Richie

Motherwell: Carson, Tait, Hartley, Cadden, McHugh, Moult, Bowman, Rose, Dunne, Kipré, Campbell Motherwell subs: Griffiths, Hammell, Grimshaw, Bigirimana, Frear, Fisher, Tanner

Bigi is at least stripped going by the dressing room pic the Motherwell twitter has just posted.

Club have just posted the ticket office will be open until 11:30 for last min tickets.

He discussed and went into details about many things, including: Project Brave Summer Football Ticket Allocations Solidarity Payments Comparing ourselves to similar countries, rather than the EPL Various things about his role and stuff about the Semi, Louis Moult, Stephen Robinson. Really enjoyed it. Even managed to tolerate Derek Johnstone.

Alan Burrows has been on Superscoreboard all afternoon. Talking a huge amount of sense. Quite refreshing to hear us getting a fair bit of airtime as well.

That was superb. Not sure what else to say. Some effort by each and every player and they got their reward.

Pen. Ball across face of box, bowman fouled when about to tap in. ...Moulty scores

1-0 Bowman left foot into top left corner.

Brooooaaaddfooot

Heneghan to Sheff Utd now officially confirmed. Undisclosed fee.

Apparently we've signed Jamie MCart on loan

The Inside the spfl twitter account suggesting Blackburn have put in a £150k bid for Henneghan.

Lafferty still a fanny. Diving and histrionics. Spat the dummy and tried to half Kipre, who duly skinned him as alluded to above.

Tekkers from Moult

Yeah, probably mentioned on here before, but the Hearts team of the late 80's/early 90's is one of the dirtiest I can remember. Kidd, Whittaker, Black, Sandison, Mckay, Berry, Levein, McKinlay, Galloway... Then we had the Romanov era later on with all the diving, time-wasting etc (although you did want that team to topple the old firm in fainess).

1) Nothing that wasn't repeated throughout the game. 'Excessive force' in mid-air can be the only explanation.2) Commented on this at the time - Can only have been for a Professional/Deliberate foul with no attempt to play the ball

After about 10 mins I was wishing I hadn't bothered and had just gone to pub. Grim stuff. Second half much better and could have had more if it weren't for poor decision making/final balls. People may disagree, but thought we missed Frear. Seem to get further down the wing and more crosses in with him on (particularly looking at first half) Can't complain about the 3 pts though. Onwards and upwards

I'd be less than surprised if he has agreed a (pre)pre-contract somewhere, which he can sign (legitimately) in Jan.

Not sure why Jack would have his card rescinded. He motioned to head butt and it was clear violent conduct. Stokes should have been off too, but that's completely irrelevant in terms of the appeal.

Commending the Well fans' restraint in the face of extreme goading by the referee

All St Johnstone first 20 All Motherwell second 25 About 17 crosses into box ...According to the radio

Yaaaasss. About to board a flight so will miss 2nd half. Hopefully a bit more belief 2nd half.

Playing out and passing about from the back all preseason. Now route 1.

I don't think Rangers have a significantly superior team to us anymore. Only recently they have been very much humbled. Its refreshing to har Robinson say "All we hear is Rangers this, Rangers that" and then concentrate on us. There's a difference between giving the opponent respect and being aware of their dangers rather than sitting in, inviting pressure and surrendering possession. We shouldn't approach this game with any more concern than we would Aberdeen or St Johnstone. We seem to have a lot more pace in the team, in preseason have retained the ball well and look to have goals throughout the team. Should approach this with a positive mentality and as others have said, play our own game and aim for the win.