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Is it not Saturday yet? Not sure what JBA has put in the Motherwell water supply but I’m really looking forward to this one. Heading up to dens for the first time since our cup game just before Covid. it’ll not be easy but if we play as we can we’ll win it.

Don’t even get me started on the tartan army 🤣 yes I very much look forward to young Lennon playing but I would think he’ll have a bit of a wait.

As far as I have been made aware (and as much as I think gemmill was hopeless prior to Clarke) Gemmill is playing his sides in a way Clarke wants him to play so they have continuity if the players progress to a full international. my argument is this horrible football is being installed in youngsters, hampering their development in a modern game. anyway… cest la vie

See if he’s going to set us up the way he has in the euros I think I prefer we didn’t qualify. Those two tournaments were utterly humiliating. we have decent players who can play yet he sets us up in a way that makes us absolutely eye bleeding to watch. the “he’s made us qualify for 2 tournaments argument” to me isn’t relevant, there’s never been 2 easier tournaments to qualify for with the teams we were up against and as I said, we have good players. We also should have been at a World Cup but he made an ar53 of it against Ukraine at Hampden. as you can tell, I don’t like him, I don’t like the Scotland set up eg gemmill involvement etc the whole thing needs an upgrade. I think the whole set up is damaging to young Scottish talent.

I see Lennon Miller was given a full 90 seconds to prove himself at international level last night. That Steve Clarke is an absolute dinosaur. I find it incredibly hard to watch Scotland play. Awful turgid stuff.

It’s right enough, he did come to us and trained for a couple of weeks. He was desperate to sign but was screwed about a bit by McGhee and it all broke down on transfer deadline day. I know he was very much p1ssed off about it at the time. I think if memory serves me right he went back down to Leicester who immediately punted him on loan to someone as they didn’t want him. He ended up back at Dundee and was excellent for them for a few years.

Hanley did ok tbf Dykes is a carthorse and should not be in the squad never mind playing. The boy Conway has been exceptional for Boro for about a year and should be playing. Anyway, I was disappointed with Biereth last night, I thought he was poor but I thought that Danish side were poor irrespective of their FIFA ranking.

https://x.com/snsgroup/status/1964028463154663557?s=46&t=8C9VuM5V_21MGVj9jGzzoA If we had these two and we remained injury free we’d win the league this year.

There’s quite a lot on social media from Liverpool fans talking about him too. Considering he’d played with them such a long time ago it speaks volumes of the impact he had when he arrived there. Injuries really screwed him over at Liverpool. I remember a friend of mine who knew him mentioned how he really didn’t like bill shankly which was the first time I’d heard anyone speak negatively about him. I think Bobby had got a really bad injury and was out for a long time and shankly didn’t speak to him at all after that. Would purposely ignore him if he were to walk past him. He then got him punted to Coventry? I think? without as much as a thanks and good luck. managers were mental back then.

Really sad news, a good guy and an absolutely fantastic player.

Yeah it’s just a shame. I do get it right enough. A legendary goalkeeper for Motherwell. Weird his league cup winning medal isn’t up for sale ?

https://www.mctears.co.uk:443/auction/lot/lot-1807---john-johnston-of-motherwell-fc-scottish-cup-winners-medal-and-runners-up-medal/?lot=388184&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=1796&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1 I get the man is dead etc and there is money involved but I couldn’t sell anything like this from a family member. That’ll be my Motherwell blinkers going on though. I suppose if they are sold I hope they go to a good Motherwell home.

That’d be great but I just don’t see him getting any more than 5. Happily eat my hat to be proved wrong.

https://x.com/kilmarnockfc/status/1962923478333681973?s=46&t=8C9VuM5V_21MGVj9jGzzoA Kilmarnock have an even worse (for us) camera angle for that equalising goal on Saturday. So frustrating!!!

I said “decent”, that’s somewhat down the pecking order from “great guy” “good guy” “ok guy” “he’s awrite” and then there’s “decent guy”

I was speaking to a decent Celtic fan I know this morning and he likes Welsh. Said he’s a big honest centre half who is good on the ball and is steady, he thinks he’ll do well with us.

Yeah he’d probably do fine there too. Not to be disrespectful of the position but It is the easiest position on the park imo. Any decent midfielder or defensive minded player could play there and not look that out of place.

I think we are keeping Halliday for the back up left back. He’s played there in the past and might not be the worst option.

You know what they are like though they are notoriously bad at transfer dealings. They’ll be sitting there with their biscuit tins out and lawell is like Arkwright from open all hours. (Sorry for the younger viewers, most folk over 50 will get it) he’s a big unit of a lad tho but he comes with a bit of an injury jinx. Anyway if he appears let’s hope for the best. Trust the process in the words of Russell Martin

If it was an improvement fair enough but I’m not at all convinced by Stephen Welsh. He’s a player I was always happy to see playing against us. Celtic have been trying to punt him for years and their penny pinching prevented that from happening.

We will be the invincibles this season…… and finish on 38 points

As much as Ward is decent on the deck and a potentially good No2, we need a goalie who can use his hands so I hope Ox is back. touch wood slattery is fit and the international players come back uninjured. striker is a concern for me and I still think AP is the best we have but I’m sure JBA will know more than any of us by watching them in training over the next 2 weeks to make a judgement call. a win is a must

Big solid looking side they have. Lennon isn’t a wee guy either but these guys are units. I’d imagine he’ll have to bide his time

Take that back 2-1 to udinese. Inter goal just chopped off due to VAR

Miller on the bench tonight. 2-2 at the moment. Both teams look good.