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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.

Again, I don’t see anything in Del’s comments that were anything different to what any of our fans or indeed anyone outwith Celtic were saying at the time. It was disgusting and there is not a snowballs chance in hell VAR and Beaton give that decision to us up the other end in the final seconds of injury time. That award took away a massive advantage that Hearts would have had going into the final game of the season and handed it directly to Celtic who ended up profiting from it when they won the league. As Hearts boss at the time and hearing of that incident and in the heat of the moment it was perfectly understandable that McInnes was angry, indeed he had every right to be. And that’s before you take into account O’Neill’s wee phone chat with Collum about refereeing at the start of May. Had it been us in Hearts position on the penultimate game of the season and Jens had said exactly what McInnes said then would anyone on here or in our support have a problem with it? Would they hell as like! I get people don’t want to be seen siding with the now Rangers manager, but it’s important not to lose sight of the real issue here. That Celtic were handed the league by a disgraceful decision given against us by an incompetent VAR and a referee who is too scared to give anything against Celtic due to previous grief he’s had from them and their supporters. And yet despite that and the fact that their supporters invaded our park in their hundreds and the game ended with them all on the park on the Wednesday night and they then did the same in their thousands on the Saturday they completely escape punishment for it? Indeed the only ones punished were the ones who called it out including one of our players.

God, have we ever won a game where the Bois have done a march to the stadium? You’re absolutely allowed to criticise them, I’m not a fan of them myself. I think you can guarantee that there will be flares aplenty tonight because that group clearly care more about their own image than the club itself.

Well technically he got a four match ban with one suspended and I don’t think what he said was that much worse, he said it was “disgusting” which is more or less what every Motherwell fan was saying about the decision. However I would like to see us as a club asking why he was served a four with one suspended whilst our player was given a straight four game ban. The fact that Watt is no longer our player is irrelevant, it was handed down to him whilst he was and he was perfectly within his rights to question such a ridiculous decision.

It’ll probably be the opposite of when we have a white/non claret away kit. We’ll wear it against sides who we wouldn’t normally change against ie. Hibs away where I fully expect it to debut a week on Sunday. Against the sides we would usually have the away kit on such as Aberdeen and Hearts we will wear our home kit when we visit them. And then there’s the anniversary blue kit which will probably get a run out against Dundee Utd. Having seen it up close in the shop this morning it is a nice jersey, but I feel it would go better with the white shorts of the home kit and likewise the home jersey would suit the claret away shorts.

Each to their own. Personally speaking as a passionate supporter who wants nothing but the best for the club then I do feel embarrassment when we get bad results. Maybe I just care more than you

The usual Euro non-event/embarrasment for us at Fir Park. 0-1

If it’s anything like the 2018/19 effort then we’ll be wearing it in every away game apart from Hearts and Aberdeen. It’s not too bad having had a better look at it and the outline around the badge is smart. It’s similar to the 02/03 Untouchables kit which I personally loved at the time but no Claret away kit will ever come close to the mid 90s classic by Pony.