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I like Just too much, we should just keep him until his contract runs out.

2:25 here gives a better view of the penalty incident. Looks like he took a backhand to the nuts.

As opposed to St Mirren and Utd, Dundee have some attacking threat of late, but also look to be shipping a few. If we keep up our form and dont get complacent, we should win, but i dont see us keeping a clean sheet this time.

Took the easy route with JT for the two goals. There were plenty of options to choose from though. Slattery was very close to his best, with his interplay with the front three almost generating some goal of the season contenders if the final pass had come off. Said was really good in the first half, and Watt was back to his pre-injury self.

(Assuming we dont win it) I hope hearts win the league by 3 points after playing one more home game than the OF. A joint OF conspiracy crusade would sustain me through the summer. For us, I'm hoping we have a home game in the last week of the season so I can come home and see this team in the flesh just once. (I wouldn't go to Rangers or celtic away even if we could win the league there, and tickets would be tricky for the other games. ) For Saturday, Fadinger should be back, and you could see him coming in for any of the midfield 3. I'd hate to see Slattery dropped for inventing cheating, but Priestman would be very unlucky to miss out, and Watt just makes us much better. Other than that, I don't expect much rotation. It should be our best XI after a weeks rest. Utd wont be easy, and I can see them sitting in. We will once again give up a golden opportunity to the opposition in the first 5 mins, then after that hopefully we can settle into our game and be patient.

Thanks for sharing, I've missed having a dedicated motherwell podcast. If you ever need a gobshite to guest on the show, let me know.

There was a 2 minute var check in injury time that somehow ended with Rangers not getting a penalty.

"We dont care, we won the cup" then 50 posts each about how much they care and how rattled they are. The slattery thing has given them something to clutch onto, but I hope theyre better at clutching than Shamal George.

Other than the chance we gifted them in the first couple of mins, that was total domination. Eli Just is the one I'll miss the most.

I believe an important quality for a goalkeeper is the ability to not break your hand multiple times.

Yep, suspensions are competition specific.

I can 100% guarantee that if we win the rest of our games, we will secure a double. We won't do that, but the fact that we're seriously in the picture at this point of the season is plain silly, and out of the 4 teams in it, we have the least pressure.

Priestman and McGinn both had excellent games, and i thought Slattery was really good as well, particularly after that relatively early booking. I went with Longelo though as he was excellent defensively, nullifying Olysanya for the most part, and made some really dangerous runs with the ball throughout the game.

Adding to the above, I think the marketing of the transfer window has conditioned fans to expect something on deadline day, and to be disappointed if we dont get an announcement. Transfer speculation is a big part of being a fan, so I get it. However, if you need to sign a bunch of folk in Jan, it's usually because the first half didnt go well, and having to sign players on the last day of any window seems like bad organization and scraping the bottom of the barrel. There was similar disappointment at the end of the summer window, even though we had done significant business early so that the team could bed in (although no one could have predicted the success rate we got from that signing group). So I think some people just like announcements.

Who are you defining as our peer clubs? I assume you mean the likes Killie, St Mirren, and Falkirk? The first two brought in numbers because they're bad, and we're miles ahead of them. We have our best squad in years. Falkirk are loaning a bunch of players from England, which is a mixed bag. If you're counting the current top 5 as peer clubs, that's a different question. For us to compete with them we'll need silly money, and we dont knownif any of theor signings are any good. They were in a similar position as the other teams above, outside of hearts they all had glaring holes that needed fillers, and they all seen themselves as significantly underperformed. Our biggest concern was keeping our excellent squad together, and we did it - that's shouldn't be understated as im sure there were decent offers flying in. Id say the backup left back is where we missed out, but Johnny K has done well there, and no doubt we cluld shift SODs there of necessary. After that it looks like Luca Ross