MJC

No longer the last Motherwell player to score a league winner against Rangers. About time too!

I’m sure most thought the same and when they equalised today I certainly expected only one outcome. And plenty of Motherwell teams over the past two decades would have crumbled and lost at that point so huge credit to this group and the manager for never mind not losing but actually going on to get the win!

Plenty of it.

And the change kit which is much maligned by some will forever be associated with winning at Ibrox. You think the Pony all white kit and think of Owen Coyle day The fluorescent kit and Eliphas Shivute at Ibrox in a 2-2 draw and Willie Falconer covered in mud after scoring the winner at Fir Park And this seasons will be remembered for Theo Bair and Dan Casey turning Rangers over.

We certainly weren’t today, anything but. After 21 years of failing to beat Rangers in the league, almost 27 years without a league win at Ibrox and over six years since we last beat them in the LCSF I genuinely believed that we would never beat them, or Celtic, ever again. I dare say I wasn’t alone in that. But today we have and it was absolutely epic. After all the years of “they’re there for the taking” and “it’s the worst Rangers side since bla, bla, bla we’ll never have a better chance” and us always falling short plus the hard luck stories of last minute missed penalties, goals wrongly chalked off, cue the patronising and self assurance that we played well but were so unlucky etc, we have FINALLY taken three points and left them with nothing. Today was a long, long time coming and I hope that every Motherwell fan is thoroughly enjoying their night tonight.

It’s hard not to

Why not just enjoy our first league win against Rangers in over twenty years? That’s three posts you’ve made since FT and every one about me. Come on man, there’s more important things to talk about tonight surely?

That pisses all over getting beat 0-3 on agg against Panathinaikos in thr CL qualifiers.

He’s succeeded where so many before him have failed in getting a league win v.Rangers. Butcher, McCall, McGhee, Brown all failed. Results like that are what makes all the shite ones feel worth it and are the type that live long in the memory. Well done Stuart Kettlewell and the players.

I’m sure they’ll both be as delighted as every other ‘Well fan is tonight. Incidentally this is the first time since these forums came into existence, firstly as welltrust.net and then steelmenonline that a league victory over Rangers has been discussed and celebrated. A big day all round!

Absolutely! All these folk who say that beating one of the OF doesn’t matter and that’ it’s just another three points etc. Come on! Tell me that that doesn’t feel ten million times better than a win against Livi or Ross County!

Wow. Just fucking wow!

Just get VAR to fuck. An absolute scourge on football.

Just like last week great to be ahead but you just know what’s coming. Bair has come on leaps and bounds since Christmas.

For games against the OF I think we do lack bottle as a club. Regardless of who the manager is or what players we have our mentality in these games is wrong. Forget narrowly losing to Celtic in September, we still lost. Forget almost scraping a draw against Celtic last week, we didn’t, we still lost. It is over twenty years since we recorded a league victory over Rangers and our last win against them was over six years ago. It’s over eight years since we beat Celtic in any competition. I know we are not going to compete against either of them over the course of a season but it does my head in seeing other sides manage to pick up results against them here and there while we never can these days. Please don’t anyone try and raise me games from the 1990s or when it was still legal to smoke indoors to support an argument that our record against the OF isn’t as bad as I am making out. It is. It clearly is and I would give anything for that to change today, as unlikely as it is.

A point tomorrow would be tremendous. Three would be out of this world stuff. They’ll have too much for us unfortunately and we don’t have the quality or the bottle to get anything.

Not for me it isn’t.

We all would. Sadly money talks.

Fair enough I get you know.

I hope Clement and Rangers win the title this season, because that will mean that Celtic and that creepy, condescending prick of a manager of theirs won’t win it. I make no apology for that. I hope we beat them on Saturday mind you, as unlikely as that is.

They’re on a great run of form and seem rejuvenated under Philippe Clement’s management. They are well drilled, efficient and a very good team.

It’ll be another narrow defeat and a ‘brave’ performance I reckon. Most likely a 2-1 win for Big Phil’s smooth, well oiled winning machine.

That’s a potentially season defining result. It looked bleak at half time with the same old story but we grew into it and deservedly won. Again Blair Spittal shows that he is absolutely crucial to us and hopefully we can get him on an extended deal asap.

100% We aren’t good enough to sit in and let them come at us. We need to kill this off if we can.

Our player of the season without question is Blair Spittal!