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Motherwell v Celtic 02/02/2025


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Frail confirming that Mair has the same injury as Oxborough confirms for me that someone has indeed placed a hex over the club. Or perhaps Kettlewell has been breaking mirrors to save him from taking his rage out on the match officials. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 9:29 AM, mio said:

I’ve watched Motherwell for 50yrs and I think this will fall on deaf ears. It has been worse a great number of times compared to now as well but obviously it’s been highlighted this week.

i just have never got the booing? The proper effort and foamy mouthed lunacy it takes to do it must be exhausting.

anyway I’m going along on Sunday and I will not be booing and I very much doubt I’ll be cheering either. 

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I actually don't think their is anything wrong with booing - at the end of a match. I don't think booing or shouting at players during a game is any use at all. However at the end of a utterly turgid performance, of which we see many,  there is nowt wrong showing you displeasure, in my eyes. Others are free to disagree. The ones that baffle me are the ones that stand and applaud at FT when we've been fuckin horsed without so much as a single shot on target and played hoofball all night. 

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  On 1/31/2025 at 3:35 PM, SteelmaninOZ said:

The acting gaffer said 

 

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This was a very good interview . 

i like how he balanced the vast majority of our fans and great and accentuated the positives . Balanced the narrative well .

also that the overall approach will be similar with some tweaks to players . 

also faced into the possession stat and was clear it’s not deliberate tactic .

overall comes across as a very decent bloke who’s put in 100%

 

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  On 1/31/2025 at 6:56 PM, wellsince75 said:

This was a very good interview . 

i like how he balanced the vast majority of our fans and great and accentuated the positives . Balanced the narrative well .

also that the overall approach will be similar with some tweaks to players . 

also faced into the possession stat and was clear it’s not deliberate tactic .

overall comes across as a very decent bloke who’s put in 100%

 

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There is a lot of back peddling going on from the club following their ridiculous comms earlier in the week. Not before time.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 6:56 PM, wellsince75 said:

This was a very good interview . 

i like how he balanced the vast majority of our fans and great and accentuated the positives . Balanced the narrative well .

also that the overall approach will be similar with some tweaks to players . 

also faced into the possession stat and was clear it’s not deliberate tactic .

overall comes across as a very decent bloke who’s put in 100%

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Yes a good interview by Stevie Frail.

Its unreasonable to expect huge changes on Sunday but a few tweaks won't go amiss.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 6:56 PM, wellsince75 said:

also faced into the possession stat and was clear it’s not deliberate tactic .

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It, therefore, seems that regularly conceding 70% possession was the result of us just being total shit due to Kettleball. However, at least Kettlewell now has a highlight reel demonstrating the art of turning an active possession approach into a passive one. 

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  On 1/31/2025 at 6:56 PM, wellsince75 said:

This was a very good interview . 

i like how he balanced the vast majority of our fans and great and accentuated the positives . Balanced the narrative well .

also that the overall approach will be similar with some tweaks to players . 

also faced into the possession stat and was clear it’s not deliberate tactic .

overall comes across as a very decent bloke who’s put in 100%

 

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Good interview and comes across as a decent hard working guy

Hopefully all Well fans get behind the guy on Sunday , then see what happens

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  On 2/1/2025 at 9:16 AM, Big Stall said:

 

That in itself tells a story. If it wasnt deliberate then we really were poorly coached & really, not a very good team

 

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The manager bought a bunch of forks and tried to use them to consume a bowl of soup, but the soup was actually water and the forks turned out to be ladders.

Apart from the odd success here and there, it's generally been a total clusterfuck since late 2023.

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  On 2/2/2025 at 10:21 AM, cambo97 said:

There's a chance of the former but no chance of the latter.

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Correct and we'll see the usual South Stand lower crammed full way beyond capacity due to the usual doubling up at the gates. It happens every time they come here and no doubt everywhere else they go as well but nothing will be done or said because speaking out against Celtic just isn't worth the hassle that they get in return for it.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 7:53 PM, wellfan said:

It, therefore, seems that regularly conceding 70% possession was the result of us just being total shit due to Kettleball. However, at least Kettlewell now has a highlight reel demonstrating the art of turning an active possession approach into a passive one. 

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Never mind that all 9 matches we've won this season we had less than 45% possession and every time we've had the majority of the possession we've lost.

When you have less technical players having the majority of the possession isn't always the best thing - one of the reasons St Mirren convincingly beat Aberdeen 3-0 with 25 % possession last week.

Sure you'll be a lot happier if we don't get results with higher possession stats.

 

 

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  On 2/2/2025 at 1:37 PM, Ya Bezzer! said:

Never mind that all 9 matches we've won this season we had less than 45% possession and every time we've had the majority of the possession we've lost.

When you have less technical players having the majority of the possession isn't always the best thing - one of the reasons St Mirren convincingly beat Aberdeen 3-0 with 25 % possession last week.

Sure you'll be a lot happier if we don't get results with higher possession stats.

 

 

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You’ve completely missed the point of my post. According to Frail, surrendering possession wasn’t a deliberate tactic. It just continued to happen because we’re generally shit. And if it was a deliberate tactic, which it wasn’t, then that’s fine, so long as we have the players to make it work effectively and to score more goals than the opposition, which we don’t. 

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