well fan for life

I suppose Kettlewell's on a bit of a hiding to nothing. Pulled off a miracle last season, got tasked with gutting the squad and got next to f**k all to replace folk that were left. Mainly I'd like the higher up folk at the club to sort out what we're meant to be doing.

We should, hopefully, appoint someone soon who will hopefully have a long term plan. I was being kind of flippant about Burrows earlier but also I know how much effort I put in when I've known I'm leaving a job.

We had a chairman who'd been half arsing it, who knew he was on his way out that Winter, and honestly i think he just couldnt be bothered doing anything other than hiring Hammell.

I think it was investigated for the East Stand but was prohibitively expensive as you'd more or less need to knock it flat and build a new one. I'd imagine the only stand that you'd be able to do it in, really, would be the Cooper but I don't think the club would bother tbh.

This is fantasy. He was a good keeper at this level for 18 months. His form has gone off a cliff over the last 18 months which coincides with us being a bit of a clown car of a football club. To say he's "fucking shite and always has been" is wildly revisionist.

Something about throwing shite at a wall.

A class display of bed shitting that's very on brand for this complete gang. The defence and goalkeeper look like they're utterly terrified every time they're asked to deal with a set piece because neither trusts the other. As soon as Aberdeen pulled one back you could see the panic set in. I can't see anything about this squad & manager that makes me think going full scorched earth policy in the summer and starting over isn't the best plan.

Roos & Kelly are hilarious under crosses. Blind terror sets in as soon as it's above either of them.

Jon Obika is truly fucking terrible. A big, lumbering idiot.

Cannae believe Liam Kelly didn't deal with a cross into his 6 yard box.

I'd play SOD at RCB before I'd play Bevis or Casey there going on this season's form. Similarly I don't think Blaney's really been up to much. Devine should start, as should Vale. Paton needs dropped if only to prevent my head from exploding clean off my shoulders when he makes the worst possible decision for the 500th time this season

I had a Covid induced hallucination that Ricki Lamie dragged us to European football. I was clearly in bad shape.

Christ I miss Joe Lewis. That kit was a belter as well.

I would honestly say the end of Alexander is the worst I've felt about going to watch Motherwell. Even including that Malpas season where we actually finished bottom, the football we played under Alexander was fucking miserable to watch.

Went to have a look for highlights of Oxborough in that QOTS game earlier in the season: Not really much to go on for him. Mostly it's a stark reminder that Ricki Lamie was a complete donkey and Jon Obika's finishing is nearly as bad as his injury record.

If Warnock doesn't set up to put every single cross right onto Liam Kelly's forehead he's an idiot. I'd rip your hand off for a point tbh.

Oxborough the latest victim of The Luke Watt Paradox. The more he doesn't play, the better he gets. Give it til April and we'll be having him as the next Buffon.

I'm not angry about Friday night. But even the mere mention of that game when they had been relegated to league 2 and we were literally top of the league and McCall had us shitting the bed from about a week before the game gets my blood gently simmering.

This should replace the absolute lie about improving peoples lives.

I walked out of Cappielow at full time on Friday night with a mixture of disappointment but also feeling like that went exactly the way I expected it to go. Fair fucks to Morton for looking like a team that wanted to win a cup tie. Our squad of duds & shitebags never looked at all up for it. It's disappointing because there's not a single fixture to look forward to now. We should scrape into 10th, hopefully. We should then have a new CEO, Kettlewell's contract is up in the summer so we can shake hands and move on. Most of this fucking terrible squad are out of contract as well so the same goes. I'd keep Spittal and that's about it. So it would be nice if we could have a bit of stability in the running of the club which might have a knock on effect on the playing squad.

Dunno about you lot but I'd quite like to have a season where we didn't lurch from one crisis straight into another.

It is a bit revisionist to say Liam Kelly has always been shite. The first 18 months of his Motherwell career and the last 18 months of it are like two completely different players. At the minute his confidence looks shot to ribbons, you can feel the panic when he's under a cross. It makes sense to just part ways at the end of the season imo.

Morton looked like they were right up for that game and we've assembled a squad of absolute fucking shitebags. Liam Kelly is utter dugmeat.

Somewhere between this and us accepting that Obika will never be fit in his life probably makes sense. Vale showed more about him in this brief spell than Shaw has done entirely.