Perverse, sick and twisted...

...no don't get to excited about controversial postings here, I just wonder if that is somewhat my own nature. Why you ask, well I seem to be in a minortiy of about one, maybe two not revelling in the joy and excitement of the sacking of Motherwell manager Maurice Malpas.

After a pretty dire season I can understand a lot of the frustration, particularly after a late season slump almost saw us relegated. We haven't had problems to seek regarding injuries, early part of the season in particular so it was a bumpy old transition and the end of the season couldn't come quickly enough.

After we went out of the Scottish Cup rather timidly at the hands of St. Johnstone it seemed we had nothing to play for. Shortly after that a 1-0 home win over Dunfermline restored a 16 point gap between ourselves and the Pars who ended up getting relegated. A late season surge from them stopped only by a goalkeeping blunder at the penultimate league game of the season.

Indeed one can't help but feel a bit sorry for the Pars, they had injury problems worse than us and had finally gotten themselves playing with confidence enjoying a run to the Cup final and the brink of escaping relegation only to end the season relegated, papped 3-0 to bitterest rivals Falkirk on the final day of the season and losing the cup final to a slightly jammy goal in the dying minutes of a game they had held their own in.

However we didn't win a game after that 1-0 victory and blew a 2-0 lead at home to other relgation candidates St. Mirren to lose 3-2, condemning the Pars and almost ourselves if it hadn't been for the Pars contriving to blow a lead in Inverness with the aid of earlier mentioned Goalie blunder.

With recent talk of fiarly decent standard new signings things looked like they might take a turn for the positive for the Malpas regime but as of this morning a disagreement apparantly over his assistant Paul Hegarty has led to both of them resigning. Strong rumour has it that replacement is a done deal and Owen Coyle will be in charge after a short period where we pretend to be looking so it doesn't look like it was all tied up before the manager was pushed.

I'll not lose sleep over it but I'm more annoyed at the satisfaction taken by a small minority of anti Malpas characters who have wanted him gone since about two weeks into his reign. I'll be pleased if we go onto to do better next season but it will be tainted by the smug self satisfaction of some sections of the support. I just hope Mr Malpas also goes onto better things to rob them of to much self satisfaction. Certainly better that than have our new manager take us down just so I can say, ha told you Malpas wasn't that bad.