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Initially I think he would too. He has a win at all cost mentality and that did well for him at Hibs as well but it couldn’t be sustained. He was threatening to walk out on Hibs for their lack of ambition for almost a year before he eventually left them. And Hibs are a bigger club than we are with a bigger budget. How long would he last at our “great wee club” before he began to get frustrated? If Neil Lennon came in right now and had to work with this current squad he would be tearing his hair out within a month. And given that he’s not exactly a popular figure within our support - mostly because of his connections with Celtic and his abrasive manner and comments about us lying down to Rangers in 2011 - then some of the support would naturally voice their anger about it. That would inevitably invite the “he only gets abuse because of his religion, cos he’s Irish” nonsense from certain media figures and unfortunately some of our own support. As I said, it’s just not worth it.

Attitudes like this are part of the reason it would never work. We’d have a few bad results, some criticism would come from the stands (as would be the case with any manager) and you’d get nonsense like this before you can say “candlelit vigil”. And that’s from our own support.

Neil Lennon in a purely footballing sense would probably be a very good manager for us. The ‘baggage’ that comes with him though just wouldn’t be worth it. As well as being an abrasive, shit stirring individual, he is also the poster boy for people with a very sinister agenda, in football, the media and politics in this country. It just wouldn’t be worth the gamble.

I’ve never been able to take him seriously after Jamie Hamill bounced him into the track at Tynecastle.

We’re getting pumped here. 5-1 Aberdeen

I’m not interested in the subject or the reason behind it. I just don’t get the point of disrupting a game of the club you claim to support by staging some daft wee protest. That group seem more interested in their own status than the team on the park mind you, so it’s hardly a surprise.

On another issue it was nice to see the ‘Well Bois’ disrupt the game at the start of the second half with yet another “Look at us, Look at us” type protest. When the team is getting beat that really helps matters eh? Still, who cares what happens on the park? As long as they can have some sort of ‘grievance’.

Agreed. The problem is that whoever gets the job now, whether that’s Hammell or whoever, they are basically snookered as to carrying out any rebuild of the squad before the window shuts and with the season already started. Anyone who had their eyes open and didn’t have their heads firmly planted in their own arses could have told you that the team and the squad just wasn’t good enough in the second half of last season. The best thing for us would have been parting company with Alexander at the end of last season, appointing a new manager and letting him make his own moves in the transfer market over the summer to at least give us the chance of serving up something better than what we got last year. As it is we are stuck with the majority of the same shite we had last season that won a grand total of three league games between December and May and had the majority of their support’s eyes bleeding. Only this time we have no Tony Watt to grab goals in the first half of the season to keep us out of trouble.

We are in a horrible position of having no manager and needing serious rebuilding of the squad in less than a month. The team we have simply are not good enough. I’m not expecting us to be competing with the Old Firm, Hearts or Aberdeen but as I said during the game, St.Johnstone did the ‘basics’ much better than we did. Is it unrealistic to expect us to at least compete with them and similar sides? I’ve said this before but us spawny-ing into Europe last season may very well hurt us more than it will benefit us.

We’re in big trouble this season.

We can’t even do the basics right. St.Johnstone are no great shakes themselves but they defend a lot better as a unit than we do and can actually string more than two passes together.

Same old problems so far, we’re just not good enough. Weak defensively and toothless middle to front. Looking at the options on the bench I’d be bringing Efford and Tierney on at half time.

Mugabi is having a nightmare so far.

I think it’s too soon for him and not the right circumstances for him to get the job just now. However if he did get the gig then I don’t think I’d ever want to see a Motherwell manager succeed more than him. He’s a club legend and a genuinely good guy.

I’m not convinced we are so much better than Sligo that we should have taken five off them, but we most certainly should not have lost 0-3 on aggregate to them while barely managing a meaningful effort on target over the two games. As I said last week that is right up there with the worst results we’ve had in our history. Though that’s always a risk when you shitfest your way into European football despite only winning three league games since the turn of the year with a manager who makes needless changes almost every single week, shows no gameplan and then tries to tell everyone that black is white after just about every abject, dismal performance.

Finished 5-1 to Viking. God knows how many they would have taken off us had we squeezed through.

Sligo 1-0 down already against Viking. Four minutes in.

It shouldn’t be Hammell as he has zero experience just now, however I’d be more than happy to see him get some sort of role as part of the new management team. As I said last week, my choice would be Ian McCall.

Good shout, get him in that dressing room to show off his six pack and see if that motivates the players.

This. In a way us scraping into the top six and ‘Europe’ did us more harm than good because I believe had we not scored that last minute leveller at Livingston in April and finished bottom six then Alexander would have been gone at the end of the season. That way we could have got a new manager in in time for pre-season or the League Cup group stages and made the right moves in the transfer market. As it was we were never going to part company with a manager who got us into the top six and qualified for Europe and therefore the board and Alexander were able to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that the results and the shite we served up on the park since January was remotely acceptable.

1-1

Great result. Wasn’t pretty but after the shambles that was the Sligo games we needed that. Well done Hammell and Motherwell. Up yours Alexander.

Stupidity from Lamie. Stonewall red card.

Cool as you like from kvV taking that penalty.

Fuck me!!