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Dont let facts get in the way of blaming SK for every injury we have!

I agree. But if you are the manager and want to play a certain way, you should identify and sign players that fit with that philosophy. Its an entirely different situation SK finds himself from when he got the job and had someone elses players. I think this is one of the valid criticisms of him as a manager so far, in that he has signed the players. He should be committing to a tactical set up that maximises the sum of the parts. Once he has all HIS players fit and available for selection he should be judged at that point.

Looked more like a 10 to me but I could be wrong. Regardless, I hope SK can use his man management skills to get a tune out of him wherever he plays......

No arguments there.

I understand what you are saying and I would agree with it to a point. But we dont know that he was brought in as a direct replacement for Spittal. Particularly as Spittal was still at the club when he signed. If he was then its a valid criticism. If he was signed as a back up, less so. I think Stuparevic is more likely to have been signed as a Spittal replacement, but again I have no evidence of that. What I do know is, that despite having good technical ability and no significant injury record, he was released by Watford and has now ended up with us. It would suggest that mentality is maybe his problem. Again something SK has taken a chance on. By and large its the market we are in.....

Are you saying we shouldnt be discussing it?

Well its more local than Nashville or Boston! 😆😆😆 Good luck in the vote. You are under consideration!

So no serious injury since 2019? Id hardly call that a crock. He only missed 6 games in that time period. Looking back, I will give you Pape Soare. Id forgotten he even existed. Looking at the other signings only Ross Callachan would appear to have had a significant injury at the time of signing.

How many of the players were in fact known crocks though? I dont recall Nicholson being flagged as injury prone when he signed and Slattery and Paton certainly werent. I will give you Obika, which was a pretty obvious one but would we have been any happier if he had ditched Obika in favour of Mandron? We do seem to catch more than our fair share of injuries though, so maybe ine of the players SK engineered out the door last season put a curse on us! PS.......Im going to have to go back now and check his signings just to see how bad it has been!

Seems like the troops are getting their teeth right into improving things! Good to hear. Can only vote for 4 candidates. But there were 6 that were really impressive and the rest all had something to offer.

Wouldnt disagree with that at all. Not always the case, but my thought process would be that a Motherwell fan living locally would have more of a vested interest in doing so. Particularly thise candidates who already have some skin in the game re the Our Club, Our Future proposals.... Edit: just read your post again. I think you maybe mean reaching out to our American friends and tapping into that resource, regardless of whether they are elected?

He did. No doubting his enthusiasm and I dare say he could bring something to the party with his US Broadcasting connections. However, given the current climate and pool of talent available, I think I will be sticking with local Motherwell fans to take fan ownership forward.

I think it deserves its own thread. Having watched all the pitches, there are some really excellent candidates in there. Whoever is elected will undoubtedly strengthen the Society Board.

We are not The Pride of Lanarkshire for nothing! 😍😍😍 I wonder if St Mirren consider themselves to be The Pride of Renfrewshire? 😆😆😆

I think reducing the prices for away fans would go a long way to improving attendances and increasing revenues. We should look at capped prices for season ticket holders as long as its reciprocated for our fans. I think we did that once before. No idea if it was successful or not.

Aye right enough. Apologies. I presume the club are aware of the issue now though. Did they give you any confirmation that efforts are in place to rectify the problem?

I was curious about this so Ive just tried to go on and buy a child ticket for the Hearts game. As long as I log in with my season ticket details, I can buy a single child ticket under my name near to where I sit. No idea why it hasnt worked for you this weekend unless there has been a glitch or an issue with your log on. I would contact the club and ask them to check as it certainly appears possible for it to be done. Hope that helps.

I thought AvS looked very good yesterday in his brief cameo. He may not be able to last 90 mins, but he wasnt way off the pace, got stuck in and had plenty of touches of the ball. Looks far more suited to holding the ball up and linking play than Moses or Robinson. Hopefully he can get up to speed quickly and nail down a starting place. Given our injuries, a couple of midfielders would seem to be more of a priority than another striker.

I get your point, but its hard to show ambition if another club offers our players double their money to play at a higher level. Pre-Bosman you could stick to your guns a bit and try and hold onto the player. Its virtually impossible now.

Not sure its as bad as Alexanders. That was eye bleeding stuff. We have played some decent football under SK at times. Its just a bit pedestrian at times and a bit disjointed at others. When it works its good to watch and we can score some really nice goals. It just never seems to be done off a solid platform with distinguishable patterns of play.

SK aint getting binned anytime soon.

I think Casey and Blaney are serviceable on todays performance, but I would have thought that SK sees our first pick defence as McGinn, Gordon, Balmer. Be interesting to see what he does when they are all 100% fit.

Witty. Id ask you to debate back, but I dont think you are interested in that.

Nicholson, Slattery, Callachan, Stametolopoulos, Stuparevic, Kaleta, Seddon, Balmer........ Want me to go on?

Didnt think there was much in the first half football wise, but we had 2 very good chances to their zero. Second half we were the better team and County dug in for their point. Thought we were pretty solid defensively and we resteicted County to one Jordan White header and a free kick which Oxborough saved well. Its clear our biggest problems are in midfield and the disconnect between them and the forwards was very apparent. Think we will have to remain patient until we get some players back fit or more in the door. That said we created more than enough chances to win the game and really should have done so. Thought SOD and Wilson both had decent games, despite neither having the real pace needed to perform the role effectively. Really impressed with Liam Gordon. He appears to be the centre half we have been looking for