wellfan

I agree. Shaw offered the square root of fuck all and Kettlewell has rewarded him for that. Let's hope it's a new year, a new him.

County, and every other eegit on the planet, would do well to remember that an ex is an ex for a reason.

If your beloved sash encourages Halliday to score a hat trick against his sash-loving bedfellow, Imrie, then let the inevitable happen. 😉

Special mention to Davor for running three hundred thousand miles and covering every blade of grass tonight. He's tidy and feisty and does most of the vital grunt work.

If he gets them playing like they did tonight against Morton and a few more times this season, he may even convert me into a fanboy.

If tonight has taught us anything, we should all cancel our Well Society subs and fund the 'Blair Spittal 5-year contract' pot instead. I've said it before somewhere on this forum, but he's probably our most important player.

Same team, formation and tactics, then some super subs once we're 10-0 up.

Spittal turned it up to 11 tonight.

I agree. Two wins this week will see the tables turn in his favour.

I didn't refer to you individually. I spoke of increasing levels of apologists on here and i likened it to a mass onset of Stockholm syndrome. I engage in critical debate with many individuals here, and I have strong options, but I'm also sorry if you've felt personally targeted. I try not to get personal, except for calling the manager or players shite or brilliant. The main point of my reply to your post on the Daws thread was ultimately to pick you up on your view that we aren't currently in a slump, because I think we most definitely are. At the end of the day, I don't care if I’m in the minority when it comes to calling for Kettlewell to get the sack, and I don't care if others disagree with me, but it's a public forum so I will continue to espouse that view and try to back it up. And that leads to direct debate with others on here, as you know. Again, sorry if my post seemed personal. I'll try to rethink my wording in the future.

Speaking of poultry, the average hen lays more eggs in less than a week than we've won games all season.

If we do win tomorrow, that's all that matters. The next step would be to beat Morton. Those outcomes would shift the narrative to 4 wins & 3 draws in 7 consecutive games (including the cup) since the Rangers defeat, which would be positive. It's that simple; we need to start winning more games, and certainly more than the 2 in 20 (league and cup) we've seen on the recent run.

The pitch has recently looked far worse than in previous years following the significant investment, but, as others have noted, I am sure there is a reasonable explanation for this beyond the new groundsman being shit.

I didn't realise we had emerged from the one win in nineteen slump. The increasing level of Kettlewell apologists on this forum reminds me of a creeping and mass onset of Stockholm syndrome. Let's hope he proves me wrong come the end of the season.

If you choose to use good performances and draws as indicators of success, that's fine, but it doesn't achieve much in a points-based league where playing good stuff is not applicable. Good stuff ≠ three points. I measure success against victories achieved (or lack thereof) in the context of points gained from draws across a sustained period of significance. The current and relevant form period that I use stands at nineteen games and one victory, and I'm afraid to say that the good stuff played amongst the unbeaten games you refer to hasn't (or won't) earned us 18 points. That's how I choose to look at things, and that's also fine.

It means that we cannot afford to lose against our direct rival at home, because our form since September suggests we're certainly not going to start winning against the teams further up the table anytime soon. We need to be picking up 3 points against those around us or else we’ll likely finish 11th at best. Put simply, another draw would mean our form is 1 win in 20 league games. That is a disaster, and if you don't think so, then so be it.

He failed to adequately recruit in an essential position and appears to have overrectuited in the fullback position, so maybe money isn't the sole deciding factor here. It's not my fault or your fault or Groningen’s fault or Killie’s fault or anyone else’s fault. It's the manager’s fault. It's his job and all football manager’s know that the buck stops with them.

Given it's his job, I can't think of anyone else to blame here. The buck stops with the manager.

Good point.

It's a must-win home game against our relegation playoff spot rival. Nothing less than 3 points will suffice.

Maguire is so far out of the picture that it’s weird he didn't go back out on loan or something. Elliot left Wellington Phoenix in (I think) May 2023 and probably hasn't kicked a ball since.

Paton is a strange one. I previously called him a lazy signing by Kettlewell, but then I held my hands up to acknowledge that he's been quite decent. The thing is, though, he seems like he's only 95% of a footballer. He does lots of neat work, makes progressive turns and runs with the ball, but then makes a shit final pass or finds himself onto the ball in the box and smashes it wide. It's infuriating, but you can see why he's being picked to start, although I think that needs to change now that we've got more options in the door.

We need to go full Xavi mode and play some weird 4-3-3 to 3-4-3 in transition to batter them up top. The 3-6-1 (or thereabouts) will see us draw/lose more games than we'll win.

Bair. He's not a world-beater, but he's now proving me wrong with his work ethic AND goals.

1 league win in 19. Let's see if he can make it 1 in 20 on Tuesday.