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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    35 minutes ago, Phillips455 said:

    Oxborough is apparently signing an extension. Still going to be the second place keeper.

     

    Kelly's Agent is apparently toting " £10,000 a week" offers coming from down south. Which tbf is something we just cannot compare with. And apparently the new no. 1 we are looking at is.....

     

     

     

    ..... Joe lewis......

    Where do I sign up to be a sub goalie? Some job that is.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    8 hours ago, boozyBJ said:

    We’re just mentioning Hanlon so St Mirren will sign him, right?

    Not sure how he'd function in a back three with Bevis and Obileye, but Robbo can make it work.

    Overall this season has been a weird one. Many of us weren't happy with recruitment at the start of the season, or in January, but somehow we managed to finish the season comfortably as one of the highest scoring teams in the league.

    I like the way we play, especially when our wing backs are in full flow, and we play some really nice stuff a lot of the time. The Slattery game v hearts was excellent, and we played some great stuff in the games we just lost at the start of "the run". There were also only a handful of games we weren't competitive in in the last 10 mins.

    Defensively I'm not sure what the root of our issue is, I'd love to have a deep dive into our analytics, but a lot of our issues seem to be around concentration, or not being able to see players that are under 5'8".  I wouldn't say we're soft at the back, or particularly slow, and we generally don't fart about on the ball, but we lack something.

    Since halliday has come in, teams are waltzing right through us on the counter attack. This may just be a coincidence, and skewed by me not liking him, but we need to add some quality in midfield. I imagine Paton is going to slot into Spittals spot, or minutes at least, which is a concern due to his lack of a final ball.

    At our worst I was indifferent to SK leaving, but never got to the "punt him" stage, mainly because I couldn't see us bringing in anyone better. You can't argue that the team isn't motivated or committed and they definitely work for each other. I generally like him, but if he left us his next job would likely be someone's assistant or in the championship, as I don't think he's strong tactically.

    I hope we do get our business done early, and use the last few days of the window to add a loan or two.

    I'm coming home for a bit in October, so all I ask is that we are not total dug meat at that point.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    We had some very nice passages of play up until the first goal, which was a straight goalie to goalie punt.

    County should have taken a few of their chances, but that's not our fault. Their goal was similar to some of the chances livi had last week, where they were able to counter attack pretty much unchecked all the way to our box. I'm not sure what the cause of that is, but I'll say it's halliday (who was a wee bit better this week). 

    Sam Nicholson is fun, I hope we can keep him.

    Half of our topless fas could do with sharing their dinners with the other half.

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    The Cricket Thread

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    On 28/04/2024 at 04:26, die hard doonhamer said:

    Played a pre-season game yesterday. I’ve never been so cold on a cricket pitch, I was sat scoring the book in our batting innings with 5 layers on. Late April should not be this cold. 

    I started bowling with tennis balls last week in an attempt to make another comeback. I'd played 25 straight seasons until covid, and haven't thrown anything since. My arm didn't fall off, so we're still on track.

    Also been playing the cricket game on meta quest to get my eye in. It's not the same, but still fun.

     

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    We have a few experienced heads potentially leaving, and some more youngsters on the cusp of more first team minites, so having someone of hallidays experience in the middle of the park is a good idea. Would be happier if said person wasn't actually halliday, but as said above, he may be more effective after a proper pre season.

    Didn't think we were particularly bad today, then the red took the game away from us. Even then we had some pressure near the end but we couldn't quite carve out the clear chance for Oli Shaw to miss.

    Loved SKs calling out the ref for being a virgin that wouldn't look so much like a pale alien if he spent less time in the dark wanking to videos of refs giving cards.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    3 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said:

    All in all, weird season, ended up roughly where we're meant to be, somehow.

    Scored a million goals, scored some belters, conceded nothing but horrors. 

    Scottish cup a disaster, league cup a disappointment. Still quite like this team?

    Also can we stop hooking Davor as a standard option, we go to pieces every fucking time.

    I'm fine with keeping "out of possession Davor" on for the full 95, but subbing "Davor with the ball" as early as possible.

     

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    I think we should probably lose that PCA we have with Halliday.  I don't think he's particularly bad, but I feel the money would be better spent elsewhere. The only advantage that I could see with him is to add veteran presence for the weans, and cover us if we extend Slattery

    We should also tell Blackburn that Gent was in the same box as hallidays PCA that we lost, and the fact that he looks like our now signing, Jorge Jent, is just a coincidence.

    I think people shit talking Spittal are telling themselves stories. He still works his ass off, and stuff just wasn't coming off for him today. He should still be our poty.

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