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Time to start scouring the training pics to see if he featured this week! 😍😍😍

Exactly this. We arent conceeding goals because we dont give the opposition easy ball. When a defence of SOD, Gordon, McGinn, Koutroumbis is keeping clean sheets after the evidence of last season, you have to take your hat off to the manager. Welsh & Longelo improve us playing out from the back, but they arent essential to the shape / structure, as can be seen from the consistency in performance despite squad rotation.

Aye. The boy is still a class act. Even if he left Cardiff, there would be teams with deeper pockets than us in the queue to secure his services. He is much better than a League 1 player. More the pity.....

They are but then St Mirren play a totally different style of football than we do. We saw it here with Robbo. Get the ball forward quickly into the final 3rd. Win your second balls. Pepper the box with as many crosses as you can. Get your strikers to attack said crosses. Dont get me wrong, Id love to have a striker that was contributing more in the goals for column. Would Ayunga or someone like him be that guy? Would Maswanhise score the same number of goals in their team for example?

On a serious note. With all the great publicity we are getting around the club right now regarding our football, community work and the general feelgood factor around the place we could really do without this. Block E do so much good stuff around the club with foodbanks and toydrives etc, I really dont get this kinda shit? Would be good if the group would take ownership of this and volunteer to clean up the mess or make some other form of reparation. Its ok to mess up. But when you do, own it and do the right thing.

Take Turnbull in a heartbeat. Someone who can shoot from outside the box would be a very useful addition to our team. Thats if he isnt in fact broken beyond serviceable use. I presume he is already a very rich young man and money might not be the be all and end all for him any more. Bring him home.

Not gonna revel in the fact he has lost his job. But not gonna shed a tear either. Thought he might do ok if he had learned anything from his time with us. Having spoken to a few Killie supporting mates seems he didnt. They and we move on.

Robbo should be congratulated for what he has done at St Mirren. Its a magnificent achievment. However, lets not forget he might have done the same for us if he/we hadnt come up against a Celtic team that went all season without defeat and won a treble treble....... As for Mandron. Would he have kicked on for us? I just remember his running style being akin to Moses and not much else.

Could we be that lucky? 😆

Some absolute miserable barstewards on here! Absolutely delighted that another diddy team has given one of the ugly sisters a bloody nose and won a trophy to break the monopoly. Its a victory for football and proves that such things ARE possible if the stars align. Yes, Id much rather it had been us, but Im not going to let that get in the way of something that really is a good news story. As for the hammer throwers tag? Did you watch the game? St Mirren are more direct than us and dont build the play like we do, but they still play some good stuff and I was throroughly entertained by them today, much in the same way I was entertained when Robbo got us to those 2 cup finals. Some of their fans may well also be insufferable, but loads of them are pretty decent spuds as well, maybe just not the ones that occupy social media. Id suggest maybe not interacting with those types. From a selfish point of view, it also heaps the pressure well and truly on to Nancy's shoulders and guess what, we play them in a couple weeks time!

I was okay with the starting selection to begin with as he has earned the right to prove us all wrong. But it was fairly obvious from early in the second half that we needed fresh legs and more width to counteract what United were doing, so my only beef is that the subs should have come earlier. We looked more of a threat when Longelo and Said came on. Be nice to see them start on Saturday.

Agreed. We need to be winning this. We have proved team selection isnt necessarily defining for a Jens team, but attitude will be. Come out the blocks firing with the desire to make a statement. Lets go into the tough holiday period feeling good about ourselves.

I thought Slattery gave the ball away a lot today, but he was always available to take it again and never hid. Not his best day at the office, but he was in the same boat as a number of others. Fadinger for example started very poorly, although he came onto a game and put himself about a bit defensively. I do agree though, Slattery isnt at the level he was at last season or at the start of this one. It does look as if his fitness has gone back a little bit. Not sure if thats lack of game time or lifestyle choices. Hopefully he can back to his early season levels as we go into the new year.

No real stand out today. Loads of ok performances. Coulda picked McGinn, Watt, Fadinger, Just. Went for Johnny K just because he was solid again playing out of position.

Thought the wind spoiled that today. Or at least stopped us playing our football. Loads of "nearly" passes with a lot of things just not quite coming off. I still thought we were the better team in both halves and at least tried to get the ball down and play. Thought United played for longer balls and set pieces. Good to get a 5th clean sheet on the bounce and nudge the unbeaten run upnto 9 but disappointing not to sneak it at the end. 3 points next week is a must.

As an aside, but still talking about what we want from our goalkeeper, how good would Big Sieb be in this team? 😆😆😆

This would generally be the case for most Motherwell keepers as in the past we would generally have less possession of the football and be backs to the wall at times. This side? Im not so sure. As Wellfan says, our best form of defence this season has been keeping the ball. Its a very weird feeling......

Now that we are all much more comfortable with Jensball, Im all up for more Cruyff Turns on top of our unecessary passes & dribbles! Just need to sort the striker berth to get back to having more high goal shoots! 😆😆😆

Never saw Dixie play but my auld man raved about him. I imagine if we had someone like him right now we would win the league! RIP Dixie.

No one should be abused at their place of work. And it should go without saying that no-ones family should be abused at their place of work either. However, football is an emotional game, as SK showed repeatedly on the touchline with us and on Saturday night at Kilmarnock. If you have been in the game for as long as he has, you know this, and you deal with it. I dont wish any ill on him or his family. As others have said, we have much to thank him for. But the manner in which he left did leave a bad taste in the mouth, so I wont be weeping any tears for him regarding his current travails either.

Given that you forecast a 4-1 win at the weekend I will embrace this new positivity! All aboard the Jens hype train! 😍😍😍

Need to see the highlights back. I dont recall it, so cant think that it could be that bad. The shot in the first half is a bad miss though. I know you are taught to go back across goal but its mid height and no power in it. He should have smashed it. Left or right side, matters not. The keeper got plenty time to look at it.

I would think thats likely. He has had to be patient for his minutes so far. But I really like him as a player. Hopefully he will seize the opportunity with both hands so TJ has to fight for his position when he gets back.

I think it says a lot that when we played without AP or Hendry against Hibs we didnt lose anything. We just put someone else in there to do the job and continued regardless. Albeit it was a very specific tactic to try and isolate Hanley and make sure we stopped them building anything. Again yesterday, Livvy tried something different to put us off our game, but we found a way to adjust and figured it out. The manager just continues to impress. I think we need to enjoy it while it lasts as he is clearly destined for bigger things.

Always a hard venue for us to pick up points. But Uniteds form has dropped off a fair bit, so I sense an opportunity to get something out of this and keep the run going. A point would be a good return. 3 points, and we will be making another statement. A full weeks rest and training should help. Lets do this.