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Bitton and Brown missing tomorrow through injury apparently. Good chance for Pearson & Lasley to stamp some authority down on the centre mid. I trot along not too bothered by Celtic or their fans most of the year but I do like a visit on their forums prior to our games, gets the blood boiling pre-match....they really are a horribly vermin like bunch. I fancy us for a win tomorrow......got the feeling.

Definitely!! As much as I thought Baraclough was a nice enough guy, and had some decent ideas, I never really believed he meant what he was saying, he had a definite civil servant air about him. As much as Mcghee comes over a bit twatish a times, I think he's a proper manager and wont suffer fools. I doubt very much the players will take a loan of him like they did with our previous incumbent.

You've just described McGhee

Quite good to see this guy Boles in who actually looks in prime health, as opposed to Gordon Crawford who could've be mistaken for a pish stained vagrant. What sort of message were we sending out, with a conditioning coach resembling a big issue seller.

I think he's a safe pair of hands that'll kick some much needed arse!! I feel more confident he can do a better job than some the names touted about!! i'm hoping with age and a bit more realism, he's more settled at Fir Park than he was before. Whatever happens, he deserves respect, even from our most ridiculous fans, due to the way he handled the Phil situation.

Lets face it do any of us know anything really about Valakari as a manager? I knew him as a player and he was average at best!! I doubt any of us know what the Finnish league is like? what his general tactics are? The players in Finland? Checking him out on Wikipedia doesn’t make for a rigorous vetting for our vacant managerial position. As much as I don’t like the guy, McGhee is unfortunately ticking the boxes for me. I like the idea of McCallister but he didn’t want it before because of the spending restraints so I doubt he’ll want it now. McGhee I think/hope is now too old in the teeth to be punting himself for bigger jobs so he could be a safe bet. We don’t need to like the guy to be a good manager…look at wee Tommy, he was an insipid wee character but he did a good job for us.

Too many monkeys running the ship with the lack of an organ grinder. Thought it was a huge failing of Baraclough getting a number of players involved in team discussions, scouting games and giving signing recommendations. I can understand taking the views of staff in a normal office environment and treating people like adults but for football it doesn't work...too many egos and too many people thinking they're smarter and further up the pecking order than the next guy. I believe this has lead to the mess at the moment....too many thinking they're the leader and they're opinions are of greater importance. monkeys

First attempt at goal and the bbc reporter stated it's not deserved...........sounds like we've been bowfin' against a truly woeful Dundee team. The Craigan love bubble may be slightly deflated tonight.

My mate who's an Aberdeen fan thinks Calderwood was the best manager they've had since Ferguson!! My mate is also a complete fucking imbecile!! Just saying like... As for McGhee, just cant see it happening........still think it's Craigan...unfortunately!! or Craggs as some people call him........is it acceptable anywhere outside football to call a 40yr old man a nickname??

My first Motherwell hero, from a time when players were proper heroes. My dad got me my first 'Well top with the number 3 on the back because of him. Very Sad day...Thanks for some great memories Joe..... RIP

I thought he came over a bitter little orange man the other night on Sportscene.......sounded just like almost every h*n I spoke to after those games. I felt the comment about Motherwell fans was a bit schnidey, but cest la vie....his time with us is over. Good luck to him driving the team minibus, pumping up the balls and cutting the oranges as 3rd in command with Scotland!!

I'm just not excited about any of the proposed new managers, I think the last time I had a smidgin of excitement about a manager was when Harry Kampman arrived and he was quite possibly the worst (apart from maybe Bobby Watson) manager I've witnessed in my 40+ years of supporting Motherwell. I think it'll almost certainly be Craigan, not that I want him - I thought he was a very poor player, an imposter as a captain and a complete peddler of bullshit on the telly. His pandering over the h**s, Coisty and laterly with "Stuarty" last season made me want to vomit, culminating in his pathetic pre- match discussion before the first play off game when he told us all how "terrifying a full Ibrox is" and how Motherwell need to "worry about Rangers midfield as they could run over the top of Motherwell" made me realise why we failed to win any games at Ibrox during his entire tenure as captain. He then quickly retracted his comments at half time when he realised we were pumpin them!! If it's him then fine, i'll need to deal with it.....but I think he's way too close to the players, the fact they all want him should raise some serious alarm bells. Anyway that's my anti-Craigan rant over.............whoever gets it, will get my full support........for a wee while!!

12/1 for Lomas is a reasonable shout....irish connection with Craigan and Robinson, also Macdonald at Millwall. No thanks Craigan / McCall / Houston / Reid / Frail

Mixu or Pressley i'd be reasonably happy with. Billy Davies will be touted and some of the other usual suspects. I really don't want Craigan, if he's in charge we'll be waiting for another 17 years before any wins at Ibrox, he's straight out the McCall school of bumming up the "terrifying" atmosphere at ibrox /parkhead (as he stated pre-match of the first play off game) He's also too pally with the players, although financially he would suit the board/society/whatever we have? as long as we avoid / Williamson/ Jeffries/Calderwood etc etc etc

Good luck to the guy, I've no doubt he did his best. In a way I think he's been let down a lot by certain individuals at the club but a more clued up strong manager wouldn't have let that happen. We need a manager that'll rattle some cages and not ask players to give too much of an opinion....they need telt!!

Whatever happens he was in charge of one of the happiest occasions of my Motherwell supporting life, so if he goes, he goes with my best wishes!! I think most of us were willing to give him another season due to a general slight improvement, the play-off games, and the feel good factor they brought. I have to say as well I was reasonably happy with the signings he’d made minus a couple of the loan players…..although the signing of 5 strikers did start to raise some concerns. I do now however, think it’s time for him to go as he’s not getting anything out of some of the good players we have, whether that’s his fault, the players fault or a mixture of both the buck definitely lies with him and as he says take it out on him not the players…..ok then Ian. My ultimate concern is who is to replace him? some of the names mentioned…eg Calderwood + any other dinosaur is just not the way to go…Craigan/ Robinson/ Leitch…definitely not….McGhee? maybe, but the way he left us originally, still sticks in my throat and is he really going to want to manage us again when our support sang at him about abusing children? I doubt any of us have the right answer but we are putting our faith in a board and chief exec with no real football experience and a track record of employing someone who they liked as a person and interviewed well with his middle management positivity speak!! Whatever happens, I’m guessing there will be many who are not happy!!

That's the last away match i'll be attending.........£34 I can ill afford, to watch under achieving born losers.

Spending money we don’t have is going to lead to another financial train wreck. I’m now genuinely concerned. Clearly this is not Baraclough’s fault, he’s identified players he thinks he needs (minus a right back) and like any spoiled child, he seems to be getting his way. As much as Uncle Les thinks he’s a 21st century philanthropist, he is not Andrew Carnegie. There surely must be a cut off to what he is ploughing into the club? It’s a matter of time, if not already, that the tax authorities are sniffing about us, as it has to be concerned with our business model. It’s a simple fact with 3500 supporters coming through our gates, we must be losing bags of cash on a weekly basis. God knows what’s happening!!

Always good to get a balanced, well rounded, honest view of a player on this forum...."dug shite" "dross" ha There's a hell of a lot of top drawer, class act footballing talents with keyboards on here!!

Craigan badly at fault for the 2nd goal!! The years of horror watching him marshall our defence came flooding back this afternoon. Hopefully Keith and his family had a great day, he thoroughly deserved it, fantastic guy and servant to the club.....although I fear he's scarred young Alfie for life!!

I think it's criminal we didn't take a punt on Neymar!!

I'm in the minority here but I think we've got a decent squad and things are moving in the right direction. I've seen sparks of really good football this season and i'm reasonably happy considering the crap that I was watching at this point last season. Such a shame we have such a shit support who would appear to be happy enough to slate the team, manager and club on here but don't go to the games!!

A Win is a Win.....good to get out the rut. Onwards & Upwards!!

Both were good players….that’s about it!! Mcstay had the potential to be better but due to him being too quiet and not confident enough his career stunted and ultimately was a disappointment. Ferguson was overly confident but this didn’t make him any better than good……his brother was a better talent and a young Durrant was better than all of them!! Anyway, this is a Motherwell forum…..none of them could lace Tommy O’Hara’s boots!!

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