MJC

Yes that’s absolutely fair comment. And that’s why winning on Saturday was all the more satisfying because we had been on the wrong side of goalkeeper errors in those games. But looking at our team we are badly lacking up front. AP needs at least half a dozen chances before he converts one and his first touch always seems to let him down. Even RCC was guilty of a poor miss at Pittodrie the previous week before he scored his worldy. Maswanhise is our talisman and our best hope of converting opportunities if we’re being honest. It’s a frustrating one because if this team had a KvV, Moult, Bair or first spell Tony Watt then chances are we would be sitting with far more points on the board from the games played so far.

Celtic have now failed to win their last two games and they will get a hounding from their supporters and the media over the next few days. Cue the backlash on Sunday.

We were never scoring until their keeper, aided by the conditions, fumbled Johnny K’s effort into the net. I enjoyed and celebrated the win as much as the next Well fan but we definitely got lucky because up until then we didn’t look like scoring.

Ahh they’re “there for the taking” then How many times have we seen one of them lose just before they play us and our fans convince themselves we can ‘take’ them? But we never do and Sunday will be no different. For all we have been playing some good football this season, the most enjoyable in years, we only managed to register our first league win thanks to a goalkeeper blunder and a penalty kick in stoppage time. We could easily have been 2-0 down at half time and if we play like that against Celtic we will be punished. We also aren’t nearly clinical enough up front so we can forget about taking anything off Celtic. Welsh out will be a big loss at the back. We have come on a fair bit this season, but we’re not ready for Celtic.

It would certainly raise legitimate questions about why he isn’t able to feature for us (in what would be three games in a row if he isn’t involved on Sunday) yet can be picked for his National side. For now though we can assume that he is now back fit and will be in the squad for the game v. Celtic. On a side note I fucking detest international football and these breaks during a season are an absolute nuisance.

Celtic 4-0 Motherwell

#This is the day, this is the day that we win a game, that we win a game. We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it, and be glad in it# I didn’t see that ending coming but thoroughly enjoyed it. I need a post match pint after that!

This is actually torture watching us. We just look completely incapable of winning games. Even if we did manage to score we would only concede straight away knowing us.

This is exactly the type of game where Andy Considine would pop up late on to score a scrappy winner for them from a corner or free kick.

Well HT 0-0. Pretty even game so far and the usual shortfalls from us in that we just don’t look like scoring and look likely to concede whenever on the back foot. Our ever lengthening wait for a league win doesn’t look like it’s going to end today.

Tense stuff so far.

Still no Just. Team unchanged.

Sounds like any other game where the Well Bois are concerned.

You’re always going to get some absolute rockets turning out for games like this, they’re part of but not limited to, the fair weather glory hunting element of our support that don’t go near Fir Park for run of the mill games. I get the ‘special day’ aspect that a trip to Hampden for a Semi or more so a final brings and there’s nothing wrong with having a few beers before and (hopefully) afterwards, I certainly will be enjoying a few, but there’s always some who seem to see that side of the day more important than the football itself.

I was sure we would lose this one before they lost at Tannadice last night and now I am absolutely convinced of it. A lot of people getting way, way ahead of themselves about this team when we’re yet to register a league game win and have thrown away the maximum points in our last three games. The omens aren’t good either when you look at how Cup/League double headers against Aberdeen go. We’ve had plenty of them over the years and the trend is usually win one, lose one with the only exception being a 1-1 draw in February 2022 the week after we knocked them out of the Scottish Cup.

No harm to the guy, but he barely registers with me. He was here for less than half a season and moved on at the first opportunity. Obviously has a win over Rangers under his belt but even Kettlewell managed that the previous year.

Indeed, I get no satisfaction whatsoever seeing other provincial clubs doing well, it just annoys me that it isn’t us. On a completely different note, should we manage to win the league cup (a very, very tall order I know) we can do so in the knowledge that we don’t get European qualification as a result. For me personally and from what I’ve seen from your posts that is a big positive! We win a big shiny domestic trophy and we are spared the embarrassment/damp squib that the European ‘award’ would inevitably bring. Happy days eh! 🏆

So do your jokes……😜 Yeah absolutely, get this Semi Final won and look forward to a pre-Christmas league cup final.

Yes of course. Realistically it is the best draw we could have hoped for at this stage as it gives us the best chance we could have hoped for to get to the final. And as I said last night we absolutely owe St.Mirren in a Cup tie so this would be perfect time to repay that debt so hopefully we send them, Robinson and their torn-faced boneheaded supporters slithering back along the M8 with their tails between their legs. I assume that common sense will prevail in terms of allocation and we get the East Stand for this one seeing as it would make no sense whatsoever in a geographical or practical sense for both supports to cross over each other and go to the far away end?

Speak for yourself. If St.Mirren are in the final I certainly won’t be cheering them on. If we can’t have our ‘day in the sun(even though it will be mid-winter)’ then I don’t want any non OF club to have theirs.

Losing a Semi Final to St.Mirren can never just be shrugged off as water off a ducks back. It might not be Airdrie 1975(?) but it would still be a sore one to take.

Another blow to the muppets who pedal this nonsensical conspiracy that Cup draws are fixed to keep the Old Firm apart until the Final.

5.30pm on the Saturday night if the last few years are anything to go by! And there is no way the police will let the OF kick off at that time on a Saturday so I think it’s nailed on to be Sat 1st Nov. It’s a good draw but losing to St.Mirren in a Semi Final would be ten times worse than losing to one of the big two.

“Jim (Jimbo) Gannon is the messiah” ”Potentially our best manager since wee Tommy” ”Football is exquisite” ”I was telling the taxi driver last night how Ross Forbes and Paul Slane will be tearing it up for Scotland in Euro 2012” Calm down, we still haven’t won a league game yet.

1-2 defeat