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Because that’s how I feel hearing that news. O’Donnell is never a captain in a million years.

Stephen O’Donnell confirmed as club captain.

Hear! Hear! Far too many of our support and indeed some inside the club itself but into the “we’re only a wee club punching way above our weight” guff. You may argue that it doesn’t matter if some have that outlook but I have to disagree. That attitude of “we’re only little Motherwell” rubs off on players, coaches and managers and is why, in my opinion, the likes of Mark McGhee felt so comfortable disrespecting us as a club on both spells he managed us. It’s also why Stuart McCall had such a shocking record in Cup games and big games, because he came to us viewing us as this little tinpot outfit and during his time here no one inside the club seriously attempted to persuade him otherwise. When there is a mindset of “as long as we stay in the league it doesn’t matter if we lose Cup games” then it gives a ready made excuse for failure right from the off. You can also attribute our dreadful record against Rangers over the past twenty years to that mindset as well. It’s why we also have over the past couple of seasons assembled a squad of players whom many of don’t appear to give a fuck about the club and don’t appear to be striving to go the extra mile. It’s just a job to them and one that takes them on coffee outings for social media likes. That’s all of course after the same social media platforms have been full of fans queuing up to welcome them to “our great wee club”.

Very impressed with this signing. This sounds very much like the experienced defender we need and also a leader on the park. Welcome to Motherwell FC.

Yip! and every bit as cringey as the patter that equates following us to riding a rollercoaster.

“Welcome to our great wee club”.

I’m sure it was Terry Butcher that first started the “punching above our weight” line at a time when we were still in administration when, to be fair, we probably were given the circumstances. Alan Burrows when he posted here began parroting it regularly and others latched on to it from there and it’s stuck ever since with some fans. When you have been a top flight side for 36 years, won the Scottish Cup and regularly finished in the top half of the table and qualified for Europe then you have more than earned the right to say that you are at the level you deserve to be at.

I absolutely despise that patter that so many our fans like to hit out with all too often. You see it on social media every time we sign a player “welcome to our great wee club”. It’s pathetic and so small time. For the record I am under no illusions that we are a ‘big’ club or anything like that, but I honestly do not get the obsession so many have with describing us as a “wee club/team” and “punching waaay above our weight. As for this season I don’t think we will be relegated but I don’t think we’re anywhere near good enough for top six either so expect a season similar to the last few. That’s nothing to do with how big or wee a club we are or how big our support or potential support is, it’s simply down to the quality of players we are going to be able to put on the park. As ever we will do nothing of note in either Cup, a Quarter Final in one of them will be our best hope.

I’d feel alot more confident with Donnelly in the middle instead of Crawford.

I can’t see us getting anything from this one as the season just seems to have come too early for us, especially going by GA’s comments last week about having too much work/too many games etc. The only leveller perhaps will be Hibs playing in Europe on Thursday night but I still expect them to take the points. 2-1 away win.

Probably one of the best draws we could have hoped for to be honest. That’s winnable for us!

Did what we needed to do today so can’t complain. Annan were always going to sit in and it was down to us to break them down and we managed it. I like the look of van Veen, he just needs that first goal. Plenty of work rate and looks like a good front player.

That was just a strange comment all round about too much work, too many games etc. He’s looked pretty downbeat and scunnered in his last few interviews which is a concern.

Watt on for van Veen.

QoS now 4-0 up on Airdrie. Obviously a good result for us in terms of progression which is the main thing but further highlights how dreadful our result and performance was in midweek.

Yess!!

1-0 Amaluzor Deserved but a relief!

QoS 1-0 Airdrie

He appeared to have a lot of promise as a youngster and has played at u-16/17/20 levels for England according to wiki. Sounds promising.

Just been confirmed by the club on Twitter. Hopefully he is the midfielder we’ve been needing. Welcome to the club.

“Take it on the chin and move on”. I’m sure that’s what Tony Mowbray was infamous for saying during his ill fated stint as manager of Celtic, where he frequently “took it on the chin” only to move on and “take it on the chin” all over again. Anyway, in answer to the question of tomorrow then yes I’m sure we will win. Whether we do it handsomely or make life difficult for ourselves remains to be seen but at home against Annan we will surely have too much. 2-0 ‘Well.

Well they need to do it again then.

Talk of sacking the manager just now is unfair but it will inevitably grow arms and legs if we have a poor start to the league season, rightly or wrongly. To be honest and I’ve said this since Robinson was here, our problems run far deeper than the man in the dugout, we need a complete overhaul of our scouting and recruitment for starters.

Among the obvious shortcomings in the squad, we continue to lack a real leader on the park. O’Donnell is never captain material in a million years and it’s hard to see who, if anyone in that team fits the bill.

We’ve been lacking in the ‘creative in the last third’ area for the last four years and from what we’ve seen so far we still haven’t properly addressed this.