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A competent board would’ve punted him during the appalling winless run last season, but we all know that we don’t have a competent board. Nothing material has changed so we should expect the same season as last. All signs suggest that thoughts of achieving anything greater than last season are wishful thinking.

Balmer should be on the park. The only person who can’t see that is the one who signed him.

The problems of last season remain regardless of the signings because we’ve got the same manager and approach to games. It’s that simple.

If only we had 11 Lennon Miller’s. The best player in our squad by a country mile.

1-1. As predictable as ever. We’re crap.

Bair's only just left, so the staff have time to try to find a replacement, but not replacing Spittal by this stage is criminal, as it's shown to be a key weakness every game so far.

Yep, and we all know how good we are at holding a 1-0 lead. We need to turn the screw at the start of the second half.

Replacing Spittal with Paton and then replacing Paton with Halliday is about as much use as cutting both your arms off. It could not be more regressive.

Hamilton Carpetright.

Good goal by Moses. Exactly the type of goal he should be scoring as he’s very much a penalty box striker.

Not according to Transfermarkt, and we probably paid a small fee for him as well.

A replacement for Bair would be nice, but it won't matter unless we properly replace Spittal.

I've got high hopes for Caldwell and fan ownership moving forward. It seems like a good fit for him and the Society.

Also: Jim McMahon, 16 July: "discussions around this proposal are creating significant divisions within the fanbase." Ballot (midway), 16 July: 80/20 against the proposal. Get him to fuck. He's been found out on multiple occasions now.

The number of votes cast was 1531, and the turnout of eligible members was 56%, so that puts the number of members eligible to vote at 2735. I think. If membership was remarked to be approx. 3800 a while ago, there must be 1000 members who were ineligible to vote. 1,531 votes were cast by Tuesday 16 July at 10am 56% of eligible Well Society members had voted by this point This ensured the turnout threshold of 35% was exceeded 330 Well Society members had voted to accept the proposal (21.55%) 1,201 Well Society members had voted to reject the proposal (78.45%) EDIT - Basically, the maths suggests that there was about 1200 members eligible to vote who didn't vote. I think.

Looks like they played a 4-3-3 and all their attackers scored. Maybe Kettlewell could learn something from Ian McCall.

https://x.com/MotherwellFC/status/1813649874061013022

Set us back light years?! Sorry, but that’s a lot of hyperbolic bollocks. If anything, this debacle has highlighted the need for the existence of the Well Society and has proven that fan ownership works in the longterm interests of the Club. With competent stewardship, appropriate and mutually beneficial investment will come. And I think we can all agree that McMahon has not been a competent steward of the Club towards the end. As you say, it’s now the Well Society’s turn. Give the new Board a break and the chance they’ve earned.

Wilson has done okay and hasn't made any mistakes of note, but he's no Georgie Gent, and the latter is the type of player required for Kettlewell's system to be effective. I'd say that Wilson is probably more comfortable at LB than LWB, and that this is his season to impress Kettlewell or be moved on. It's a tough one. Paton is a central midfielder and was all over the place because Kettlewell is trying to convert him into Spittal. Spoiler alert: it's not working. Halliday has a good footballing brain but his body is miles behind that now, which makes him a very limited player, although he's likely useful in certain limited scenarios. However, unless injuries dictate, Halliday, Davor, and Paton should not be starting at the same time. We need creativity. Just imagine we didn't have a 17 year old to hold shit together amongst them?! Speaking of youngsters, I'm looking forward to Wells getting more minutes in the attacking midfield role, but he needs to be managed appropriately. Ferrie needs to go out on loan and get a lot of first-team minutes. He's not close to being ready for the Premiership level, so I don't think it's fair to judge him too harshly yet. I also have no idea what type of attacker he is.

The quality of the coverage was appalling. The single camera was all over the place and completely out of focus, particularly at the start. Displaying it on a screen larger than an iPad led to seasickness. Not worth a tenner.

I think we're all roughly saying the same thing. He's signed a lot of players but there are still some very obvious deficiencies. His downfall is his one-dimensional approach, meaning he rarely has the players required to adapt to an opposition manager who is able to chop and change their formation against us. It's so predictable and easy to play against that type of set up. See Steve Clarke's Scotland in the Euro group stage. I know he doesn't like wingers, and it's bloody annoying, but he can get away with it when he has pacy wingbacks, which he doesn't currently have. Maybe Seddon and Marvellous are pacy, but one is broken and the other is an unknown. I think the he'll probably use the loan market again to address this issue, if necessary, but it would nice to have a capable squad before we're 1.5 months into competitive games. Stuparvević may just be the number 10 we need, I hope, so that's why I think an attacking midfielder and Bair-type striker should be top of his list, especially if he want's to stick with one up top. We can't afford to wait for Slattery to come back and hope he's the messiah. The early positive is that he seems to have addressed our central defensive issues with Gordon and Balmer coming in, not to mention that all our centre backs also seem dangerous at set pieces.

I see Kettlewell has blamed the lack of creativity in the final third and individual errors for costing us the victory tonight. No shit Sherlock. The latter point is a fair comment to make, but the former is on him. How many players has he signed now?! The single striker with no creative attacker(s) to support them for the majority of the games is the problem. We’ve seen this script before. If he starts with a single striker again on Saturday, we can only hope he also starts Stuparevic as the creative connector behind them, because insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Big game on Saturday now to turn it around. The League Cup is and should be massively important to a club of our size, and, by Kettlewell’s own words, we should be beating every team in the leagues below us.

Striker, creative/attacking midfielder, and fast winger all required, preferably before the league starts.

It's not Paton's fault that he's not an attacking midfielder; it's Kettlewell's fault for playing him as one. The blame for Paton getting a target on his back lies squarely at the manager's door. As should all squad failures.

Because he's got the tactical nous of a conservative cabbage, which was apparent for most of last season as well, so it's not an overreaction to be pissed off at a scenario repeating itself. Fortunately for him, however, he's got time and a player budget to try to build a better squad and develop a better shape with options, but if he signs another fucking wingback and holding midfielder instead of a striker and attacking midfielder, he'll be on his way out before the Club has a chance to extend his contract.