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The age point is a red herring. The issue isn’t how old a manager is, it’s whether they have the aura and presence to lead and command the respect of 20-plus other men. In our case, we’ll soon find out.

JBA has an aura about him that all successful managers seem to possess. It’s something intangible that’s hard to define or explain, but you know it when you see it I didn’t see much of it in Wimmer, and I don’t see it in Johansson either. Does that mean he’s going to fail? No. We just have to wait and see.

At least our new manager isn’t Steve Clarke.

Hendry confirmed out injured again. He’s turned out to be an absolute waste of a signing. With McGinn out too, and Welsh and Gordon gone, we’re very short at centre-back. And let’s not even get started on Stama. He’s another busted flush.

With Robbo at Aberdeen, a spiteful old prick at Celtic, the aforementioned ‘Del’ at Rangers, the Invisible Man at Hearts, and Mr Vanilla at Hibs, we really shouldn’t have much to fear from that lot next season.

I suspect that with Welsh and JBA gone, Gordon could well stay this season if Johansson rates him and can promise him regular starting football. Otherwise, we’ll probably be signing a big, bald but silky Scandinavian brute of a CB to fill the JBA-shaped hole in our hearts.

Summary: doesn't know JBA personally and won't rip up the current playbook.

We now have a Head of Football, and it’s clear there’s a player recruitment and development strategy in place regardless of who the manager is. Even so, it’s still a massive task for Johansson, not only to fill JBA’s shoes but also to deal with the loss of Slattery and, likely, others.

We need to believe that Johansson can simply pick up where JBA left off. And it shouldn’t be too difficult, given that the entire football department remains unchanged apart from JBA.

Easily the worst draw we could’ve got in terms of travel. Plenty who’d have liked to go probably won’t now. We just have to hope we get through and land a more favourable draw travel-wise in the next round.

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£8-10 million. Easy.

Ryan Lowe was one of the names being suggested on the forums around the time Michael Wimmer was appointed, so it makes sense that he’s come up again.

“We also want to confirm that our recruitment process to appoint a new manager is at an advanced stage. The club will not comment any further on this process.” https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/06/10/pre-season-schedule/

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Either arranged by our departed Dane or a sign of things to come?

The Euro draw is on Wednesday 17 June and the players return on Thursday 18 June.

Aye, because I genuinely believed that was how his name was spelled and wasn’t making a joke at the expense of the thick Celtic and Rangers fans.

At least our new manager won’t be Steve Clarke.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if we’re keeping VAR, then the KMI panel and Collum’s clown review show need to go. They serve no purpose other than exposing unaccountable incompetence and winding fans up even more.

Collum and his troop of useless twats should be shown the door before they embarrass Scottish football any further.

Cue the “that boy Mawanheezy was shite anyway” patter from those pricks now.

Nothing to see here. Sweep, sweep.

It’s still two months away, and with the continuity of Max seemingly staying on as assistant manager, I expect we’ll be fine, even with a few ins and outs expected.

I’m also relaxed about it, as I saw it coming a while ago. I’ve said my piece on it above anyway, and now I’m just looking forward to the European games.