Al B
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26 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:
Our penalty shoot out record is absolutely fucking abysmal.
Just off the top of my head we've lost to St. Mirren, Stranraer, Ross County, Hamilton, Hibs, Alloa Athletic....
The only one I actually remember us winning was when we won the cup.
So I make 1-6 unless I've forgotten some.
Won one away against Raith as well, Goram in goal.
I don't have a problem with a penalty being saved as for the most part, even a decent one is just a different guess away from being saved, but I've said for years that if you're a professional footballer and you can't stand 12 yards away from the side of a van, and hit it with a ball, that's a weeks wages.
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3 hours ago, weeyin said:
and still manage to lose two goals in the last 6 minutes for a 4 - 3 defeat.
2 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:I see Dunne played.
Jus' sayin'.....
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Just now, weeyin said:
I was thinking when I read it that it could have done with a good editor review before it was published.
Biff Martin likes this.
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Never going to complain too much about any media article that talks about us in a positive way, but that writing is absolutely horrendous.
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You're entitled to up to 20% of the capacity if you want it.
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15 hours ago, Yassin said:
Apparently he failed a drugs test during his Celtic medical and Motherwell and Celtic came up with the operation story to explain his 8 month absence. The SFA see him as a future Scotland asset so agreed to go along with it and not make the ban public.
Otherwise known as the "Michael Jordan retires from the NBA as he really wants to play baseball for a year" tactic.
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More likely this one.
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4 hours ago, steelboy said:
I just googled and the average conversion is 1 goal for 11 shots (9%).
16% is very good.
As soon as I saw you'd quoted me I was already braced for pedantry...
I'm sure you know I just picked the number 100 at random, as opposed to having actually counted chances. But then, given you actually googled it, perhaps not....
*Just by being at games you can see that our conversion rate from good chances is poor.
(*Pre-pedantry clarification - this isn't me trying to imply that you aren't at games).
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19 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:
For all you say “ lack of goals” we are the top scoring side apart from rangers and Celtic
Goals scored is a very superficial way of deciding whether your attacks are effective. By lack of goals he's obviously meaning our chances/goals conversion rate, which is absolutely shocking.
In isolation, Scoring 16 goals is great. However taking around 100 shots and only converting 16 of them, is terrible and as B_B says above, it suggests finishing and decision-making are areas that need addressing. It's an extremely inefficient way to play that you'll only get away with for so long.
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Went for Polworth, although if i was to find a criticism it would be that he's so focused on trying to find deft little passes that he overlooks some fantastic opportunities to get a shot away. Particularly in the 2nd half he had two or three chances at the edge of the box to just put the laces through the ball, but instead tried to play a little dink through. Maybe put off by his couple of wild efforts in the first half.
Great player though.
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8 minutes ago, Lobey_Dosser said:
Another positive was the goal for Long, I’m not sure why he lost his place to Cole but I think he oozes quality.
Long has had family issues the last couple of weeks.
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3 hours ago, Andy_P said:
Had Cole put the sitter away and his second had it made 2-0
You can't add them on...If he'd scored the sitter, then every single thing that came after it would have been different. The 2nd chance wouldn't even have happened.
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I don't want any of our players to play for Scotland, because Scotland are utter dugmeat and when we're trying to improve the Motherwell side i'd prefer it if our players weren't semi-regularly put on a massive downer by getting pumped by 90% of the countries on earth.
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13 hours ago, AlmostFrazzled said:
I’m his son actually. The generosity of people has brought me to tears a couple of times this week.
His funeral is on Wednesday 18th September at 10am at the Linn Crematorium.
I’m making it my target to get to the Ross County game as the big man would be furious if I missed a game at Fir Park.
Me and my mum have also sat in the Cooper for 25 years, and whilst I'm not aware of actually knowing you or your dad, I recognise him from the photos as a regular face in the stand.
I hope you make it to the County game...I lost my dad suddenly a week before the Aberdeen Scottish Cup semi at Hampden the other season, and going to that game was the best thing I could have done during that whole period.
I can also confirm that if anyone was still wondering with the benefit of hindsight where Curtis Main pulled a finish like that from, it was my da' making it happen. Apologies for misleading everyone
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All the best to you and yours.
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19 minutes ago, Yorkyred said:
He was probably off his game because his team mate in front of him was as good as sitting in the stand. I’ve got far less patience with Hylton’s “performance”.
I'm not talking about him being off his game, i'm talking about him pulling out of challenges and not putting the usual meat behind the ball in a 50/50, in the way that someone would if they were protecting a knee or an ankle or something.
For the record though I completely agree with you about Hylton on Friday.
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We commented at the game that Tait did that 3 or 4 times on Friday. We wondered if he was maybe protecting an injury or something, he really didn't look himself at all.
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3 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
Given what we have seen in our last 3 games Main and Johnson would be a big upgrade on what we have just now
Main would just be swapping one reason for not scoring goals for another.
Johnson would be as much of a waste as Scott, as it doesn't matter who's there if you don't have anyone that can deliver the ball to them in a semi-decent area.
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Choosing the tactic of having everything go though a guy playing long diagonal Pirlo/Beckham passes, and deciding Charles Dunne is going to be that guy, is like deciding you want a room full of balloons for a party and choosing Edward Scissorhands to blow them up.
What's even more stupid, is then not being able to understand why your party has no balloons.
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I still think we'll finish 4th.
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4 hours ago, steelboy said:
Bad news about Carroll.
Was it a bad tackle? I haven't bothered with any highlights.
Aye, fairly bad
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32 minutes ago, asdf1234 said:
Some bright points but majority disjointed. Felt like pre season
carroll is absolute quality I thought, especially because hylton stayed up ready for the counter
all wingers showed hints of their potential, just not much of the ball given to them.
Donnelly had a poor game and is the weakest of the three in the middle, we need a lad in there that will dictate and show for the ball and take it on the half turn, Campbell showed his potential to do that towards the end though.
‘I feel folk are a bit pessimistic after that one. Yes it wasn’t great but a bit more organisation and this team could be great. Also that pitch is a shocker
I actually agree with that part that I've put in bold. For me it was one of those days where the weather is great, the crowd is great, everyone is in a cracking mood and it feels like one of those days where the players are just going to revel in it, and then they don't. That always makes disappointment feel worse.
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Just now, Ya Bezzer! said:
The match today was better than against Dumbarton which is a real grass pitch.
Simple fact is you have to play the conditions. Its not down to the opposition to make it easier for us.
Last 15 - 20 minutes of the first half Livingston played the surface fine and were giving us the run-a-round.
We just didn't play well today and blaming the pitch is a deflection tactic. Livingston deserve some credit for executing their game plan and pretty much nullifying us for most of the match.
As I said in the post you actually quoted, i'm not blaming it for our performance. In fact i'm not even relating it to specifically our game at all. It just makes watching football matches in general, a less appealing way to spend time when it's already too expensive across the board.
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Game 30: Hearts (A) 7th March 2020
in Club Chat
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Smallest in the league, 100m x 64m
For reference, the biggest are Celtic Park, Easter Road, Ibrox, McDiarmid Park and whatever Hamilton's ground is called this week, all at 105m x 68m. Fir Park is third smallest at 100m x 68m