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And do Kilmarnock really have a bigger budget than we do? Or a budget that is significantly bigger enough to attract a McInnes type manager? Or are we just unable or unwilling to push the boat out a bit more and are instead happy enough with our status as a two-bit tinpot no mark of a club who have zero ambition whatsoever?

Well they certainly wouldn’t touch our job with a bargepole. Other clubs our size like Killie or St.Mirren? I’m not so sure. As I said Killie managed to land McInnes, something we wouldn’t have a hope in hell of doing.

Firstly I would disagree that “almost everyone agreed both interim managers had earned the job” especially in Hammell’s case. Even SK was handed the job pretty much straight away on the back of two wins iirc. Towards the end of Hammell’s tenure it was clear that the players had lost faith in him and for whatever reason weren’t playing for him. Kettlewell came in and seemed to transform a good few over night but now it looks like they are downing tools for him too which obviously points to an issue with player attitudes but also weak management. Secondly as you yourself mentioned after the St.Mirren cup loss a few months back, there is little to zero expectation or scrutiny on Motherwell managers from within the club. It’s as if we are happy to just bumble along aimlessly in the hope of avoiding relegation and nothing else. With largely the same people who appointed Hammell and then Kettlewell in charge what makes you think that they will make the right choice, a different type of choice this time around? They were stung by Alexander who proved to be a poor manager with a surly divisive attitude so who does that leave? As I said we’re never going to see our board go for a Neil Lennon or Paul Lambert type. Even someone like Derek McInnes at Kilmarnock, a similar sized club to us is an appointment we could only dream of.

With certain defeats to Hearts and Celtic looming after this one then anything but a win here will confirm 100% that we are in serious relegation trouble and should spell the end for Stuart Kettlewell. Needless to say I can’t see us getting the much needed win. 0-0

Yes, I would say so.

The problem is though that it’s quite clear that it goes beyond the man in the dugout. You look at Robinson, Alexander, Hammell and now Kettlewell. What’s the common denominator? The people running the club with the exception of Burrows that’s what. You mention Robinson stopping signing duds because Lasley is overseeing him. Could another explanation for that not be that he is now working for a club with a better set up than us who is better run and isn’t hampered by our losers mentality? We as a club are ran like a bowling club committee and show absolutely no ambition whatsoever. If Kettlewell went tonight would you have any faith whatsoever in those same people then making the right appointment? I certainly don’t and that’s why we have no chance of a Lambert, Lennon, Levein type appointment. The type of man who will rock the boat and make demands of the board. It just won’t happen and that’s why we are more likely to see Ricky fucking Foster as our next manager or at least part of the next regime.

Sadly though that’s where we are at as a club. Toiling along hoping to survive without showing any ambition whatsoever. Sooner or later we are going to be relegated and perhaps that’s what we need as a club, perhaps. We need a reboot, a kick up the arse and a change of direction and “perhaps” and i cannot emphasise that word enough, that would be the catalyst for it. By the same token we could end up going part time and never return to the top flight but…only time would tell.

He knows the game and is experienced enough, that could work in our favour.

I would be happy enough with Lambert too but like Lennon he would demand a big salary and money to spend, neither of which we would/could give him. He would also have to work with a squad containing rank rotten players. And he not distance himself from it back in February when Hammell left?

If Ian McCall is still out of work I would be approaching him. Pointless discussion mind you because as I said our next manager is someone already at the club.

Correct, we LOST those games. Hard luck stories get you fuck all and those two games contribute to our dismal run.

St.Johnstone appointing Craig Levein too that just rubs more salt in the wound. He’s a much better manager than we have got and will certainly make St.Johnstone harder to beat.

I agree things are looking like they are almost at the point of no return for Kettlewell but I really don’t see us bringing anyone in that would improve us as that would mean us parting with money, so we can forget about Neil Lennon for that reason, he wouldn’t entertain it. When SK goes it will be Frail or Clarkson or somebody already working at the club who gets the job, nothing surer.

Have we not done similar in the past with certain players? Extended their deals on the quiet on the basis of an unexplained reason. George Newell springs to mind.

I’ve said that for the last three years. An absolute wage thief.

Tick, tock Kettlewell.

Utter fucking muck. This will be no wins in seven unless we turn this around somehow. Even a draw isn’t good enough. That is relegation form in anybody’s book. We are sinking and the team and the manager look clueless.

Biereth starts. Genuinely surprised but pretty chuffed to hear that. Hopefully no injuries and he continues to get us goals!

Scott Howie did the same. He didn’t swing on the bar though.

Ah that makes sense to be fair. And considering we can’t wear our Claret change kit against the sides we would normally wear it against then we’ve got to find time to wear it, even when on the face of it we don’t need to wear a change kit. That’s the problem with having a Claret away kit. Our away kit should be mostly white with the occasional change to black or petrol blue even. Claret kits should be a ‘Third’ kit. In my opinion, obviously.

Going by the social media promos it looks like we are wearing our change kit today? Why??? The colours don’t clash so we should be in our first kit. (and yes, I know that we have bigger issues to concern ourselves with and the strip we wear doesn’t really matter….hello weeyin! … hello spiderpig!)

It’s a shambles of a situation, both on the count on us having to play any top flight game on a plastic pitch and on the count that we are relying on an injury prone loanee to be our goal threat but because of the ridiculous pitch we can’t risk playing him.

The reality is that in this league anybody can beat anyone outside of the top two. (Well some can get the odd victory over those two but we can’t) We could well go there tomorrow and win, just as it could go the other way. You can see just how tight it is with the points difference between 4th and 11th currently and at the end of the season it largely comes down to who picks up the most points in games like these. The problem for us just now is that we are on a dismal run and our confidence looks shot to buggery, and also have rank rotten players masquerading as forwards so it’s going to be a tough task.

He’s still got grace for the way he overseen the turnaround last season. Although as I said it could well be argued that it was KVV’s goals that kept us up and not SK, albeit on the flip side KvV didn’t his peak form until Kettlewell took over last year. But it cannot be disputed that his summer transfer business was deplorable. It was clear to everyone that van Veen was going in the summer and we would need to recruit wisely to compensate for the loss of his goals. And instead we got Shaw, Obika, Wilkinson and Bair. And now we’re seeing the fruits of that business and we’re unsurprisingly suffering as a result. That could well cost SK his job.

We’d never go for him or stump up the wages he’d be looking for.