TheLip69

He does, that's why I delete his e-mails.

Why is everything crammed into the middle of the screen.

I dont remember ever doing so, I assumed it was because I registered to go on the official website that I kept receiving them.

I delete them unread, he might not have anything better to do with his time, but I have.

Probably to get us out the ground a bit quicker.

I've probably been McCall's biggest critic, from the time his name was mentioned I said I was totally against his appointment. The thing is though, you cannot base your criticism of a manager on any OF game, it's the games against those around you in the league that prove, or disprove a managers capabilities. I believe the win at Aberdeen was more down to a combination of the players looking to prove something to Craig Brown, and Hartleys sending off, rather than anything the backroom staff did. We needed an extremely soft penalty to beat Accies and we've been pretty awful in the rest of the matches where McCall's been in charge. When a new manager comes into a club he generally, if he's any good, gives the club and the players a wee boost which generally shows in the club picking up a few points. That just hasn't happened. The Celtic game apart, probably the best football we've played was against Dundee in the Cup, McCall's first game in charge, I'd say that was a case of players showing the new guy what they're capable of. Sadly, the OF apart, I dont think we've reached that level of performance since.

As I said, it now means sod all.

You find out more about a manager in games against the likes of ICT, than you do in games against the OF. Most teams raise their game against the OF that's a given you shouldn't need to motivate a team for those games, equally I think a lot of our players had points to prove up at Pittodrie, although it wasn't until they went down to 10 men that we actually managed to get on top. Failing to beat St Mirren, scraping past an awful Accies side and getting thumped by a team with one win in their last 14 matches does not fill me with confidence. We should have built on the positives from the win over Celtic, we didn't and, in my opinion, that's bad management. Why change a winning team? Why drop Humphrey for Jeffers? I fail to see the sense in that particular move, Humphrey's pace nullified the attacking threat of Izaguirre last week, he had a couple of chances to increase our lead and failed yes, but he worried the Celtic defence and he was always an outlet for our defenders. We're consistent in our inconsistency.

Them's the ones. To be honest I was like that myself, turned up watched the match and went home. I only started taking a deeper interest in the club when we went into liquidation.

I think he's alluding to the fact that other teams set out to foul Celtic as a matter of course. His boys are taking all the rough treatment and are perfect little angels. Like some wee yobs mother saying "He's no like that in the hoose"

I know we are all different but you'd be surprised how many of the fans are only there for the football. A lot of them neither know nor care what goes on behind the scenes, as long as their seat is there on matchday as long as the team is on the pitch, they dont really give a monkey's about anything else, and that's true of all clubs. I'm actually astonished that they got as many as 800.

I have a good mate who's a Wednesday fan and season ticket holder, and the OP is actually just confirming what my mate Dan has already told me. I liked Reynolds when he first started he had the confidence of youth and could play a bit. He seemed to hit a wall though and virtually from the time we knocked back £1m from Rangers he never progressed.

Where's the difficulty, you've got them in the ground every couple of weeks. Put a pile at every turnstile, every kiosk, give one with every purchase in the club shop, have a couple of schoolkids inside the ground at every entrance dishing them out to each fan as they come in. You could even arrange to have them as flyers in the Motherwell Times, The Wishaw press, and The Bellshill Speaker. There is no difficulty in reaching out to the fans, it's getting them to take it seriously and fill the bloody thing in that's the problem. That's not a Motherwell problem, it's a common problem with all surveys.

They were dishing them out in the Cooper before the game on Sunday. The problem with surveys is that most people who complete them do so for a couple of reasons, out of a sense of duty or, because they feel particularly strongly about something. So they are never an accurate reflection of the how the group being surveyed actually feel, but merely a reflection of those who responded. A response of 800 is a bloody good return if truth be told, take away all the supporters under 16 who probably dont know, or care, that there is a survey going on, those from 16-25 with better things to do after a match than sit about filling in questionaires. the middle aged cynics who cant be arsed because its a bag of shite, and the elderly who filled it in and left it in a library book, or lined the budgies cage with it. 25% of the core support is excellent. It still means fuck all though.

I dont get up often enough for matches and have to say that the one who caught my eye was Gunning, right from the start he just seemed to meet everything that came his way and dispatched it with the minimum of fuss. I had listened to the St Mirren match in midweek and by all accounts the guy had a right stinker, one or two of the lads I spoke to on Saturday said he had been played out of position though. It's almost impossible to pick anyone out of that performance, the spine of the team excelled, Hutchison, Gunning, Lasley, Jennings, Sutton and Murphy were magnificent. Highlights the whole 90 minutes and giving the Celtic support 'I just cant get enough' in the second half, downers, getting into the Cooper too late for the breakfast, and the stink off those flares in the East Stand. Great performance, great result, but it'll mean sod all if we take nothing from ICT at the weekend.

On what do you base that positivity. I see the rest of this season as a series of ups and downs, with the downs far exceeding the ups, and a full season next year fighting relegation. I base that upon the fact we have a small squad, we have lost players without replacing them, our managers track record is less than impressive, and the team haven't shown the kind of impetus that usually comes from new management. I doubt whether we have the financial capability to attract the type of players required to improve the side, and I have grave doubts over whether McCall has the coaching skills to mould the type of player required from the staff already there. I'm on record as saying the man should never have been hired in the first place, so it's fairly clear where I stand. People are entitled to their opinion, mine is based on facts, facts I've given on this board more than once. Your opinion, like most of the pro-McCall side, seems to be based more on hope than on judgement. Stuart McCall was a poor manager before he arrived at Fir Park, I fail to see how coming here suddenly makes him any better. I'm a Motherwell fan and I'm 100% behind him because he's our manager, but that still doesn't make him any good.

I'm up for this one but I cant see us doing anything to be honest. I reckon their forwards will find Craigan almost as easy as they did Weir last week. It frightens me but I can see another 5 or 6 goal drubbing.

Aberdeen and Hibernian attract two to three times the crowds we do and have the ability to offer better wages and pay higher transfer fees. Decent management will see those two shoot past us up the league, and, to a lesser extent the same could be said of Dundee United. As for us finding a level under McCall that will be higher than bottom three next season. Can you please explain exacrly what it is about McCall that inspires this kind of faith, as, from what I've seen and what I know of the man's managerial record there is absolutely nothing there to suggest he has anything like the skills needed to move our club forward.

It's been coming for a wee while and I cant say I'm overly surprised that he chose the AGM to make the announcement. I am sad to see him go, because I always felt he had the club at heart and you could trust him to do his best for Motherwell FC. I have to admit though to being totally underwhelmed by the boardroom team that's been left behind.

I remember the days when we used to hump them regularly, I even remember a 10-1 once and if memory serves Joe Wark got a hat-trick. Airdrie was always the big derby for me, playing Accies or Albion Rovers was like the OF playing Partick Thistle or Clyde. I have to say it's not a match that stirs my blood in any way at all.

There's nothing more aggravating than that assumption. Relatives and schoolmates all tell me they know deep down who I want to win, and if truth be told it would probably be the exact opposite because of the years of having it rammed down my throat by those very people that I was "one of them".

Was it not Seville that pulled out? Did they not lose a player, Antony Puerta, in similar circumstances.

Same team, same score, same scorers, you're an imaginative bugger.

Motherwell 3-0 Accies Jeffers hat trick

Aye, Billy Ritchie would have been my guess, but Ally Hunter might have been a bare knuckler as well.