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I think that is a bit unfair. It is far too early to make a judgement on Booth. The manager seems to rate him, but he needs to bulk up and mature. He needs a loan spell. It is also early to assess Vogt. I agree that his performances to date have been largely, at best, anonymous or worse. He needs to do much more, but he is away from home, trying to settle into a new team, a new style and a higher standard of football. I'll give him a bit more time. Ross, doesn't look like he'll make it, and Wilson has had about 100 games over the years, it looks like his chance has gone.

To cut AJ some slack, I would have started Connelly, Wilson, Hodge and Whyte today. However, I would have had either Fadinger or Priestman on from the start and switch at half time. I'd also have had Johnny K play in place of Ross for at least 45.

Yeah, again, we have pretended that we are a big club, playing our 2nd string and they are not good enough. We have been dreadful today and AJ has to learn from it. We've thrown away a competition in which we would have a great chance of winning. Lack of respect for the competition and the opposition. Fuming about that.

Game over, we are out!

That is a strange substitution. AJ seems determined that the boys club is going to finish this game.

Lowry has to do better there. Free hit from 18 yards flies over by about 20ft.

As the game goes on we are getting progressively worse. Our front line is a completely inept set. Vogt appears uninterested and frankly, on showings so far, useless. RCC has been anonymous. When he has been on the ball he has been slow and laboured and Mikey Booth is too lightweight and not yet ready for the 1st team. This is beginning to look like a chance missed.

Yeah, but that is fine if you get into a winning position. If you don't then the team gets weaker as the game goes on. A tough call whatever way you go.

Oh well, another 30mins. That is a disaster in itself. Lose the game and it really will have been a dreadful Sunday.

Absolutely!

Vogt's body language indicates that he doesn't want to be on the pitch.

It is really difficult to improve a performance part way through a game when you start in such a poor fashion. So many players are not at the races today. The young boys are largely not ready, and it is showing today. One or two on the pitch may have worked, but we look to be losing this today.

I thought we may have got Vogt off there. He is a man down today.

Not the best by a long, long way. Absolutely dreadful performance so far. Hodge has had some nice touches, Connelly has been solid, but other than that, I think it is showing two things; our 2nd string aren't that good and we can't play possession football on pitches like that.

Pitch seems to be playing like concrete. Very bouncy surface.

The boys seem to be settling a bit now. It was a very poor first 29 mins from Motherwell.

It works via the mobile app. Doesn't seem to work out PC.

A good travelling support seems to be building.

There is a feeling that something great is being built, but we need to realise that it is very early days and could easily be derailed. We all need to stick by the team when we inevitably hit a bump in the road. Undoubtedly, there is an upward trajectory and it feels great, but it'll be a bit of a rollercoaster as we, hopefully, build something memorable, long-lasting and ultimately successful.

So many great performances tonight. Special mention to Lowry, who really came good and put in tremendous effort. No doubting his commitment and attitude tonight, both were excellent. I realise that Said will take the plaudits for his game changing contributions, but for me Moorman is class. He completely controlled the backline and his passing through the lines is reminiscent of Watt. What a player he could be for us this season. Moorman for me.

That was a European night to remember. The atmosphere was electric. It is great to see Fir Park rocking. No failures on the pitch for Motherwell. Star man for me tonight was Moorman, he was superb in that defence. Lowry looks to be fitting in nicely. Fadinger and Priestman were imperious in the midfield. Said is adding scoring to his game, which is great to see. Olly Whyte looks every bit a first team player. I'm sure that he'll get plenty of game time this season. A great time to be a Well fan. Who's off to Freiburg. See you there. COYW!

There are no doubt a number of floating supporters tonight, I hope that they understand the way that we play nowadays and don't expect a swashbuckling display for 90 mins. I hope that we are all patient and don't start getting on the backs of the players if it isn't going as well as hoped. It is going to be a tough one tonight, but I'm looking forward to it.

I would go further and say that I feel that we were worth a win. We created 4 decent chances and played some great stuff at times (albeit fairly infrequently). The football to get JK away for his chance was top drawer, as was the work to get JT the chance that he lashed over from 6 yards out. Falkirk offered nothing to the game and were happy to foul throughout, knowing early on that the ref was useless. They were happy to break up play and wait for us to run out of gas in the final 20mins. No way did they deserve anything from the match. To comment on Motherwell today, I feel that we were generally slow and ponderous in the build up, and our movement in front of the ball is minimal, so making chances is going to be difficult against any well organised team. We need to improve our fitness, to last more than an hour. We need more movement and intelligent movement in midfield and, especially up top. We also really need the few runs that are made to be seen and used. We are very guilty of ignoring forward movement and turning back when forward options are available. I'm hoping that we'll improve with games and familiarity, but I don't think we have the players in place to emulate last season's performances. We need some more quality in the mid and front areas.

Good result after a much improved second half. Looking forward to the return leg where we will be favourites to progress, back at Fir Park, playing on a real pitch with real grass, not that 50% shredded tyres rubbish. We should have Said back, which will help going forward. Hopefully, RCC and Lowry have no worse than niggling injuries and we get Williams and one or two more back from the treatment table. It'll be a tough game, but we should have enough to progress.

Quite poor from Motherwell. Not able to hold the ball, not moving with any pace or precision, leaving the defensive flanks wide open and absolutely nothing in the final third. Happy that it is still 0-0, but I expect Helsinki will score eventually. We may have to take a 1 or 2 goal defeat here and recover it next week. Let's hope for better in the second half.