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I think Brown is probably retired now and wouldn't be interest. He's come in and rescued us once before and has nothing to prove. I'd take Jimmy Calderwood. I think he is much maligned but his record is pretty good and he's sucessfully done End of Season Save Us From Relegation jobs with Kilmarnock and Ross County. For me it's a no brainer.

One of those old saying my granny used to say was "After success comes a fall". I've been thinking about it and how true it is. The season after the Scottish Cup win was one of the worst in my Motherwell supporting time and that was a team filled with quality players. We had guys like Bobby Russell and Davie Cooper, 'Well legends like Stevie Kirk and Dougie Arnott, Jamie Dolan, Chris McCart etc etc. Most of those players went on to play for a team that could, and maybe should have strangled Rangers 9 in a row aspirations and won the League Championship and was probably the best Motherwell team I've ever, and most likely, will ever see. Yet after we finished 2nd under McLeish with the same team (albeit miles off Rangers this time), the team fell apart and there was some very bleak years ahead of us. Now we've had last years 2nd place finish and the attendant collapse afterwards. It's interesting and surely not a coincidence that these three high watermarks in my Motherwell supporting career have been followed up with disasterous seasons. There must be some kind of psychological factor at play here.

And he also has a media background. I don't get the obsession some people have with what Alan Burrows is or isn't doing.

I just don't agree with this. Our back four has been shocking all season - McManus, Ramsden, Kerr, etc, etc. We've also never had a second striker all season. Erwin played wide, Ojamaa up front, rarely two real strikers up front, meaning Sutton has been totally isolated. We rarely hit the byline and have no width. Central midfield has been poor but it's just part of a general malaise and not a specific problem, in my opinion.

Appointing a manager is always a risk, sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. No one could tell at the interview stage that Baraclough would sign an Anthony Straker, put out weird formations and selections or play the sort of football that was put out of its misery 30 years ago. The board does not have a crystal ball and I think some of the criticism of them for appointing Baraclough is a bit unfair. I will say this though, when we've had a poor manager the club has generally dealt with it pretty quickly. Malpas didn't last a year and Gannon was shown the door within a couple of months. Hopefully the club has the courage and strength to make a similar decision. If not, then the criticism of the board goes from being unfair to completely valid.

If Kenny Black was still in at the club I'd show Baraclough the door and put him in charge again. A lot of people don't have time for him here but the facts remain our only satisfactory performance all season was when he was in charge and he took, I think, 4 points in 4 matches. With Black gone and Robinson brought in it complicates matters a bit. If Baraclough is sacked we basically have to head hunt someone and have them ready to come in immediately. We can't have another interview process so soon after the last one.

We have absolutely no chance against Inverness as they are miles ahead of us right now. You might as well give Baraclough that one and strengthen the case for dismissal. Surely 1 point from 27 would mean no one could possible argue with that axe.

Based on the rest of the season - just couldn't be bothered.

The bad vibes of certain players towards Ian's wonderful hard work, ability and tactical genius is disrupting her wifi.

True, McManus has been garbage and Lasley is having a poor season, even so I don't see anyone better than him in the squad. My main problem with this comment though is with Sutton. He's been playing isolated up front all season and despite that he has won us 12 of our 18 points. Without Sutton in the team we'd have been relegated long ago.

You say a few weeks, I say 10 matches. I think he has to get at least 1 win from the next two home matches, otherwise that's 10 matches without a win and a drop from a safe 10th position to automatic relegation bottom place. The whole future of the club is at stake here.

I remember when we had Phil O'Donnell on the front cover of the programme every week when he was a Celtic player!

Honestly wid.

I think that's true but there is also the money situation. If we are bringing players in from England we can only pay at a certain level. There is a disparity between quality and wages paid between Scotland and England which means we can't recruit players of our level on our level of wage. That's why I've been saying for a while now the English market is finished for us now. We have to develop our own players or bring them in from the Scottish lower divisions where the economic level if more favorable for us and where we can get players of a standard on our budget.

It form means anything it was an absolute banker.

He made a couple of decent saves but nothing out of the ordinary. His kicking was garbage at times though.

Erwin burst a gut. And that was all there was.

Looking forward to whatever player they put forward for the pre match interview telling us they believe in the managers ideas. That'll be like a Ricky Gervais cringe comedy.

A horsing, and it looks likely, from Inverness might be the straw that breaks the camels back.

What Scunthorpe players were to blame for his shite record there? 22 defeats from 34 was it? Poor guy really has bad luck with bad dressing rooms.

Maybe he'd cheer up if Mr Wonderful had won any matches this year.

Ah, Gannon. The last time we went for a lower league English clown that talked a good game but was a complete fraud as a football manager.

There always seems to be this passive aggression against the players in your posts and the inkling that there is a divide between the playing staff and the manager.

Ha ha ha ha