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There is no reason any professional defender should be pulling a player in the box. We can argue all we like about how soft it was, but there's no pen if he keeps his hands down. Naive.

No attempt to play the ball in a DOGSO situation. It was very soft, but also very stupid from Moorman. Keep. Your. Hands. Down.

I'm starting to think last year's losing Europa Cup finalists are quite good.

Joke came back to bit me. Just discovered the game is on my ESPN+ subscription.

Happy to report they sent me a voucher code for the English language broadcast just after we scored.

Freiburg < Stenhousemuir

I accidentally purchased the German language broadcast on Solidsport. Not sure if that's a good or bad omen. What's German for schadenfreude?

If you google it, there are a few highly recommended Tex Mex places! I don't know about the food, but if you like wine I'd ask the waiter what the good local vino is. You'll get some excellent, cheap booze and even better service.

I don't think we're going to sell every player we bring in after they've only been here a year.

Sounds like the opening line of a bad country & western song.

I'm not even sure what the point of the KMI Panel is given it has no authority or influence over the officials. Fair enough if the officials who actually make decisions are allowed to comment on why they made them, but that is never going to happen.

Anyone who thinks the any Motherwell season will be a straightforward progression knows nothing about football or Motherwell! For me, beating Freiburg over two legs would be a bigger upset than losing to Stenny. But we live in hope, because football can create those upsets. It's why we love the game.

Because in this day and age when all the information is discussed about sports science, load balancing, rest, recovery, nutrition, training etc. people still seem shocked when medical advice is to leave a player out the team. The days training in the morning then down to the pub (via the bookies) for a couple of pints, a fag and a game of snooker have long gone.

Away team tactics when they win the toss, surely. Rarely happens, but one or two Premiership teams did the same thing against us last season.

If we weren't required to have 3 keepers in the squad I'd be half expecting Connelly to make an appearance at centre-mid.

I still find it incredible that we have fans that judge new players on 1 or 2 first team appearances after just moving to a new country and having 4 hours of training. So not understanding everything David pointed out is not quite as surprising to me.

Not a bad shout. Darren Randolph is available as keeper too, I think. Brian Kerr might be a decent option.

Better teams than us struggle playing Euro/League games Sunday - Thursday - Sunday. That's why teams that are regular participants have deeper squads of first team quality that they can rotate. Even with a fully fit squad it would be a stretch.

Just for the record, there will never be a "none of the above" box. Feel free to not vote. Personally, after some of the pre-match chat about Connelly, I thought he strolled it. Wish the rest of them had performed to the same levels.

Obviously not equipped to play League - Conference League - League cup in the space of a week, but let the recriminations begin. Also take your pick...

If a player hadn't fully recovered from Thursday they absolutely should be rested, but we should be fielding our strongest available team.

If the favourites win every cup tie we might as well just give Celtic the trophy now and the rest of us can focus on the league.

I'd fancy us to beat Palace 3 - 0 too.

Connelly became our number two specifically because he is comfortable playing out from the back. Ox was not. I think people still blame him for the Aberdeen cup loss, but Ward gave away a couple of goals too while generally solid.

I like the fact he's brought his notes about how difficult the cup can be. Good motivation for the team talk too, no doubt.