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We absolutely should not have. He's been away on international duty plenty in the past and come back and played just fine, even this season. Unless he was doubled over wheezing for breath after 10 minutes today it's purely a coincidence he had a bad game after international duty. Either way, you can't deny a player the opportunity to play for his country because we have Aberdeen at home up next.

Fuck me. I know it's a waste of time typing this but... Look, what some people forget is that there are Motherwell fans all over the country and all over the globe who can't get to games. There is next to no coverage that we can follow because 99% of Scottish football focuses on the Old Firm. I only saw our score after finishing work and I wanted to know how the game went. This place should be my best source of information. Clearly, I wasn't expecting positivity; we got beat 3-0 at home. It's not about positivity or negativity. It never, ever has been, despite the absolute morons resorting to throwing "happy clapper" out at any opportunity. So what have I learnt about today's game or today's performance? Not much. Instead, the thread is dominated by three clowns who just, whatever they claim otherwise, raced on here to... Ah, fuck it. What's the point? I'll just have to make do with my own interpretation from a couple of minutes of YouTube highlights.

One of those days. When your best players all have stinkers, your most experienced defender goes off injured after you miss an early penalty, you get a feeling it's not your day. The way we conceded the first two goals summed it up. What I would say is Aberdeen's injury crisis maybe helped them. Lack of midfield options left them with two defenders or defensive minded players in there who nullified Polworth and Campbell. What I would also bear in mind while listening to the media wax lyrical about Mcinnes and how well he did in the situation, we were missing Dunne, Carroll, Donnelly, O'Hara and Turnbull today and lost Hartley during the game. A lot for a squad our size to take. And still a penalty miss away from being a very different game...

No one with pass marks today but maguire campbell seedorf and polworth an elevated level of shite

Yip that was a reality check on where we are today Have said it before and I’ll say it again Grimshaw will never make a right back in a million years Tait is wasted a left back Seedorf is like playing with a man short …… something special once every 3 games if we’re lucky not good enough Young Scott still a work in progress and his head seemed to go down after penalty miss When we come up against good experienced pros with agame plan we are found wanting

Not negative bud just look at the games without claret glasses on ,but hey let's enjoy while we can cause there are probably more games like today to come shortly

Nah I just look at the results and the fact we are still 3rd in the league and still above Aberdeen, but you batter in mate and fill your boots with negative shite, you don't get the chance that often these days

Hello yodo true to form as ever after a bad game for us, so finally a Saturday you can start posting shite again you must have been ragin the last few weeks. As for your post Aberdeen are murder, not a good team, we gifted them 2 goals no1 was robinsons fault not getting a sub on and leaving a big hole in the defence and the 2nd well less said about that the better, but it's good to hear from you again

Have said it before but I'd play Cole over Long in this set up. Long is a two up front guy.

Penalty miss seemed to knock our confidence and energy. To many loose passes and mistakes. Aberdeen out muscled us all over the park and everthing they hit ended up in the net. Well beat in the end, but youve got to wonder what would have happened if we had scored the penalty. Small margins, like most games involving the majority of teams in our league.

Aberdeen score while we are down to 10 men with Hartley off for treatment with head injury. Maguire stepping back to centre half, and losing out to Cosgrove. (And we were a bit naive in keeping possession when we went to 10 men). Has all the hallmarks of "one of those games" already with a missed pen and short handed goal.

The thing with managers in recent day Scottish football is that you don't have to be any good to have 'relative' success. If you have 10 dopes taking a maths exam one of them will still be top of the class. The jump up to English football level is colossal.

That felt like The Office (UK) vs The Office (US)