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We will see. Its still a work in progress with a load of new players still trying to get to know one another and get used to the new managers style/instructions. I think its great we are still unbeaten at this stage with so much obvious growth in the team still to come. Osong will offer something different when fit and if we have signed Callum Hendrie, then we at least have options and competition for places.

We definitely see this differently. The delivery from Longelo and Sparrow from very good areas was rotten pretty much all game. Maswanhise and Said not much better. If any of the numerous opportunities that presented themselves had been delivered across the 6 yard line, we might not have had to go to extra time. For me, our problems in the last 3rd are more down to poor decision making than anything else. Of course, every player can always do better, and Stama needs to do more with the limited chances he is being given, but his work rate and movement are generally fine in this system.

And the Inverness Caley (oldskool not ICT) fans who were there, as there game had been cancelled, made more noise than us! "We are The Caley 'Well" over and over and over! Think we got scudded 3-0?

Agreed. He totally shat giving their player a second yellow on the touchline when Longelo did him down the line and he sent him up in the air. It was a yellow all day long so he should have been off. Need to see the SOD penalty again but looked like a stone waller in real time.

Lots of good performances today. Thought Watt was excellent again. He is going to be the glue that holds us together this season. Fadinger decent again and got the vital goal. Stama did a power of running and led the press well. If our delivery improves he might actually get some chances to score! Just was my MOTM though. Total buzz bomb throughout and the one trying to repeatedly unpick the St Johnstone lock. He did tire towards the end of the game and I would have probably subbed sooner. Just hope it is only cramp he was suffering from and not any sort of muscle injury.

Bailey Rice injured today. Also cup tied. Hopefully puts that one to bed....

Thought we played very well again today. St Johnstone started really well but tonce we figured them out we basically dominated the ball. We do need to be better with out decision making and delivery in the final third, that way, we might allow our only striker to have some shots at goal that he can be fairly judged on! We are still a little weak at the back and gifting some unecessary chances, and a mixture of those two weaknesses could have seen us in trouble today, but we managed to keep the clean sheet and get the goal required to see us over the line, so all good. Osong didnt really show me too much today to suggest he will be the answer to our striking problems, but he was played out wide, so I will wait until we see him thru the middle before passing judgement. I did think he would be quicker than he showed however. Overall, another solid team perdormance and you can see ethe players are all having fun and buying into the managers philosophy. Most of them were absolutely burst by the end. Also nice to see young Xander McAllister get a start. Both he and Luca Ross provided a fresh energy to proceedings when they camae on. Big couple of weeks for the management team now. We clearly need some bodies in the door. Hopefully they will be of the quality required for us to have a successful season. We are so close to having a really good team.

The premise of your post is that every time we have a big crowd we are shite and lose. Its a trope on here that fly's in the face of actual facts. We played well last week at a difficult away venue and didnt lose. We did the same today and are in the next round of the cup. So maybe we need to put this nonsense to bed.

There were 950 at Paisley last week and we didnt lose. Whats the cut off point for ticket sales that guarantees defeat?

I tend to use it. Its handy and you get straight out onto the motorway after the game.....

Tommy McLean is the best in my lifetime, no doubt. Brought us up, built a great team, won us the Cup and came as close as any modern day Motherwell manager is ever likely to come to winning the league (despite finishing 3rd). Without Tommy, no way McLeish gets us to second place. Favourable mentions to Craig Brown, who despite his Judas behaviour at the end, was a very good manager at the right time, and really should have had us through to the group stages in Europe. McCall got us best of the rest 3 times and Champions League Football, but he did have a favourable budget and as others have said, was pretty shit in the cups. No one has mentioned Robbo? 2 Cup Finals in one season is pretty special and if he hadnt come up against one of the best Celtic sides in a long time (twice) he might have an even greater legacy. Worst? Has to be Malpas. The results were honking. The football was honking. Some the players he signed were honking, and he was boring as hell!

Too far away to think about. Lets get the League Cup out of the way first. Hopefully the Miller deal will be concluded and we will have a few more bodies in the door.

I think the way we are playing certainly minimises opportunities for other teams to score against us as they have to work really hard to get the ball from us and keep it long enough to do something with it. Yesterday was impressive the way we hunted down in packs and won the ball back quickly when we lost it. I do worry about our ability to score enough goals though and we do still look vulnerable from set pieces. Hopefully Stama is fit enough to start and Said doesnst suffer any negative reaction to yesterday. I think he and Maswanhise either side of Stama could create chances. Im gonna go 2-1 Motherwell.

Thought Koutroumbis was having ga very good game until he got injured. Said and Longelo are gonna be fun to watch all season. Whole midfield was great and could have given it to Fadinger, but I went for Watt. He has surprised me by how composed he is on the ball. Always available and just moves it on effortlessly. Very tidy player and very important to the way we are trying to play.

I did give him a "notable mention" 😆 Great player. 🧡❤️🧡

Very decent performance today. We kept the ball ever so well and won it back quickly when we did lose it. Led to a mostly comfortable afternoon. One loose pass back, a few dangerous corners ( one forced a great save from Ward) and a couple of shots from distance was about it for St Mirren. That said, for all our possession and nice football, our final ball was lacking and we didnt create as many clear cut chances as we should have. Didnt give St Mirren much opportunity to bully us physically, although there were still a few "timely" tackles, but the referee dealt with them adequately for the most part. We clearly still need dre-inforcements. Hopefully the next couple of weeks will see Miller move on and our squad finalised.

Totally agree. My point was that he is the best left back in my lifetime and the greatest overall player, so he deserves to be played in his correct position. Let others fight for the scraps! 😉

Just came on as a second half sub.

McCart was a very good centre half. Just not as good as Krivokapic or Martin. Id bite your hand off to have him in this current Motherwell team the way the manager wants to play. He was very good with the ball at his feet.

Keith Macrae was just before my time but my old man raived about him. Didnt he break his arm when he went to Man City?

Oooft! Very close. I think we must be a similar age! I forgot about McLaughlin. Probably the best player in our 1st Division title win. Great player!

Totally. But by the same token he isnt even in our top 3 left backs. So not for me.

On the left though.....😉

Looks like he was bored shitless by the repetitive nature and quality of the questions from journalists! We will be up against it physically against St Mirren, particularly at set pieces. I do wonder if he is likely to bring Ox back in and go with Balmer if Gordon doesnt make it.

Looking at Tams team, its clearly all guys he saw play, which is fair enough, as its always difficult to compare players of different generations. But given that Im the same age as him, I reckon either of my teams would scud his! Sieb Nijholt Krivokapic Martin Wark McFadden Lambert Russell Cooper Graham Pettigrew Randolph Corrigan McCart Craigan McKinnon McCormack POD McAllister Murphy Arnott Coyne Notable mentions to Ally Maxwell, George Burley, Shaun Hutchison, Stevie Hammell, Vic Davidson, David Turnbull, Peter Marinello, Higdon, Sutton, Moult & KVV.