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That was 26 years ago. We haven’t recorded a league victory against Rangers in over 20 years. We haven’t beaten Celtic in over seven years and have lost our last straight fifteen matches against them. Those are facts, however dreary or negative they may be. And why do I bother? I guess because I’m a passionate Motherwell FC supporter who supports the team and the club through thick and thin, even when we are turning in our usual no shows against the Old Firm.

No. Motherwell do not beat Rangers, or Celtic for that matter. We might scrape a draw but even that’s unlikely.

I fucking hate Aberdeen with a passion but glad they beat Dundee Utd this evening. #alanburrowssheepshaggingarmy

Each to their own, but I hope that Alan Burrows has a winning start to his tenure as Aberdeen chief. For our sake of course, not for his or his new club’s.

Aye absolutely, our priority is getting safe from relegation. We spawny-ied a top six finish last season and it ultimately hampered us going into this one. Let’s not try and run before we can walk.

This is the key factor. We are unbeaten in four because we have stopped giving away so many cheap and avoidable goals. Having two competent defenders really does make a difference.

Thank goodness indeed. That is a superb result and yet again KvV shows that he is our most important player.

Give him service and he’ll score goals for us. KvV is a proper No.9

Great ball and great header. Get in!!

I’d take a point here to be honest, we’re just not at it.

That’s one of those occasions when you are glad to have VAR. Never a penalty in the first place.

Frail is the type of experienced assistant that Hammell really should have had. He’ll bring a whole load of experience and knowledge to the coaching team.

An ex-Ranger now an ex-Jambo on the coaching staff… But on a serious note, welcome to the club Stephen Frail. Our next manager perhaps?

It was a joke. I appreciate that not everyone has my levels of good humour though and maybe I should have included laughing or smiling emojis.

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Not happy with this appointment because he used to play for Rangers and us getting people in who are tarnished by their association to that vile institution does nothing for the image of our great wee community club.

I don’t see us getting anything on Saturday either. We’re due a defeat and they are playing well. 3-1 home win.

Still burst I’d say. That was a pretty dismal performance today but a moment of magic at the end saved us.

Poor performance all around, let’s not kid ourselves. But a point gained in that manner could make all the difference come the end of the season.

That was sensational! What a fucking strike.

And there it is. Bubble status: Burst

Anything is better than listening to that pompous, pseudo intellectual prick Michael Stewart on Sportscene. Him and his ‘biometrics’ and ‘nuances’ would make Gaelic commentary much more listenable.

I’ll reserve judgement until the end of the season. He wasn’t my preferred choice but he’s got it so gets my backing and now more than ever the support need to back the team and the manager which I’m sure the majority will. We’ve had two great wins back to back which looked unlikely to say the least after the shambles that had been the last couple of months. The Hearts result in particular was superb. However we usually do manage to beat Hearts at home at least once a season, indeed we have managed it in each of the last five seasons that both clubs have been in the top flight, so perhaps don’t read too much into last Sunday. It was similar, imo, to us winning at Pittodrie in August in Hammell’s first official game in charge. As with Hearts, we have managed to get at least one win over Aberdeen a season going back to 2017/18 and when we beat them 3-2 up there this season it looked like we had turned a corner and were on the right track. The next two games are bigger games than the previous two, we need minimum four points to indicate that we are in a revival.

That’s quite an extreme take on it. Particularly in this instance where the discussion stemmed from a poster who was wary of a potential managerial candidate purely because of his supposed association with a political figure. Hence my response, that a persons political leanings should have no bearing on whether we employ them or not. I don’t do politics personally so perhaps I am wrong about this, but I don’t necessarily think that just because someone votes or stands a particular way that it automatically means that they are racist, bigoted, homophobic. Again that would be an extreme view to take. I wouldn’t expect the club to appoint or sign someone who had been known to say any of the things you mentioned, in fact I don’t think any football club would especially in todays world as that kind of talk and behaviour gets you nowhere in life. That said, a few years ago we signed a player who had a conviction for a serious assault and even promoted him to club captain. Did that fit in with the club ethos and image?

It was always going to be Kettlewell, rightly or wrongly. Some on here called it months ago that he would be our next manager if and when Hammell left. I’d actually be surprised if the club have held discussions with anyone else tbh. It’s the way it works for us, we saw it when McGhee left and Robinson took ‘interim charge’ only to be appointed on a permanent basis a few weeks later. It was the same with Hammell on an even smaller timescale. Alexander being brought in in Jan ‘21 instead of Lasley getting the gig was the only exception to that rule in recent years. I just hope that there is an agreement or clause between both parties that his long term position is dependent on us staying up this year.