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6-0 now though to be fair I don’t think we’d fare any better against this Celtic side. I fully expect them to beat a side by double figures at least once this season, it could well happen today.
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I don’t think there is widespread ‘hate’ for Alexander in the support. Obviously some do hate him as we’ve seen in this thread, but I think overall it was more that the support were scunnered with the way we were playing, that we won three league matches in five months and there was no obvious plan from Alexander going forward. No one knew, indeed, he himself didn’t seem to know what his team would be from one week to the next. That was incredibly frustrating especially when we weren’t winning games and then to rub salt in the wounds Alexander would often come out post match and say that we played well.
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Graham Alexander could break into your house and you would blame the folk that fitted the locks, or the Motherwell support for it. He clearly could do no wrong in your eyes so no point arguing about it. What I would say is that it is nonsense to suggest that the fans forced him out. He came to a mutual agreement with the club to leave after overseeing two of the worst results in the clubs history. There were no protests outside the Main Stand or chucking season tickets on the park, just some of the fans who forked out to travel to Sligo giving him deserved criticism for that debacle. The next day he met with the board and off he went.
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Your assessment of the players you mentioned is spot on, too many are simply not good enough. Alexander definitely left us in a mess but this is not simply down to him. This goes back to Robinson’s tenure and some of the guff we brought in during that time and the money we spunked in doing so. Between him and Alexander it doesn’t bear thinking about how much we squandered on absolute dross. Alan Burrows and the board need to take responsibility for the mess we are in. They allowed those two to deal so poorly in the transfer market and allowed Alexander to go into this season with this current squad only to be humiliated against Sligo and we found ourselves managerless on the eve of the league season. Result of that is we appointment a rookie manager to work with a terrible squad of players. As I said, if this ends badly this season then it’s on those in the boardroom.
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Shields is a lower league player, he’s completely out of his depth at this level. The same could be said of Efford and Morris. Both of them made an impact last week but they will never be the long term answer. We need to be a lot more shrewd in our transfer dealings.
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Well that was disappointing but we can’t complain about losing. The positive from today was a very good goal which was well set up and well taken. The negatives unfortunately were all too common. Bullied in midfield and weak defensively. We were inviting pressure onto our backline from the minute we went ahead and that was always going to end badly. Results and performances like that are going to happen, that’s something we are just going to have to accept going forward with the current squad we have. We just need to pick up as many points against our ‘peers’ as we can to avoid relegation/the playoffs this season.
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Been coming unfortunately.
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We need a second here, if we get that then we’ll win.
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Superb pass from Spittal and a really good finish.
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I notice our next two games against them are after scheduled European matches on the Thursday night so both will be moved to the Sunday.
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If he can play left back and is a genuine left sided player then you’d like to think this is an improvement on what we’ve got. With Carroll and McGinley injured, having to rely on right footed S’OD as our first choice left back wasn’t an enticing prospect. Hopefully this lad will help solve that issue.
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Matt Penney confirmed on loan from Ipswich. I know nothing about him but the official sites description would suggest he is a left back or can at least play in that position. Welcome to our club Matt.
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Thoughts with you all. Fingers crossed he turns up safe and well soon.
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I reckon if Snodgrass was going to sign for us he’d have done it by now. I know, I know the transfer window doesn’t shut until the end of the month but this has been rumbling away in the background for about a week now and there has supposedly been some sort of offer made to him. This sounds like his agent trying to engineer more offers from ‘bigger’ clubs in my opinion.
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0-0 is a good shout in this one I think. Two sides that lack attacking quality cancelling each other out.
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That’s my feelings about VAR too. Every single goal you score you are going to be diluting your celebrations to an extent to wait to see if it’s actually going to stand. Even yesterday our goal was a penalty, but Efford had encroached into the box before van Veen actually struck the ball, so in that scenario VAR would have intervened and ordered a re-take. Obviously it’s going to be a good feeling/a good GIRUY to the opposition if the decision goes our way, but that definitely takes some of the enjoyment out of the game.
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That was a typical Livi game but I thought we actually managed the game well and matched up to their physicality. We lack that creative spark though and that will cause us problems if we don’t address this, though we looked better when Efford & Morris came on. KvV put himself about well in the 2nd half and took his penalty really well. 3 goals already this season. Absolutely delighted for Hammell to get the win in what was his first official home game as manager and the support as a whole stayed to show their appreciation at the end. Three wins in less than a month. It took us nearly five months to manage that in the second half of last season!
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The tannoy not working due to a lightning strike. That has got to be the most ‘Motherwell thing’ ever.
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McKinstry on the bench today.
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He’ll score 20+ goals for that Hearts team this season.
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Listening to Hammell’s take on games before and after has definitely been a breath of fresh air compared to the “black is white” guff that Alexander came out with most weeks However we shouldn’t get carried away. Talk of top six with this squad is wildly optimistic unless we somehow get the same amount of fortune we good last year.
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I wasn’t suggesting we should have tried to sign Shankland, I know he is way out of our price budget. I was more replying to the above posts on a few weeks back saying that they didn’t rate him. He will do very well for Hearts in the domestic game up here.
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On a non-Motherwell issue, Lawrence Shankland has now scored three goals in his first few(don’t know how many exactly) appearances for Hearts including a penalty tonight to put them 1-0 up against Zurich in Europe(though as I’m typing they’ve just been pulled back level). I stand by what I said, Shankland will do very well for Hearts this season. A proper ‘goal machine’ and someone who will get plenty of goals to go down in Gorgie folklore.
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Well only time will tell and it would be something of the ‘fairytale’ stuff if I was and this team under Stevie Hammell finished top 6/qualified for Europe this season.
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I’m not going to argue about my contention that we were lucky last season, I think we were. Any team that wins three league matches between December and May, scrapes draws thanks to last minute equalisers and plays as poorly as we did in that spell yet still qualifies for Europe is lucky. I’m not really bothered about the sides that finished below us and whether they were ‘lucky’ or ‘unlucky’. From what I saw of my team last season we were lucky to qualify for Europe, end of story. Anyway last season is now, thankfully, behind us and we can look ahead to this one with a new manager in place. It will not be plain sailing, anything but and imo anyone who thinks this team will be challenging for top six and Europe again is dreaming. If we avoid relegation and play something better in the way of football than we did last season then that will be good enough for me. With a new, inexperienced manager in charge having inherited what he did on the eve of the season, the I think it’s downright wild to expect more than that.