El Grew

No disrespect to Charles Dunne but if he is the type of player Goodwin is going to take to Aberdeen then he’ll be out of a job sooner than he thinks.

Who is Cornelius Maguire?

Along with Lord Lucan, Shergar, the Holy Grail and the lost Ark of the Covenant.

Daily Mail carrying a story that both Motherwell and St. Mirren want to talk to 37 year old Steven Davis with a view to signing him if he decides to leave Rangers!

Sorry, I wasn’t laughing at your statement that he was the best footballer at the club - he may be. It was more that if he is, then it’s an indictment on the standard of player on our books. I’m no fan of our current manager but I think the reason he has persevered with his hoofball tactics this season is that he realises we don’t have any decent midfield players.

Motherwell legend Hugh Ferguson and his wife photographed with the FA Cup in 1927. Hugh scored the only goal for Cardiff City against Arsenal in the final at Wembley as the FA Cup left England for the first and to date, only time.

As others have posted I can’t argue with the release of the players on the club’s list. However I think there are still a few players left who IMO have shown that they’re not good enough to be playing at Premiership level: Mugabi (Contracted to May 2022) Carroll (Contracted to May 2023) Ojala (Contracted to May 2023) Goss (Contracted to May 2023) McGinley (Contracted to May 2024) Slattery (Contracted to May 2024) I appreciate that they are still under contract but they really do need to be gradually moved out. I also think that the manager has questions to answer surrounding his signing of Jordan Roberts and the loan signings of Liam Shaw and Victor Nirennold. Between them they only started 12 games and contributed the square root of f*ck all.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are jesting however if not, then fuck right off!

The two major areas for concern are defence and midfield. Defence We need to become much harder to score against to give ourselves a solid platform to play from. In that respect I think we need 2 centre-backs and a left-back. Midfield I think we need a passer/playmaker who can bring our strikers more into play instead of firing long balls up to them. Also somebody who can play the ‘mopper-up’ role between the defence and half-way line. Forwards I don’t think we are too bad here. Connor Shields has come on a fair bit now that he is starting regularly and could be a big player for us next season. Other than that good to go. COYW.

Name and shame.

A real stalwart. Mr Dependable who always gave his all on the pitch. His start at the club wasn’t an easy one but he went on to be a certainty on the team sheet. For me he’s right up there with the late great Joe Wark. I’m sad to see him leave us but wish him all the very best in his new role at St.Mirren. He’ll always be more than welcome back at Fir Park.

Hybrid pitches seem to be the way to go. Lots of top clubs now have them. Club to be applauded for doing this. However a hybrid pitch in a stadium that always needs running repairs?? It’s like putting a Rolls Royce engine in an old banger!

Utterly speechless!! COYW.

Overall League Record V Hearts P136; W54; D24; L58 I really, really love it when we beat them - I still haven’t gotten over that Texaco Cup game.

I think we are on the same page.

Stephen O’Donnell is as good a full-back as we’ve had at the club for a long time. The guy gets picked for regularly for Scotland and has rarely if ever had a bad game. When he’s dropped he never complains and you never hear anything bad about him. In short, a model pro. Sure he’ll have some poor games. All players do. Even the late great Joe Wark wasn’t perfect in every game. He’s the best full-back at the club by a mile and the fans need to recognise it and get behind him.

At this stage of the season for most clubs in any league, the result is all that matters. Fans hope that their team wins games and are not too bothered about how this is achieved and this was never more clearly demonstrated than by the emotion and relief shown after yesterday’s win in Dingwall. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade but in truth we were again quite inept. In fairness it was a very poor game and one which I thought had 0-0 written on it even before kick-off as there was so much at stake for both teams. In the final analysis it was a case of the ends justifying the means as we got the 3 points craved by both sides. However, it shouldn’t be forgotten that it took a ridiculous refereeing decision and a world class save from Liam Kelly to ensure we got the win. I feel that the major issue is that at no time during the season have we had a settled cohesive side. There has been far too much chopping and changing from one game to another as the manager doesn’t seem to know what his best 11 is. IMO this is result of having too many players at the club who are not up to playing at SPFL level. He picks his team, some players make schoolboy errors and are dropped in favour of others who in truth are no better. This undermines players confidence as they fear one error in a game will see them dropped. He must accept that the type of player we have, with a few exceptions, will make errors and he needs to stick with them, work with them and give them a decent run in the team. If after 5 or so games there is no improvement then look to try somebody else. As I have previously posted I believe some of the solutions lie in: 1. Making a drastic cull of the squad in terms of size to take out as much deadwood as possible. 2. The club trying to make funds available to bring in 3 or 4 players who are a cut above what we presently have. 3. Looking again at our youth policy which in the not too distant past has produced the likes of Murphy, Scott, Cadden and Turnbull.

Yes from DOWN SOUTH in Ireland!

Like many others, I’ve been a critic of our present players and manager however I’ve reviewed how our club has performed in the league since I became a fan in the mid-1960s. Now I know folk get switched-off by statistics but in Scottish football especially, they are an indisputable representation of past performance and a strong indicator as to future performance. Since I started supporting the ‘Well the accepted wisdom was that our city clubs dominated the league and always would. As a demonstration of this, since season 1960/61, only 1 non-city club has won the league. If this accepted wisdom prevailed, and I accept it hasn’t always, then the best we could hope for was to finish 7th and if we bettered this, it would be considered a good season. Since season 1960/61 and including this season but excluding seasons when we were relegated, we have finished higher than 7th place 20 times. That’s 20 from 62 seasons or just over 32%. I don’t have statistics for the other non-city clubs so I’m unable to say how that compares with them but I’d be willing to bet it must be close to being the best of the rest. I certainly do not enjoy watching the football we are serving up at present, however upon reflecting on the above review, I think perhaps my criticism has been a little over the top and that I should put things into perspective. Others may and likely will disagree but then that’s democracy and we are all ‘Well supporters.

Mixed record against Ross County in Dingwall: P15; W6; D3; L6: F19; A23; GD-4 Not much in it however they are clearly in much better fettle than us right now and with home advantage will most likely win. Hope I’m wrong because I doubt we’ll get anything from our final two games.

That is one of the poorest Dundee Utd teams I’ve seen and yet we still couldn’t even manage to get a draw out of them!!

Yes, I vividly recall one game in March 2004 when we played them off the park and missed a barrow load of chances. They were never in the game as an attacking force. Then late in the game, they brought Jason Scotland on as a sub and he scored within minutes of coming on. We lost 1-0 and I remember coming out with my mates and wondering how we’d lost having dominated for most of the game.

I see Jamie McCart, Shaun Rooney and Callum Hendry are all out of contract at St. Johnstone at the end of the season. Are any of them worth consideration?

I doubt it will make any difference which 11 is picked to play because our league record at Tannadice is pretty poor to say the least:- P94; W18; L42; D34; GF95; GA158 Our last win there was in February 2016 and better Motherwell sides than the current one have struggled up there so I don’t see this being improved upon. Hope they prove me wrong.