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The Livingston game next week will be a big indicator if we have actually started turning a corner. As brilliant as today was we have tended to get results against Aberdeen against the odds over the last couple of years. I don’t know if it’s been because they have always been favourites and we thrive on the ‘underdog’ tag but we have certainly done okay against them and a lot better than expected beforehand. A win and a good performance at home against Livingston next Saturday is crucial.

Their fans are, in the main, obnoxious, odious dangle berries. Fuck them.

That is fucking amazing. Brilliant result Best performance in 2022 by a mile Hate Aberdeen so Get it right up them and their dour pussed followers and cheerleaders in the media Delighted for Hammell and Kerr

Nah, he doesn’t have the C&A gloves to be able to be compared with Roddie.

KvV is the absolute scourge of those Dandy bastards. Get in!!

Horrible time to concede an equaliser but this performance has been night and day to what we’ve seen for a while now. We have actually played something resembling football during that half…let’s hope it catches on.

To be fair I’d say he still is, but at the same time well done to him.

We’ve quite often managed to pull a result or at least a better performance against Aberdeen over the past five years when we’ve been on a dismal run so who it’s hard to say. That said, this most definitely is much more encouraging and we’ve got a lead into the bargain.

Good to see Cornelius and Slattery starting. Not so good seeing Solholm starting, though I appreciate we don’t have a lot of options.

Nothing wrong with being positive mate. Nothing at all. Indeed I love a bit of positivity and am fully supportive of Steven Hammell as manager. I just hated that “We are all Stuart McCall” pish that we got back in the day. It’s up there with ‘FHW’ in the cringeworthy, toe-curling abominable patter stakes. Neither of them top “We exist to improve people’s lives” mind you. If the media team changed that to “We exist to wipe people’s arses” it wouldn’t be any more or any less pointless or ridiculous.

Dear suffering Christ not this horrific patter again. Indeed it would.

Six now. The reality is that for every Scottish club outwith Celtic & Rangers, European football is simply a level way beyond their reach. Not that that in any way excuses our debacle against Sligo Rovers mind you.

Absolutely this. If we do end up going down this season then it’ll be on Burrows and the board for allowing Robinson and then Alexander to blow so much of our meagre budget on absolute dross. When you look back at some of the absolute guff we’ve brought in over the last five years it is absolutely galling. We are in big trouble this season and relegation is a distinct possibility. As I said before I reckon it’ll be between us and the two Saints clubs to avoid the bottom two spots and even though it’s early the signs are not good. For Stevie Hammell it is a massive ask to keep this squad in the league. He has inherited an absolute pigs ear from the previous manager and those who allowed him to assemble it. Needless to say he is going to need all the luck he can get, as well as support and backing from both the fans and those in the boardroom.

Like others this wasn’t my preferred choice but it’s Hammell who’s got the job and we need to get behind him. He’s got a huge job on his hands and I’m sure that every Motherwell fan wishes him the very best of luck. He’s given his all to the club for over two decades and he will do the same again as manager. Good luck Stevie

Fair enough, you’re entitled to do so.

Whatever anyone thinks of him, Neil Lennon will not be our new manager. He’s a club just now and as I said earlier we are not going to pay compensation to get a manager to move here. And that’s before you take into account the salary Lennon would demand and that he would be wanting assurances on player budget, something that caused issues for him at Hibs I believe. It’s not going to happen.

And this is the same posters view on Barry Ferguson and Bob Malcolm. There were plenty in our support who had a problem with McCall simply because of his Rangers connections and the posts I quoted above are just a tiny example of that. Likewise the suggestion of Barry Ferguson getting the job now. I remember McCall’s first match in charge for us, New Douglas Park on New Years Day 2011. The game hadn’t even kicked off and the guy in front of me was being fairly vocal to his mate how he wasn’t best pleased to have “this (banned word beginning with H) bastard in charge now”. We’ve tended to do quite well with ex-Rangers players as our manager. McCall for all his faults did okay with us, as did Butcher and of course Tommy McLean got us promoted and won the Scottish Cup for us. Yet I can recall all three of them getting abuse in the stands at Fir Park because of their Rangers connection so it goes both ways.

I’d take MacKay but there is not a chance in hell that we would pay compensation to Ross County to get him. Our next manager will be someone either currently out of work or Hammell/Kerr. Unless of course Burrows decides to appoint himself which I genuinely can see happening one day.

He’s not even been seriously linked with the job and already it’s clear that the support would be divided by his potential appointment. That says it all for me. Avoid.

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.