Gadgey

The glossy PDF was glossy, said very little that couldn’t be sourced off chatGPT. However, it served its purpose and got rid of the perceived threat of the time. People believed what they wanted to believe. Sufficient time has elapsed for a progress report.

Are you all there?

I’m assuming you mean during the game as opposed to afterwards? Is in game acknowledgment of failure to a group of individuals who have no qualification to opinion beyond entrance fee is something you’d like all players to do from now on? If so, I would suggest you need to come up with some form of sign language code that provides clear indication of what kind of apology is required or given. You know, like, a bow in the direction of the noisy people could mean “thank you, I honestly don’t know what I was thinking” or a curtsy could mean “your constructive feedback is always welcomed, I will endeavour to do better next time”. I’ll of course leave thst in your capable hands but whilst creating your code, can I suggest you have versions of these “non verbal messages” to include “and this time with feeling” versions cos we’d hate for the baying mob to think said player didn’t care

And just out of interest, how does he do that?

Cannot disagree that abuse is not acceptable and it would seem that with the advent of social media, the parameters of acceptable have been stretched. Britain is a much worse off place for it. However, there’s something about football that brings out the worst in people. From children’s grassroots to the very top of the senior game, there are more reports of unwarranted trolling, verbal abuse and pitchside physical violence than ever before. Without doubt, whoever shouts abuse at players and managers really do need to do some self checking. All that anger is not good for their health and only serves to de-motivate the people they want to see improvement from.

Just listened to the interview from start to finish and it’s fair to say, it was a tough listen. Kettlewell has in my opinion at least, really let himself down here and in the long run, will have done himself no favours. He is clearly a very intense guy. From the day he arrived, he talked at machine gun pace using flowery words that didn’t quite fit with what he was saying. That intensity only ramped up the deeper he got into the job and his levels of personal investment increased. Of course football management is a uniquely demanding role. It demands so much of your time and energy away from the Matchday, often influenced by factors outwith your span of control and attracts critique far beyond what almost any other vocation should expect. Having coached youth, first team and held director of football roles at Semi Pro (Isthmian and national league level) clubs in England I can personally vouch (though on a much smaller scale) for the levels of pressure associated and the impact a life at the sharp end of football can have on you and all those around you. Kettlewell talked about not reading the socials and working all hours and then coming home and seeing the sadness in the families eyes and using that as a driver for quitting. Every manager has that, and given that he has a family “like the Waltons” his chosen vocation and its hours worked, will also be a huge source of pressure. By choosing to work those hours, he will be choosing to miss some of his kids younger years. His choice, his guilt, not the clubs or the fans. Fan abuse is often ill informed and when in that space, often feeling extremely unfair. However, I’d bet the mortgage that the reason Kettlewell chose to walk was because…. - He’s a naturally intense guy who’s response to things going badly is to throw himself further into his work - This then brings a “I’m working my arse off here, what more do you want?” mindset. - He was bringing this mindset home with him (he says he’s an aggressive person) and it was impacting on the family dynamic. - The family begins to resent the cause of this Gollum side to his personality (his thankless employer and fans he seems to love more than us) - The slightest bit of poor fan behaviour witnessed then gets jumped on by the family because they’ve become hyper sensitive to criticism. - Kettlewell knows he’s running out of ideas and perhaps realising that hard work doesn’t fix. The fella has one maybe two opportunities left to prove himself as a manager that can stay the pace without completely losing the nut, burning himself and his family out and resorting to the blame of others. His decision to do that interview reeks of a wounded ego that doesn’t have the self awareness to recognise just how much he has to change.

Hopefully he doesn’t need to move any further than the Valley.

Wee Allan has just signed for Charlton in loan. I’m proper chuffed. He’s going to boss league 1 https://www.charltonafc.com/news/allan-campbell-red

I coached u13s last season and my boys move the ball much better than Motherwell did today

In the immortal words of Connor McLeod of the clan McLeod “there can be only one” and that one is Tom Boyd. absolutely detest the man. Fraser Wishart because he was pushing for a move to a “bigger club” and ended up at St Mirren? Those were pre Bosman times and players were commodities. Without checking Google, didn’t he go on to a prominent PFA role? Out of curiosity, what has Paul Kinnaird done to boil your piss?

Others old enough to remember may indeed have better recall than me but if I recall correctly, Provan Sports took on the Well Shop when first built as part of the Cooper Stand project (1995?) and have been there since. They had secured the contract off the back of how their relationship with St Mirren. For a long time they ran both club shops. No clue whether they have the St Mirren contract nowadays.

It’s been a grim football week so to lighten things, G’on then Wee Yin (and anyone else for that matter), which ones are in your top 5 or 10 all time worst? I love how football shirts and opinions around them can be so polarised and emotive. For example, I could never understand all the hate for the 22/23 hatred, I loved it. This new one is going to have to do a lot of growing before I can be tempted to say it’s anything other than god awful.

Just watched it on Motherwell tv but with Aberdeen commentary. Aberdeens goal did not look offside. Our goal didn’t look a foul and Rob McLean is a bell end.

As a Well fan in exile, I am now a season ticket holder at Charlton. Soare started last season at the Valley and was welcomed by a similar response. There’s no doubt the bloke has a great pedigree. The problem is that he has never truly recovered from the car smash in 2016 that nearly crippled him. https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/18/pape-souare-crystal-palace-car-crash-interview Come January, he was let go and his squad role was taken by Matt Penney. I really want it to work out for him at Motherwell.

Now that is the first thing you’ve said in a while that I can agree with. You do still need to chill a bit though man. No point getting so vexed about sh1t that’s outside of your span of control. Same goes for all those who are seemingly unhappy with the new away kit. Buy it. Don’t buy it. That is our (fans) span of control. Leave all the hating to those muppets who don’t have the intelligence to see beyond a bigoted herd mentality. We all chose Motherwell because we are better than that !!!