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One team today will play a much better brand of football and we can all be proud to know that’s us win, lose or draw I can’t ever recall a better time to be a Motherwell fan

Not sure what this team & manager needs to do to earn some leeway from some of our fans. I get folk being disappointed with the result, and everyone is entitled to give their opinion on the performance, particularly second half. But cheesy peeps, some of these takes are wild!

In years past this would be a write-off and one of the most meek, cringeworthy games I have been at was Ibrox the LC in 2012. More recently though we have seen a mindset change where we no longer seem overawed and have had statement victories at Ibrox in the past 3 seasons. No reason why we can't make it 4 in a row. Will be tough going there as ever, £10s of millions ploughed into the squad, the crowd and the inevitable weak refereeing, however we should absolute take it to them. We are capable of dismantling any team in the league. I'm relatively confident of coming back with at least a point. Rangers will be dangerous in attack, but they have had gaping holes in midfield, lack a proper 6 and have a defence which can be suspect. We go there, play our game, be brave and minimise unforced errors and see how we get on.

I was watching this intently at the match and I never saw any squiggly lines, arrows or wee circles at all. Am I missing something or was I just to engrossed enjoying the skillful football and pinching myself that I was really watching my team Motherwell. COYW.

Very much this. The thing is that Brian knows many fans may be unhappy with the outcome but he is also aware that very few will vote with their feet or move elsewhere. Nobody likes change and the prime seats elsewhere are spoken for. Plus fans are loyal to the team they support and build up relationships with those fans sitting beside them. I note Brian has backtracked from hinting that fans would have to be relocated elsewhere in the ground. For me that possibility came across as a threat. Now he mentions being relocated within the POD. A grudging acceptance perhaps that there is scope to reduce capacity and still house all Season Ticket holders currently within the POD. If the willing is there. What we should now see is a proposal to reconfigure the POD in the lead up up to next season, detailing exactly where each season ticket holder would end up. Put that out for consultation then proceed if agreed. Exactly what should have happened this time round. Again Brian stated that the need for change was identified months before season end and in anticipation of hosting European fixtures. So it is disappointing that for a Club so closely linked to it's supporters that consultation was not considered appropriate. I agree finance appears to have been the driver from the outset and sadly the views of those affected will continue to be largely ignored. In time those complaints will disappear as folk give up hope. Brian's interview indicated to me that the man is not for turning. As for the Society? Their role appears to have been to act as postman. The discussions I had with them suggested that all correspondence had been passed to Brian. But also that that was the limit to which they wished to get involved. What Brian says etc etc. I actually find it sad that we are having this discussion. On the pitch the performances have been fantastic and the progress the team has made under Jens and Alfred has been amazing. The quality of player and football we are seeing week upon week is exceptional. Football is fun once again. The fan base has grown beyond what anyone could have hoped for. Away games are a joy and we fear no-one. The Board have excelled in moving on from Jens in identifying and supporting his replacement so credit to them for that. Brian has even called out Celtic and their toxic fans which is a brave thing to do. But they have let themselves down in this one area.

The problem is some of our fans are believing the hype. Against Dundee United we played well but we were against 10 men for 75 minutes. To listen to the media and some of our fans you'd think we were world beaters and we weren't, just as today we were poor but we weren't as bad as some are making out. We are 3 points better off after same games as last year. . It also took us until 25/10/2025 to win two league games. We also lost to Falkirk at home in round 8 and the second half performance in that game was worse than today. So lets take a deep breath of reality.

I’m thinking it is going to be a great season but as always with a few bumps along the road.

Bang On.

True…. Unfortunately we did have a few today. It’s frustrating as I think we all know we are better than that. Really poor performance

Think we getting carried away with ourselves at times. We haven't done anything yet. Looks promising but wait and see.

As I said we played poorly and even at that Rangers only got 6 shots on target and would have scored with none of them had it not been a keeper gift. They still only got one goal that we gifted as poorly as we played. Folk need to get some perspective. I said before the game I thought too many Motherwell fans were thinking we'd turn them over comfortably that was never going to happen at Ibrox.

The first two for me haven't had enough proper gametime. I think big Eythor deserves a chance to play over 90 mins, we need to add a little physicality to that area

Bloody hell it's started. Calm down a wee bit. Beat at ibrox 1-0 and everyone is hopeless. Cmon let's be sensible here

That was his issue, his decision. Had an easy pass to player on his right side, no need to try and fake out the forward.

That just did not feel right at all today, we lacked the speed we have been playing at and we were really slack, really frustrating that we didn’t give a good account of ourselves. Rangers are not good at all yet they should really have scored about 5 goals. the break comes at a good time as we look knackered.

A keeper making a mistake isn't any worse than a striker missing a good chance. Still costs a goal.

Shankland going off was probably to our disadvantage as our passing game would have had him puffing and no way he is pressing Poulsen in same way. Still hoping that’s got a few bad performances out of peoples systems all in the one go without, what could have been, a big dent in GD.

Disappointing, but how many millions have they spent on their team? FFP non existent in scotland. We can do much better, but losing at Ibrox is hardly the end of days. Shrug of shoulders and we hopefully learn and move on.

I know stats don’t always tell the whole story in a game but today we made a total of 571 passes but only 164 (28%) of those were forward. Despite us appearing to dominate possession, too much of it was in our own half and in areas of the pitch where we posed no threat. Rangers had possession where it counts as witnessed by 27 shots and 42 touches inside our box. Possession is all good and well but if it doesn’t produce and end product i.e. goals then it become a pointless exercise. I always view anything we get from games at Ibrox and Parkhead as a bonus and that they won’t define our season so long as we take care of business with the rest. COYW.

That goal wasnt down to tippy tappy stuff, just rotten decision making, wont be a worse goal in the UK today...hes a good goalie but much more of that and offski in my book

Ah well, frustrating losing to a terrible goal but they should have scored more. I am sure Alfred learned a lot about some players today. Got week and half to work on the training ground. Squad close to full strength so plenty competition and if guys not performing they drop out COYW

Aye the PM will be long and boring

There will be days when we aren't good. Still hoping we can sneak a draw

Charlie Cook needs replaced

Tell me Alfred wots it all about?

He's a decent player with a good engine, but he's no right back.

Still well in this. Playing some lovely stuff.

Maswanhise ran his arse off on Wednesday night. You might not like what he did on the ball (he did get 2 assists) but lets not criticise his work rate.

Don't get tired or drop back after the first 30 mins , please.

Sorry he's on Var which is probably even more dangerous to us nowadays.

Rangers weren’t much better than us but hey we move on

Not sure starting Mas is a good idea . Not done much at all this season and showed nothing on Wednesday night to keep him in the starting line up . Lot more effort needed from him. Wee Kanga on the other hand looked like he. could have run all night