MelvinBragg

Of the names mentioned I could live with Nijholt, Gannon, McAllister or McCart. Don't want Calderwood or Jeffries. There may be other candidates out there who could do a job that we know nothing about. I have a funny feeling it will be an 'unknown' out of leftfield that gets it. Interesting times...

Is it true that one of the papers is running a story this morning that Craigan will be interim manager for the moment...?

Unlike McGhee of course who hadn't worked in Scotland for about 17 years...

I know it's a long thread you could try and make your way through it. D'you really think he'd have got 80-odd votes without someone posting his coaching CV...

As I think Al B said in another thread, people move on but there's two ways of doing it. The McFadden way and the Pearson McDonald McGhee way...

Without wishing to be seen to be over-reacting, should we sell Clarkson to that big shovel-faced prick, I will personally firebomb Fir Park...

Fixed that for you, Malky...

You see, I've heard the arguments that he's still better than what's out there and he'd still be trying to impress for a move so we'd benefit. None of this really flies for me. Part of the manager's job is to motivate players. How on earth could any player playing for Motherwell listen to McGhee asking them to give it their all without bursting out laughing??

Bit early in the morning for sarcasm, is it no'?

I'm actually surprised it's not a more resounding no given some of the posts I've read on here. Although some of the reasons for voting yes betray the fact that he's really not liked. I know we can't afford to sack him, just talking in the hypothetical...

He's had a few injuries as I recall, but I would definitely take him, possibly ahead of Brian McLean...

I suspect you beat him to that response by about a minute...

You throwing your hat into the ring...?

I posted the question because I wasn't entirely sure how he was seen by the support. Have to say, I'm surprised by the split thus far...

Took me a few reads of that to understand what you were getting at there. He's not welcome but you wouldn't be hounding him for fear of giving him an excuse to walk away for nowt...?

A question prompted by some other posts on the forum. Should the Aberdeen talks break down over compensation (very unlikely but it's still a possibility) would you welcome the fact we'd have McGhee as manager next season? Has it soured you against the man? Or do you think we'd reap the benefit of him trying his hardest to get a move?

Nae harm, big man, but I reckon that's a naive point of view. You're right in that there's no sentiment in business but football is like no other business (we'd have seen a few clubs shut their doors otherwise). Boyle has to be aware that although he might welcome him back, McGhee's relationship with a large proportion of the fans has either broken down or soured beyond repair over this. Probably still a minority of fans who wouldn't welcome McGhee as manager now, but a larger number than even a couple of days ago. As Ricky stated, his position is untenable...

Problem being that, we don't really want him and they do. They're using that fact to try and haggle here. What should have happened is that when Aberdeen first made their 'official' approach to Motherwell to ask permission to talk to him, the compensation issue should have been ironed out then...

Sadly, Ricky, I reckon that's what Aberdeen are banking on...

Aye, could Michael Fraser be the new Simon Mensing...?

Given our new manager will arrive 10 minutes before kick off in our first European game (or so it would seem at the minute), if you could have a word in his ear what positions would you be telling him to strengthen. I'm thinking as a minimum 1 defender (hopefully able to play either full back or centre back) 2 midfielders (one goalscoring one, please) 1 striker Obviously I reckon more would be nice, but that to me looks like the bare minimum. Thoughts? Just to get away from the saga that it the management handover...

I'm guessing, and it is only a guess, Gordon Young. Which is fine because given the shallowness of the squad, the entire bench could be U19s he was coaching last season...

This isn't the Barras, Boyle should tell Milne, the price is marked on everything...

Nothing to compare it against at the time...?

Point taken, though, mate. Only reason the post regarding him having enough of having no money caught my eye was because it was very specific about being outbid by Gillingham (I'm assuming the lad Beevers?) and the mention of a managerial candidate right out of leftfield (Kevin Dillon). I think everyone would like an end to the speculation and rumour so we could move forward and know who was going to be the man in charge next year. Though speculation and rumour are certainly ensuring that, as short as our close season was going to be, it's not been a dull one...