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Looking a lot better organized and the tempo and style is better but we are still struggling to create chances. Fairly even half in terms of play but Kilmarnock have had better chances. Robinson and Chalmers have been really poor, 2nd half hook surely beckons unless they improve. McDonald probably our best, although his final ball decision could be better.

Lovely day in Ayrshire, lets hope it stays that way come FT.

Kilmarnock are in good form, 4 wins and a draw from the last 6 matches so I don't think we should be getting too cocky on the back of one decent display then losing the plot if we happen to lose. Kilmarnock will be the favourites on Saturday. However it would be good to see another encouraging display. I'd be happy with a point and a good performance. In fact I'd be happy with just the good performance although obviously more would be better. It's our home matches that need to become the 'must' win matches, we might even attract a few more fans to come back if we can put a string of results together there.

Even if Rooney is onside I don't see how you can possibly consider Pawlett as inactive in that position at a free kick.

Can't say he's been a failure and he's better than anyone at the club currently but when I first saw Mark Reynolds I was absolutely convinced he was a future Scotland centre half. Didn't quite live up to that early promise.

Forbes was miles ahead of anyone in our team in the cup match. Contrast Forbes passing ability with, well, any of our midfield that night.

Yes. 2 points behind Inverness.

Sounded like an exciting finale and an improvement in performance. Happy enough with a point away to Aberdeen. Hopefully we can push on now.

Well McDonald not been playing as a striker too often. Even so he's got as many goals from open play as any other player on our team this season. Moult is OK, I think he'll get goals here and there but I've yet to see him show something 'a little bit extra'.

Well done Scotty! Still our best striker IMO.

Exactly. People will go on about the defence but currently we have failed to score 2 goals in a league match 12 matches into the season, if you exclude a Frederic Frans OG for Partick. Just not good enough. We seem to have had most of the play and most of the chances and couldn't score. Think it is becoming a big, big problem, more so than the other end as our defensive record isn't too bad.

Seem to remember him scoring a cracking volley into the Davie Cooper end. Can't mind who it was against but might well have been Falkirk.

You must be pleased with Dundee Utd then. Although a bit depressing to think the only league win they've had this season was against us.

Butcher did a great job at our place. Given the circumstances he had to work in I think there is a good case for saying he was our best manager since Tommy McLean. Butcher laid the foundations of everything later managers like McGhee, Brown and McCall did and in some cases superceded them (contrast his cup record with that of McCall for instance). He also got Inverness promoted at the first attempt after relegation, no easy task, and again established them as a Premier level team, something they hadn't been up till then. As for Hibs the problems there were deep rooted and no manager since has been able to sort them out. Not saying for a moment that is record isn't blemish free but he has done well at certain clubs, including our own.

There needs to be some kind of flow chart to see what kind of fan you are.

What you've done their is reel off a list of Motherwell strikers simply because you don't like Sutton. Sutton scored more goals in one season than a lot of those guys Motherwell careers combined. Spencer? Who ripped the club off and didn't try a leg for a whole season on massive wages? Falconer? Actually quite a similar style player to Sutton but with less goals or club longevity? Blackman? Lehman? Goodman? Really? Might as well throw in Stevie Cowan, Bart Verheul and Mario Dorner in there, if that's what you really think.

Remember also that McGhee brought through our last two really good youth products - Jamie Murphy and Shaun Hutchinson.

Given that literally only a handful of players, arguably our greatest ever players (St. John, Pettigrew, Quinn, Deans, Humphries), have scored more goals than him in a Motherwell shirt in the post war era I'd suggest your ability to judge players isn't what it could be.

To be fair he's been kept out the side by maybe the player of the season so far, Steven MacLean. Since we've not managed to score two goals in a league game this season I don't think we should be crowing about our tremendous goal scoring ability and forward options.

This was a great football that I will always remember. No OF agenda, nothing particularly at stake but I think that almost makes it better. When I'm on my death bed this is probably the Motherwell game I will remember. Check out John Clark booting Dougie Arnott off the ground after the penalty award, wouldn't get away with that these days!

Because we hardly made any attempt to get out our own half, played with a 'get a 0-0' mind set even after we were 1-0 down and constantly gave the ball away. It ended 0-1 but Ripley did not have to pull off 5 or 6 great saves. He didn't even have to pull off 3 or 4. Celtic passed the ball around but we made it easy for them by giving them 70% of the pitch to play in. 2nd half when we played a bit better, Celtic looked pretty ordinary.

I think the only time was a long time ago at Ibrox, might have been the cup replay after the infamous Stevie Woods gaff. I took my seat and had two coppers standing in front of me completely blocking my view. I assumed they'd move eventually but didn't. After a while I asked them nicely if they'd move because I couldn't see anything and got the usual arrogant response that you seem to get from police every time you interact from them. Then things got a bit heated and I lost my temper after being spoken to in such away after a pretty innocuous request. Think I just ended up leaving cos we were getting gubbed and I couldn't even see anything.

Just out of interest who in that Celtic team do you think played well? Gordon had nothing to do, the back four looked suspect at the merest hint of pressure (unfortunately thats all we could manage), Commons looked overweight and unfit, Armstrong was never in the match, I didn't think Rogic had a good match and Biton went off injured. That leaves you with Brown, who played well and Ciftci who took his chance. Far from a great Celtic team I'd suggest. Even if you look at their recent form, they lost to Aberdeen, drew with Hearts and scraped a narrow win over Hamilton. Yesterday they only managed to beat a poor Motherwell side 1-0 and didn't do much in the 2nd half. You are right to say they were a class above us but I think the point is, they shouldn't have been.

Lasley had 49 league starts over McGhee's two seasons. Was in there most weeks.

Celtic put out probably the worst back four they've had in 20 years and what do we do, play the full first half in our own box with Louis Laing as a midfielder. Poor, poor stuff. I could just about see the point of it at 0-0 but as soon as we went 0-1 down it should have been changed, to not do it then, or even at half time was utterly baffling. How many Old Firm results have we had were Keith Lasley wasn't a huge part of it? To leave him out today was a strange move. Injury or being rested? Celtic dominated but I didn't think they were really that good today. For me they were there for the taking and yet there seemed to be a paucity of ambition to actually do anything other than get a 0-0. Tactically we got it wrong but the level of basic technique shown by the players today was abysmal. Can't pass, no movement, no pace, scared to put a foot in, no determination. Unfortunately I think a lot of the players that have been brought in over the last couple of seasons just aren't good enough for this level of football.