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Yes, he should be sent to a lower league on loan and then sold ASAP. He's done nothing in 18 months to suggest he'll perform any different for the next 18 months.

We won't win this game. To suggest otherwise would imply you have polished your hat with too much mercury.

Foyle > Daws

Porteous is a classless and rancid ned. I hope he’s sold out of Scotland this window.

Hammy is onto a hiding to nothing so he might as well blood the youth and drop the dross.

His stats suggest he is not good enough for the Championship either. League 1 at best.

Hamstrung and clueless. Without significant investment and changes in the next few weeks, he's finished and so is our stay in the top division. It's that simple.

Shields should be sent out on loan for rest of this season, and then sold ASAP. We need to cut our losses. He's 18 months into a 3-year deal and offers nothing. Blaney should get a chance in defence as Lamie is shit. Not sure about Penney in midfield, mainly as he looks like his head is back in Ipswich. I'd throw caution to the wind and blood the youth, who surely can't be any worse than the dross we currently field.

Same shite, different week. If the Board doesn't spend now and make the required changes, it'll cost them a lot more later once the Club is relegated.

Kevin Nisbet.

So what's the point in Nick Daws?

Gutted for Louis, but I can guarantee that the Club will not learn that lesson.

Yep, please don’t. They already have too many retrograde ideas of their own.

Sherwin Seedorf is the exception to the nominative determinism rule.

Better options than Shields at the very least.

I can cast that aside when my point was specifically about our past form and its relevance to fans’ attitudes and expectations. We have to look after ourselves instead of relying on other teams being worse than us, with or without their bigger/smaller benefactors.

That aside, our average league finishing position across 2004/05 to 2021/22 is 6th place (mostly thanks to Stuart McCall and his players), so it's not unreasonable for fans to expect better than the recent and current shit being served. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/motherwell-fc/platzierungen/verein/987

Lots of fantasy on this message board these days, so my contribution to that is my prediction that this game will be a repeat of the 6-6 classic.

Most bigger clubs only send their players out on loan to clubs with an experienced coaching staff they think will help develop their players. So I think we’ll be relying on free agents, which is bottom of the barrel stuff. We would’ve had better financial resources and more experience at the helm had the Board/Burrows not messed up. None of this is Hammy’s fault. His faults are that he is inexperienced and failing to learn quickly on the job.

A contract extension award for someone doing just fine was not the right thing to do. There was no need to award anything additional at that point, and we should've waited to see how the rest of the season panned out, which wasn't great to be honest. The less said about Sligo, the better. I was content when he got the job in January 2021, but by November 2021 I was hoping he would be gone soon. The performances at that point were often enough to get football cancelled as a spectator sport, and it was only Tony Watt who dragged us across the line for the most part. So, yes, I personally still think the Board/Burrows shot their load too early in extending him, which led to it being too difficult to get rid of him at the end 2021/22, and that has now left us with a rookie manager and no real playing budget for 2022/23.

If we only sign 1 or 2 more players this window, and don't try to engineer some of the dross out of the club, it signals to me that the Board/Burrows are content with potential relegation. I.e. they shot their load through stupidly extending GA and then having to pay him compensation. The word rudderless springs to mind.

Exactly this. Shields is utterly crap. He offers worse than nothing, and has done for 18 months.

New year, same shite squad 😂

Livi will shithouse their way to a victory at The Spaghettihad. We've not got what it takes to win such a fight.

The best player of my generation (born 1985) as a Well fan was Faddy during his first spell in the early 2000s. He's my GOAT.