MelvinBragg

Hanging out with Eddie Nolan, Sam Foley and Holm Kraska?

That shirt would have been fine with single colour shorts. Indeed, they nearly got relegated. Nearly being the key word there. I suspect we'll be saying of this season "we nearly stayed up"...

That team had players with character in it. For Wednesday, and going forward, I'd be going 352. We have no wingers that offer anything and with a defence as porous as it's been in the last couple of games, having another body in there couldn't do any more harm than we're already doing to ourselves. Problem will be the number of available (competent) players to play centre half. God knows what the lineup will be...

Dunno, according to this, you might be right https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2020/06/16/young-four-sign-new-deals/

According to official site, Maguire also contracted til 2022. Oh well, at least there's scope for a rebuild..

Does anyone know exactly how many players we have under contract for next season and who they are? Trying to look ahead to what will be our promotion chasing squad...

I did ask on here if it could maybe have worked out differently for him if he'd got a goal early in his Motherwell career. I was laughed at. Apparently all he needed was to be part of a well functioning team....

If Gallagher is trying to renegotiate his contract to avoid an automatic extension, you could argue that he is now in a strong negotiating position. On the other hand, he's hardly been fantastic and if he's not committed, how will he perform..?

On today's evidence Hastie and Roberts would contribute nothing in a 442. We all know Seedorf. Lawless injured. 442 isn't an option...

Only problem is that they still have us to play...

It's a strange one..

Horrendous substitutions. Maguire had occasionally found a Motherwell player...

St Johnstone taking their foot off the gas. And still a mile ahead...

According to BBC, St Johnstone have had 15 shots in the first half. Fifteen. Fucking hell...

We don't have any other midfielders available...

He looks like Baresi compared to McGloire. He looks Zak Jules bad...

Careful. I got slaughtered on here earlier this season for suggesting he'd walk into our first team right now...

Have to say that despite the result Watt and Cole cam hold their heads up. They've worked hard with scraps...

And just after that he keeps the ball alive for them to score...

Least of our problems, I know, but McGloire doesn't look up to much...

I know Robinson got slated for signing players with pace and not much else. But this team looks painfully slow...

This could end up anything today. It is a disgrace...

They are always more up for it than us sadly...

Really tempting fate posting this a couple of days before a derby. Bets on one of the two having a stinker tomorrow..? More seriously though, think it's probably a couple of factors. Maybe new coaching, a different voice can make a difference. Suspect the return of Carroll has been huge as well. He's no Roberto Carlos (or even Rab McKinnon) but he's a lett back as opposed to a player that 'can play there'. Balance of the defence is far better... I do feel it's worth pointing out though that for all the stick our defenders have been getting all season, there were periods where we weren't conceding huge numbers of goals. Losing 1 goal to Ross County, Dundee United and Hamilton should not have resulted in zero points from those games at the start of the season. If you can't score 1 goal against Accies at home or Ross County away, that's not the fault of your defence...

Harsh on Maguire, I feel. Something of an achievement to get two wins with a centre back partnership of Mugabi and Lamie. I like Mugabi but I always feel he's better as the 'junior' centre back in a partnership. Impressive that Alexamder has fashioned a solid base with those two centre backs...