MJC

At the moment yes we have more of an upward momentum than Ross County but there is a long way to go and things can change quickly. In terms of the playoff, if we finish 11th then our momentum would be downward, or so you’d think, whereas the Championship side’s momentum would be the opposite*. I’d much rather we just avoided the playoffs altogether. *And yes, I do remember that the last time we were in the playoffs we beat the Championship side 6-1 over two legs, I’m not likely to forget it. But unfortunately none of the sides we could potentially meet in a playoff this year are managed by Stuart McCall.

Quite a bold statement to make when the team currently in 11th have a game in hand over us and we are almost certainly facing back to back defeats. Plus it’s only February, there’s a long way to go yet. With the way we defend and our goalkeeper being in horrific form plus our inability to win football matches it’s seriously naive, imo, to not be worried about us being in the playoffs just now.

Can’t believe he’s still playing.

And we also threw away a 3-0 lead at Pittodrie, conceded two at Morton and can’t defend to save ourselves. If we end up in a playoff against Raith Rovers or Dundee United with them having upward momentum then we will lose over two legs, nothing surer.

Not a hope in hell we beat either of them over two legs. That’s why we simply must avoid the playoffs as that would effectively mean straight relegation with the added agony of two games to draw it out.

We did. But we won’t draw with them next week.

No. Hearts are not the same side they were when we won at Tynecastle back in early September. They are in great form, they have the best striker in Scotland and they will just have too much for us. That’s why chucking away a 3-0 lead last night was so costly because we’re now looking at back to back defeats in our next two games and the pressure on us to go to Livingston on the 28th will be cranked right up.

Not a chance we're winning this one. And yes, I do know that we won there earlier in the season but Hearts are a different animal now. They didn't even know who their manager was back then but now they've hit form and Shankland is back to his clinical best. He will run riot against our defence. As the poster who has correctly predicted the outcome of our last five games on here (draws with St.Johnstone, Killie and Aberdeen, a win over County and a defeat in Greenock) I am confidently saying that Hearts will beat us on Saturday. "Here I go, six in a row"

We will lose. That’s the only certainty from this one.

I see what you did there.

3-0 up and not winning is unacceptable. Getting pegged back as early and with all the momentum with the opposition and getting a point is a bonus. VAR is an absolute scourge on the game. That’s my summary of tonight.

Willie Miller is an arsehole. Fuck him.

Yeah. 4-3 to Aberdeen in the last minute and you’ll get Motherwell fans going “that was a great spectacle for Scottish football” and other pish like that.

Get VAR to fuck. And the same goes for Willie Miller.

4-3! Willie Miller near enough choking about that on the radio.

Kettlewell isn’t going to get sacked if/when we lose tonight. Whether you think that that’s right or wrong he is simply not going to be sacked after a loss away to Aberdeen, regardless of the context.

And, what?

Even if we score another two we’ll only concede at least another two up the other end.

As soon as they scored to make it 3-1 just after we went 3-0 up that was always going to be the case. We lost momentum straight away and our opponents know that we can’t handle pressure on our backline. It’s a case of how many Aberdeen want to score now.

And there it is. Same old weaknesses.

Vale does indeed look like a good addition so far on what we’ve seen from him.

Yes. ”it was a great game of football” ”pure entertainment” ”I’d much rather lose 5-6 and be entertained like that than win 1-0” Just some of the quotes I’ve heard about that game in ‘99.

This could finish 6-5 to Aberdeen and the trumpets in our support who still to this day look back with fondness at our last 5-6 loss to them in 1999 would be chuffed to bits. HT 2-3

Not with the way we continually leak goals unfortunately. And Kelly is fast becoming an absolute liability.

Only one winner now.