MJC

Just a matter of how many now. We are improving as a side but we’re nowhere near good enough to deal with sides who have the forward players to punish us. It doesn’t help when we give away avoidable penalties into the bargain. Big reality check for us this.

Mugabi in for Lamie today.

The one time Seedorf actually looked like a player for us.

You’re right, but it doesn’t always work like that does it? A point would be a great result today and this will be a big test for us, especially defensively.

I’m never confident going to Tynecastle. Plus they’re top of the league and have players that can punish us at the back. I could also mention that our unbeaten run is due to end and the manager of the month ‘curse’ into the bargain….but I won’t bother.

I don’t see us getting anything other than a pumping today. Not confident at all. 3-0 home win.

Aberdeen fans will always want more. They are the most deluded, arrogant, pig headed, po-faced chumps out there. They think they have a divine right to be challenging for league titles and making inroads in Europe when the reality is that they are are no more than a standard Scottish top flight side these days. Whoever takes on that job would be on a hiding to nothing.

And could GA be linked with a move to Aberdeen should that happen? Obviously purely hypothetical just now but it wouldn’t surprise me.

I think that’s just down to laziness on the part of the journalist/commentator to be honest. They don’t have much/any information on the player or anything useful or interesting to say so throw in “ex Rangers/Celtic” where that option is open to them. However as I said they also do this with other players and it’s not uncommon to hear John McGinn referred to as “former Hibs player” on occasion when playing for Scotland. As usual though folk get up in arms when one of the Old Firm are mentioned as the previous club of a particular player, even in hypothetical cases like with Kelly who hasn’t even played for Scotland yet. In his case I genuinely don’t believe that if/when that happens that he will be widely referred to as “the former Rangers goalkeeper” in the media. Edit: I don’t remember Gallagher ever being referred to as “ex Celtic player” by the media during his time with us or when he was called up by Scotland, even though he was as much of an ex Celtic player as Kelly was ex Rangers.

Did he ever actually play a match for them? It’s unlikely that the media would label him as that but even if they did it’s a pretty daft thing to get annoyed about surely? Incidentally I’m sure I heard Ian Crocker refer to SO’D as “the former Kilmarnock player” during the recent Austria v Scotland game on SKY but I didn’t let it get to me.

He was a classic example of a player getting too big for his boots after getting an International call up. He was superb for us during his first (3/4) season and thoroughly deserved his Scotland selection but his application last season for us was dreadful. He was the best defender at the club by a mile and he knew it, but in his mind he seemed to have decided he was already on to bigger and better things than us. Shades of Mark McGhee in 2007/08 after he was linked with the Scotland managers job actually.

Anymore? Lawless was never good enough for the level we play at. Not the first time round when he ended up being released after failing to break into the first team and certainly not now. Why we re-signed him is baffling and hopefully we won’t see him in C&A again.

Agreed, who he supports is irrelevant. He should be moved on as soon as possible though, simply because he isn’t good enough and should never have been re-signed in the first place.

I think people need to take the C&A tinted specs off for a bit. Watt has been excellent for us this season but he’s nowhere near a Scotland call up yet. He needs to show that he can maintain his levels of form before he’s seriously on the national side’s radar. As a Motherwell fan I’d much prefer to keep him below the radar for as long as possible and hopefully he continues to get the goals and perform for us without the distraction of playing for Scotland just now. Obviously if he continues his form then he will rightly earn the chance for a call up and if/when that happens then good luck to him, but I’m in no rush to see that happen.

I was the same. He was a journey man who’d failed to make a serious impression at any of the last few clubs he’d been at, yet he seems to have found his feet here and seems genuinely happy while playing well and scoring goals regularly. He’s also built up a bit of a rapport with the support which is absolutely brilliant to see. Yes absolutely agree with this. I don’t think he would be realistically expecting to be selected for the national side just now and from our perspective I’d much prefer that he wasn’t anywhere near that set up. I want our players 100% focussed on playing for us without distractions and we saw with our previous captain that getting into the national team can have a detrimental effect on their club form.

It’s not great to watch and I agree that we are still short in midfield options but we’ve definitely improved under GA. We are a much better coached team now than we were under Robinson and unlike this time last year we have some fight and character in the side. We would not have won that game last year under Robinson, I’m almost certain of that and it’s more likely that we would have crumbled as soon as they equalised.

Not an easy watch but delighted with the three points. Watt yet again our talisman and a cracker of a goal from Slattery. He’s been a superb signing so far.

We’ll make heavy weather of it but I think we’ll win. 1-0 with Watt scoring.

Great to see the kid doing so well and making his mark although it’s sad that we never got to see him break into our first team proper. That’s something that’s so frustrating in modern football, any talented young prospect we bring through and we’re lucky to even get half a season out of them.

Brian Kerr? Now if ever there was a wage thief in a Motherwell jersey, there’s yer man right there. A very talented player but his stinking attitude got in the way of that. The disrespect he showed us when he left was almost Mark McGhee levels.

In fairness Robinson wasn’t like that at the beginning of his reign. He was actually very upbeat and positive before games against either of the OF and our performances and occasionally our results were much better than they were toward the end of his tenure. Sadly I think a bit of the “oor great wee club” rubbed off on him as time went one. You would hope that Alexander has a stronger personality than that and won’t be as easily swayed. He certainly gives the impression that he does so hopefully he keeps us on the right track, on and off the park.

He was genuinely raging himself that night. It was absolute quality listening after all the fawning they’d done over Rodgers in the two and a half years prior to that.

Yes he’s very balanced and reasoned which makes a nice change from the likes of Derek Johnstone, Gerry McCulloch and Peter (Maguire) Martin in the past who never hid the allegiances to either side of the Old Firm. I’m not convinced about Dalziel mind you, I always got the impression that his being ‘a Motherwell fan’ was a bit of a parody on that show. He seems a decent enough guy but a bit of a dafty to be honest.

Sportsound is a disgrace for a national broadcaster. It’s basically an Aberdeen fanzine that makes no attempt to hide it. What other country has a national sports radio programme where the presenter openly refers to a particular side as “we” and along with Willie Miller would happily spend the entire show discussing them? That along with their sycophantic arselicking of Celtic from Liam McLeod in particular (it almost seems like it chokes him that he can’t refer to them as “The Champions” anymore) and that pompous wank Michael Stewart on basically any subject means it’s a show to avoid for me.

I’m sure Gordon Duncan is a Motherwell fan. And I always enjoy listening to Hugh Keevins, especially after Celtic get beat. He tells it as he sees it and a lot of their fans can’t handle it and phone in raging.