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It’s refereeing the outcome rather than the action.

Although I have sympathy for the referee in having to make a decision on what he has seen, I would say that there was no challenge and there certainly wasn’t a lunge. It would be fanciful but if you could air brush the Aberdeen player out of the video you would just see a foot kicking the ball, no deviation towards an opponent. The force of the incident was provided by the opponent not Vale. I suspect there was enough contact that the appeal will fail. The Rangers keeper got yellow carded for clearing a ball then a St Mirren player running into him. Why is there no onus on the player to protect himself? In our case the Aberdeen boy wasn’t getting the ball and his momentum caused a collision.

Fairly sure it would have been in the email sent to season ticket holders explaining that their ticket would be free.

The club provided an option to contribute the cost of a ticket to help others or alternatively to support the community trust, anyone wanting to spend their season ticket money would have done so.

Did he get a pay off, i.e. have St Johnstone effectively paid his salary this year and we are topping it up with the buttons that was reported earlier in the season.

Something like : top 2 get champions league, cup winners get Europa, third and 4th place gets Conference league, if 1st-4th win the cup then 5th gets conference league.

An early draw against County and win against Saints should see us coast over the line. If our first two games are against Hibs and Aberdeen then we may still be in a battle by the time these games are done.

https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2023/11/15/lennon-miller-signs-one-year-extension/

The rain is on, maybe postpone this one till Wednesday?

That is my concern, we receive a bit of money, we attract ‘better’ players on higher wages and this becomes the norm when the money disappears. We need to understand the lifespan of any investment and the exit strategy once the fun stops. I would rather we received some money for some American with Scottish heritage to show off to his pals for a couple of years then disappear than some investor thinking there is money to be made. I would also rather any money went into the infrastructure of the club and the stadium and leave the players on the pitch to be paid for by us punters, sponsorship etc i.e keep our running costs at a sustainable level but take advantage of the opportunity to secure our long term future.

Team in 11th play 38 + 2 across the season, if the team finishing second gets through they play 36 + 4, pretty equal. The inequality is if the team in 3rd or 4th prevails but from above they have an ‘unearned’ opportunity.

There is a 228 minute one from the 23rd, scrub that it is a Northern Irish one.

It’s the encouragement they get from the message boards

18 months or 5 hours, whatever

Go back and look at the post, this isn’t a response to you

Blaney at left (wing) back, the rest of the defence to stay the same, minimal changes.

I do wonder if we are on an upward trajectory, I may have to eat my words later but recent results have been much closer than in previous years. Not many, five, six, seven goal defeats like we were witnessing. Maybe the win will come over the next 18 months. We also seem to get no ‘luck’ in these game, sometime you need that.

They had more crosses when he went off

I thought Miller was poor right up until he wasn’t. None of the subs made an impact. Bair looked like he could do some damage in the first half. I would vote for the Miller/Spittal combo for the goal. But I can’t.

Butcher on the bench

https://x.com/motherwellfc/status/1758910801966960651?s=61&t=PGc8UcmdT5aDdco-qWkrFw

Where did we beat Livingston?

I don’t expect a CB on the assumption that those we have will return from injury, oversubscribed there.

They are e-tickets I would expect you to be able to buy them once you have parked the car.

I think the Ibrox play off game would make it two in total.