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Has anyone heard any update on Jordan McGhee. In July his injury suggested he'd be out for up to 8 weeks.
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All systems go for the semi final now.
Seems most of the pundits are making us favourites. I'm always nervous of expectations being on our side. Mind you pundits in general are no more insightful than the rest of us.. I think this game is just too close to call. Thought St Mirren looked good in the highlights against Hearts. A lot was being made before their game against Hearts that they'd only scored 6 goals but they did score 3 good goals against Hearts, one shockingly chalked off.
Just need to keep my fingers crossed during the game 🤞
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9 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
A thoroughly deserved victory tonight against less than ideal opponents and an invaluable 3 points. We played very well in spells but looked vulnerable down our right side in the second half. Watt's goal was an absolute peach. United played a physical game just as I thought they would an despite 21 fouls being awarded against them wer elucky to have a lenient ref. Highlight/lowlight of that was the United player being told to go back at throw ins twice and still ignore the ref. Why no yellow card?
A good midweek crowd too.
Only concerns from me were possible injuries but glad to hear that JBA is not "overly concerned". Some looked more precautionary i.e Welsh.
Pretty much how I saw it. Koutrombis worries me for the final, he has no pace and gets skinned too often for my liking.
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Just now, Kmcalpin said:
Don't know about being arrogant but they do love a good boo, and have done for years. .
I think Falkirk fans are so far up themselves .
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Apart from 15/20 mins in second half we dominated the game, played some nice stuff again and at times when required went long rather than risk it. I thought there was more variation in our game tonight. Scored two really good goals . Manwanhise should have had another and Hendry was unlucky to be cleared off the line. Not a bad attendance considering a midweek game and fans forking out alot of money last weekend and next.
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10 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Aberdeen beat Celtic to lift the Scottish Cup 6 months ago.
It can be done......
Aye only when Celtic hand you the trophy...LOL .. no team has had the luck Aberdeen had to win the Cup , from the draw to Celtics self destruct in the final.
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4 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
He's not managed for years , the Celtic squad is collapsing around him, Schmeichel, McGregor and Tierney are probably the only quality players he has, its a joke hes even getting involved at 73.
If we are going to win a trophy again this season is our best opportunity for a long time, so Saturday is massive for the club.
I was meaning under Rodgers but totally take the point about O'Neil
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A major disappointment is we never beat them once under his management. I cant stand him.
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On 10/25/2025 at 8:06 PM, SteelmaninOZ said:
Mid week game under the lights on our green green grass of home will we win two in a row?
Will VAR decide who will win?COYW
If our defence and keeper are not on their toes no, United are pretty decent in and around the box and score goals but defensively they concede as many as we do. This is one I think could go either way. Truth be told I'd just be happy not to into the semi on the back of 3 defeats out of 4. So I'll take a win or a draw.
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9 minutes ago, MJC said:
I’d take that. I’d even let them have a League and Scottish Cup double if you could guarantee us winning the League Cup and getting our hands on silverware for the first time in almost 35 years.
What always pisses me off is whenever we get to a final it's the OF waiting on us (1991 excluding)
Since we last won in 1991. There have been winners who didn't face the OF.
Winners: Scottish Cup: Hearts faced Grena , St Johnstone faced Hibs, ICT faced Falkirk, Dundee Utd faced Ross County, Kilmarnock faced Falkirk. League Cup: Livingston faced Hibs, Hibs faced Kilmarnock , St Mirren faced Hearts, Aberdeen faced ICT.
If we get to the final it will be my 6th and we will have faced the OF in 5 of them.
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1 minute ago, mfc said:
Unless I've missed something and apologies if I have that was back on the 16th that the club confirmed over 7000 sold,if that's correct I'm sure we have sold a good few more since then.
Oh I didn't notice that, well maybe we will get nearer the 9000 mark🤞
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Club confirmed over 7000 tickets sold. Maybe I'm alone in thinking that's disappointing for a very winable game. I was seriously expecting nearer 9000
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2 hours ago, MFCL84 said:
Yes, we certainly will, but I expect that we will on a good grass surface. That pitch today was very slow. Every time the ball bounced it died. Terrible surface.
Correct the pace on that pitch today was ridiculously slow. Whilst not to blame for every intercepted pass it certainly played a part.
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4 hours ago, MJC said:
We’ll need to play a lot better than today if we’re going to win this one.
Looking forward to it mind you.
We will but from what I saw today Utd we're far from convincing against St Mirren and lucked out with the refs decisions.
It will be a hard hard game but if we have any aspirations we need to win games like this.
The return of Slattery is a major bonus. If we play like we can and do it over 90 mins there's no reason why we can't win.
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6 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
Probably the poorest we have played all season, so more than a bit ironic to get the 3 points.
I thought the pitch played a huge part. Despite being a brand new surface, if you dont water it, its gonna play slow and sticky. Clearly a deliberate ploy from Livvy to disrupt our rythmn, and it worked.
Too many of our key players failed to cope with it and despite still being the better team, we werent anywhere near as effective as usual.
Good to see Slattery back and his pass to Just for the winner is sublime.
Thought Walsh was very inconsistent with his decisions and let Livvy away with repeated fouling and feigning injury to disrupt the game, and the 2 offside goals are very marginal, particularly the first one, where the VAR camera angle is beyond a joke.
Big win for us. Avoid defeat on Wednesday (or even better win) and we can go into the semi final with a lot of confidence.
The pace of the ball was very slow. Commented about it several times during the game. It created a could of heart stopping moments when we played it across the back 4 . On a grass pitch some of these heart in the mouth moments don't happen.
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That's the classic "sometimes you need to win ugly" ...we were so frustrating all over the park today. However we take it and hope for better against Dundee Utd. That victory today was essential no matter how it was achieved.
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1 hour ago, robsterwood said:
We were up against a rangers team in 2005 that had bob Malcolm and Ross in side. We had O'Donnell and Scot Mcdonald but still lost 5.1. There's usually old firm bias. Budget divide is massive.
Aye but had we not had Gordon Marshall who absolutely sold the Jerseys that day the result could have been different or at least alot closer. We brought it back to 2-1 within 13 mins and had them back peddling then that big Diddy sold the Jerseys.
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14 hours ago, robsterwood said:
Semi final not massive as it's old firm in final. Would be more interesting if final was against other side. Been to last 3 finals against old firm and never even competed in the games.
The two worst Old Firm sides we'd ever face in a final....
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One things for sure this next 10 days has the potential to be the best we've had in years or the absolute worst. No one can say its boring.
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23 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
I would think that more than a few would be annoyed and rightly so. Nothing wrong with that, providing its not OTT. If they didn"t care that would be more of a concern. Usual caveats apply, of course, appalling refereeing etc
Yeah but I've already seen comments on social media like "get this tippy happy stuff to fuck, we just need to win" or "Id rather watch shite and win" granted it's only a few voices but I can see it now if we end up bottom of the league and out the cup. Fans are fickle that's why the next 3 games are extremely important. Embed the feel good factor keep the impressive uptick in attendances that's what three good results can do.
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On 10/21/2025 at 12:53 PM, robsterwood said:
No one's asking for long ball football as far I am aware. No fan criticising has advocated complete alternate approach. Most would agree we are disappointed not to have more points on board. Just need to be more direct at times in matches and more clinical up front. In addition the being more robust in defence.
Lose to Livingston you wait and see some of the fan reaction.
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For first time this season I go into a game feeling a bit pessimistic. I have been Confident in the other games. I just feel we are in a wee bit of a spiral right now. It would just be too easy to put ourselves right back on track over the next 3 games and if one thing I've learned supporting Motherwell we rarely take the straightforward route.
I think as usual we will dominate large parts of the game but still gift goals. I'm going 2-0 to Livingston. It just so Motherwell to lose to the two promoted teams in a week.
I just feel its going to get worse before it gets better from here. Fingers crossed it just post weekend blues.
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57 minutes ago, Welly Machine said:
Have to agree with respect to VAR scope.
Can't remember who said it before but I think the best way I have heard it put is in Scotland VAR is being used to find pebbles when it's boulders it should be identifying.
I just cant understand why they dont stick to the clear and obvious error. Saturdays ruled out goal was knit picking trying to find and error. That is not clear and obvious that is blatantly searching for something to cancel a goal.
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5 hours ago, wellfan said:
Yes. He’s earned all the credit he’s had so far, and I’m fully behind him. But that doesn’t make him immune to criticism. Credit where it’s due, and the same applies the other way, because he got it badly wrong at the weekend.
Don't worry lose to Livingston and the heat directed at the manager will increase quite considerably. For some we are a baw hair away from wanting the long ball shite back, as if that made us much better in the last few seasons.
Basic individual errors are costing us dearly hopefully these will lessen because in every game right now we are making some absolute howlers. We are not being beaten or losing a lead because the opposition are outplaying us. (Falkirk 2nd half excluded)
Our season could look fantastic in 4 weeks time or it could look desperate thats the fine line we are running right now.
League Cup Semi Motherwell v St Mirren 1/11/2025
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Probably wont be back on here until well after the game tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a great day. Hopefully we will get the rub of the green and we are not talking about VAR or the officials after it. Fingers crossed we actually perform how we can, we have a big audience watching and would be great to let them see what we've seen most weeks. In the event we do go behind stay with the team, they have it in them to do the unexpected.