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Thought it was brilliant the way he steadied the ship immediately after Aberdeens second by booting it out for a throw under zero pressure

Can't lie I'm about ten times more annoyed about that than Morton

Get it fucking up them

Aye if we win it'll need to be 3-4 at the least

That's actually...fine.

He lasted the full 90 as well. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad.

Dean Cornelius' Harrogate losing 9-2 as it stands.

For me, I don't think washing our hands of Kettlewell is as easy it would be to look at e.g, a goalkeeper or club captain who had served the club reasonably well for a few years but was now out of contract and would probably do everybody a favour by moving on. With a manager I think you probably do have to take extenuating circumstances into account- IF Kettlewell gets us to 10th or above, I think you probably have to say that he's met most of our pre-season expectations and has at least proven himself to be a semi-competent Premiership manager over that period. In that situation I think you're probably better sticking with the guy who has at least spent a year clearing the decks and will be a bit more ahead in terms of planning for next season than we would be if we rolled the dice and appointed someone else in June. McInnes obviously has much more of a track record but still finished 10th with Killie last season and they're seeing the benefits of sticking with him. Even County would probably be in a better position if they hadn't sacked Malky.

Not going to pretend that this was what I was thinking at about 9pm in Greenock on Friday but the Morton game is the first time in 2 months that both manager and team simply haven't turned up in at all. That was a run of 9 games after the County loss where we only lost once, to Rangers. Even the actually good Motherwell teams rarely go ten without some sort of massively disappointing and humiliating showing. We should never really be losing to Championship teams but Morton are on a pretty mental run and probably aren't massively weaker than Livi, Ross County or St Johnstone. If we'd lost to any of them in the most recent league games but won 5-0 at Cappielow it'd probably be worse for our season as a whole but I don't think would have resulted in the same sort of inquest. Sort of jumping on Casagolda's point but I think it's the same sort of logic that always led to folk wanting the entire backroom staff sacked whenever we lost to Accies but not Inverness or Partick Thistle or whoever when they were all in the league.

The time he came up for the corner against Livi (when Lamie scored) then decided to wait on the edge of the box still makes me laugh. It's like he's seen goalies do it on tv and not realised what the point of it is.

I think Kelly is just a fucking idiot tbh. Relying on his reflexes rather than actually thinking is probably why he'll pull off the odd wonder save or penalty but we're seeing much more of the downside now on a pretty regular basis. Obviously he might be different behind closed doors but based on his interviews and general demeanour I can't really see him as captain material. I was previously in the camp of "he's obviously not English Championship or Scotland international level, but he's a decent Motherwell goalkeeper and I'd be happy for him to stick around" but I'm past the point of defending him. Hopefully he goes to St Mirren.

Obika rather than Nicholson wound me up at the time. I get the logic in that he's allegedly meant to win knockdowns and make the ball stick but idk man, it never really felt we were going to score a goal that way rather than with a bit of a guile.

I dunno if the 2hr long journey home from Greenock has mellowed me or something but I'm not as angry as I was leaving the ground. I think I'm just about willing to forgive Kettlewell/the team one absolutely diabolical performance after what has been a pretty decent two months. Obika and Kelly pissed me off the most but honestly I'm just ready for this season to be over. I'm still just about confident that Kettlewell has happened upon a system that will keep us in the league.

I wouldn't actually mind Imrie managing us eventually. Although I can see it basically being a 6 month version of the Graham Alexander experience with a quicker and more acrimonious downfall.

I started it on Netflix a while ago and was enjoying it but sort of just gave up without realising. Wonder if it's funnier if you haven't already seen Friends before.

Decanter is still at Barnsley, top scorer in League One. Fair play to him.

I'm sort of fine with it. The last two games have brightened the mood around the place but I still think failing to bring in a striker on deadline day was a bit of a minor disaster. This at least gives us something other than Vale and the Bair.

We're back to 3rd most goals in the league alongside Hearts again

Craigan was also trying to punt Bair to the English Championship tbf

No offence to Ross County but I don't think anybody should be losing 5-0 to any incarnation of this Motherwell team two seasons in a row.

5-5 or 0-0

Least total shots in that list...clinical

Hopefully Livi do us a turn and beat Killie tomorrow.

Spittal has been like a man possessed since we threatened him with St Mirren

his dad seems lovely. I think I wish he was my dad.