MJC

2-0 defeat

Fair assessment from JBA post match basically saying we were second best and didn’t defend well enough. He needs to show that he and the team can learn from it though.

My mistake sorry. Yes we have won three league games. But that doesn’t change that both I mentioned were last gasp and one was down to a goalkeeper blunder. In this league to be in any way successful you have to be able to combine a degree of skill with an even bigger degree of physicality. Unfortunately for us we have a little bit of skill in the middle of the park and absolutely zero physicality so therefore we are an ineffective team.

I like him and you can see what he’s trying to do but it’s something that many before him have tried and failed to do. He won’t be here next season indeed I’ll be surprised if he lasts this one.

Sadly accurate. We’re good in the middle but ultimately ineffective as a team because we can’t win football matches. The two league games that we have managed to win have been last gasp and one of them was gifted to us by the opposition goalkeeper.

Absolutely disgraceful performance.

It was over as soon as they went 1 goal up. Our only chance today was scoring early and then adding a second to subdue them. They were always going to be too physical, too ‘streetwise’ for us.

No complaints so far. That first half sums up our season, plenty possession can’t do anything with it and we’re duly punished for it by a side who can actually put the ball in the net. This will end at least 0-3.

Club confirming 9,000 tickets sold for today. Good effort 👏

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.

Well that was satisfying in the end. Didn’t see it coming mind you at 1-0 but… Now all attention turns to Saturday evening.

Five changes tonight! McGinn, Johnny K, Hendry, RCC and Slattery all in. Big gamble there but I can see why with Saturday in mind.

You need to actually be in the final to have a chance of lifting the cup and we won’t be because we won’t get past St.Mirren.

On the subject of recalling loan players, we’ve just recalled Matty Connelly as apparently Ox has picked up an injury.

That’s true we never seem to get that slice of luck that others have got when it comes to finals and avoiding one of the Old Firm Saying that though of the list of winners you mentioned there a good few of them had to face and of course beat one of them on the way to their cup wins. St.Johnstone knocked out Rangers in the QF in 2021, ICT beat Celtic in the Semis, Dundee Utd beat Rangers in the Quarters of the Scottish Cup and St.Mirren defeated Celtic in the League Cup semis in the year they won it against Hearts in the final. A lot of our exits over the years have tended to come against non OF sides and indeed many of them have been against utter dross who we really should have beaten. The year Dundee Utd won the Scottish cup against Ross County (2010) we whimpered out against a then lower league ICT in the first hurdle. When St.Johnstone won the 2014 Scottish Cup we were embarrassed by Albion fucking Rovers in the 4th Round. And even when St.Mirren won the League Cup in 2013, while we did lose to Rangers in the 3rd Round, they were Rangers in name only, literally, as they had just reformed as a new club and playing in the lowest tier and we shat the bed despite us being unbeaten and top of the league at the time we played them. They say you need luck to win a Cup and that is true, but you need to make your own luck too and we really haven’t helped ourselves over the years.

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.

100% yes. Celtic win trophies, that’s what they do, that’s what you expect. And if any non Old Firm club is going to break that cycle on occasion and win a domestic Cup then I want to be us. Not Killie, not St.Johnstone and certainly not St.Mirren who would be there after knocking us out in a Semi Final. Apart from the fact that I can’t stand them and their odious boneheaded fans I don’t want to see them lifting silverware if we can’t do it. That said I wouldn’t begrudge Hearts winning the league this season but that doesn’t concern us really because we’re not in contention for that.

I know we’ve got Dundee Utd on Wednesday before this but I am absolutely dreading this on Saturday and think it’s got all the hallmarks of a disastrous and sickening night for us. One of those games we’ll look back on for years and shudder like Rangers in 2012, Airdrie Semi Final in mid 70s, losing to ten man Aberdeen in the QFS when the Old Firm were already out and so on. I don’t know how it will pan out obviously but I am absolutely convinced we will lose one way or another. ”Mind that St.Mirren LCSF in 2025? Jeez don’t even go there, I still have nightmares about that one” edit: And if/when we do lose then I will 100% be supporting whichever Old Firm side in the final, none of this birthday caird nonsense like Tam Cowan will inevitably come out with like “ye know whit, fair play tae St.Mirren an am delighted fur ma St.Mirren pals an a’ll be cheering them oan in the final cos that’s what fitbaawww is aw aboot. Course ah would a loved it if Motherwell had goat there but fur a wee diddy team like us just gettin tae a semi final is fantaaaastic it wis a great day oot, few beers, game a fitbaawww then oot efterwards fur a curry, which ah must add wis absolootly top notch” Not for me sorry. If we can’t win the trophy and have our day in the sun then I certainly don’t want St.Mirren to have theirs.

We’ll need to play a lot better than today if we’re going to win this one. Looking forward to it mind you.

Not anymore, although like our good friends from the other end of the M74 we have beaten Livi away 2-1 with a last gasp winner. Hopefully they draw level with us on league wins tomorrow by putting Kettlewell’s Killie pies in their place.

100% After all the plaudits for 60 minutes against Hearts, playing Rangers off the park, leading 2-1 against Killie, should have taken something from Celtic and an excellent 1st half against Falkirk, none of which ended in victory, ill gladly take an ‘ugly win’ to get maximum points.

Fucking beauty! Much needed and thoroughly deserved despite the scourge that is VAR Delighted for JBA and the players.

Disallow that one ya jobsworth wallopers!! Well in EJ!!!!!

Absolute fucking joke.

Fuck off VAR