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Lots of focus on terrible refereeing and VAR, but those issues are known and secondary to us just being utterly shite.

It would be a shame if we let these shite imposter players colour our view of Hammy. In truth, I think the issue is that some of them are just too crap to be able to be coached into players good enough to do the basics.

We turned into that a long time ago.

Yep.

Watch Slattery completely fail to run and make the challenge. Embarrassing.

Lovely run from Spittal.

Moult has done more in a few mins than Shields has done in his entire Well career.

Because Scottish refs are shite.

I genuinely feel sorry for Hammell. He’s inherited the biggest pile of shite I’ve ever witnessed as a Well fan.

We're continuing to be rotten all over the park. For example, we can't take our chances and we can't do the basic defending when under pressure. KVV and Slattery should be at least testing the keeper today, and Halliday should never be able to bully Lamie off the ball to score a header like that. Embarrassing stuff. Hammy needs to terrify them at halftime.

The most apt description I've read of Shields so far. McHugh 91 appearances, 8 goals = 1 goal every 11 games Shields 44 appearances, 3 goals = 1 goal every 15 games

Before casting aspersions, perhaps some here would benefit from reading up on football contract law and figuring out the definition of 'mutual' in the context of my point about being creative to offload in-contract players. https://www.easportslaw.com/news/terminating-a-contract-between-football-club-and-a-player https://www.easportslaw.com/news/unilateral-termination-of-a-football-players-contract

I would suggest that writing “You’ve had it explained to you further up the page” is incredibly patronising, particularly when zero tangible evidence is presented to support that explanation. Perhaps if it was coming from an actual manager or agent then maybe not. Just because someone asserts an opinion on a forum, it doesn’t make it fact. It’s just opinions, and they’re all valid in the context of a football forum inhabited by mouth-breathing morons.

Alright. You’ve explained it to me. I’m wrong.

Are you Shields’s agent?

As I noted, it is one example of being 'creative'. And point (a) isn't at odds with that statement if the player opts to join another club (thus end their contract early and sign a new one elsewhere) in order to get game time. Either that, or they sit still and earn for a year and then have no one interested in them at the end of that contract because they've sat around for a year and played with only the boys team. It's in a youngish players interests to be on the park for exposure, not sitting stealing a wage at an average club for a year or so. Contracts work both ways.

It'll be a start. We simply cannot continue with the squad as full of deadwood as it currently is. There are creative ways to offload players under contract. For example, tell them they won't get another game, then (a) they go to their agent to get a move for them before they vanish into obscurity and won't get a new deal anywhere else because they're out of the shop window, or (b) they actually learn how to not be shite and start contributing. I am certainly not suggesting we pay off the duds early, because that is stupid and not sustainable for us. GA has crippled us in that sense.

Fully understand, and suggest aboard a rocket into the moon.

Offload Shields, who is on a no doubt decent 3-year contract, to fund a deal for Penney? He has certainly demonstrated a greater attacking threat than Shields.

It would be madness not to offer him a permanent deal for next season or at least extend his loan for the remainder of this season, but I imagine the former will depend on the situation with McGinley and Carroll and the latter on us offloading some deadwood in January. Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately for Shields, he's been here for 1.3 seasons and continually shown us that he's not good enough for this level. That one 'sublime' goal does not make a premiership-level player. He has 1.7 seasons left to prove me wrong, unfortunately.

3-5-2 Kelly McGinn Sol Lamie Cornelius SOD Goss Slats Penney Tierney KVV

The club announced this in the Efford injury update article. ‘Rolando Aarons is currently with his parent club’

We're shite, but they're shiter. That's it.