Ya Bezzer!

Guessing John Hughes wanted a better job than Ross County but he was sat on his arse for a while and no one else wanted him. Tommy Wright on reassessing the demand for himself might also have a slightly different attitude than he did a while back.

There's actually quite a few decent players in Scotland at the moment not getting game time. To name a few....Dylan McGeouch, Stevie Mallan, Scott Allan, Jordan Jones, Greg Stewart and Scott Brown!

They had 1 win in 15 or something. They were probably looking realistically at a managerial change for a while before it happened. With us I think the club would have supported Robinson and he's taken them a bit by surprise in resigning.

Before today I would have said no to Wright but after today I think I'd say yes. You'd fancy him to at least keep us up and after that showing at NDP that might be the extent of our ambitions. You were looking for a reaction today and we got nothing. We are in BIG trouble.

Fox is garbage and should never have been brought in the first place. O'Hara has had some excellent performances in my midfield and defence and yet I still have doubts about him. No consistency at all. I think we need an experienced centre half to play along side Gallagher so I'd be looking for a defender. Maguire needs a run in the team and we desperately need a wide left and maybe a creative midfielder as well. Long for me is the personification of everything wrong with the current squad. Doesn't really want to be here, lazy, moody, couldn't give a shite and happy to pick up a wage for bugger all. If we need to make a human sacrifice make it him. Just pay him off and show him the door and we've got rid of at least one malignancy.

Lionel had a great first season for us but it was down hill from there and by the end he was a pale shadow of himself. In terms of ability he could have played at the very top level but he obviously lacked the mental side of the game.

Was just going through the squad with the Red Pen of Death and reckon we have 16 players and that's including Hussain, Johnston, Devine and Cornelius. Absolute priority has to be a left sided midfielder, a striker who can actually score, and a goalkeeper. That's only a start but what absolutely needs to be done tomorrow for us to have a fighting chance. I have to say thought I disagree about Tait and Hartley. We've hardly kicked a ball since James Scott left and Tait and Hartley where here when this terrible run started back in January. Fresh blood desperately needed.

Last two times McCall was at Fir Park he was utter pish at Motherwell and utter pish at Rangers. He'd probably resign Simon Ramsden. Naw x 1,000,000.

Am beelin'! I cannae be expected to interpret nuance right now!

He'd be in the past if he took the squad he built with him. Sadly that's not the case.

We need to get the right man in. We can't make a decision in haste.

Gallagher, O'Donnell and Campbell will be texting their agents before their hair is dry.

Chapman is a complete imposter. Where did we get him?

OK, forget about Lasley, Chapman, being bottom of the league. Forget all that. 1 win in 6 against Accies. Fucking deary me.

The good thing is I went to see Alloa Athletic just before lockdown so I know my way there. McDonalds just across from the stadium as well.

To be fair his options are limited.

Lasley in - goals. Over that haddie.

I think there is something in this. But also the last two players of quality that we've brought through have lasted 6 months or less in the team before being sold off, or would have been without injury. We simply can't hold on to good players for even a season now, never mind longer, due to the economics of the club and the game in general. The focus of the club has shifted from putting together a good team to keeping a good set of accounts and I understand why but there is a big risk that if you neglect the football then longer term it's financially deleterious. There are some parallels with Inverness but also with Dundee Utd.

Also week 2 and week 3 we played the same defence. Grimshaw - Gallagher - Mugabi - Lamie. EDIT - and weeks 4 and 5. O'Donnell - Gallagher - Mugabi - Lamie.

Not impressed with Chapman at all but Morrison was stinking for Falkirk against Rangers recently.

As we all know from recent experience league position is not always indicative of performance on the field. Putting aside the chaos behind the scenes, Gannon left us with 4 wins from 17 league matches and 1 win in 10. When Craig Brown came we went on an unbeaten run of 12 matches. In the second half of the season we won 5 matches by a 2 goal margin and put 3 past Kilmarnock, Aberdeen, Hearts (all wins) and Hibs and Rangers (both draws). We scored 29 goals from 20 matches compared to 16 goals in 19 matches this season. Oh and against Celtic we lost one match 0-4. All the rest were either 0-1 or 1-2 defeats. I know what I'd rather be watching.

THEN the list get scary. Tommy Wright is everything eye bleedingly wrong about Scottish football. And I think I hate Craig Levein more than anyone ever in history.

Ha ha ha. I snipped out the point I disagreed with in order to counter it. While you make up stuff in the form of questions and take a hissy. I never in any way claimed any of those things. But for your benefit and all that. Malpas wasn't good enough. Baraclough wasn't good enough. Robinson is more of a mixed bag but ultimately he's not been good enough for a while and, hand on heart, some of the worst football I've ever seen at Fir Park was the absolute void of football between Moult leaving and Turnbull breaking into the team. And it looks like we were heading back that way but don't have a Turnbull to pull out of the bag. Gary Holt, not for me, but currently we are in a situation where we just need new ideas and a new guy to come in. Plenty people where holding their nose when Hughes was appointed at Ross County but who knows how it will turn out. I doubt they would have beaten Hibs with Kettlewell in charge. So hypothetically if Holt was appointed I think it could go either way, even though he wouldn't be my choice. As I said, I think Robinson was due a few more games on past achievements but on our current trajectory (P28 W6, points average 0.82 per game) I don't really think it would have been a huge risk to change manager. There was a settled pattern over a long period, we aren't talking about 5, 6 or even 7 or 8 games it's a years worth of football.

Craig Brown was an excellent appointment. And for me he essentially set the template for the success McCall had. When McCall had to come up with his own ideas I think he was found lacking a bit. However in that period we were losing money hand over fist. We don't have the monies (or rather the facilities for debt) to do what we did back then. With all due respect to Robinson I think he was pretty basic tactically and was a product of lower league football at Bournemouth and Luton in the 1990s and 2000s. We should be looking for a more astute type of coach who's not tainted by a background in physical, long ball, minimum technique style football. We need a bit of forward vision at the club, personally as a long term fan I've been feeling deflated recently about our club. I'm looking for something to buy into rather than just watch short term 'get a result' (and often not getting it) kind of football. Right now we are moribund.

More than 6 wins in a year? Half decent football? Players with a professional attitude? Any kind of entertainment value? I'm surprised Robinson went now and I think he was due a few more matches but while things can always get worse it's pretty negative to assume that they will when the worst was looking very likely anyway. The whole 'let's blunder along and accept anything that's not total failure' attitude is one that I think has infected our thinking in recent times and needs to be curbed. And if we do get relegated Robinson had half a season in charge and will have to bear half the responsibility. He only accumulated 17 points and put together a squad that is pretty uninspiring. If his replacement can't better Robinson's points legacy we will definitely be in trouble. In the meantime I'll hope, probably in vain, of getting in a manager that views Motherwell as a top level professional club rather than a kick and rush lower league outfit. Motherwell FC should be a lot better than they are right now. We need someone to come in and raise the base line standards. They haven't been good enough for a while. On Stephen Robinson, I have sympathy for him but at the end of the day he's left because he's recognised before a lot of others that things simply weren't good enough.