MJC

We need to win. Feel like a broken record saying that but we need to start winning football matches. Hopefully we will have another striker option on board by the time this game comes around. I can see it being another draw though unfortunately.

Good. Just remember that the next time you’re tempted to have a wee whinge about what I post. Bye for now. X

Calling someone a troll is a "get out" for people who have lost an argument and can't come back with anything constructive. They most probably don't actually know what the word itself means. I for one succesfully trolled the Rangers obsessed moonhowlers on Pie & Bovril for about four years and was eventually banned for it. But I did a pretty good job of it while it lasted. I knew exactly what to say and when to say it, all it took most of the time was a "Good luck Rangers, YATP" and that was enough. On here though I'm only interested in discussing Motherwell and our club and always try and be as constructive as possible.

I’m split on SK to be honest. On one hand I don’t like the idea of us changing yet another manager in the middle of a season and believe we do need some continuity. But on the other hand we have won one league match in eighteen and only scraped a win against lower league Alloa in the Cup. The football we are playing is dismal and we look poorly coached and managed. Either way something has to give.

But we didn’t win either, and we should have. That’s what is so frustrating. “If” and “perhaps”. We’ve been saying this for nearly five months now. We need to start winning games and putting points on the board especially in games against our peer sides like St.Johnstone, Ross County and Dundee. Scraping draws with the last kick of the ball or only drawing games we have dominated just isn’t good enough.

Hear fucking Hear!! 👍

I’m sure it isn’t. Any genuine Motherwell fan would never be miserable when we’re winning. Unfortunately we have won once in eighteen league games so it’s hard to gauge how anyone’s mood is when we’re “winning games” just now.

It’s “Hear, Hear”. I’m pleased for Bair too, his effort and workrate is never in question. It’s just a pity we don’t have a goal scoring striker to play alongside him.

Hard to defend him and the team to be honest. That stat is horrendous and regardless of how ‘well’ we played today doesn’t change it. Obviously with other results going our way today then we have gained a point on our rivals but there is literally nothing to get our spirits up about. We are guff and we are pinning our hopes on other sides being more shite than we are. It’s all just fucking awful. So, so fucking bad.

Another game another failure to win. It’s not good enough.

He’s not done too much wrong from what I’ve seen. He’s not been great but no one has.

Well in Thelonius!!!

Only positives so far are that Ross County and Livingston are both losing.

At least when Hartley was here we had Aldred in defence who was significantly better than any of our current options.

Same shite different week. And another ridiculously long VAR check to confirm the inevitable.

Halliday starts, by the looks of things at left back. Nicholson and Elliot on the bench.

That wasn’t a prediction though? It was a hope.

Of course you can express your opinion and I wouldn’t want you or anyone to think that I was suggesting that you shouldn’t. My point about Jim Gannon was that he seemed/seems to be a bit of an extreme example with some of our fans and that I find that baffling. He was here for six months, started off well and it seemed like an exciting and different type of appointment initially. But in reality that’s all it was. By the start of November ‘09 and up until his departure, his ‘feuds’ with the media/the SFA/referees and his general demeanour and comments about “juggling soot” suggested that he just didn’t have any enthusiasm for the job anymore and it was no surprise when he left. Then of course it started to come out from the club and senior players that he was applying for other jobs and was pretty much a nightmare to work with. I don’t think that the situations with Alexander or Kettlewell are in any way similar to that of Gannon.

Re: Gannon, it never ceases to amaze me that he still has Motherwell fans talking him up and saying they wish he had stuck around. Even now that we’re now what? fourteen years on from his departure after his SIX month spell in charge?! It was fairly obvious from around late October/early November of his tenure that he was working his ticket and didn’t want to be here and he’s done nothing in his career since to suggest that he would have worked wonders for us. And that’s before you take into account what several of the players who worked under him here said about him in the aftermath of his departure.

That’s true and yes it is much easier to say he’s been a failure after six months of him being here rather than when he signed. Every signing we make is a gamble, I know that and I accept it. But regardless of what I or anyone else thought before he had kicked a ball for us the fact in the matter is that this is another signing made during the summer that didn’t work out. The manager and the head of scouting are the ones paid to take responsibility for signings and are in a better position than anyone in the support or this forum to judge a player, or so you would hope anyway.

We probably will but it will be lower than the number we would take had it been played at 1500 on the Saturday. And with one less day to prepare after the Ross County home game then it is less than ideal for us.

Moved to the Friday night live on BBC Scotland. ☹️

Another failure from Kettlewell and Daws. And another January window trying to rectify atrocious recruitment from the previous summer. We can’t keep going through this cycle every single year.

We could do with St.Johnstone losing to Aberdeen tonight too. I know that that would see Aberdeen pull further away from us but let’s face it, that was always going to happen. St.Johnstone though will likely remain in the mix with us, Ross County and Livingston until the end of the season. As for Saturday I can only see us getting a draw at best.

Perhaps given his injury record but we aren’t blessed with options up front and we need to address this asap.