MJC

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Depends how you look at it. Personally I think the bigger picture is that we've won two league games in twenty and have now been knocked out of the Cup by a lower league side. I don't care about any other side or their managers, our form is dreadful.

They went after lower league cup defeats came at the end of horrific runs of form for both of them. And Tuesday night apart our form under Kettlewell has been dismal.

Null vote. A shower of gutless shitebags led by a clueless manager.

It was always going to be a tough tie, yet we were as weak as piss throughout and were outbattled as we so often do in Cup ties. It’s just so infuriatingly predictable.

Two mistakes? There wasn’t a success in that entire team or performance tonight. It’s all well and good saying “move onto the league” but the Cup gives us our only opportunity of potentially achieving something in the game. Or at the very least giving the club and the support something of a lift and a reason to look forward. But yet again we fail miserably early on in the competition against a lower league side for the second year running. Its not acceptable.

Who cares? They’re in it, we’re not. Two years on the trot being knocked out by Championship sides at this stage of the Scottish Cup. It’s just not good enough.

Too little, too late.

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.