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A good goal or was the defence fawlty? 🤣🤣

Just listened to managers press conference and doest he come across great. He is big on little percentage differences and how our league position isn't justified. I am fully with him on this. Football yes is all about results but their needs to be foundations for it to be sustainable. Jens is trying to build as we all know and I just hope that some who I feel are shortsighted in their feelings about our results do not chase him out and we are back to firefighting every year. He is ambitious and talks about other small clubs throughout Europe who are now competing with big boys. Yes tomorrow is big and we certainly need a result but if we don't which is possible I just hope the majority keep calm.

He looked like a man, whom never having played football, drunkenly agreed to play with his mates. Waking up with a dreadful hangover, and struggling to understand why the fuck he had agreed to something so silly, he didn't want to let his mates down. So, despite his reservations, he put his dad's old Samba's on and did his best to impersonate a footballer. And fooled no one. Onwards to Wednesday!

You got the impression things had just turned a bit for us and not in a good way. This was a game we really had to win and we did. Dare I say it, the result was more important than the performance.

The foul on Watt was scandalous and surprised the ref never got called over. Out of control and endangering an opponent, from behind.

I’ll still be going because I’m a longstanding season ticket holder, but I think I’ll genuinely hesitate before renewing next season. VAR and the clowns running it have ripped every bit of spontaneity and enjoyment out of going to the football. It’s supposed to be entertainment, and instead we’re standing about waiting on decisions nobody in the ground can understand. We’re being taken for absolute mugs, and I’m sick of it.

As good as our midfield can be, Slattery makes a big difference. Watt, Fadinger, Just and Slattery is a perfect balance,

Mind this time last week some of our fans on here saying we’d be bottom of the league this week? ….. get it up you!! 🤣

My favourite quote was when Iain Ferguson was talking about the Dundee Utd jinx of always losing in the final. "I don't believe in jinxes, but I hope it continues".

Depends on yer age, a few of us getting to that stage 🤪🤪

Too much foreplay and not enough penetration,need to up tempo and shoot more often.

Exactly!! Very similar to my view. He’s barely got his feet in the door and already has transformed us and done something that I don’t think I’ve seen in all my years supporting the ‘Well…. Increased the attendance at Fir park!!! Yes, we all want results but it’s early days and we need to have confidence that results will come. However, we need to realise that they might not come as quickly as we would like and may not come till after January or maybe next season. I think we have a much better chance of becoming a good team by supporting JBA and the players in what they are trying to do than reverting back to “normal” guid honest laddies approach which makes your eyes bleed. Fair enough to make comments and some criticism on forums but let’s keep it in perspective and let’s not get on their backs and start panicking, especially at the games. We know there will be ups and downs but I think the fans have to stay positive. I’m excited to see what JBA can achieve with us and have already enjoyed this season way more than any of the recent past ones.

Stop talking nonsense, for a club like Motherwell getting to a major final is massive. Yes every one we have contested since 91 has been against the ugly sisters both of which had teams far superior to the teams they have now. So yes if we make the final it will be against one of them but given the way they are both playing currently we have nothing to fear, especially from the blue uglies.

Seriously? How any Motherwell fan can so easily dismiss getting to a cup final is beyond me. Im 56 years old and Ive seen us play in 5. Ok, we have only won one of them, and having either Celtic or Rangers in the final always makes things harder. But these are not strong Rangers and Celtic teams, and this Motherwell team has already shown it can go toe to toe with both of them this season. The League Cup semi final is a huge game for us. Given that we cant win the league, surely we can still dream of winning a cup?

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https://x.com/GavinMcCafferty/status/1983897912653254871 Gavin McCafferty @GavinMcCafferty · 1h Stephen O'Donnell has a chance of playing at Hampden on Saturday, Jens Berthel Askou says Motherwell will make a late call on his fitness. Tawanda Maswanhise expected to be fit after going off too.

Speaking of kicking, I hope we have a better ref for the semi than the one tonight. Utd just kicked lumps out of us from start to finish and it didn’t seem to bother the ref.

Beating Dundee United will never not be enjoyable no matter who their manager is. A more arrogant support you’d struggle to find outwith Celtic and Aberdeen.

All joking aside 3 days before the game people should have tickets, to enable them to sort out any problems if they arise, as that's when Motherwell start blaming Hampden and vice versa and as a result people miss the game.

At least we can't face a BR Celtic in the final again. Also, the Celtic fans were all in tears in the stands in MoN's last game v Motherwell.

This is the major reason I'm against VAR. The whole point of football is the joy of scoring a goal. That's what everything else builds up to. That has totally been taken away now. As for decision making I don't think much has actually changed. Mistakes get made with or without VAR. We all lived without it for pretty much our whole lives and somehow we still managed to love the game. It's entirely geared towards televised football.

Forgot to mention how great how great it was to see the reaction from the bench when Just scored the Winner. Longello obviously took his flippers off after being sub’d. Best he moved all day. 😂 hopefully the big man is back to normal in the next game.

There’s more to the VAR problem than inconsistent interventions and questionable decisions. It disrupts the live match experience to the point where fans can’t even celebrate goals in the moment, because every goal now comes with a long pause while everyone waits to see if it actually counts. It’s sucking the joy out of the game and, at the end of the day, money talks. If this carries on, fans will talk with their feet, and once they start staying away, it will be very hard to get them back. Club chairmen need to act quickly and come together to get rid of this shite before the damage is permanent.

Var has no place in the modern game, all this clear and obvious error pish they keep spouting is nonsense. The ref last Saturday saw nothing wrong in the lead up to Saids goal, he was a few yards away with a great view so no clear or obvious error so why were VAR even involved ffs. They are actively looking for reasons to disallow goals, how Far do you go back in a passage of play etc. As for the offside yesterday no lines shown due to the bargin basement system we have in Scotland, so they basically guessed it was offside, with no conclusive proof. The whole system needs binned ASAP, but if the clubs dont stand up and start complaining nothing will change.

I can’t stand Hearts but I am delighted for them as I just want someone to challenge and topple Celtic. I don’t think they are particularly great or great on the eye but one thing they are is robust. Every one of their players is solid and they are not a team who look like they’ll keel over. Every one of our players looks like they are one game away from a long term injury but Hearts are a different animal…. Really solid group.

Whilst I agree with your statement, I absolutely do not believe the technology used in Scotland can prove this beyond doubt.

What kind of dug meat? Winalot?

Canny believe he's been in Danish 2nd division. He is outstanding. Love watching him and so chuffed he got winner.

MJC seals the win for Motherwell!!! Keep talking nonsense!! It works an absolute treat!!! Great result and well deserved. The players were due a win for their efforts!!

I wouldn't even think for a second about ditching VAR. It's a pox on the game.

We’re lucky to have eyes though and a modicum of footballing knowledge to realise we are watching 100% better football than any of the statistical seasons above. We could easily go on a run of wins and I still don’t see us finishing in the bottom six. we have the keys to a suped up twin exhaust Honda civic here 🤣 time we all realised it

Was looking at previous starts to the season up to this point. 25/26 Askou - 8pts 24/25 Kettlewell - 13pts 23/24 Kettlewell - 10pts 22/23 Hammell - 10pts 21/22 Alexander - 14pts 20/21 Robinson - 8pts 19/20 Robinson - 16pts 18/19 Robinson - 5pts 17/18 Robinson - 13pts 16/17 McGhee - 8pts 15/16 Barraclough - 7pt So Askou's start is in the bottom 5 and there has only been 2 worse starts in the last 10 years. Looking closer at the seasons with 8 points or less (but obviously not including this one) there are 4. We finished Bottom 6 in 3 out of 4. The manager was also fired or resigned in 3 out of 4. The exception was season 15/16 when Barraclough was fired after 8 matches, McGhee came in and we shot up the league. Now I definitely don't want another manager replaced and I think the season can still go either way but just looking at the facts over the last ten seasons it doesn't look great for Askou. Really need to win at Livingston tomorrow.

But was pretty decent getting us there

Callum Ward looked solid. Played well. Passing good and he elected to kick long at times when under pressure

Good win! 🙂 On to the Semi ...

take it its only us that gets penalised for foul throws

Side hustle as a tout?

I heard from a guy well connected at Hearts that at the start of the season he was offered to us - unsure if it was a loan or permanent move for cash - but we knocked it back. I’m 100% sure this is true and 90% sure it was a permanent move. Maybe someone else has heard similar.

Aberdeen beat Celtic to lift the Scottish Cup 6 months ago. It can be done......

Rodgers clearly been looking for a way out. Desmond certainly hasn't minced his words.

Cheers for that. Interesting to see Longelo has an xG of 2.55. Not bad for a defender.

Well we've 14 goals off 32 shots on target which is pretty decent but there are a few penalties in there. EDIT - Also don't forget all the shots that weren't on target! 🤣

I think the issue with Welsh is that he is no longer a young player and unlikely to develop into a player that will be dependable for them in Europe, or sold on for a fee. That being the case, they need to clear some space for the next project. Welsh has been impressive for us since he arrived and is clearly better than anything else we had, whether there will be a queue of bigger clubs lining up for him when his Celtic contract expires, Im not so sure. Id be more than happy for us to get him on a contract though.

VAR has no business ruling on offside decisions until there are at least two correctly placed cameras on both sides of the pitch.

Bringing slattery on was key,we needed someone to take the ball forward from a central area as it was sideways to many times today,the winning goal came from that and it was a peach.

2 shots on target and 2 goals. That was a very, very important win for JBA and the team.

One of the weird things I've noticed is teams tend to create roughly the same number of chances regardless of actual possession varying by large degrees. I'm not sure how you actually explain that but it's there to see.

Aye, I can see why he might have wanted to come back to play in the UK, but given Derby's recent troubles on and off the park, that always felt like a bad move. There must have been better options available from a footballing perspective.

I see Livi have quite a few defenders injured so hopefully we can take advantage. Putting positive spin on season , apart from jambos and sellik the most league wins any team has after that is 2!!, only one more than us. Just shows you how tight the league is. Yes doesn't disguise fact we should be on 14 or 15 pts but it's a job in progress and we all need to be on board. Last thing we need is bad vibes from the stands. Fine tuning still required but JBA has transformed us in a short time and I am sure come January will have more targets lined up that suit our style. COYW