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Yeah it’s hard to see where goals will come from in that starting lineup but Maswanhise is always a potential threat for us.

Our ex manager Robinson’s mob beaten by Del’s Rangers with an exquisite penalty from Lawrence Shankland. The funniest thing about the whole game was Aberdeen having a late equaliser correctly ruled out by VAR for a two handed shove by Nisbet and their whinging, odious fans screaming blue murder about it.

2-1 home win. Don’t fancy us atall today.

Looks like the new away kit will be making its debut today.

I actually liked their old stadium at Love Street. Was a proper old ground and made for a great away day if going in by train. Their fans are arseholes mind you.

There probably is a degree of sarcasm with his use of “wee diddy team” but it still doesn’t look or sound good. However there was absolutely no sarcasm from him when he went straight on the radio after we’d just beaten Celtic and played them off the park and the first thing he said was “you’ve got tae wonder how long we’ll be able to keep that manager, be lucky if he’s not gone before the end of the season” or words to that effect. Nothing about the result, nothing about the performance, just doom and gloom and pouring cold water on a great night for us.

He’s a moron with a big mouth and a big platform to air his ramblings. And when he’s on national radio telling everyone that we are this cuddly wee diddy team and practically begging clubs to sign our best players then that’s the image people get of the club. Oh aye, and he also said on radio that Sam Nicholson definitely handled the ball when the rest of the footballing world was ridiculing that call and calling it out for the absolute nonsense that it was.

I don’t think so. As I’ve already said we were simply beaten over two legs by a much stronger side, there’s no shame in that. Had we got a more favourable draw we might have stood a chance of getting to the group stages but we would have been cannon fodder if we had. Hearts are a far bigger club than us with far greater resources, but they will likely be the whipping boys in the conference league group stages. It was good for the club that we got there and we certainly did give it a go this time around. It was certainly a lot better than any of our recent ‘euro tours’ which have yielded nothing but embarrassment for us. Finally, Tam Cowan comes out with that nonsense (wee diddy club)in relation to us in the domestic game and if we had managed to make it to the group stages he would be straight on his radio platform to tell all and sundry that it would only be a matter of time before AJ is poached and “come on big clubs, sign half our team” bla bla bla. But of course he cares more about his own reputation and taking photos of his fish suppers than Motherwell FC.

I thought I was being quite positive about our efforts. I acknowledged that we were beaten by a far superior side and that it was good for the club that we reached this stage. I also mentioned that I was pleased for the travelling support that they got something to cheer about with the goal to make it 1-1. Europe is not our level. It just isn’t. But the domestic game and competitions are because we stand a(n albeit outside) chance of actually going all the way and winning the entire thing. For that reason I would much rather we focused our attentions on domestic fixtures like the League cup than some ‘glamour’ Euro tie that we have no chance of winning.

If only. Unfortunately we sacrificed that. No, but European football for us is nothing more than a bonus/reward for a great league season. We’re never going to do anything of note at that level and there is no shame in that. It’s great for the fans to travel and as you say make great memories but we’re not ever going to make a scratch in that type of competition.

Can’t agree with that, it’s a level way beyond our reach. Obviously it’s good for the club and it’s a big bonus and reward for our excellent campaign last year, but our level is the domestic game.

Well beaten by a far superior side over both legs. The only concern is the (potential) injury to Longelo which we could really do without. We can now concentrate on games that really matter.

What a goal Glad the fans out there got something to shout about.

It was a good flowing move to be fair albeit we didn’t help ourselves with the defensive slip.

Embarrassment incoming. Let’s hope we don’t pick up any more injuries.

Claret shorts Love to see it. Makes the home kit look so much better.

That is undoubtedly true but unfortunately it mirrors life in general, where the minority ruin it for the majority and as the saying goes “if you fly with the crows you get shot with the crows”. There are plenty of decent, well meaning people within the ‘Bois’ but sadly there are also some thoroughly nasty and dangerous individuals who clearly have a lot of influence within the group. And they are best avoided for the average match going supporter who simply wants to support the club.

The ‘Bois’ care about the ‘Bois’ and their reputation and getting attention on social media and wider publicity. The actual reputation and potential damage their behaviour causes to the club itself is clearly way down their list of priorities in comparison. Otherwise why do they keep defying the clubs requests? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. They are Green Brigade wannabes.

Granted. But football is and always has been a sport where spectators criticise and ‘offer advice’ to professional players when they are nowhere near at the same level of those players whom they are telling how to do their job better. Social media has obviously given those type of people (me included, I admit) a much wider platform to air such ‘advice’.

That’s all fair enough and yes, maybe I am a bit of a dinosaur and completely out of touch with modern training methods. I certainly don’t have a sound knowledge on sports science and nutrition and the like. Simply put, in my opinion as a ‘tone deaf’ supporter, I think we got our priorities wrong. Those who are far more qualified than me to say otherwise will probably disagree.

I’m not taking the piss. They’re professional footballers, they are capable of playing a game three days after the last one. The problem we had with Stenhousemuir is that we dropped key players and didn’t take the tie as seriously as we should have done. If there was any game where we should have rotated the squad and played fringe players then it was the Freiburg game because we were never winning that and in the grand scheme of things the league and league cup are far more important to us.

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

Total non-event and hard to muster up any emotions after that. It’s just a pity we postponed our game at home v. Aberdeen this weekend as we could really have done with getting our season back on track after last Sunday’s debacle.

0-5 pumping.

We’re not going to win every game and any ‘Well fan with their head screwed on knows this. We are also hugely up against it when it comes to winning one of the domestic cups. However it’s the manner of our exits against opposition we have been more than capable of beating over the years that irks more than anything else. Lower league Stenhousemuir, drop eight players, lose, out the cup. Aberdeen who we have beaten three times already and are easily outperforming in the league…rotate the team, leave key players out, lose, out the cup. And there have been more examples.