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Like us all , gutted and frustrated because we looked like we could win. It’s too easy to blame Ward but please consider he’s being told to play it out from the back and that comes with risk and when keepers misplace a pass it will have consequences . We as a team sat too deep which with 30 mins left was always going to be a problem . With injuries we simply don’t have the strength on the bench , whereas Celtic brought on subs that in transfer fees account for 10s of millions - that’s the difference . so yes it’s a sore one , we have a team to be proud of which is why it’s gutting.

It is pal, that's what makes it so frustrating today. If we beat buddies in cup and sellik win we at least have some belief

To go to parkhead score a couple of goals and give a decent account of ourselves is an improvement in my book .

Ward had the whole game in front of him. He could see everything. All he had to do was clear the ball.

I agree with that system we need a keeper good with feet and able to make correct decision, sadly Ward isn't that keeper. Folk were crying out for Stama to get dropped cos he wasn't scoring. Same should apply to Ward after 4 errors in 3 games which have been massive. Also he almost made another howler with feet at 2-2

Crazy pass from Ward, but equally Watt/Fadinger, whoever it was, could have popped it to Longelo at LB, rather than back to Ward.

Presumably this was at 92 minutes?

Correct the pass he made straight to the Celtic player was just plain wrong, there wasn't a Motherwell player waiting to receive it.

That is as much of a sore one than I can remember. Really gutting and even at 2-2 I felt they wouldn’t and didn’t looK like scoring. sickening we need to wait for 2 more weeks to get over that one. Thats going to hang about like a rancid fart

I would disagree in part. In the system we play we need a keeper who is comfortable playing at the back. There were numerous times today we opened up good space based on playing from the keeper across the back opening up big spaces in the midfield. What we need is a keeper whose judgement is more focused, play out from the back as part of the new system but when we have an opposition player just about inside our man's shorts the keeper does not play the ball to him. In todays fuck up the keeper wasn't even passing it to a Motherwell man, had it not gone straight to the Celtic player there wasn't a Motherwell player waiting in open space for it. It was just a complete and utter mental cluster fuck and horrendous judgement from the keeper.

That was an absolutely gutting defeat. Ward obviously should have lashed that one when there was no pass on, but you have to look at the positives at least, one being that we didn't go to parkhead and lie down or try to play for a draw, and we ran the team that will inevitably win the league as close as its possible to do without talking something out of the game. We're still in the early stages of implementing a new system. Surely to god no one is expecting that to be running like clockwork in less than a 1/4 of a season ? Implementing that kind of change in less than a season is ambitious surely. I think we need to bear in mind that Celtic brought a player off the bench who cost them 1.3 times our annual turnover in transfer fee alone, never mind what he's probably earning. The gulf in available player quality for the clubs respective turnovers is huge. Finger pointing and laying blame for defeats under those circumstances is pointless. They are also the first team we've failed to dominate possession wise this season. I'm as devastated as anyone can be about losing today cause it was there for the taking, but in the grand scheme of things we've improved immensely this season and will continue to do so.

I’ll have to see it again but at the time I thought the 6 yard box was Like central station. There were far too many bodies in our face to be trying to pick out a player.

We won't know until he gives Ox a chance. As I have said before we have 10 Outfield players to do the footballing part, I want my keepers collecting crosses and saving shots

Just seen the highlights of Celtics 2nd goal, WTF was Ward doing, he passed it straight to the Celtic player ffs, yes he makes a few good saves but hes making too many bsd errors, time for Oxborough to get a chance

And what if Ox cant handle the passing out from the back stuff? Your only going to add in more of those kind of mistakes. The manager see's both in training. He clearly thinks Ward fits the system better. If he stops making saves and/or starts dropping the ball again, you have to have a decision to make. But at the moment we just need to accept that these things are going to happen the way we play. The surprise is its taken this long.....

Wards judgement has been sadly lacking in a number of games even accounting for some excellent saves. I'm not so sure OX has what the manager wants in terms of the style we play but you are correct a keeper can't keep making bad judgement calls. I've got a feeling he will stick with Ward. Remember the managers line "players need to know its OK to make a mistake".. The frequency might change that view mind you.

Thought we missed Welsh a fair bit today as well. Not so much defensively. But its very noticeable that McGinn isnt as comfortable playing out to his left side. Having a left footed defender that side gives us a lot more balance.

There is no point ward making 6 great saves a game then one absolute howler. Yes JBA wants us to be brave but there are times when common sense should kick in. Sorry but Ox needs to be given a chance

I think we are more than capable of defending a lead. Teams have not overtured our leads because we are playing badly. They are being handed individual gifts. At this moment primarily by the goalkeeper. That in itself is an easier fix than having to rework a system because a team cant work well with it. We obviously can work well with it. No one absolutely no one has played us off the park including Celtic. So there is more to be optimistic about even as sore as that was today. That wasn't our strongest team by some measure and all but for a couple if individual mistakes, (Keeper and Priestman) we'd have got something today. Sorry for Ward that he will take all the blame but Priestman will get off scot free today and he was shocking at the 3rd goal.

Im gonna defend Ward a little bit here as well. He was having a fine game right up until his mistake. His save at the start of the first half was an absolute worldy.......

And he also had an excellent, yet almost forgotten save at Tynecastle with just about the last kick of the ball to rescue us a point that day. Granted he had cost us with the equaliser but similar to today we were done by that point and it wouldn’t have been a surprise if Hearts had won that 4-3. The goalkeeper is always going to be the most obvious target if he makes a mistake that costs a goal, but as a team we just don’t look capable of defending a lead.

You could argue that he’s doing the basics, making the saves you’d expect him to make, but then undoing it all with mistakes he simply shouldn’t be making. Those errors have already cost us too many points this season, and it just can’t go on.

I know players need to make choice of whether to play long or not. And read the game. However direction comes from manager and he has been clearly demanding it played out from the back. That system clearly did not work in game management as we have now lost 9 points from winning positions. I also think Ward and McGin are uncomfortable with the possession based approach and struggle with it. Possibly Priestly too.

Exactly it's his judgement in question at the moment not the style of play we have adopted.