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I've said for a long-time that Right-back could be his best position

Its stretching it a wee bit to say that Hall and Heneghan came through our Academy surely?

Delighted with the result, and it only re-affirms what I already believed...we are in no danger of being relegated. Quite simply, we are a better team, and have better players than (at the very least) St Mirren, Dundee and Accies...over the course of the season, we'll have enough to keep us away from 11th and 12th positions. Last night, we looked a bit more energetic than usual, we had clearly been instructed to make sure we got balls into the box, and to shoot on sight, given what we all know about the St Mirren goalkeepers capabilities. St Mirren are fucking woeful, and if Dundee can get their finger out, then Paisley should be hosting Championship matches again next season (unfortunately, as I'd rather see the back of Livi or Accies). The 3-5-2 formation has been taking some amount of criticism recently, and I can understand that, but its not the formation thats the issue...its the personnel being asked to play it, AND probably more importantly, the long-ball tactic that we seem to consistently go for. Plenty of teams over the years, have had huge success with a 3-5-2 formation, us included, so its wrong to bleat on about that as if a change in formation will cure our ills (it may help, granted). Yes, we got the win, last night, but I'd rather we didn't just automatically start playing a 4-4-2 every single week, particularly not the variation we seen last night, as the diamond leaves us very exposed defensively on the flanks...the fact we have very little natural width in the squad is a big worry, almost as big a worry as not having any strikers in the squad with any real confidence in themselves. Anyway, regardless of all that, its great to get the win on a night where Accies and Dundee lost...on to Fir Park on Saturday against a team very much in the mire, hopefully another 3 points on the board.

McHugh was my man of the match, up until he got booked, then quite understandably he tailed off a wee bit. Cadden has came in for much criticism from me for a good while now, but last night he delivered...he looked to have more energy than usual, put in some wicked balls and scored a really nice goal, so he gets my man of the match. Turnbull? I'm not getting overly exited yet, I thought he gave the ball away cheaply on a few occasions, but hopefully thats something that will iron itself out

If they are having a 'dance-off' with like-minded folk from Paisley, then they can batter in as far as Im concerned...makes absolutely no odds to me

Watching the match on TV, the only noise that I could hear came from the Well Bois...they've been badly missed recently at Fir Park. One or two might fall foul of the rules and regs from time-to-time, but in the main, they are young lads trying to back the team they support...while everyone else sits on their hands and moans about them.

That was comfortably his best game in months and months and months...looked to have a bit more energy, put in a couple of cracking balls (that Main and Bowman should have made more of) and scored a good goal with his weak foot.

You don't go to games do you?

Halloween is probably my biggest bugbear of the year...I'm no Scrooge when it comes to my kids, I love Christmas, Easter, Guy Fawkes night, Pancake Fucking Tuesday and all the rest but Halloween...I fucking detest it. Either taking my kids round other folks doors in the freezing cold and/or rain, listening to their pishy jokes, door after door, while those coming to the door (if the actually come to their door) clearly cannae be fucked with it either...or even worse, being in the house, when my own door gets chapped and I need to listen to some wee street urchins own pishy jokes, while their maw and da', hang about sheepishly wishing it was all over. This year, however, I am fucking delighted about Halloween, my oldest wanted me to take him to Paisley...sorry, kid, I'd much rather wander about in the freezing cold with your brother and sister and irritate the neighbours, than subject myself to more of the drivel we have been served up this season. Win, lose or draw tomorrow night...it won't be fucking pretty.

The fact that none of the ones who have left are setting the heather on fire elsewhere tells you everything you need to know

I'm not sure if I'm in a minority of 1, here...but I literally couldn't give a fuck about the outcome of the Colts teams Cup match. I'm also pretty certain that, given the choice, Turnbull would swap a reserve match for an extended run in the 1st team, without consideration. The Colts/Reserves/21s/whatever it is called, only has one real purpose, and thats to develop players for the 1st team

I agree with that...I'm not OK, with being at this end of the table, but I've put up with it before and I'll put up with it again in the future, as we are a pretty small club in the grand scheme of things. We'll have the odd season, where we climb the table and the odd season where we'll be fighting relegation, but mostly we'll be a middling team, like Kilmarnock or St Johnstone. But, the style of play has me at the absolute end of my tether, to the point that I'm dreading going along tomorrow. I'm a seasoned-campaigner when it comes to supporting Motherwell, and no doubt I'll do it until I kick the bucket, but any neutral or lapsed fan will take one look at how we play, and run for the hills.

It says nothing of the sort.

Shows how different people see games differently...I thought Donnelly was rotten

I was really, really disappointed with our display on Wednesday night. Hearts were quicker, stronger, more physical, better organised than we were, and we just weren't at the races at all. If we had managed to sneak it into extra-time courtesy of Bowmans great goal, it would have been borderline criminal. We looked weak and vulnerable in defence with Donnelly looking like really poor, while we looked utterly clueless out wide and toothless up front. The midfield got completely bullied, with Bigi and Grimshaw in particular all over the place at times. The way Hearts dealt with us was, the way that the Old Firm usually deal with us away from home, and for me the result was a foregone conclusion as soon as Bigirimana fucked up just outside his own box. I've been a big defender of the manager, and I generally like to see football managers given the benefit of the doubt and plenty of time to work with a team and/or redeem themselves for poor results and performances, but I'm getting to the stage where I'm struggling to make a case for Robinson based on our league form since Christmas.

With Stephen Craigan having two jobs, you wouldn't think he'd have much spare time on his hands, would you?

I must say, I really enjoyed the game on Saturday, two teams committed to win the game over the course of 90minutes. Aye, the quality of play could have been more easy on the eye at times, but there is something really enjoyable about watching two sides go at it, hammer and tongs, with neither backing down an inch. McHugh was in line for my man of the match award, up until his (quite literally) hospital baw'...he was immense against that big unit up front for them. A wee lapse in concentration and we find ourselves a goal down, and a keeper out for a period of time, just highlighting the fine margins between getting points or not. I'm not an advocate of VAR, retrospective punishment, Trial by TV etc etc and I don't like the way that football has become virtually a non-contact sport, therefore I'm not going to slate their striker for a being a milli-second out on a tackle, or the referee for failing to spot it, when two players are fully committed.

In short....allow some Africans into the country, and hope that in twenty years or so, their offspring are good at the fitba

The whole 'compliance officer' thing is a load of shite

As I said after the Rangers game, we need not worry at all about relegation this season and hopefully Saturdays result proves this to the panic merchants

A lady mentioned it on one of the facebook pages yesterday...her son was a ballboy and McGregor gave him a mouthful of expletives for handing the ball to Curtis Main rather than him at some stage of the match.

There is no way that McGregor will be cited, purely because it is impossible to prove that he meant it... ...he was at it all game, slowing the proceedings down, barging into our strikers with his elbows, verbally abusing our ballboys. The man is clearly a bit of prick

As I said earlier on in the discussion, this was my first time of seeing the team this season, and on that showing I have absolutely no idea what everyone was wetting their knickers about!! All the talk beforehand was about how Peter Hartley had done Rangers team-talk for them, on the evidence of the match though it looked like Steven Gerrards cries of 'we'll be bullied by nobody' actually gave the Motherwell team a wee incentive, with Campbell, Hartley and Aldred in particular crashing into tackles and challenges from the 1st minute and Johnson and Main up front causing Goldson and Katic that many problems that they had to re-arrange their defensive shape. Johnson and Main, look like a partnership that could work, throw Bowman into the mix and we have options...I also thought Frear had a smashing cameo appearance as well. Rangers have been getting lots of plaudits for how much they have improved under Gerrard, however upon glancing at their starting XI, it looked to me like there was an obvious weakness in the middle of the park. Any team with a central midfield pairing of Halliday and Jack, cannae be that good can they? This is where I think we took our momentum from, with Campbell and Bigirimana dominating that pair for reasonable spells of the game, while Rose was there clearly to shadow Ejaria, with mixed success. A wicked deflection off Tait, who I thought had an excellent match, a moments lapse in concentration from Aldred at the 2nd and an uncharacteristic error from Carson cost us getting the 3 points, but to come away with 1 point was probably more than most would have expected given our current points total. If we can play even 50% of our league games in the manner we played yesterday, then relegation will be a word that is never spoken about this season, while top6 is a distinct possibility and probably a straight shoot-out between us and Kilmarnock.

Excellent team performance, with only switching off at the 2nd goal and Carson having a wobbler at the 3rd, being the only real criticisms. Tait, Campbell and Johnson pushed Bigirimana close for man of the match, but considering how little we have utilised him over the past 12 months, I thought it was a top class performance from him.

The snowflakes are alive and well within the Motherwell support I see... ...if this was any other team (bar Celtic), we wouldn't be having this bullshit, from an off-the-cuff quip. Rangers have turned into a Club who love to be offended, they love to be the victim, they love to have a reason to say 'see, everybody hates us'...fuck them. The media latch onto this, and before we know it we're putting out grovelling apologies to a Club whose fans have got themselves into bother umpteen times already this season, fighting and coming off second best at home and abroad...this is a Club that condones, by continually turning a blind eye to the 'special atmosphere' created home and away, glorifying in the death and destruction of all things Catholicism. This is a Club, that along with the other cunts from the East End, have consistently bled the Scottish Leagues dry, and we're apologising to them because our captain said that he laughed at the way Cardoso moaned about a broken nose? A broken fucking nose, not a life-threatening injury, not a leg-break or a decapitation...a broken nose, and while the way he put it across was clumsy, its been blown out of all proportion by the victims from Ibrox and their self-serving pals in the media, meanwhile we've got Motherwell fans wringing their hands and worrying about, what the rest of Scottish fitba' thinks of us...I've got news for you, they think we are a team of cloggers and thats down to our style of play and whether Hartley said that or not, they would still think that this morning...our fans are worrying about Steven Gerrards team talk, c'mon tae fuck really? If he needs Peter Hartley to get his team wound up and up for it, then hes in a bit of bother...our fans are worrying about the referees take on it, but its Craig Thompson and he'll fuck us over whatever the fuck we say or do, we could send the physio in to give him a massage with a happy ending before the match and he'll still give these cunts everything on Sunday. I've heard others ask, 'but what if the roles were reversed and it was a Rangers player laughing at our player for being a big fucking lassie'...my answer to that, 'the compliance officer would be giving not one single fuck'.