MJC

Just Blew(it) Again

No one has said anything of the sort. They are though saying that Ward has been culpable for conceding goals two weeks in a row now which have cost us points.

This is already shaping up to be a season of “what might have been” even at this early stage.

Can’t win Won’t win.

Unless we get at least a point from this then my point stands. Even then a draw, at home, when we’re still seeking our first win, with an international break coming up followed by a trip to Dundee after that isn’t the best result.

Well potentially a big goal there. But a long way to go and so far we have shown no signs that we can win this.

Game over. We’re not coming back from this. After all that waxing lyrical about “60 brilliant minutes” against Hearts last week which Tam Cowan described earlier as the “best football he’d seen Motherwell play in 50 years” (whilst discounting the fact that we absolutely capitulated in the last 30 and were lucky to escape with a draw) this was always going to happen. As it stands we are four league games into the season and don’t have a win to our name. Big reality check for folk who were coming out with “how long will be able to keep JBA for”? in the last week.

Your posts always come across as similar to a film critic reviewing a new release rather than a football fan who enjoys going to support their team. ”It was a fairly low budget production which delivered the standard of film you would expect, wasn’t brilliant but it certainly wasn’t terrible either. The way the audience reacted to it was a disgrace, but not surprising. Totally ungrateful and lacking basic understanding of the movie industry and the online reviews only reinforces this. It has to be said that so many cinema goers really are deplorable people with no common sense whatsoever. At the end of the day it was well written and credit goes to the producer…Graham Alexander.”

The ‘co-efficient’ of the national game means nothing to me and although I know others will disagree I don’t see how it benefits us as a club to have other Scottish sides doing well in Europe and thus generating more money. It has the opposite effect in my opinion. My concern in football is Motherwell FC and how we can prosper and succeed as a club and as I’ve said time and again, the ultimate achievement for us would be to win one of the domestic Cups. After that then playing good football and finishing as high up in the league table as possible is what I want to see. I fully accept that both of those scenarios are tall orders but I just want us to aspire to be the best we can be. If we get ‘Europe’ as a result of finishing 3rd or 4th or winning the Scottish Cup then I would view that as merely an added bonus.

In fairness he was hardly going to say “ya I’ve heard that this Stuart guy was a bit of a wank and he said some shit about the fans when he left so we hope we can create more misery for him on Saturday”. But in all seriousness he does come across very well and very professional. Let’s just hope we can get our first league win with him in charge under our belts on Saturday.

The closer this gets the more I’m envisaging us losing and Kettlewell away back down the M77 all smug and self satisfied.

That’s a good question and something we’ve been stung with in the past by having our managers working without a set out contract ie. Gannon, Craig Brown. I don’t think we need to worry about Rangers moving for JBA if/when Martin gets the boot but it’s something worth taking into consideration especially seeing as it was never made public (to my knowledge anyway) if or what contract our manager is on.

Definitely a missed opportunity. Just like Tynecastle last Saturday. As I said the other week, Rangers are rank rotten and will drop plenty of points this season.

Yeah I get that and like you I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far this season. But we need that first win badly. The reason I brought up the Gannon time is because that is the last time there was this overall excitement about the place early in the season which was based on, dare I say it, more than we’ve seen this season, and some of the talk about how good we would be was wild. And it all fell apart very quickly. I’m not saying JBA is anything remotely like Gannon but it is still very early days and regardless of improved performances we still haven’t managed to win a game yet. So, I’m not getting carried away.

Exactly. Talk of top six finishes and silverware when we’re yet to register a league game victory is absolutely wild. It actually reminds me to an extent of the early days of the Jim Gannon era when you had people talking about Gannon being a ‘Visionary messiah’ and us splitting the Old Firm and Ross Forbes and Paul Slane (yes Ross Forbes and Paul Slane!!!) being future Scotland mainstays because we scudded an Albanian ‘pub team’ 8-1 in the EL Qualifiers…..And we all know how that turned out…on all of those fronts. There are grounds for optimism so far but that’s all it is and until we start showing that we can win football matches in this league then it won’t go much further than that.

Well we did manage to shut St.Mirren out so we’ve got a clean sheet in us. Both us and Killie have identical records in that we’ve both drawn our first three games of the season so another draw here is most likely. If there is a winner though I don’t see it being us unfortunately.

Another draw. 0-0

Well fortunately I don’t bet money on football so…🤷‍♂️

I certainly didn’t see us being as comfortable against Hearts at Tynecastle as we were for the first hour or so today. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. In the end though we were holding on for a draw and it really wouldn’t have been much of a surprise if Hearts had nicked it at the death so I don’t think my prediction of a defeat was too far off.

Correct. A perfect summary of where we currently are.

It’s night and day. We actually look like we want to play football and win games instead of conceding possession and hoping to nick something from a set piece. There are promising signs, no question about that. However, we bottled it today. We’re bad enough with 2-0 leads usually but today we get a third and we still don’t win. I’m sorry but to me that’s bottling it. That said, there are encouraging signs going forward and I’m not as disheartened as I would normally be at us conceding a 3-0 lead to only draw.

A huge setback and no getting away from but that but certainly not a disaster either. A point at Tynecastle is always a good result when the dust settles. We just need that first win on the board.

No arguments there and again we have shown some really promising stuff, the type of which was never evident under our previous three managers. You can see what JBA is doing and he is building a competitive team which we need to hope comes good, but as I said we need to make that count by turning draws into wins. It’s early days though still. To take a step back, looking at our opening fixtures…Rangers(H), St.Mirren and Heats(A) to come through that unbeaten is commendable. However as I said context is important with draws and I’m afraid 3-0 up with 20 to go and end up hanging on for a point isn’t good enough. Next week at home against Kilmarnock is crucial, we NEED to pick up all three points.

Well before the game you’d snap the arm off anyone who offers you a draw at Tynecastle against an in form Hearts side. But context is everything with draws. Regardless of what was another very good first half performance and a strong start to the second half we have thrown away a 3-0 lead with less than twenty minutes left and that is totally and utterly unacceptable, as well as being completely unprofessional. So it’s two points dropped rather than a point gained and as I said earlier it was a classic Motherwell bottle job. We are now in the position of being three league games into the season and have no wins to our name. We even needed extra time against St.Johnstone last week to secure League Cup progression. Today should ring alarm bells loud and clear to anyone who thinks this team is capable of top six this season, because until we actually manage to win football matches then that is pie in the sky. Not good enough Motherwell.

Classic Motherwell bottle job. Pathetic.