Ya Bezzer!

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.

Good point.

3 players have radically changed it before in January. Or even going further back look at the effect Falconer and Weir had. There is a decent enough core there (Carson, Gallagher, O'Donnell, Campbell, Watt) we just need guys around them that are going to give them a helping hand and experience tells me there often isn't much difference between a good team and a bad team in terms of personnel. Carroll coming back could solve one of our big problems and if we bring in the right players in the right positions things can definitely get better. But Robinson really needs to be ruthless and get rid of luxury players (Polworth) , guys that are not interested (Long), guys that are not good enough (Grimshaw, Seedorf etc) cos his job on the line now.

To be fair he came on the radio and was pretty honest about the situation and his own performance as manager. I don't rate Robinson at all as a tactical manager, that's not the type he is, so I don't expect that from his teams but this whole season just feels flat as a pancake. It's an unusual situation because of covid but it's the same for all the teams and it's not going to be a valid excuse if we find ourselves in a relegation situation. Down we go just the same. I do think Robinson is probably now entering the most difficult time as Motherwell manager. It's often said, but the next few games really are crucial. Anything but a win against Accies is going to down like a lead balloon and our record against them recently is pretty poor (1 win in 5, although admittedly better away from home). Then going away to St Mirren, another team we've struggled against lately, and right now they look like a much more cohesive team than us. Then you are looking at Rangers, Aberdeen and Ross County. You gotta say it's not looking too good but while many supporters are either done with Robinson or leaning that way I don't see the club making any decisions in the near future, at least not before these 5 matches. Robinson has tended to get a lucky break when he's needed it in the past. Let's hope these 3 new players are good ones.

Tonight equals our worst league run without a win (8) under Robinson. And Grizzly will be pleased to know Excel did the counting this time.

Feel sorry for Campbell. He's basically been carrying the team for most of the last 3 years and he's still a U21 international. It shouldn't be that way.

3rd August v Ross County - 1 shot on target 15th August v Hibernian - 2 shot on target 30th August v Celtic - 1 shot on target 12th September v St Johnstone - 2 shots on target 27th September v Rangers - 1 shot on target 21st November v St Johnstone - 2 shots on target 5th December v Hibernian - 1 shot on target 19th December v Rangers - 2 shot on target 23rd December v Aberdeen - 1 shot on target 30th December v Kilmarnock - 1 shot on target That's 10 out of 18 matches where we've had 2 or less shots on target. Totally unacceptable.

Last 7 home matches 1 win 1 draw 5 defeats next match at Fir Park - Rangers.

You'll no be laughing when he scores a hat trick!

That's exactly what Ross County have done a complete of times. They have a rich owner though.

Hope Archer had a string attached.

Hibs 0 Ross County 2 Anyone else feeling the heat?

Last time we won Kathy Beale had just got a job at the wine bar.

Recruitment - garbage Europe - terrible performances League Cup - out with a whimper League - as I speak 2 points off bottom of the league 2020 league record - Played 27 28 won 5 drawn 9 lost 13 14 Might be following you. I'm afraid it's not stacking up very well for Robinson but still 45 minutes still to go.

Good News - On the equivalent fixture last season we were losing 1-0 at HT to Ross County and came back and won 2-1. Bad News - That was the last time we came back and won in the 2nd half and we've only done it twice under Robinson in 42 matches.

I keep going on about it but our shots on target this season has been woeful and yet again all our chances have failed to hit the target. EDIT - Killie score, point remains.

Ross County take the lead.

Kilmarnock have 3 points and have scored 2 goals from open play (plus 2 penalties) in their last 9 games. This is a no excuses type match. And that's all I gotta say about that.

I'm always going on about big drops in standard, well, I grew up in an era of managers, never mind players, managers of the calibre of Alex Ferguson, Jim McLean, Jock Stein as well as Tommy McLean, Jock Wallace, Walter Smith, Archie Knox, Alex Miller, Alex Smith etc, etc. There is no one in the game now anywhere near even the least of these guys. It's a shame Dundee United fell just short a couple of times in Europe but none the less Jim McLean was one of the great managers of his era at continental level, not just at domestic level. The game has changed and I'm the product of the era of my youth but I think the changes have been to the detriment of Scottish football. These guys were giants and few were taller than Jim McLean.

1-0 is always a dangerous lead no matter how much you dominate. Having said that last week we took a point at home and created virtually nothing. We've taken a point away and were dominant and did create. So while it's disappointing not to take 3 points for me today is a, albeit small, step forward. Kilmarnock lost again today, I think that's 7 out of 8 (might be 6 out of 7) they have lost so that's a huge game coming up for us. We've got to go into that one looking for 3 points.

Well, surprise, surprise. Having said that'll take a goal, an away point and a decent performance over some of our recent matches.