Ya Bezzer!

Just means we'll never get caught out on the counter attack as they'll still be trying to get up the pitch. 🤣 Think we've been better without Slattery than with him. Look at the results when Lennon Miller was out and look at them when Slattery was out. Think it's pretty telling. Would not have offered him a new contract and I'm assuming he's one of the better paid players. Paton isn't the greatest but he rarely gives you less than 100% and if you blend the midfield to include technically better players I think he can play a role. Callachan could honestly go either way. Worth pointing out the guy has played well over 140 matches and scored 20 goals at this level for various teams so it's not totally outlandish. Obviously his injury record at County is pretty alarming but he was one of the better midfielders in the league two or three seasons ago. Can he replicate that form? The jury is out but I think you need to give him a chance. Kettlewell has taken a risk but it's premature to lambast him on it. Let's see some performances and results first. Halliday should stick to podcasting, offered very little last season. Only thing you can say is maybe a pre-season will sharpen him up but he's turning 33 and we already have too many older players especially in the defensive areas.

Mostly sub appearances and he was also playing wide rather than as a centre forward. He scored 12 goals the previous season.

Well we are a small fan owned club so what do you expected? The only reason we've hung with the big boys so long is that we should have been relegated three times and got away with it due to the absolute shit show that is Scottish football. Pretty much the whole of Scottish football is pure diddy stuff so we're always fighting against the tide just in terms of having sensible medium term goals and maintaining a standard of professionalism. But hey, that's how it is and if it takes more out of you than it gives back, we're all allowed to walk away. And honestly, I'd rather support Motherwell as is, than have some billionaire come in as use us at a play thing. Motherwell might be a lot of things that aren't very inspiring but we are authentic.

Mugabi is one of those players that often has a really good game and then just makes a catastrophic clanger. Unfortunately he's never really managed to eliminate that from his game.

That's actually better than the Scotland kit for the Euros!

First of all goals scorers have to do it season after season to be worth big bucks. Bair doesn't have two decent seasons in a row yet. Secondly, we are playing at a level of football that is, frankly, guff and miles behind any level of English football that's paying six figures. There are exceptions but most of the players that move down south don't do much, especially strikers. Sam Cosgrove being a good example. Diddy player, had a couple of good seasons of form in Scotland, went down south, did FA. Birmingham paid 2 million quid for him and he never scored a single goal for them. Minus penalties, Bair scored 12 goals last season. To make a million on him over a season on that level of performance at our level would be a great result. If you can get 3 million even better but I'd be very surprised if anyone paid that for him. You think teams with an overall transfer budget of probably tens of millions would be looking at him? I don't.

At the very least if Motherwell want us to renew season tickets they should give us DIFFERENT shite to watch.

I'd have released Slattery. Decent player on his day but those days can often be very few and far between. Overall his basics aren't good enough. Didn't''t really miss him when he was injured and in fact our form improved as I thought it might. Assuming he's one of the top earners at the club I'd suggest you could get more value for the wages. The one thing I'd say in Slattery's favour is that with Spittal gone maybe there is more of a role for him in the team. As I said last season I felt they didn't both fit into the same starting eleven. Maybe he's an AM but he's absolutely not a CM or DM.

I can't remember us playing Montrose in my time. Might be a memory issue though! OK - I checked. We've only played Montrose 8 times in our history and the last time was 1971/72.

File next to Scotland World Cup 86 shorts from Hell!

We could always do the Rangers/Celtic strategy. Bring out an away kit at the beginning of the summer. Wear it on the first league match of the season. Then immediately bin it and bring out another away kit until Christmas when that kit gets binned and another kit comes out. Only thing is we won't also be able to release a 'Euro' kit as well.

Nothing can be that bad. The thing that makes it even worse we made some really great players wear the thing (Martin, Coyne etc.)

in recent times you have Alan Forrest (Hearts) Luke McCowan (Dundee) Robbie Deas & Lewis Mayo (Kilmarnock) Simon Murray (Ross County) James Penrice (Livingston, has signed for Hearts I think) All good players that have come straight from Championship clubs.. And there are loads of players who have played at Championship level without coming directly from a Championship club - Nicky Deviln, Marley Watkins etc, etc. You don't sign a league so I'm not sure about your analogy. It's about identifying individual players that fit into our system and style of play. We should be looking at all available markets - Ireland, England, Scotland, Scandanavia and elsewhere. There are players in Championship that could do us a turn.

Maybe if you are into bloodsports. Ryan Bowman made Curtis Main look prolific. He scored 10 league goals over three seasons and 70+ matches. His league goal tallies were 2, 7 and 1. Last season he scored 1 goal in 26 for Shrewsbury which makes the fact he's been freed not that surprising.

I'd be surprised if Oxborough is first choice next season. You need three goalkeepers in the squad so it'll be Connelly, Oxborough and a starter.

Saw the statement about player releases and contracts and have a couple of questions. Obika and Tierney weren't mentioned as either being released or offered new contracts. I believe they were both contracted up to this summer. I'd assume they are gone then but it wasn't categorically stated. Also, is it correct that we don't have a single recognised first team player contracted beyond 2025?

If I knew you got free Yazoo as a professional footballer maybe I would have tried harder.

Turnbull has been treated like garbage everywhere he's been, including here. It's got to effect your confidence. I mean Turnbull was literally still one of the top scorers in the Scottish Premiership this season and he got bombed out after 9 starts. It's also worth thinking about the fact that he's had two serious injuries in his career at a relatively early age. There is no doubt he is a talent though, picking Ryan Jack over him when Jack is over the hill, perma-injured and has one start since last November has got to be a kick in the balls.

Bair scored 1 goal in his last 6 games and that was a penalty so the idea that he might not be as prolific next season is valid until disproved. For goalie can I throw in the name of Kevin Dabrowski. He's been excellent for Raith Rovers this season. He's got a year left on his contract at Hibs and spent all this season out on loan. Hibs will have a new manager who might want to bring in his own players. Think it's worth a shout.

Bit of a loaded question. I voted "no". But it doesn't mean I'm in the 'flaming torch and pitchfork' mob. I'm of the 'use this as a base line and improve next season' rather than 'clear the players, the manager and the board out'. It might be hard for us to score as many goals next season but I definitely want to see more home wins, more clean sheets, better fundamentals on the pitch, better cup performances etc, etc.

Obviously we have to make the defensive fixes but before we do that.... Our top 6 performers this season in my view. Biereth - already gone Spittal - going Gent - loan, will return to parent club Miller - attracting interest from other clubs Bair - attracting interest from other clubs McGinn - out of contract, turning 34.

As it was between November and January!

The goalkeeper should be the boss of the box and therein lies the problem.

Today kind of summed up the season. 1) Scored. 2) Didn't play well with no recognisable style of play, bit pedestrian. 3) Defensively hopeless. 4) No home win. I'm mentioned it before but I will do again. We conceded in 35 out of 38 league matches. Big, big improvements needed over the the summer, especially defensively.

Child abuse, like many other terrible things, is endemic in society. I don't view it as a specific football issue. It's a societal/legal issue. I didn't stop supporting Motherwell when one of our managers was charged with domestic abuse, for instance. In the Celtic case there was ambiguity over who was responsible over settlement. Hence the drawn out nature of the case. For some time Celtic denied they were responsible, which was their legal right. If I'd had access to all the court documentation I would honestly have had no idea if Celtic were legally responsible. I simply have no idea what links one entity to another under Scots law, which was the crux of the case. These issues are for the courts and legal profession to sort out and far outside of my view as a football supporter. Overall though I've always found football supporters 'point scoring' against others in cases where there was real human suffering a little troubling.