Big Stall

Finally common sense! Don't think the pitch was ever going to be the issue, but the travelling fans are. Most of the trains and buses are gubbed, roads are at a standstill and I heard this morning they are considering raising the amber warning to red - something Scotland hasn't seen before.

The transport minister is warning against travel if you are caught in the amber areas. The amber areas include Aberdeen and all the way down. If he is saying that, I'm not sure how the game can go ahead.

Doubt the cold will affect it but is there is serious snow forecast then considering where our opponents are coming from, the clubs and authorities might look to postpone

Fuck that. I want them in the final, with us either hammering them or winning with a last minute dodgy penalty! Justice!

I said on Saturday night that we were marginally less turgid against Partick than we had been against County. Small improvements. At half time lastnight I was thinking the same, still not pretty to watch but may be another little improvement from Saturday. Campbell and Main for me had been standout first half. And then…….. What a turn around in the second half. Night and day. We were pretty much camped in the St Johnstone half most of the game, we played fast, attacking football, we created chances and more often than not we were playing on the deck rather than over the top. Whatever the players discovered, lets have more of that please. Players, they were all good. Campbell was excellent. Not only was he his usual combative self, but he was driving at the opposition goal, often running with the ball and taking players on. It was great to see. Main was a constant threat and if he keeps going at this rate then no doubt there will be envious eyes on him come the summer. Kipre, solid, had a few adventurous runs going forward and unless I have been asleep for most of the season, he got a new role last night as he was taking all the shy’s on the right hand side. I’ve never really taken to big Dunne, too many mistakes in his early showings but got to say, he’s been really good the last few games. Hope he keeps it up. Not sure how Pete 6 is going to get back into that defence the way things are going……

That was far from a sparkling performance but in my opinion i thought we at least looked like we were trying to attack them which was in stark contrast to the Ross County game. Small margins i know and we were certainly not expansive and beautiful to watch today but for me, slightly less turgid than of late.

Was there ever any details announced of what percentage sell on clause we have stuck on him as part of the deal?

Cough cough.... tellt yi....

Robinson said the physio told him not to risk Cadden. Said you dont want to be playing three games in a week so soon coming back after a hamstring injury. Im not a physio but that seems reasonable to me.

Comes across as a wee dick who thinks he's a superstar. I wonder if being punted by us and now Killie will help him get a better grip of reality.

You dont half talk some amount of pish! Did you see Celtic coming in with an offer for him a few days ago? Of course not. If they are willing to do that then theres every chance we will get plenty more offers for him in the next 4 windows!

You have to admit though, that was horrific to watch tonight. I am generally pretty optimistic about Motherwell but that was brutal! First half we made no attempt to play any kind of football, it was just try and hoof it over the top to the front men and hope they got on the right side of the defender. Every one of our players was doing it so it must have been an instruction, either that or we have seriously regressed. I remember reading stats about 9/10 games into the season, we were the team who put the most crosses into the box. I think we managed 2 in the full first half. Crazy that we have 2 big strikers and we dont try and get the ball in for them to attack. I am hoping that Robinson is just trying to make us solid again and get our confidence up. Play like that for the rest of the season will be dire to watch and more worryingly, will have us closer to the bottom than we are now. Still, 3 points. Very badly needed so we will have them. Mon the 'well!

No idea what ours is like but iv been out before with a top man from an EPL club. He could access their database over an app on his phone. What he was showing me was incredible. I would imagine ours is an off the shelf solution rather than a custom build and it wont have the same resources behind it, but these things can be incredibly powerful.

Robbo really does like his big burly bruisers doesn't he! Not that I'm complaining, if he's as good as Hartley generally is, then he will certainly strengthen our team.

Well if they did, they haven't told him as he said in his interview he wants to help us get to another final.

Well to be fair, you and steelboy both earned that mirror

I think some of you are getting a bit wound up. If we signed a good player and he comes out on twitter with pictures of himself wearing claret&amber as a kid he would be an instant hit. I see what you say about not wanting to see Rangers stuff, does Murphy evem tweet often? Until the couple he posted today i barely remember his stuff popping up on my feed. Frazzie..... seriously, responding like that to Jamie Murphy you must have known what kind of a reaction you were provoking from the hordes. Rightly or wrongly, you brought that on yourself.

A guy i work with supports them. Reckons they are expecting big bids in for Hugill.

The worst bit for me about that shambles of a 2nd half was the lack of reaction from the players when the 3rd goal went in. Not a single one of them were shouting and trying to gee up their team mates. Everyone to a man looked dejected and had given up. Unaceptable!

Does the club want to gamble on not getting the half million? No. Does the king want to gamble on not getting the huge wages (supposedly a good bit bigger than what was reported). Pretty sure that would be a no as well. Hopefully he will be at the game and give us a wave with a lap at full time after a win, maybe even do the half time draw. No chance of anything else i wouldnt think.

I thought Bigi did well today. Most up for it that i've seen him play

My mates a big Rangers fan and sent me the link to their moult thread on Rangers media. Apparantly the Preston move shows he has no ambition and hes another one who has shat out the challenge!

Interesting Robinson is saying we made Moult the best offer any player has had at this club in the last 15-20years. Im assuming its best post admin contract offer. We have obviously tried our best but we cant compete with a combination of ambition, family wanting to go down south and cold hard cash. When he goes he goes with best wishes. What a player he has been for us. Certainly will make it easier for us to stomach if he is plying his trade in England rather than pulling on a Rangers/ Aberdeen shirt.

Bowman doesnt score goals. His attributes are scaring the Rangers and being a good foil for Moult. If he can't strike up a good partnership with our next main man whoever he is, then really Bowmans jersey is a empty one

I know what your saying but a couple of rounds in the cup will cover £250k as would a couple of extra league placings. Given he really is the key for us in winning more games, unless we get a crazy offer i dont personally see the benefit in letting him go for buttons. One positive thing however, we have seen how good Robinson has been at transforming the squad with 1 transfer window. Suddenly life after Moult doesnt have to be quite as bleak.