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.......Is apparently the new front runner for the managers job.

Was seen at the game today and was also in the coach's office.

Thoughts?

WHO

http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26293&highlight=

is he motherwell manager?

Never heard of him.

Hardly experienced is he!!!!!

http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26293

Sorry,

same bloke I just spelt his name wrong which, speaks volume's!

He was but he got sacked. His record is shite.

Malpas is hardly experienced is he!!!

And his record is shite and thats in scotland!

Not good news

maybe hes someones assistant??

maybe he was scouting?

ive just read the adver page  .. front runner??

Is this some sort of sick joke? The blokes nothing short of useless

and weve interview Hockaday??? OH COME ON!!!

to be honest if these are the sort of people we are interviewing we may as well keep Byrne in the job!

Quality another Scot, just what we need!!!


Cracking first decision Mr Fitton, me you and Will are gonna get on great.  Craig Brown as no.2 please.

 :beers:

Malpas is total shite.....look at his record, no experience, when he was at Motherwell they lost 9 games in a row including losing 7-1 at home to hibernian and they almost went down.

I would be very disappointed with fitton if he appointed him after saying he wanted an experienced manager.

Interviewing people like Malpas, Hockaday etc, where's the ambition? i thought fitton would show more ambition than this.

I won't be over the moon with Malpas however i will give the bloke a chance should he get the job.

and he lost the changing room at Motherwell BIG TIME! it was well documented at the time - the fans booed him out of the job

do your research Fitton!

I've never heard of the fella!
Hopefully this is all some kind of joke or mislead.

   Malpas was a stalwart of the Sweatie scene 80's and prob 90's. looks like a Sturrock appointment.....probabaly Blair's godfather or something.

hmmm

"Others thought to have been interviewed include former Town midifleder and Leyton Orient boss Martin Ling, ex-Swindon defender and now Southampton youth coach Dave Hockaday and Colchester United no 2 Micky Adams."

FROM THE ADVER... surly if we spoke to Ling it would have been revealed by L.O.

Definitley has sturrock written all over it......remember when he recommended bobby williamson to plymouth he was a failure and got sacked after about a year, i wouldn't take sturrock's advice.

  Fitton is perfectly entitled to do exactly what he chooses, all we can do is watch, then stop going until Malpas has gone then, then protest to get him out.  I'll give it 10 games.

Sounds like some dodgy reporting to me now. If Ling was interviewed then that would mean that Hearn allowed the approach..... and if so then why appoint somebody that nobody has heard of over Ling?


Asides from money of course (NO PLEASE NOT THE CHEAP OPTION)

Sounds like the cheap option to me. I would rather have Byrne and Williams to be honest than this guy looking at his record and thats saying something.

Cant believe we can do no better than this-stinks of penny pinching

It's a small world...

Malpas "resigned" from Motherwell over plan by the new owner to oust his number 2 and replace him with Scott Leitch. After Malpas 'quit', Nijholt was said to have applied for the post stating he could work with Leitch as he knew him from his Swindon days.

(Surely Nijholt was pre Leitch though?)

Anyhow, can say that appointing Malpas would fill me with excitement. In the same way the appointing David 'Billy Mitchell' Byrne wouldn't. I'd go with it, but is this really the answer to the problem?

Incidently, he did unite the Motherwell fans. But not in a good way
http://www.welltrustfc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=24328&hl=aurice+malpas

Yeah bring back the old Consortium  :roll:

i agree gazza.

jose veiga for manager.

was there not a bit in fiitons interviews when talking about people who he interviewed saying that he learnt a few things/got some great opinons from someone older in the game?
could be wrong,

help me out, i cant remember now

This piece of news isn't the inspired managerial choice that we were all hoping for. But a few weeks ago we were dead in the water with the real threat of having no club at all until Mr F came to the rescue. If that's who he chooses then so be it.

was there not a bit in fiitons interview today when he was talking about people who he interviewed saying that he learnt a few things/got some great opinions from someone older in the game?
could be wrong but might have been him

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It couldn't be that he is doing some unofficial scouting or representing someone else.....

I think RS and the press as a whole are at the stage where if any ex manager turns up to an STFC game they are going to put 2+2 together and get 98. They don't have a clue so will just start speculating

FUCK OFF

malpas doesn't sound like a great option but anyone that isn't allen will get my backing

it's pretty obvious that the adver have no idea what is going on, and rather than stay quiet and then be criticised for having nothing on the manager's job, they have pulled some names out of thin air to make it look like they are anything other than clueless.

 Nah Malpas sounds good to me....I also heard John Gorman was there today.  Number two role?

Bloody hell, the place will be crawling with them soon! It's like getting their own back for Culloden.

Fitton doesn't strike me as a risk taker.  All his talk so far has been about stability and competence, so signing an unknown - with or without an endorsement from Paul Sturrock - would surprise me.  Consensus today was he'll go for Cotterill, and I think I'd be happy with that as an appointment.

Without spending all night googling this chap.Does anyone know if Billy Davies and Maurice Malpas have previous? Maybe he was here to watch us play without the 'theres Billy Davies' brigade pointing and staring. He could of turned up to get a look at how the players perform and take notes.If we have a new boss in for the Walsall game next week this is the only chance to get a look at 1st team action. Just a thought. He could be his No.2

i think davies used to manage motherwell. or it might of been hearts, i'm not really sure. i think malpas used to play for motherwell though. or it might of been dunfermaline or dundee, im not really sure.

so yeah.

none whatsoever. malpas was a one club man as a player, davies would have played against him for a few different teams but never alongside him. he was at motherwell long before malpas.

:goodpost:

How stupid do they think us fans are if they aim to employ some with no achievements as a manager why go and look for one when one is in charge in byrne hes doing an ok job :-))(

i think people have jumped the gun about 5 mins to early here.you've been disqualified, sent home, your olympics are over

:D And I think we'll see even more of that once the results of the random drugs tests are in!

just throwing an idea in, but maybe a lesser manager is necessary. fitton has stated he isn't going to throw billions at the club, and he was going to make it more finacially better and secure. maybe employing a big name manager on big wages isn't the way he wants to go. it isn't very good, but it just is my opinion.


ps its good to see the boardroom dwellers getting something to get worked up about  :D

I think this bloke might be part of the potential management team, just like Gus Poyet was to Wise and is to Ramos

I bloody hope so :guinness:

Before we start slating anyone, all I will say is Aidy Boothroyd (sp) at Watford was unknown prior to his appointment.  Maybe its not teh worst idea?!

I agree, we should appoint Aidy Boothroyd.

:D

The cheap option

Ill wait to he takes over and is sacked 20 games later before i say i told you so :roll:

I don't know whether he would be a good appointment or not, time would tell.

Unlike a lot of you, I don't have a wealth of experience in choosing managers.................

:D Post of the day. Although I do worry that this is Sturrock's final leaving gift to us. Given his continued endorsement of the old board as a great bunch of blokes doing a fine job, and Bobby Williamson at muff, I'd say his track record in recommendations isn't perhaps as strong as it might be

I don't think anyone knows whether he would be good or not.
But there is clearly a general sense of disappointment at the apparent quality of the candidate.
We alll hoped for so much more.

quality of candidate? the guy has played over 50 times for scotland. he managed a very poor motherwell team whose only decent 3 or 4 players were out most of the season with varying injuries. he also took over from terry"cunt chops" butcher. any manager taking over from that cunt is going to have an uphill struggle. for christs sake you have to give the bloke a chance. and this thread is only based on rumour anyway!

Thats a good posting from old cunt chops mex

Yes, but his name isn't Martin Ling or Luc Nijholt :x  :x  :x

If we appointed either of those two they would absolutely definitely be successful  :x  :x  :x

I know the exact details of what he and the other candidates have been offered and he's the cheap option :x  :x  :x

And so on and so forth and various other assorted bollocks.

Is that a FACT

Yep :nod:

I really can not believe the negative Fitton postings on all the forums, this is a rumour and even if it does turn out to be true then it is better to have a club with a so say shit manager than no club at all. I am pretty sure Preston fans were not to happy when Moyes was made manager he has now gone on to be one of the best in the Prem League.
If Malpas does get the job then this will be used as the next excuse for all the stay aways.

Yes Malpas is not as experienced as we have been led to believe in Mr Fittons interviews with the press.

Yes Malpas has not managed anyone who have won anything.

Yes Malpas "may be" the cheap option compared to other experienced managers.

Yes Malpas has obviously been recommended by Old Luggy.

But

If he gets the job he will have my full backing until proved he doesnt deserve it, I will give him a chance as Mr Hertha says....I also dont have the experience in choosing managers that so many of the Town fans obviously think they have, I will respect Mr Fittons choice whoever he decides to appoint as without him we would not have a club to support anyway.

But inexperienced or low experienced managers have always been shit in the past:

Lou Macari
Ossie Ardiles
Glenn Hoddle
Dennis Wise

We're fucking doomed if it's this Malpas bloke  :(

He has also managed the Jocks U-21 team as well so has a bit of international experience behind him the only thing that would concern me is his knowledge of the english leagues and players, that said if it does turn out to be him then I for one will back him until such time he screws it up.

Of course this could be a red herring and we are going to appoint Alex Ferguson as he has decided he has taken Man U as far as he can and wants a new challenge  :shock:

Agree with that SiPi, we've been a bit spolit by having 'big name' managers of late, looking around League One there's not a wealth of clubs with managers that are particualrly exciting prospects even if we did want ot go pay compo and get another clubs manager in.  Look at Scunthorpe, they got pormoted with their Physio as manager!

Apparently Malpas was at the club scouting for his mate who will become manager with Malpas as his second in charge.....Mark McGhee.

Yes it is a joke....but it does prove that we truly could do worse than Malpas!

Knowledge of English players? You mean like Sturrock who's bulk of players that he signed weren't English!

erm... didn't we almost not have a club a few weeks ago?

Maybe with a three million pound tax bill looming, not to mention all the other 'little' problems Diamond Mike has no doubt left, maybe the new owners have suddenly realised that an expensive manager (and I'm not just talking compo here, Sturrock and Wise were on £250k plus) is a luxury the club can't afford at the moment.

I'm not particulary keen on Malpas (if it is him, let's be honest this is all a bit two and two together to make sixty seven) but I'm less Keen on us being run adopting a lower league interuptation of Risdaleian football economics and landing in another big load of shite a couple of years down the line.

That Roy Keane is a bit shit for a rookie manager as well  8)

Malpas would definitely be a big mistake. I mean, how many decent managers has Scotland ever produced anyway?

I'm not sure which thread to reply in.

Start your own one. It's fun  :)

I agree with this, however I still feel a little disappointed that we are going for someone with little experience or success at managerial level (if indeed he is appointed). I thought we'd go for someone more like Cotterills experience. I guess that class of manager either don't want it , or was too expensive.

It's nice to be debating purely football matters though. At least I have something to be disappointed about.

I have to admit I would prefer a manager with some experience of Divisions 2 & 3, but I also have to admit to the irony of holding this opinion given my username.  Sometimes you do need to take a chance, and sometimes the chance works out.

I mentioned MM's name to my wife, who hails from the west of Scotland, and she recognised it straight away.

PS  I suppose there would also be the added bonus we could keep the orange decor in manager's office.  Just think of the cost savings.

The one that's spelt correctly :wink:

hahaha.good one.tell us another

I prefer my thread, beceause I think that the mis-spelling adds character to it!

And I also paid my thread the respect of posting the above there first. and just copied and pasted it to this oh-so boringly orthodox thread.

Tony Mobrey (sp) at WBA was not a good appointment in teh ey of their fans, look at them now.

Personally I am happy to have a club

agreed. If it was about 10 years ago Malpas would be a relatively big names for a financially struggling league 1 club.  It's just that he took on an impossible job and a few years have passed since he was quite well known.

If he gets it, he should get the full backing of everyone.

On experience, Wise knew fuck all about League 2, as did most of us, but he prepared a team that eventually went on to get automatic promotion only a few months after the end of one of our worst seasons ever.

http://mediaspin.com/blog/wp-images/maurice_lemur.jpg

D'you reckon he'll bring Ali G with him?

Spot on Ash, if all these anti-Malpass posters have a seizure through getting worked up about something they may know very little about the GWE will be quite full tonight.  This, sadly, reminds me of the people who boo Pook and Sturrock at the mere mention of their name, in fact even booed the latter off the field after he had scored the goal which actually has kept us in the cup.  It's all a matter of opinion but for fuck's sake give people the benefit of the doubt before they even start - if they start!

Go Ronnie!!

well said ronnie and others. nice to see some have some degree of intelligence and common sense at least.

he didn't do well at motherwell, so what? sturrock didn't do well at southampton.

if he gets appointed, so be it - get behind him. if he's shit i can't see fitton being the type to persevere with someone if it's clear he can't achieve what fitton is aiming for.

personally i just hope he isn't another miserable jock like sturrock :D

http://images.sportinglife.com/07/02/330/Malpas_196734.jpg

Only on recent reading but he didn't exactly take over at Motherwell under great circumstances, lost the backbone of the side during the summer all during a fair amount of off the pitch and financial turmoil at the Scotch club.  It’s a bit rich to write him off but likewise he’s not the sort of appointment to go and plaster the radio about either.

You look at his record at that stage and he was a fairly inexperienced gaffer so it’s tough to judge him under those circumstances and at that point in his career.  Alright the same may be said about good old Iffy but if he’s come with an endorsement and rings Fitton’s bell then he’s worth a shot and some support behind him.

Plus you never know with an unknown quantity if you have the next red faced Alex Furguson or the next supercilious (word of the day) Andrew King.  On the basis that Ling is a write-off with Cotterill, Evans and co you’re hiring a manager that has inevitably been sacked, usually from several employers and usually with good reason after a fair crack at the whip.  At least with Malpas it’s a handful of games under difficult conditions so who knows what he may pull out of his sack all over your face.

fitton has gone on record as saying that if we're not in the championship in 3 years, then he will have failed. that is some statement.

on the back of this, he is not going to appoint someone who he doesn't believe can achieve this goal, so if it is mozza who gets the job then it will be for good reason.

have some faith.

Maurice Malpas will struggle to acheive the next win ...

Come on Fitton have some ambition! This bloke is not it!

Please shut up i am in the mood to stab someone today

Yes lets sign Jose Mourinho or perhaps we can pay a nice compensation package to Arsenal for Wenger.

makes me laugh that everyone slates Martin Allen but now we're not allowed to slate Maurice "who the fuck is" Malpas by the thought police on here.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :fu:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :fu:  :fu:  :fu:  :fu:

You can think what you like.

Just as I can think Allen's a cunt and you're a tosser.........

:beers:

id rather Martin Allen anyday

you really are a knob

The fact that some of us are disappointed by the prospective name does not mean we won't get behind him if he becomes manager.

It also doesn't mean that because we have a different opinion to yours we lack 'intelligence and common sense'.

I love you all. You cunts.

Exactly.

That's it then, Fatbury has spoken!!  Anybody got Martin Allen's  mob. no.  I'll give him a call on behalf of the TEF. :soapy tit wank:

i think this is a fair point.minus the emoticons of course

Albeit most people are aware of Martin Allen's work, whereas the majority have little or no knowledge of Malpas, other than he's a sweatie.

i read that as sweetie first time  :oops:

well everyone seems to think that he will be appointed even though fitton said he has not made a decision yet.
The adver have just jumped on the bandwagon so it must be the truth.
 funny how they did not say dennis smith would be manager when he was at the game last week.
does anyone know what type of football malphas gets his team to play?

As long as he gives some of our players a kick up the arse i dont care who it is! (apart from anybody connected with poxford)

Yeah, shit football  :fishing:

http://www.motherwell-mad.co.uk/news/loadroll.asp?cid=EDB4&id=338673

Looks like he's another dour chap. Still, If he gets the job, he has my support, same as anyone else (except Joey B or something like that)

he sounds like mcmahon  :cry:

Bottom end of Scottish premier should be about right then.

"A huge decision is looming for the new owner, let's start the new regime on a high and appoint a new manager who the fans can relate to. ....

For the club to move onwards we need a new face to love in dugout…. As the face that's there at the moment is simply not good enough for our Football Club."

Sound familiar - its the Motherwell website talking about Maurice Malpas.

But I'm sure he's just what we need.

Actually, he said yesterday that a decision had been made.

You've convinced me.

Malpas Out!

it was a dig at bart et al, not you. i know the vast majority will get behind him but there's still a few about who would probably moan if we appointed arsene wenger.

At the end of the day Fitton will appoint someone he sees fit. An internet forum wont influence his decision. I will support whoever he does appoint, be it Malpas, Allen, Andy King  :shock:  or whoever.

roy evans collin todd all got us excited what a pair they turned into. malpas has been mentioned for the job and he aint good enough for us. who the fuck is then.

Get kingy back :-))(

I still think this is just a rumour blown out of control but who ever Fitton gets in I will back 100%. Its quite clear we need some stability and we need someone permanent in charge. Fitton knows what he is doing and I trust whatever decision he makes. I think a few people are jumping the gun a bit with this.

If we get Wenger I won't be going till he gets the sack.

Ossie's just quit his job in Argentina

On the plus side if it is MM then we should get some decent jocks down , coupled with an assistant/DB's league knowledge it might be an advantage. however saying that its all speculation it still could be anybody

Paul Sturrock was unknown Dundee United legend with a shite managing record in Scotland before he came to Plymouth.

Therefore I think this Malpas bloke will be shit hot.

Malpas will definately be in charge for the Barnet replay... It's defintately him, and I will publicly strip off in the centre cricle if it isn't him!!!

I'm going to go kidnap Malpas now to ensure that happens. Who's with me?

pervert!

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of course im not with u, thats ridiculous Malpas has done nothing wrong and doesnt deserve kidnapping, and kidnap carries a prison sentence, enjoy prison sucker

Why is that in slightly bigger font.

And I think stripping in public is also a crime.

I'm actually indifferent about kidnapping Malpass now.

How long is it before we're being indifferent about Manatees?

Or indifferent about the Manchurian Candidate

If you rearrange Maurice Malpass, you almost get Manatee.

Almost.

Well, what with this statement and Bushey determined to have his private parts on here football is suddenly getting interesting again!!

9 goals fella, still time to get 6, im home dry!

But he doesn't score after Xmas!!

dont think so mate, Mooney is out for 3months

you winding me up? im gonna check, this is very worrying

Oh dear Ash, if that's true the old magnifying glass may be coming out!!

im just joking mate  :mrgreen:

wanker, I just frantically looked through their website! Anyway its only my balls and im a safe bet

Malpas it is then. Not who we all wanted but let's give the bloke a chance. You never know.

Seriously guys, Malpas will be fucking ace.

This is from a close source btw.

has Malpas hacked Tails' account?

how does your source know he is going to be ace?

mystic tails

 Not quite true Tails....Sturrock had done 5 years at St Johnstone and been successful by that clubs standards before getting Dundee U....it was then he had some kind of illness, and it didn't help.   I've a mate who is an Argyle fan and I told him Sturrock  had a decent reputation up there and would be a good appointment.

 Malpas is a massive gamble....limited experience in management, no experience of English football....I'll be very surprised if it doesn't end in tears.

  Just as well Luton got docked 10 points, becasue otherwise we'd only be 5 points off teh drop zone.

was it obeseity?

At first I think they thought it was a stress induced heart attack.....it was later rediagnosed as something less serious.

That reminds me of a mate of mine, he'd had palpitations brought on by a virus it was pretty nasty and was sent to hospital, a couple of weeks later he had chest pains so they sent him to hospital again, however he was diagnosed with indigestion!

im not giving a useless appointment a chance ... would rather we keep Byrne/Williams then bring in Malpas

Tails what have you been taking?

He could turn out to be good but how can you claim this now?  :?

Diamandis and Sturrock or Fitton and Malpas?

Two weeks ago we thought we might not have a football club at all. Frankly Fitton could appoint Jim bloody Smith and he'd still be a legend.

  Of course Fitton is quite within his rights to appoint who he chooses.....in the same way fans are within their rights to question the "appointment of a manager with proven record" statement, when it turns out not to be true.

He has got a proven track record.

Fitton never stated it had to be a good one.

or if it had to be a managerial track record...



your source must be close to the playing staff then, it appears you're now listed as an STFC player on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_Town_F.C.#Current_squad).

  I've stated before that Fitton had no intention of throwing money at this, I suspect that the costs involved in getting a proven manager have discouraged him.   Malpas is clearly wishing to prove himself, so is a cheap option....which is all we can afford.

I dont fucking know I'm just trying to be positive and be different to everyone else.

I say Malpas will be class.

When the new manager is appointed, It will be our Ninth manager of the 21st century, not including Caretakers but including King twice.

Who needs stability :D

And to think King was here for 4 years or so with his second spell.

I agree, we need an experienced big name. Roy Evans or Colin Todd would be good.

Fuck it Tails, I'm with you...Fitton and Malpas will be great...

Hey ho, let's go (and pay off HMRC  :wink: )

Wise wasnt inexperienced- he got Milwall to the FA cup final and maintained them in the championship

He was low experienced though like Si said  :wink:

You really are the most pessimistic cunt I have ever known. Everything is shit.

- If we got a 20,000 seat new stadium you would say we should have 30,000 where is the ambition?

- If we hired Jose Mourinho as manager you would say, why didnt we hire god (not DV)

- If we were in the Premier League you would say, we should be in the Champions League

FFS Just give the guy a chance and stop complaining for once.

WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU HAPPY?

Gaz raises a good point, why didnt we appoint Mourinho or me as manager?

Because Mourinho's out of our price range and you're shit. Or is it the other way around?

easy gazza bart is actually only pointing out the facts on this one.
Our new manager speaks well and he has had a great history as a player and a coach.
I know this has been said before but a month ago we nearly did not have a club to support. just because some of the younger people on here have not heard of him does that make him a shit appointment?
It sounds like he will bring honesty and hard work very much in the same vein as sturrock. As people mentioned he looks to have great connections too. id rather have him than ling in a lot of ways as i remember when quinn tarnished his reputations here, i would have hated that to happen with ling as he was a bit of a hero of mine.
lebowski was right though, it is funny watching people throwing their toys out their pram because they did not get who they wanted.
fuck me part of me wishes allen had got the job just to see some of reactions.
Malpas left motherwell by the way after the board tried to get involved in who his backroom was, something again very similar to sturrock at southampton, he was not sacked.

double post

who threw their toys out the pram other than fatbury?

MOTHERWELL FANS VIEWS: I asked a few questions for my website and here is some reaction....

What kind of football does Malpas play? Long ball to a wee guy who is now plying his trade with smeltic, then hope he does the rest! No other options. A dire style of play.

Was he good to the fans? Nope, as we got humped left, right and centre.

Was he tactically inept? Doesn't know what tactics are...he thinks they are small mint sweets and only 2 calories!!

What did he do right? Signed McCormack then didn't play him when fit.

What did he do wrong? Pretty much everything but if he takes Hegarty with him to Swindon, prepare for relegation

How will he be remembered by Motherwell fans? Useless


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What kind of football does Malpas play?

Appalling route one hoofs up the park to anybody is his kind of football.

Was he good to the fans?

Nope! was very very poor towards the fans as the season was finishing.

Was he tactically inept?

He just played 4-4-2 all season.

What did he do right?

Apart from signing McCormack and Lasley, absolutely nothing!

What did he do wrong?

Absolutely everything!

How will he be remembered by Motherwell fans?

A manager who clearly has experience in how to stand while waiting for a bus.
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Maurice had an unprofessional attitude towards the fans, was monotonic with the press and was so inept and unprofessional that his team weren't even match fit. Shambolic stuff. As for tactics - he thought those were wee white mints for freshening your breath. A deeply, deeply uninspiring individual. I fail to see how Swindon players will want to give him their all and battle 100%.
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What kind of football does Malpas play? The kind where you get pumped off shite teams weekly.

Was he good to the fans?    :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Was he tactically inept? Unless his tactics were to get pumped off shite teams weekly, aye.

What did he do right? Brought in a couple of quality players, although this was cancelled out by two poor signings

What did he do wrong? - We got pumped off shite teams weekly.

How will he be remembered by Motherwell fans? - Good assistant, but lacks even the basics of a good manager. You can take heart from the fact that a lot of managers go on to do well after leaving Motherwell, but don't hold yer breath!
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I always wanted Malpas to to well but it just never happened, i do hope he does well at Swindon though. He made a lot of mistakes in his time at Motherwell but i am sure he will have learned a lot too and hopefully is successful for Swindon.
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I always liked him. I think it was his obvious enthusiasm to the job that came across everytime he talked to the media. You could just hear it in his voice, he was bursting with excitement and confidence every week, and no wonder given the free flowing football we played every week under his stewardship. Then there was his amazing ability to change his system when things were going against him, he always managed to make the right substitution at the right time. To think, we could have been stuck with some dullard with a monotoned voice who only knew how to play 4-4-2 everyweek. And don't forget how complinentary he was towards the supporters and how approachable he was when anyone asked him about the games. I we lost a 16 point lead over Dunfermline towards the end of the season, but hey, that's just yer Donald Duck isn't it? I was pretty gutted when he left actually and I'm sure he'll work wonders with Swindon. If the English media thought Jose Mourinho's post match interviews were entertaining, wait until ye hear Maurice! It's laugh a minute with that guy.

On a side note, I'm sure Hegarty's hair is his own aswell...
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Hmmm, I detect a slight hint of sarcasm in that last reply..

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Have a wee soft spot for Swindon! I have friends down there and have been to a couple of their games (albeit the last one was a game against Bristol rovers a couple of years back!) We had a Swindon Fan in our midst last week too. Hope Malpas goes on to do well for Swindon, and I hope that he has learned from his tenure at MFC

motherwell have their very own spacey :D

talking about fans on all the forums not just this one, sorry should have made myself more clear