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With the standard of officiating we’ve got, and these clown officials again deemed not good enough by FIFA for the World Cup, another controversial red card feels inevitable in this game. You could put money on it.

I can't see us taking anything from this game and arguably, the Hibs V Hearts encounter will be of more significance in our tussle to retain 4th place. No red cards or bad injuries please.

When you repeatedly open replies with exclamative pish like “Aw boo-hoo, BOO-HOO,” you’ve only got yourself to blame when people accuse you of trolling them. It’s a consistent pattern with you. Your posting style is needlessly confrontational, and it ends up undermining whatever legitimate points you’re trying to make. And for clarity, the often used “Penalty to Rangers” line is a sarcastic reference to them often getting the rub of the green against the likes of us. It’s not meant literally, though I appreciate that nuance may be lost on a Rangers fan.

Blyth debates: "Shut it Pizza, ya silly big c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-clot!" Also the driver of the only Motherwell supporters' coach to enter Aberdeen from the north on one occasion 😱 (allegedly).

I fully expect Collum to say that the Hearts boy playing the ball with his head was involuntary and that its incumbent on Welsh to watch what he's doing. Collum is coming out with loads of phrases like 'Normal footballing contact' and 'defender needs to keep out of the way', but the application of this is haphazard at best. You could say that Welsh getting a 'glancing brush' (remember that one) to the boys head is normal footballing contact, given the context of the play.

What your reasoning for the penalty MJC? The actual rule says that if the player on the ground moves his head towards the ball thereby causing a dangerous situation the foul goes against him for dangerous play What are you seeing that negates that?

Agreed and that’s always likely to happen when you can’t make it count when you are on top. And on far too many occasions this season we have played some nice stuff but have undone it all by being utterly powderpuff when it really matters. I personally think it was the correct decision to award the penalty yesterday but if we take even one of the chances before that it would have been irrelevant so we have only got ourselves to blame.

A light hearted joke that was , definitely not an excuse

It’s not trolling it’s stating facts. Rangers have been awarded two less penalties than we have this season. That could obviously change between today and when we play them but maybe if we didn’t give them the opportunities to get a penalty awarded, you know like not handling in the box or wrestling the shirt off attackers at set pieces then we might be okay in that regard? We could also help ourselves by actually breaking the habit of a season and actually making chances we create count and then in the event we do concede a penalty then it won’t have much or any impact on the end result. That would be a lot more beneficial than trying to walk the ball into the net, taking one touch too many and firing wide when we should have burst the net then concede an avoidable penalty, they score, beat us and the usual dafties giving it “boo-hoo we didny win, the refs a cheat, let’s stamp oor feet 😭 😭 😭”. Or at least I would have thought so anyway. 🤷‍♂️

Like clockwork, the troll crawls out from under their bridge again.

Agreed. Other sides have certainly had to adapt to our style and Falkirk in particular have countered it really well but Hearts knew they were in a game yesterday and if we are more clinical in front of goal then nobody is talking about them sussing us out. There has not been a top 6 team this season that has dominated Motherwell. It has been decisive moments in games that have made the difference. V Hearts D,D,L The penalty decision was decisive yesterday. Celtic L,W,L. Two defeats at Celtic Park but very competitive in both and a couple of key moments again decisive Ox- Chamberlain and penalty (red card). Rangers D, L, D. The non penalty at Ibrox was again decisive. Hibs W, D, D. Hibs have improved at neutralising the threat but we remain unbeaten against them Falkirk L, D, L. This is the only team that it could potentially be argued have sussed us but it was two penalty decision (both going against Well) that decided the last of the three games. It has been very small margins between what has been a very good season and what could have been a great season.

Yeah he was a bit better this week does a lot of work and little service. Jens might still recall him

Well said jeez I miss the debates on that bus with Blyth and the others.

I agree with some of that but I do not accept that today Hearts were the better team. Up until the penalty we were in no danger Hearts were creating fuck all while we squandered several decent chances. Over a season any team that ends up above you has been a better team over the season but that doesn't always mean in the head to heads they've performed better than you. People will argue til the cows come home whether it was a penalty or not but had that not been given Hearts were not winning that game today.

Commented at the game today when was the last time we scored from a corner. Our set pieces are very poor. However that is still a hard one to take. We were never in any real danger until the penalty and oh my fuck Maswanhise !! what a fuckin shocker

Jut watched pk incident in highlights again. The player is laying on the ground and head the ball as Welsh goes to clear. Gets kicked in the head. Applying FIFA rules it’s dangerous play against the player on the ground.

Good post. Although JT can shoulder some responsibility for missed chances I agree with your comment on JT, that was his best game for quite a while. Ward was a bit shaky and errant in his distribution but wasn’t at fault for Any of the goals. We are in a ropy spell at the moment but still never been dominated or Outclassed in any game.

Aw boo-hoo. BOO-HOO. Let’s just get the pathetic excuses in early doors. And just for the record, we have been awarded two more penalties than Rangers have in the league this season so put that in your pipes and smoke it.

Longelo for me. Very good in the forward role and capped it with his goal.

We will need to score 3 to win this as the officials move into overdrive in the final straight. Slattery is back so expect some quality shithousing and a major bust up with Rangers players desperate to try and get him sent off. Rangers 2 (Tav pens) Motherwell 3.

I thought today was a much improved performance from the last few weeks, with most of the starting 11 raising their levels. It was telling that McInnes sounded relieved at the end of the game and gave us some plaudits, albeit that doesnt really help us any in terms of points. We can talk about the refereeing (unless the rules have changed, I dont see how Kabore isnt enndangering himself by trying to head itnon the ground) but if we put any if the 4 chances away before that, then its less of a problem for us and may not even occcur. Overall, JT much better off the right side. Just fantastic thru the middle. I liked the 4-2-4, was a twist on our usual set up and played to our strengths. Fadinger much better without the mask. We will play worse and win before the end of the season.

I agree with you, but we dont really have a big physical team. So its no real surprise we are shite at set pieces. Jens isnt obviously sign any hammer throwers, but it would be nice if we could get a couple of signings in close season that could play football, but were 6 foot plus and/or had a bit of bite about them.

Double post.

There's those damn statistics again. 15 matches. Only 2 wins. But also 7 draws and only 6 defeats. So while our record could be better, we have been more than competitive against the top 6.