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Its the age old dilemma for a club our size. Do we try and play more football at the risk of losing more games. Or do we continue as we are playing more pragmatic, but ultimately winning football. It would be nice if we could play more football and keep winning games, but it doesnt always work out that way. Personally, I think with a few tweaks and the likes of Paton and Slattery coming back into the team we wont be far away. Until then, I think we are stuck with a Davor/Halliday double act. Not my personal preference, but it seems to be SKs.......

Im hoping that part improves when the likes of Paton, Slattery and Nicholson all return. Of course there is more we could be doing now. I really like what Ive seen of Sparrow. He has a drive and an energy going forward that none of our other midfielders have. My preference would be to play Miller in the deeper role and have Sparrow supporting the front players. But that means SK dropping either Halliday or Davor, and I dont see him doing either.

Just seen the highlights. What a save from Ox in the first half. Even better than the pen save. We have upgraded big time in the keeper department.

Another tough test at a difficult away venue. We still havent found the right formula for midfield. But if we can remain defensively resolute, Hibs defence should cough up enough mistakes to give us a chance. Going for a score draw.

Lennon Miller for me. 2 goals, coulda had the hat trick and generally our most composed player. Creditible mentions for Oxborough and Ewen Wilson.

Not our best performance today. But I felt it was solid enough first half and we were handling St Mirrens size and tactics fairly well right up until their goal. Id like to see it again to see if there were things we could have done better, but it was a lovely turn and finish from Phillips. Thought we did well to get back in it after that. Couldnt really see if it was a penalty or not. There seemed to be a tangle of bodies at the back post but couldnt really see if the claim was justified. Great finish from Miller to put it away and he took his second one well also. Second half, the game seemed to to unravel for the referee in a Collumesque kinda way. There were a number of rather bizarre decisions and bookings and the players did well not to allow things to boil over. Thought after it went to 10 aside we crafted the better of the chances and Miller and Stamatelopoulos could both have had us out of sight. Overall, a good 3 points aginst a tough opponent. Onwards and upwards to Easter Road next week......

I can only assume that its his application that is the issue. He clearly has some talent given the clubs he has been at, but he has never made it at any of them. The fact we are farming him out so quickly after giving him a 2 year deal (with a 3rd year option) is a concern. Hopefully he has been told to go and get used to the Scottish game and come back fit and ready to stake his claim in the starting 11. It would be pretty shit for him, but mostly us, if his Motherwell career is over a couple of months in.

Not sure about that. He has been blowing out his arse pretty much every game he has played so far. He is definitely getting fitter and is in much better shape than when he arrived. But whether he has 70 mins in him remains to be seen. That said, I agree we need to start him at some point and see what he has in him. If we need to take him off at half time, so be it.

Its ridiculuous that segregation doesnt include top and bottom tiers of a stand at a neutral venue. Absolutely nuts in fact. Especially when the accessible tickets appear to be that side. Given how reluctant their fans are to give the SFA any of their money, will they even sell out their allocation?

Thats a really terrible contract negotiation then on behalf of the SPFL. That essentially does the club hosting the game out of money they could have made by streaming the game direct. If all they want is the ugly sisters, fine. Pay for that and we share the revenue. But dont pretend you are interested in the other clubs and then cant be arsed actually covering the game. Where is the benefit to Motherwell and Dundee United there? Just feels like a bone Premier Sports can through their subscribers at no extra cost to themselves.

Given that its a national cup competition and Premier Sports presumably outbid other channels for the rights, the clubs really need to grow a set next year and insist they treat every game as seriously as they would if their preferred clubs were involved.

It was. Yet there were still idiots booing him from the East Stand even before he scored. I wouldnt have applauded him onto the pitch. But booing him on is just wrong after what he did for us.

This was the day my hatred of Rangers was born. I was 9 years old and my father had to carry me across the pitch to safety to avoid the missiles raining down on us. Absolutely disgraceful stuff.

A bit like SOD, Casey has been a revelation this season. Whatever they did close season has to be welcomed as both have come back looking fitter, stronger and quicker than they did last season. The big man has nailed down his place again after what by the current incarnation, was an underwhelming season last year.

This will be a good test of where we are at this season. St Mirren continue to impress, but are clearly better at home than away. Hopefully we get a bump in the crowd after Friday night. Lets keep the feelgood train on the tracks!

Happy to avoid Celtic. Not sure there is much to choose between Aberdeen and the dead club right now, so preference probably comes down to who we think has most chance of beating Celtic to provide a pathway to winning the cup. All things equal, I think the Jimmy Thelin bandwagon seems the most likely, so cant really complain. We played reasonably well against them at Hampden in the league and this time we will have a bigger support and hopefully a few more players back. We can but hope and dream. Time for new heroes!

Lots of good performances tonight. Casey and Wilson both had very good games. Robinson put in a shift again and finally got his goal. But Lennon Miller was an absolute shining light. Absolute class in everything he did and topped it off with the winning goal.

Thoroughly enjoyed that tonight. Vales injury restricted our starting lineup and as such the first half was quite predictible. We were resolute in defence, Yinited played some nice stuff without hurting us and we looked dangerous at set pieces. The goal changed things for us and I thought second half we dominated until they made their subs and Moult got his obligatory goal. We responded well though and I felt we throughly deserved the win in the end. We are still a work in progress and will be much better once we get our injured players back, but given SOD and Vale are the latest victims of the curse, who knows when that will be. Man, this whisky tastes good tonight!

Derek Watson from the Well Society has offered above......

I read it the other way around. Celtic and Rangers games have it. Ours and Aberdeens dont. https://www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/football/aberdeen-ditch-var-spartans-clash-9569061

Much as I love Moses and believe he deserves a start, Im not sure tonight is the place to try it out. Robinson does a lit of running and occupies defenders in a way I dont think Moses could. But for me, that means we should change our shape. Obviously notnhappening tonight, so will be happy if Miller is dropped back to his natural position and Vale pushed much closer to Robinson to give him some support. Not fussed whether its Tavares or Maswanhise on the other side. They are an obvious swap after 60 mins either way.

Really looking forward to this now. Really pleased the efforts of the Well Society and the Club have payed off and it looks like we are gonna have a healthy attendance for what is actually quite a big game for us. As Steelboy points out we havent had a home quarter final since 2018, so they are not things that come around all the time. Since the 2 cup finals, our cup record has been pretty poor. It would be nice to rectify that tonight and get the win that takes us back to Hampden. Its a lovely night for a game under the lights. Lets get right behind the team from the off! Up The 'Well! 🧡❤️🧡

To be fair, that particular post was more in response to Wellfans post than yours......