MJC

Kettlewell’s management and recruitment actually mirrors the club itself. Cheap, unimaginable, tinpot, receding by the year and on a one way street to the lower leagues and part time football. It really is a matter of when and not if both of those scenarios happen.

Yeah I’m all for giving every new signing the benefit of the doubt and indeed I will give Ross Callachan the same but his injury record is concerning.

I’m sure Bain is under contract at Celtic so unless it was a loan deal then that won’t happen. I certainly wouldn’t complain if we were able to get him though, he’s a good solid goalkeeper at this level.

Stephen Hughes was excellent for us in his first stint in 07/08 under McGhee. Bob Malcolm was a limited player but could hit a free kick.

The club have confirmed that Fire Suppression Scotland will be our new back of shirt sponsor along with a picture of the words on the back of a kit, don’t know if it’s just last seasons kit or the new one but if it is then it’s promisingly Amber.

I’m sure it was around the end of June last year that our new home kit was revealed so will probably be the same this year or thereabouts. Nothing would surprise me. We just seem obsessed with “doing something different” so who knows what we’ll get. I know some argue that it doesn’t matter what strip we play in but it does to me. I want to see us make the most of our own fairly unique colours. We should embrace them and the identity that they give us but instead we keep messing about with them all too often.

That would almost be worth it just to see the meltdown it would cause from some on here. But yes on a serious note just why would anyone at the club sign off on this? Or is this our latest ploy to show how “skint” we are that we had to acquire a batch of 22/23 Dundee Utd macron training kits and stick our badge on them?

Did Macron honestly just use Dundee Utd’s training tops from two years ago and replace their badge with ours? Even the luminous black and Green thing we’ve seen pictured already is similar to the last training wear macron made for Utd. God knows what monstrosity they’re going to come up with for a first team strip this year. After a proper Motherwell kit last season we must be due for something nonsensical again.

Not the new kit but for some reason us and Macron have produced training wear which can only be described as ‘Dundee United’ for the season ahead. I know we like to be ‘out of the box’ but these are out of the fucking warehouse. https://motherwelldirect.co.uk/products/24-25-matchday-1-4-zip-coral-anthracite

Welcome to Fir Park Kofi Balmer.

Correct decision and best for all concerned that Bevis moves on. Best of luck to him for the future.

Disgusted about that. As well as being clearly past his best and slower than a week in jail he has been nothing but an imposter in our jersey for the last three years.

Steelboy gets a raw deal on here imo, he calls it as he sees it and actually talks a lot of sense. Outwith my own his posts are the ones I enjoy reading the most.

I’ve not seen that too before so looks like it’s a new one. Hopefully just a training top though.

Obika has retired and joins the coaching staff for the new season.

Partick Th will potentially be tough, especially if we play them away from home but it’s more likely we’ll be at home against them. Apart from that that’s a group we should be winning.

We would lose to Airdrie, home or away, nothing surer.

Same, I love the League Cup group stages and would take it over a series of pre season friendlies or ‘European’ games any day of the week. We’ve also got a pretty good record in this stage of the League Cup since the current format was brought in and it’s a good way to start a season. I know we’ve played the same sides more than once at this stage over the years but it’s been good for us. We just need to get through this round and then actually start taking the knockout stages seriously. Whoever we draw tomorrow we should be looking to win our group and be seeded for the last 16.

I give every single player who we sign my backing and support. I’ve never came on here and written off a player whom I’d never seen play, only a judgemental idiot would do such a thing, and I certainly am not one of those.

You don’t have to actually say it to ‘say it’. We’ve seen this script far too many times with us bringing back McFadden and giving him game time when he was clearly done, yet he could do no wrong in the eyes of some fans. The same applies to Moult during his ill fated loan spell in 2022 and I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever it would be the same with van Veen should he come back over a year older, unfit and contributing next to nothing. We as a club need to learn to look forward not backwards when it comes to recruitment. Kevin van Veen has had his time with us, it was great while it lasted but it’s done, it’s past and we move on, or at least we should move on. Here’s a novel idea, instead of trying to re-sign Kevin van Veen, Shaun Hutchinson(that one really would take the biscuit and fucking choke on it btw) and other popular ex players, why don’t we try and find new players who could hopefully contribute what KvV and Shaun Hutchinson etc did when they were younger, fitter and able to offer us more?

I get your point, but he’s 33 or will be in two weeks time. And I absolutely get the confidence player argument, he clearly is a player who plays better the more confident he is. The issue for me is that he had his best spell in his career with us, especially in the second half of last season and for that and for his overall spell with us he’s a player who I will always view as one of the best we’ve ever had. We got the best of him, I don’t think that can be disputed. If we were to bring him back (and I don’t think we will tbh) then he would be similar to Faddy in the sense that he is immediately and always would be on ‘the pedestal’ with a section of the club and the fanbase so he would be coming back here past his best but his previous reputation with us would ensure that he could do no wrong in the eyes of too many and as a result he would get game time and leeway that he wouldn’t get if he was anyone else, if he wasn’t delivering for us. He came to us as ‘The Budget Bergkamp’ and left having given us the two best seasons of his career. He returned to the Netherlands to Groningen where he made little impact and was then loaned to Kilmarnock in the same league where he had enjoyed the best spell of his career and did absolutely nothing. I know we as a club have this ‘culture’ of backward looking when it comes to signing players and appointing managers, but I see absolutely no benefit in bringing Kevin van Veen back to the club other than sentimental reasons. No player is bigger than the club.

*Kevin van Veen’s agent likes this post.* How do you say “Hey Kev, you know those mugs Motherwell yeah? Well there’s already some posts on their biggest online fans forum begging them to bring you back so you can recreate your purple patch from your previous spell there” in Dutch? 🤔

Nothing new there, we are utterly hopeless in Cup competitions. If it was up to me I would make it clear to the manager and the players that from next season any cup exits before the Quarter Finals to anyone outwith the Old Firm, Hearts, Aberdeen or Hibs will result in a hefty fine for each and every one of them.

Knew he wasn’t scoring that.

I’ll forever be grateful that ‘91 happened in my lifetime. 👍