MJC

That man again. He needs to be first name on the team sheet every single week! Well in Tony Watt

That’s my worry too. There is still time to get players in but not much. We have seen in the past that it rarely works trying to recruit a number of players at once (Baraclough, Kampman) so any signings we do make need to be absolutely bang on the money and able to make an immediate impact on the first team. Given our recent record on that front I am not confident in the slightest.

Slow, no movement, unable to take advantage of any half chance that comes our way then we concede with the first effort on target against us. That could be describing about 80% of our games over the past two years.

And there it is, this week’s cheap and avoidable goal conceded.

Much more intensity from us so far, need to make it count though.

I said that I’m not (that’s NOT) expecting us to produce a McFadden or a Turnbull every year. You sure you read my post correctly?

Without doubt we need to see more on the park. Despite the apparent change in approach to recruitment we appear to be yet again starting a season with the same areas on the field that have been needing addressed for years still not addressed. The window is not yet shut though so I’ll revisit this in ten days time. As a club we also don’t see enough coming through from our youth set ups and that’s a concern. I’m not expecting us to produce a Turnbull or a McFadden every year but you look at the young players on our books and you don’t see anyone who you believe will make the grade and be a regular, reliable first team starter. Maguire to give the obvious example looks badly out of his depth at our level and you don’t see anything coming through that will make the grade. For a club of our size(not a great wee team, not a big team, just a standard size Scottish top flight club) it’s crucial that we develop and bring through young players and we’re falling badly short on that front.

I think the club’s social media dept to go a bit overboard with some of the things they put out, ie. “a coffee and a chat with x,y,z” but I don’t see anything wrong with this from Alan Burrows re-tweet. It’s all fair enough and nowhere near the dismal self defeating guff about “oor great wee team” and the likes that many on here, Twitter and to be honest Burrows himself has been guilty of on many occasion. The words describing our standing in the game are more or less accurate. I think it’s important and I’m glad that the club do reach out to the community nowadays, it’s something I always felt we didn’t do enough of in the past. The town of Motherwell and a lot of North Lanarkshire has been badly hit by unemployment, poverty and even more sadly, suicide in young people over the past few years and if the club can show its support to that then I’m all for it.

Well, going by our first few games this season, plus the majority of games last season, plus our inability to create goal scoring chances, plus our overall poor record on that plastic pitch(I know we did win there last October) then can you blame any Motherwell fan for not being optimistic going into this one?

That’s correct, our away kit looks more like a Livingston kit than their’s does.

Another poor game on that shitey pitch. Another abject performance from us. Another defeat. 1-0 home win.

I’m surprised you can see that through the amount of smoke you are blowing up Celtic’s arses to be honest. They are clearly the best side in Scotland just now but if you can watch that game and not see that Taylor, Ralston and Welsh are defensively suspect then there is no hope for you. As I said Celtic look good just now but your last few posts about them on here make them sound like 1970 Brazil.

It’s safe to say that if the likes of Hibs, Dundee and Airdrie(!) can exploit our defensive weaknesses with relative ease then Celtic will be capable of taking anything between five and ten goals off us, it just depends on how many they want to score.

Our Cup record against top flight teams is utterly deplorable. With the obvious exception of the 2017/2018 season we have won just once in a knockout tie against a fellow top flight side since the 2011 SCSF and that was three years ago against Livingston in the League Cup last 16. That is nothing short of disgraceful especially when you consider that we have only been paired with one of the Old Firm on three occasions in that time, again not counting 2017/18 with that.

Seen a few from Dundee fans saying some of our fans goading/fighting with “old men just trying to get home” after the game and a good few calling our fans ‘scumbags’ etc but at the same time a few Motherwell fans posting that it was the stewards/police who escalated the situation. Always two sides to every story of course. I wasn’t there myself so couldn’t say either way.

I can see him walking sooner rather than later to be honest and have thought so since the first game back this season. I’m not saying that he should go or even that I want him to but the way he comes across he seems less than enthusiastic about the task of taking us forward.

Saw a few reports of that on twitter, though some appear to be saying that it was down to the stewards. Who knows though, but not good to hear either way.

Was Newell's dad (Mike) not an ex team mate/friend of Robinson's or something along they lines?

Granted but at the same time we need to be signing the right players who are actually going to make an impact. Far, far too often we falling short on this and it just seems like our recruitment policy is just sign X amount of players, usually from the English lower leagues and hope we can find a decent one in among them.

We sign at least one of those every single fucking year! You think of Newell, Fisher, Plummer, Sammon, McCormack, Sloth, Ilic, Seedorf, White, McGinley, Parker and much more who have come and gone, some even completely unnoticed over the past three or four years. For a club that's never done banging on about limited and meagre budgets we don't half spunk it on utter dross constantly and some of whom don't even get near the first team. It's mental!

He does but as I said the other week there, our issues run alot deeper than the manager. Our recruitment and scouting system is abysmal. Going by our transfer business during every window since 2017 then I have absolutely no faith whatsoever in us getting the players that we need in before the end of the month.

FT 1-0. Utter fucking shite Motherwell.

I like Watt but have to agree with that, he's not an out and out scorer but we can't seem to sign one of them for the life of us. You tend to find that if you 1) can't defend, 2) can't score goals and 3) have no midfield then you don't win many football matches. Our squad fits all three criteria.

Opponents know that all they need to do is put a half decent cross into our box and they have a more than decent chance of scoring. Watt should have scored there too.

We better hope that we address the midfield and final third before the transfer window shuts because this current squad as it is just won't do. And yet another goal lost from a cross ball...we never learn