MJC

As I said the other day, lose this and the pressure is back on him. And it is, deservedly so. A 5-0 win against a Ross County side about to sack Adams does nothing but paper over the cracks. That goes deeper than the manager I’m afraid. We as a club just don’t have the mentality for cup runs and results like tonight, Raith last year, Inverness, St.Mirren when they were in the lower leagues are just shrugged off. We are a losing club.

Another major black mark in his book tonight.

And as ever we failed.

How many times has that been said over the years? We would honestly be better just opting out of Cup ties because we are fucking hopeless at them.

Disgusted but not surprised.

We've been outbattled all night. As much as hindsight is pointless we would have been better with Holliday (70% fit or not) in midfield tonight.

We had won once in almost twenty league games and only scraped past Alloa in the last round before Tuesday night. That so many seemed to think that we had “turned a corner” after scudding a rank rotten Ross County side who had chucked it for their manager was baffling. Big, big wake up call for those folk this, or at least it should be.

That’s just us and Cup ties in a nutshell. For just about every year bar the odd few since ‘91. We’re never properly ‘up for it’.

Horrific defending and goalkeeping. Yet again we just can’t handle cross balls into our box. Bookmark this right now. We’re out.

Lucky to be level at this stage. We’re looking shaky as ever at the back.

Happy enough with Miller coming in for Halliday especially as the latter looked to have picked up an injury on Tuesday night. Great to see Miller back starting.

Suffering fuck.

To be honest, I just don’t trust Motherwell to win Cup ties. Not just this one, but any cup tie. Even if we were clear in 3rd place in the top flight and seven unbeaten I still wouldn’t trust us to win ties like tonight. We have an inbuilt loser mentality as a club and I’ve seen us blow too many opportunities in cups to ever be truly confident. Needless to say I desperately want us to win tonight. I’m not interested in a good spectacle, or the romance of the Cup or the likeliness of lower league sides beating top flight sides in Cup competitions statistically or by the balance of probabilities or any of that nonsense. Cup ties are all about winning and that’s all I am interested in.

That’s fair enough. But at the same time it’s also the decent thing to do to give our own youth players their chance rather than loans that haven’t worked previously, for whatever reason.

Which is a slap in the face to Ferrie IMO. Youngster or not he can’t offer us any less than Shaw? Surely?

Yes, plenty. Indeed the last one was just under a year ago when I watched us capitulate to Raith Rovers in Kirkcaldy. A Cup run is important to us as a club and the support, as a whole, want to see us go as far as possible and would say that that is equally as important as league form. With two wins in twenty if we lose to a lower league side in the Cup for the second season running then that will not go down well with the support.

Me, Steelboy and Yoda. 😐

It’s not a sash it’s a band. “The band Hearts Andy wore” ♥️ If we go out of the Scottish Cup to a lower league side again then the pressure will rightly be cranked up on the manager.

I have the fear big time for this one. Hopefully SK keeps the same team, if possible, but if he makes unnecessary changes and we go out then the pressure will be right back on him. I stand by my prediction of us to wear our change kit even though we don’t need to (I know, I know, commercial reasons etc) and for us to lose.

An excellent night. A much needed win and by a far bigger winning margin than anyone would have thought, but thoroughly deserved. Andy Halliday put in a great contribution until he went off, took his goal well and was solid. A great penalty from Thelonius Bair! He’s brimming with confidence And without a doubt Blair Spittal’s finest performance in our colours. A good night all round 😁

Wow! That was tremendous.

Halliday injured?

Super penalty. That’s a sign of a player full of confidence.

Good stuff so far. We’re by far the better side and deserve our 2-0 lead. This one is there for us, we need to keep at it.

Andrew WILLIAM HALLIDAY!!!!!!!! Get in there big man!!!