MJC

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.

Re: Kelly, I’d be looking to move him on in January. He’s out of contract at the end of the season, his form has been rotten this season and perhaps as was suggested last night, the ‘fame’ of getting a Scotland cap has turned his head. Punt him, give Oxborough the gloves and give Butcher the armband.

He was but the ref didn’t cost us that game last night, we lost because we are a rank rotten piss poor side who can’t defend, can’t score and are far too easy to play against.

We didn’t draw the second half. You can’t win/lose/draw a half of a game and get points for it. That is another of these phrases used by pompous, po faced pundits nowadays that means absolutely nothing. The game lasts 90 minutes plus whatever injury time is added on and for the fifth time in our last six games we lost the match and have no points to show for it. There were no positives to take last night. None whatsoever, not even two consolation goals when the game was well and truly beyond us.

Another defeat.

Some crumbs for the Happy Clappies to munch on tonight if nothing else.

The entire team in front of him hasn’t turned up and been ragdolled as a result. He’s far from the only culprit tonight.

Our luck ran out. Killie outplayed us at Fir Park, Hearts had an off day at Tynecastle and luck shone on us in both games but we soon got found out. We are a poor, poor side.

There may be a number of reasons why, but our clubs mentality (we’re just a wee club punching way….etc etc) has a great deal to do with it.

And now? Like I said on the match thread, I don’t see him being sacked or walking away any time soon. However he has failed miserably to address the loss of KvV and also Max Johnston in the summer. And after a reasonably good start to the season with some impressive results things have taken a turn for the worse and his dreadful transfer business now looks like it is catching up on us. It’s still early yet but the alarm bells are starting to ring, in my opinion.

Exactly. Any side losing a 29 goal striker was always going to struggle to replace him. When that same side replaces him with an injury prone loanee and the 4 horse men then they are more than likely going to be bang in trouble. And we absolutely are bang in trouble.

An issue with VAR apparently.

There’s absolutely no danger of him being sacked any time soon. And he’s not going to walk away on his own accord either. As bad as this looks just now it’s still only early November, therefore he’s still got time, on paper at least, to turn this around.

Absolutely abysmal. I feel like a broken record saying this but I’ll say it again. We can’t score goals and we can’t defend. Therefore we can’t win football matches. We look absolutely devoid of confidence and direction on the park and it’s looking increasingly more like it was Kevin van Veen rather than Stuart Kettlewell that kept us up last season.

Dreadful defending. And how many times does that prick McGrath score against us?

But again that depends on how many match going fans in the surrounding areas would be prepared to get involved in that sort of confrontation. If that’s in the family section of the Cooper then I’d reckon plenty would be reluctant to get involved and if it happened in the East Stand especially near the Well Bois section then you would have the potential for a different problem with too many wanting to get involved and in that case it wouldn’t be to shepherd them politely towards the exits. Cutting Celtic/Rangers allocation further just wouldn’t work imo. It would only ensure more of their fans in our sections and wouldn’t encourage more Motherwell fans to attend these games.

Miller back in, Bair drops to the bench and Wilkinson starts up top. Mika also on the bench.