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https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/04/15/this-club-is-evolving-join-the-movement/ Not sure how this is going to go down.

I would like to see us go for the boy stanway at partick thistle as a replacement for slattery if he leaves in the summer.

I wouldn’t touch Bailey Rice, I’m afraid he’s just another promising young player whose career has been killed by the old firm. I’ve seen nothing in him (and neither has Rangers) to say he’d play regularly at SPL standard. OK he was clearly a talented youngster but the world is full of these talented youngsters who don’t make the leap to become a good pro player. it’d be too much of a punt to take him on and I presume pay a good wage to and treat him as a project.

What would he cost, as he's under 24?

Bit of a punt but not a bad shout. Although he’s never really proven himself at Rangers he has shown signs that there’s a player there but I’d think he’d be looking for more money than we could offer but you never know, maybe he’ll be happy with a smaller wage if he gets game time and is coached to improve.

The midfield signing I'd most like to see us make is Bailey Rice. He's OOC at Rangers, our former academy player and when he was coming through was thought of as a better player than Miller. He's also 6'0 so would add some physicality to the side which is something we are currently lacking and if platformed correctly has the potential re-sale value the club would be looking for.

Longelo v Livingston for me. Great team goal with just about everyone in the team getting a touch. If Brazil 1970 had scored it, folk would still be raving about it.....

Putting McEntee on his arse was delightful! If only he had finished it, I might have had a dilemma for goal of the season!

From the admittedly limited times I've seen Chilvers, he seems technically clean, comfortable under pressure, and makes good decisions. But he’s not a player who directly influences matches regularly, and that’s the difference. If you look at it from our point of view, he’d fit the way we play under Jens from a structural point of view. He’d be fine in build-up, understands space, and would slot into the system without any real issues I think. But I’m not convinced he actually gives us something we don’t already have. He’s probably closest to Fadinger in profile, just maybe a bit safer and with far less upside. He improves the floor of the midfield, but I’m not sure he raises the ceiling, if that makes any sense? And if we’re looking to push on, what we probably need more of is goals and real impact from midfield rather than another tidy connector. So I get the appeal, and in the right setup he probably looks a good player again. I’m just not sure he’s the kind of signing that moves us forward in any meaningful way.

Just to add P&B Ross Co Fan Chilvers is probably the big disappointment as, based on last season, I think he’s one of the most talented footballers in the league and we simply don’t have anyone else like him. Fair play to him for coming through such a tough injury though. I accused him of chucking it a few weeks back but I would absolutely like to retract that statement. I wish him all the best wherever he ends up next season.

For a left field punt - Noah Chilvers at Ross County - was dynamite prior to a Slattery type injury. Not playing well currently in a terrible terrible team - don't think he will fancy D1 much.

That's probably a given, but if VAR in Scotland can't conclusively prove there was contact on Maswanhise, there can be absolutely no doubt it's not fit for purpose.

I think it is all going to come together for this one and it is going to be the statement win of the season. The jewel in the crown!!!

Hope to see Slattery and Johnny K back for this one. RCC and Thor too. We are capable of winning this, with a wee bit of luck and a focused performance we can leave Ibrox with all 3 points.

He probably holds grudges a lot better than he does a whistle or VAR controls.

I didn't know that but I always had the feeling that he never forgave us for releasing his brother Brian, since the former's "performances" against us almost always seemed inconsistent at best or incompetent/biased at worst. It seems such behaviour is typical in the petty and largely unchallenged world of Scottish football refereeing. Dae ye mind o' Craig Thomson? Dae ye?

Hearts wont win the title, for me its MJC,'s big team, as they will get most of the Var calls in their favour as they always do.

It was a great move that took two defenders completely out of the game, but not finishing it off by scoring was very poor, that was the game and 3 points right there.

With all the talk about the PK and our missed chances we never really gave JT some credit for his move that should have ended in a goal. That was a superb move that left the hearts defender helpless. I think JT could have had a better touch as he ran in on goal but then done well again to fake out the sliding hearts defender. Haven’t watched it back but not sure if a pass to Longello was on or not but JT should still have got it on target. Although he didn’t score that was His best game for a while, much more involved. Looking for more of that after the split along with a few goals.

Aye the phrase tainted title will be bandied about by supporters of the two losers no doubt.

They’ll just say they didn’t have the angle that confirmed it the same as they did with the Fadinger one at Ibrox.

But we all know it will. Hearts fans were delighted to take Saturday's decision, but you can almost guarantee they'll be greetin about VAR before the season's over. Three sides going for the title - it's an accident waiting to happen.

Some interesting comments from Lee Wilkie in today's Dundee Courier. "I would scrap VAR in Scottish football tomorrow. The technology affects the game far too much in a negative way and we saw the very worst of that in Dundee’s seemingly endless game at Kilmarnock. Of course, we want to help referees get really close calls correct but the technology gets involved far too much. And it affects the way players play the game, too. Again, not in a good way. I think players dive even more now than they did before. I’m not talking about blatant dives where there is no contact. I’m talking about situations where the forward feels a hand on the back and hits the deck. They do that knowing the Video Assistant Referee is watching and they might get a penalty out of very little. For me, that’s not what football should be about. It is a technical game but there should still be the physical aspect of battling for the ball with someone else. When VAR reviews a decision, they only look for contact but crucially not whether that contact is enough to constitute a foul. You will see strikers running into the box thinking more about initiating contact with a defender than actually scoring the chance. VAR in Scotland has not had many successes to shout about and Saturday at Rugby Park certainly wasn’t one of them. An eight-minute delay doesn’t help anyone. Spectators don’t want to be hanging about that long and, even though Dundee eventually got the penalty, it didn’t help them either. It doesn’t look good for our game. The SPFL and SFA are probably breathing a sigh of relief that didn’t happen in one of the title-deciding fixtures coming up."

And that in one statement highlights the glass ceiling (pun not intended) many of our own fans put in place often artificially. The guy is saying weekly he wants the players to be the best they can be, exceed their what they assume is their own personal limitations and we’re seeing that played out. But yeah, with this, the bare minimum will suffice …. All I’ve said since my first post on the subject is it could be so much more with little effort or cost. Just my observation.