MJC

Hard to disagree. Penalty shootout defeat coming up here. I don’t see us having anything about us to win the game before the end of extra time and I wouldn’t trust any Motherwell team as far as I could throw them in a penalty shootout in such a big Cup tie.

It certainly is. We’re playing a struggling Championship side at home and we look completely insipid. In spite of how poor we’ve been this season, this performance is unacceptable.

He’s an excellent goalkeeper at our level. You shudder to think where we’d be had we had had to rely on Chapman being our No.1 for the second half of the season.

I said as much last weekend, he has been our best signing this season. As without him we would be in serious relegation trouble.

I don’t think anyone can argue with that. We’ve had that issue for the last four years now, with the exception of Turnbull’s excellent 3/4 season in 18/19. We need a big improvement on the recruitment front this summer.

Who’d have thought that re-signing a former player who couldn’t get into our first team almost a decade ago wouldn’t end well? It was bad enough when we were re-signing the likes of McFadden and Pearson but at least they had both made a big impact on our first team in their previous spells.

So far nowhere near enough urgency from us. We look powderpuff especially up front.

We’re not exactly blessed with attacking options so it’s to be expected I suppose. Hopefully we get this one sewn up long before we need any subs on though.

It’s nights like this that you really feel the restrictions hitting hard. A beautiful spring evening, a Scottish Cup tie at Fir Park and a very winnable game and it’s behind closed doors. As for the game itself we should have enough about us to win, but taking nothing for granted.

One of my all time favourite days following Motherwell that was. At Hampden, comfortably seeing off Aberdeen and their media chums and a brilliant atmosphere in our end. The Electric Bar was absolutely bouncing that day/night. That and the other Semi Final from that season (the Moult game) were days that are what makes the shite times supporting us feel worth it.

Stephen O’Donnell signs a new two year contract. I genuinely did not see that coming.

That’s unfortunately the way it is for us now. Even the players we bring though from our own academy, ie. Turnbull are away after not even being a regular in the first team for a whole season (or at least would have been had he not needed his op in summer 2019). Hastie was away after a brief purple patch and the likes of McKinstry was gone before a lot of the support even knew who he was. Going back to the early 2000s when we had McFadden and Pearson breaking through we at least managed to get a couple of seasons out of them before they moved on but that just doesn’t happen now which is hugely frustrating.

He’s been our best signing this season. I know he had a nightmare against Kilmarnock but overall Kelly has been solid for us. When you think that at one point we were looking at the possibility of Chapman being our No.1 for the remainder of the season then Kelly has been a massive upgrade.

My thoughts exactly, beating St.Mirren is always very satisfying.

Full time 1-0. Big win that, well done ‘Well and great to finally get a win against that mob.

SEVEN minutes???!!!

If we had a goalscorer in that team we could easily have been pushing for top six. That’s how poor the standard of the current top flight! Hopefully this is addressed in the summer as we’ve not had anyone that could adequately be described as a goal scorer since Moult left.

Mugabi on for Long. Looks like we’re going to try and hold out for 1-0.

Indeed, we’ve been awful but I’ll take us being awful if we’re lucky with it.

Potentially massive goal. Get in!!

1-1 straight away and United a goal up at Hamilton.

Good to see Gallagher starting and a surprise to see Dunne in the squad. I didn’t think we’d see him in C&A again tbh.

I think this one is a stick on draw. 1-1

From memory it’s been 3-0, 2-0, 6-0, 4-0, 4-0 in Cup games against Morton at Fir Park from about the mid 90s. History is certainly on our side in this one but that counts for nothing in reality. As long as we are professional and up for it on the day we should progress.

That’s the sort of Cup scenario where Motherwell typically fuck up. But I agree with you, we have a good chance of getting to the semis at least here. Obviously we need to take care of Morton first but realistically we should, we are a better team than them. Then if we get past them at in all likelihood play Hibs at Easter Road, we’ve shown that we can win there this season. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t fancy our chances.