MJC

Absolutely disgusted but not surprised in the slightest. Motherwell FC just cannot be trusted to win cup ties. And blame has to go to the manager today for arrogantly dropping half the first team. He’s not the first manager to do this and unless we as a club start making it crystal clear to managers then he won’t be the last. And spare me “Ach it’s only the league cup, we’ve got bigger fish to fry” because quite frankly I don’t give a toss right now. And fuck Europe while we’re at it. Unacceptable Motherwell.

This is dreadful. Yet again we don’t take a Cup tie seriously and drop half the team. I’m sick to the back teeth of us doing this.

Yes and no. We need to move on but we absolutely should not forget or stop highlighting the scandalous officiating at the end of this game.

It’s one of the only two trophys we can realistically win. That kind of outlook might work in England for the top sides but we aren’t going to win the league title and we’re never going to do anything of note in Europe. Just dismissing it as “it’s only the league cup, let’s just rest players” is an incredibly arrogant and naive take on it.

They do, but in reality they were never going to be as bad as they were last season when it certainly was our best chance of winning silverware especially with the manager and players we had. We didn’t get anywhere near it though but that’s history now. Celtic will more likely than not win the treble this season because they are the biggest club in the country, have the most money and therefore can afford players of a far higher standard than anyone else. But I still want us to go as far as we can in the domestic cups because that keeps our albeit slim chance of winning a trophy alive. I certainly don’t want to see us whimpering out in the last sixteen against Stenhousemuir.

We’re the top flight side playing against a lower league team in a Cup competition which we have reached the semi finals of in the last two seasons. We should ALWAYS be aiming to go as far as we possibly can in the domestic cups even if our chances of winning the competition is slim. But as we saw with St.Mirren last year if you are still in it you can still win it. Celtic were the favourites to win it this time last year as they always are, but had St.Mirren fielded a less than full strength side in earlier rounds and lost then they wouldn’t have won the trophy against a very much out of sorts Celtic side when they played them in the final.

Our strongest available starting 11 should play tomorrow. No excuses. We have been stung too many times in Cup ties when we’ve rotated and rested players. Tomorrow is a must win game, anything less is unacceptable.

Maswanhise wasn’t great again but Said stepped up and had his best performance in our jersey tonight and he/we got the job done. Even with our ever ridiculous catalogue of injuries we look like a side who are a genuine goal scoring striker away from being a very good and winning team. It was the one thing that we lacked last season when we were at our peak, that goal poacher type player.

Let’s not worry about that tonight, just enjoy a great win. Leave that kind of dampener talk to Tam Cowan.

That was absolutely amazing tonight. I’m not a fan of us playing in Europe but that was the best Euro game I’ve seen at Fir Park. Superb night.

0-2 defeat and an anti-climax. The big game is on Sunday against Stenhousemuir.

Dismal stuff. The only positive is that we didn’t get beat but apart from that that was an awful game and an awful performance. Nothing up front Slow and ponderous in attack Lucky to get a draw if we’re honest Big improvements needed

That was a great night and result and sets up a potentially huge night at Fir Park next week. I don’t want to tempt fate or be overly optimistic, but maybe…

1-2 loss as our Falkirk hoodoo continues.

It’s okay. I think we will lose in Europe on Thursday night.

As first games of the season go that was utterly brilliant. Not the greatest game or performance but we got it done and an excellent move and finish to clinch the win, which overall we deserved imo. After playing on Thursday night I was worried that we would perhaps run out of steam today and at times it looked like we would in the 2nd half but we picked up and did on day one what we failed to do until the last weekend of September last season.

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Delighted with this tonight. Composed and more clinical than last week and completely deserve this scoreline. Top marks AJ and the players 👍 👏

The coverage of football in this country is a disgrace all round but yes, the BBC is by far the worst of the lot. STV aren’t much better but they at least pretend to be interested in clubs outwith the Old Firm, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd.

Definitely and there is an incentive for us to get through. You’d expect Celtic to beat Dundee Utd removing the latter from the Quarters and also that Del and Rangers take care of St.Mirren so we won’t need to worry about playing them in a Cup tie in this tournament.

Happy enough with this draw though Stenhousemuir sailed through their group so it’s definitely not a gimme. Hopefully we don’t burn ourselves out in the (potential) European game on the Thursday night because this one is more important. We won’t be able to wear our new Claret away kit for this one either, which isn’t a bad thing.

Booth starts, as does Wilson. Sparrow has the captains armband Charles-Cooke on the bench

Davie Cooper is the most obvious one. Apart from him Tommy Coyne has got to be up there with our best. He was in his 30s when he signed and went on to be one of our top players of the 90s. I’d also give a shout to Michael Higdon. He was that annoying journeyman who always seemed to pop up with a goal against us for Falkirk or St.Mirren but when he came here he became a proper No.9 and we got the best out of him.

There’s no reasonable justification for why they came down on Watt for basically saying what everyone else could see. The SFA and SPFL are incompetent and more or less at the behest of one particular club so any dissenting voices need to be silenced.

And so they should. That is exactly the issue here, that both were punished for telling it like it was was utterly ridiculous. And as I’ve already said I want us to question why our player was given a straight 4 game ban while McInnes got 3 with one suspended.