well fan for life Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 52 minutes ago, capt_oats said: Saw a Galaxy Brain take on Twitter earlier along the lines of "we should have offered him Lawless' wage on top of what he's already on." I'm going to assume this would work out as about an extra £4.50 a week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillips455 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 (edited) To those who don't like our current t away kit, the club have just launched the "away" Goalkeeper kit Looks like a really good away top to me. Do t know of Kelly will ever wear it but I like it. Edited December 18, 2021 by Phillips455 because I can't spell things correctly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McLean's Ghost Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Always a strange time when contracts are coming to an end. Guys you want to keep, guys you hope are binned. Thinking about how shite it is posting that you hope someone loses their job. I think for someone like Tony Watt that is going to leave the club in the summer the best thing for everyone is to continue supporting him and hope he keeps up his form. Last thing we want is another big Dec scenario because guys chucking it is always frustrating. And if you keep playing until you leave you can always come back. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said: Always a strange time when contracts are coming to an end. Guys you want to keep, guys you hope are binned. Thinking about how shite it is posting that you hope someone loses their job. I think for someone like Tony Watt that is going to leave the club in the summer the best thing for everyone is to continue supporting him and hope he keeps up his form. Last thing we want is another big Dec scenario because guys chucking it is always frustrating. And if you keep playing until you leave you can always come back. The gun’s in his hands 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 The turnover of players is now so high, it's difficult for supporters to care about them moving on compared to the past - but I will be sad to see Watt moving on as he's been exemplary since he came in - I hope that there is enough motivation for him to keep his performances going because if he followed his big mate from the Aberdeen reserves, that would be a bit depressing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) It was a fairly general comment Alexander made in his press conference but in saying: Quote "We know where we need to improve the squad so we're quite in our thought process going into this period and January windows always throw up different issues and players coming and going. So it's nothing different really from any other window." I half-wondered whether we were open to the idea of flipping Watt for cash money in the same way we did with Moult. Thinking back to last January we apparently kb'd "substantial" offers for Campbell from Millwall on account of the whole "being literally bottom of the league and wanting to keep him around to help fix that" thing. At the moment circumstances seem a bit different. I mean, the implication from Alexander is that there's the potential for other players to move on but I guess Watt feels like our main "asset". In fact, it turns out there's a load of extra quotes from that press conference including a fuller bit of chat about Tony and a mention of the Irish winger we were linked with a while back: Quote He said: “We made an offer to Tony maybe 10 days ago and his representatives turned that down. The ball’s in their court. “We are quite comfortable with it. We understand there’s always going to be players that come to the club that leave. “We have explained to Tony we want to keep him. His representative did not want to carry on with the negotiations for the time being so when someone says that what can you do? It’s pretty much clear. “I didn’t turn into a manager and forget what it’s like to be a player. I understand every individual has the right to make their own decisions and choices. “I told them as long as I see players training and competing as normal then they will always be available for selection. “Tony is under contract until the end of the season. We are under no pressure to raise funds. “But in January and the summer you just don’t know what’s round the corner so you have to be ready to act or react. We always keep an eye on recruitment all the way through between the windows. “We will adapt to whatever comes but we are under no pressure to sell any players and we would like to keep this squad as complete as we can.” Free agent winger Doyle, who hit 13 goals for Drogheda in the season just ended, is one potential recruit. Alexander was coy on the 23-year-old but said: “We have had a few players we’ve looked at over there. “There’s a group of players we feel could possibly come and improve us or we could help them get to the next stage in their career. “He would have been one of those names that has been spoken about. We will just see how January progresses with that market.” Link Absolutely none of that feels controversial tbh. Edited December 18, 2021 by capt_oats 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I dunno why, but I'd be amazed if someone came in and offered cash for Watt in January. Certainly an amount that would interest us enough to sell. I don't think there'll be an issue with Watt performing for the rest of the season. The better be does between now and the end of the season, the better club and contract he'll be able to get. On top of that, I'm sure he's got half an eye on getting into the Scotland squad again. Staying up and around the top end of the goalscoring charts will help him do that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Desp said: I dunno why, but I'd be amazed if someone came in and offered cash for Watt in January. Certainly an amount that would interest us enough to sell. I don't think there'll be an issue with Watt performing for the rest of the season. The better be does between now and the end of the season, the better club and contract he'll be able to get. On top of that, I'm sure he's got half an eye on getting into the Scotland squad again. Staying up and around the top end of the goalscoring charts will help him do that. Fully agree with this. With the form he's in the profit/loss in money and footballing terms has to be pretty well balanced from our perspective, so it'd have to be a chunky payment. There's no chance he doesn't look at Nisbet's spot in the squad and doesn't view it as there for the taking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Tommy Wright claxon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Richie said: Tommy Wright klaxon "Utterly inexplicable." Edited December 18, 2021 by capt_oats 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 That article's aged like milk, eh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, well fan for life said: That article's aged like milk, eh. Like, I get that the article is what it is. It's a puff piece written by a pal of Wright's who's pretty salty about him being overlooked for a bunch of jobs. Fair enough. It's the written equivalent of the Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes GIF though. In all seriousness while I get that #Grezzaball isn't for everyone having seen the rebuild that Alexander (and Burrows) have set about, given the increase in backroom staff and expansion of our scope when it comes to recruitment I genuinely can't even begin to get my head round the idea of what a Tommy Wright Motherwell would actually have looked like. Edited December 18, 2021 by capt_oats 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 6 minutes ago, capt_oats said: Like, I get that the article is what it is. It's a puff piece written by a pal of Wright's who's pretty salty about him being overlooked for a bunch of jobs. Fair enough. It's the written equivalent of the Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes GIF though. In all seriousness while I get that #Grezzaball isn't for everyone having seen the rebuild that Alexander (and Burrows) have set about, given the increase in backroom staff and expansion of our scope when it comes to recruitment I genuinely can't even begin to get my head round the idea of what a Tommy Wright Motherwell would actually have looked like. Murderball is good when it works. Great, even. When it doesn't work it's awful. I suppose the proof in the pudding is that Wright's taken an already struggling Kilmarnock and seen a steady decline from there. His roll of the dice last season was to go all in on Big Weird Kyle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Manhattan Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I know football can be cruel, but this seems particularly harsh somehow... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YassinMoutaouakil Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Get the Eric Nicolson article. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 16 minutes ago, Doctor Manhattan said: I know football can be cruel, but this seems particularly harsh somehow... One of the more obscure lines in his contract 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fat_tony Posted December 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2021 One of the more obscure lines in his contract 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Big Sol looks like he's going to a very good signing. Thought he was excellent today again. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkySuperSub Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 14 minutes ago, well fan for life said: Big Sol looks like he's going to a very good signing. Thought he was excellent today again. Big gorgeous bastart... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 21 minutes ago, well fan for life said: Big Sol looks like he's going to a very good signing. Thought he was excellent today again. It may be through gritted teeth but I think a reappraisal of Sean Goss is probably due soon as well. Absolutely wild the difference he's made since he's got a run of games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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