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Not far away from what I would go with...... Kelly SOD Ojala Sondre Carroll Slattery O'Hara Goss Woolery Watt KVV

Missed most of the first half, so cant comment on their goals. Thought we finished the half strongly and but for a very good save from Gordon and a lack of composure from the resulting corner, we might have got one back before half time. 2nd half Hearts started the brighter. I thought their player went down very easily for the penalty, so it was nice to see it saved. That seemed to kickstart us and I thought for the rest of the half we had the better of the play and chances. A mixture of good goalkeeping, poor finishing and bad decision making stopped us from getting a foothold in the game. It would be interesting to see how Hearts would have handled it at that stage. Overall, a disappointing result, but the character of the team remained on display right to the end. We know the issues in midfield. Hopefully Goss and Sondre can both be fit for the Celtic game and we can get our strongest 11 on the pitch.

Agreed. I just quoted the Sun as the OP used them as a link to the story. Very little decent journalism around these days. Particularly in the tabloids.....

Its an article entirely manufactured round that tweet by The Sun. They dont appear to interview anyone or do any actual journalism anymore.....

I dont see Zander Clark every week so impossible to say. But by the same token, the elected member doesnt see Liam Kelly every week. He would have a point if he simply directed his fire at McLaughlin as he isnt playing every week for Rangers. But to say Clark isnt getting selected for Scotland because he plays for a provincial club is laughable given who Kelly plays for. Overall though its just a pish story from The Sun to fill pages by trawling Twitter to find anything remotely contraversial.

Tony Watt by a country mile. A few others had good games and Slattery was no doubt the pick of those, but Watt's touch, hold up play, ball retention, work rate were all first class. The finish for his goal was none too shabby either.

He has been in this vein of form for over a year. If he was challenging for a midfield berth I would agree with you, but we are really short of strikers and it would only take an injury to Adams, Dykes or Nesbitt to have him under consideration given our dearth of alternative options. Much in the same way Gallagher got into the squad, you only need to be the right guy at the right time.

He hasnt featured in our matchday squad since 21st August. His appearance at Ibrox was on the 29th August.

Beginning to wonder if his non appearance on our bench is due to discipline issues and he has just chucked it. Even Robbie Crawford has made the bench the last couple of weeks.

Not sure googleing "why is Steven Lawless a mutant" would have shed any light on the original post......

As well as a mutant? Poor guy......

Certainly an area of the team Scotland are short in. Not any worse a shout than Nesbitt on current form.

To be fair, Im not on Twitter so a bit of context might have been useful. Totally agree he shouldnt be tweeting about other teams. Thats a discipline issue Hopefully GA will deal with it.

Im not sure that Grimshaw has been poor. Grimshaw has been Grimshaw. We all know he is limited on the ball, but will run himself into the ground for the team. To progress, we need more than that. But right now, we dont appear to have many better options that are fit to play.

Really? Is this purely because he is a Rangers fan? If you want to question his football ability fair enough. But we arent a big enough or rich enough club that can afford to ignore players becausen of their personal preferences, surely? For the record, I dont see him as a first team starter.......

This could be a proper battle. I hope it turns out that way as we are perfectly set up for that kind of game and to play on the counter attack. It would be good to have Sondre back, but to be fair to Lamie and Mugabi they both look better players alongside Ojala. Huge game and another massive test.

I read that Celtic have denied Dundee United tickets for todays game as well. Althought to be fair given the view at both grounds, you would be as well staying at home and watching on a stream.

That was the one that put the tin lid on it for me. He had been horribly inconsistent all game and was lecturing players like they were wee schoolboys when they got annoyed at him for damn good reason. But you NEVER see that decision given. A shrill blow of the whistle and a waggy finger to get back is usually about it. To make it worse SOD hadnt actually stolen that much yardage. Just a very officious humourless robotic performance.

Really good 3 points from a tough fixture. Ross County moved the ball about well, but similar to the Aberdeen game, we limited them mostly to chances from wide angles and Kellys saves were all ones youd expect him to make. I think until Goss is fit or we stumble across some other combination in midfield we will just have to get used to this style of football. It is effective, if not overly easy on the eye at times. Slattery was very good again today, he is carrying our midfield pretty much by himself every week. He is the only one in there with any composure ir ability to make a forward pass. With another decent player in there beside him he would look even better. Took his goal very well. Tony Watt was outstanding though. His first touch is excellent and his ability to take the ball in and drag us up the field, dance round players or just buy us a foul is a joy to watch. Bring on the Jambos!

Always seems to set the right tone. Still early days, but if the team keep following his mantra, you cant help but feel we are headed in the right direction. Disappointed that Sondre is out, but if Ojala has shaken off his knock then we should be ok at the back. Would like to see some fluency coming into the midfield, but ultimately any kind of win will do!

Just cause Kirky isnae in yet!

This^^^^^^ My hero!

The german model appears to be a good one. They seem to get more right than they get wrong. It would be nice if we had that kind of leadership and innovation in Scottish Fitba. Meanwhile, Celtic and Rangers could always cut their cloth and live within their means?

Do you not think £34 for an adult and 2 kids is reasonable though? I think the club have a difficult task here. If we dont charge fans of the big 2 and the likes of Hearts the same as they charge us, lots of our fans would be really unhappy about the fact that we are giving their fans preferential treatment. I agree that £30 to watch an SPL match is ridiculous. But we didnt start the fire......

We dont appear to charge away fans more than our own, and we do very well by kids. I dont think we can criticised by anyone in this regard. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/tickets/fir-park-entry-prices/