, remember......we aren't experts 🤪

Can we get Steelboy back so we can hear his thoughts?

Duncan Ferguson available. Was doing a decent job up at ICT up until they went into administration.

Im kinda done here SK constantly moaning about how small a budget he has yet he has managed to put a squad of about 2000 together and then must give the tactics of:- Plan A - smash the ball forward Plan B - try and hit it longer Plan C - try to go even longer Utterly horrid horrid football, I now dont even look forward to a Saturday anymore and its starting to annoy me now

What happens when someone is promoted above their ability and given a blank cheque for several transfer windows? This is what happens. A massive and aimless squad who can barely muster more than 30% possession most games. We’re going nowhere under Kettlewell, except down the table and decreasing our bank balance.

Wtf does he say to them at half Time? I thought we were dominant the first half. Getting forward, keeping possession albeit not making many chances. 1-0 up and he clearly sets us up to get as many men as possible behind the ball and hold on…. St Johnstone are fkn atrocious

GET KETTLEWELL TO FUCK

Bye Stuart

As a fan owned club, he really needs to do better.

So we should ignore his remarks about "so called experts"? If he isnt talking about us, who is he talking about? Im all for cutting him slack on performances, injuries etc, but those comments go too far for me......

'We all need to take ownership Scotty. Myself included' 🤣🤣

You haven't. Other people have. There's been a few digs at me over the last couple of days - and it's really obvious to me that you can't say anything positive about Kettlewell without being called out. Im not the only person who has said positive stuff about him - but I feel it's only me that's being asked to justify their position. I feel out of place on this thread - particularly after a couple of comments that were aimed at me today and last night - and I'm going to step out. I feel like I'm constantly justifying myself - and it's too much energy There's no worries. Take care I will be sorry to see Stuart go but I think the writing is on the wall -and that's that.

When Motherwell friendly members of the media are nervous or critical, then it generally doesn’t end well

I wish I had your optimism about our style of play, you must not go to a lot of games, I’ve been to them all, we have 30 percent possession most games, a few weeks ago Killie destroyed us for a 0-0 draw, we shouldn’t be the team that offers zero and hopes for the best, every team in the league plays better football than us, we have been very lucky this season, we won’t go down but we need change, we had nearly 2000 at Perth last week, today about 200, what does that tell you.

Oh, so familiar. Groundhog Day. It's happening again. Again, isn't it?! He was shown to be gash by December 2023, and he still won't do in January 2025. But it looks like our meagre budget is enough for a 30-man first team squad now. Groundhog Day mk2.

I would personally be very surprised if SOD has an attitude. If you see him at events like calendar signings - he spends a ridiculous amount of time with the young fans, why would you do that if you don't care about the club- this is all just conjecture the same way the Casey stuff last week was.

I personally don't think that's fair. By all accounts there were issues between SOD and Alexander but from what people who are connected with the club have suggested is that SOD wasn't treated very well by Alexander and wanted out. He wasn't playing for a chunk under Alexander - I don't think that's the same as downing tools. How can you down tools when you aren't getting a game. Also - if people did down tools under Hammell - they did it as a collective. It clearly wasn't just one player. Liam Kelly went on TV saying the players let Alexander down - after the Sligo games - how can any of that be pinned on one player? Where is the evidence that SOD had issues with Robbo and Hammell? The entire team didn't turn up at the Raith game - if players had an issue with Hammell and he lost the dressing room it wasn't just SOD to blame

Still in the naughty corner with wee yodo. Ffs am beginning to think they had physic vision re SK

Just watched his post match interview, said he told them to attack, so either someone is telling porkies or the players are defying his offensive tactics. 🤔

I wouldn't listen to I wouldnt listen to Lee Anne even if she had the winning lottery numbers. She seems to know everything about fuk all. After everything has happened. Anyway the manager is In the top six so the board won't get rid of him , for what may happen in future games ,only way he will go if he looses the fans which he is doing rapidly . A win today was a must and he blew it his radio interview after the game was blaming players, poor show . He has no attacking ideas in his head , no flair and the tactics he is dogadly sticking to are putting even me off going to games. It looks ominous but board won't make a movie as before they stuck with him.

It's just ran it's course nothing more nothing less it happens he has no ideas left and hasn't learned nothing so it's time to cut ties and move on.

Said to my mate as soon as the clock hit 80 mins if StJ score in the next 5 mins they will win the game. Substitutions destroyed us. But hey what the fuck do I know I've not spent a lifetime in the game.

Oh man!! I think I am throwing in my towel now too. You just get a sense when the wheels are coming off and I never really got that sense during the long losing streak but the team had to make a statement today and they have not been able to do it. The manner of the defeat rings alarm bells too. I have fought the good fight but I am raising the white flag. If he does go now, what is for certain is that we are turning over managers at an alarming rate. I still believe that this says more about the challenges of the job than it does about the incompetence of what is a growing list of managers.

Regardless he will be fine because there will be at least two posters on here defending him to the end...... And still saying GA got a raw deal

Who and how much?nearly Into Feb and u want to make a change, if we get a manager from another club it costs us,if he's out of work he's out for a reason,if he is to be sacked it should have been done before now,for me it would be wrong now, his job now is to keep us safe, we're not at basement level now.

You could be right there are definitely a few in the squad that need to either have a long hard look at themselves or get punted

SK will be disappointed he was aiming for no more than 25%

30% possession against rock bottom, says it all

Time up. Zero lessons learnt!

"We all need to take ownership....myself included" yes Stuart...blah blah blah. Been a defender of him lots but for me that's it but it ain't going to happen so we are stuck with him

Relagation play offs here we come

Look at davor,absolute shite player of the highest order

Please go now Kettlewell. Enoughs enough.

Relagation play offs here we come 😞

Twice by the bottom team. What more needs to be said?

Again 30 percent possession against bottom side. Changes needed.

Great save

DOH!!!........TAXI FOR GRIZZLY 🤪🤪🤪

The amount of shithousery St Johnstone are getting away with is ridiculous. Yellow card offences that aren't even given as fouls.

Steve Seddon.

That interview on radio scotland just now a shambles..... i'll do what i always do which is work a rediculous number of hours a week for this club.... Wee violin stuart. Lots of us work tons of hours. We had a bad performance last week & we will try to rectify it.... Good but the issue is not 1 bad performance, its the volume of them this season. And how many times have we had to sit and listen to you say that exact same thing but yet you keep sending us out the same way He's clearly feeling the pressure here. Wouldnt surprise me if the players have been letting him know its not working

Call me cynical but I don't believe a fit Casey would be benched for anyone else in that defence. This is purely punitive action by SK after the alleged fallout. If you believe the team is better of today with a fit Casey on the bench your delusional

I'd go with a 4-1-3-2. It's slim pickings, but we seriously need to move away from the back 5, put someone in front of the back 4, and try get the middle 3 to feed and support the front 2. If that doesn't work, we've got Slattery and Nicholson to come on at h/t, and maybe Paton too if he's fit. Mair Kaleta/SOD Balmer Casey Blaney/Wilson Davor Sparrow Halliday Andrews Watt Maswanhise

It's not though. What we often forget is that there is a human being on the other end of this discussion, who is working really hard for the club and who has saved us from relegation in the last two seasons. This thread was started very early in SK's tenure and has trundled on throughout his time at the helm. We are talking about a guy who has a career to build, a family to feed and who is an honest hard worker professional who has done well for this club. The appetite to sack managers is generally distasteful and it is really easy to be smart ( and often anonymous) on a football forum. I am not referencing you in this mfc88, just quoting your last sentence. Sacking manager threads should surface in times when a team is in turmoil. This team is not in turmoil and yet there are fans hell bent on creating instability and a false sense of turmoil. It seems that this is now as much a part of the entertainment as the football itself. I think SK deserves a bit more respect. He has earned it.