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McGinn was phenomenal today, played at a level I didn’t think he was capable of. He got my vote but Welsh was outstanding as well. to be fair, they all put in a tremendous shift, a few were a bit off if I thought, longello, slattery but they worked their ar5es off and I can’t complain too much.

Not long in from the game and I can’t remember watching a more enjoyable and exciting 0-0 in my life. I thought we were excellent for about 3/4 of that game. We lost our way for about 20mins in the 2nd half but we pulled it back and took control again against a difficult big tough side. id have taken a point before the match but felt a little irked at the end as we did have some good chances. I did feel we were a bit slow with changes as it was clear after 60mins a few of the players were done but a tremendous effort from all and a great crowd. and McInnes is a wee short arsed Oompa Loompa ar5ehole, clyping to security at the end about a guy in the main stand. Pathetic wee rat.

Been up for this and looking forward to it all week and I get up this morning and have that feeling of dread. Textbook Motherwell supporter

I have literally no idea what team is going out on Saturday and I think this is quite exciting rather than daunting. We don’t have a striker (in my view Hendry isn’t good enough)but we have the leagues top goalscorer and we have 7 excellent midfielders to choose from. defensively we might have Longello back but Johnny K and Sparrow did extremely well the other night and Welsh Gordon and McGinn are doing good at the moment. Jambos have a few injury doubts including max headroom so bring it on!!!

Celtic and Rangers aren’t playing until Sunday either. I know quite a number of them from both sides who regularly go along to fir park when their “big team” aren’t playing. Might swell the crowd a bit too. i actually spoke to an old duffer of a Celtic fan last week who said he’d stopped going to Celtic games altogether and goes to all the Motherwell home games now… said it was a better experience as it’s been poisonous at parkhead….. didn’t want to say to him that it’s been poisonous forever at parkhead.

Tickets bought, looking forward to it. What a difference wandering into work these days, playing lovely football, a real positive feeling about the manager, players, club in general. someone posted the starting 11 at the same time last season on Twitter and my god we have come a long way. the blip was the semi final but it’s clear there have been lessons learned from it.

I see the whole Celtic management team were there last night. Surely they must look at their central defence and think it’s criminal to have let go of Welsh. I am a little concerned that they’ll want him back in January even though I think he was meant to be here for the season. the annoying thing is their fans think he’s hopeless and they will treat him like sh1t if he does go back there. He seems have have gotten a new lease of life at fir park…. We need him to stay.

Iniesta for me……. Sorry Priestman, my mistake. The lad had a blinder. TJ was excellent too …. Totally rattled them in the first half and Welsh is the best defender we’ve had in years.

I saw that he definitely dug him out but they both ended up smiling….. I liked it

That was phenomenal….. wonderful display!! only negative point is we should have extended the lead in the 2nd half and I’m not enjoying Hendry and his constant moaning and complaining at teammates anyway, can only be happy with that and god knows what the possession stats were? Must have been close to 70% absolutely delighted for priestman and for us that we have a potentially excellent young player. This will push on slattery, Fadinger and watt as well as they’ll know there is a player to replace them if they under perform. and We need to buy Welsh, the boy has hardly put a foot wrong since joining

100%…. As I said above, it’s been brilliant so far, not to tempt fate.

Well My ghast is completely flabbered….. that was absolutely fkn outstanding…… outstanding we do not have a failure on that park, and young Priestman? I never saw that happening….. he’s strutting about there like iniesta. imagine how we’d play if we had our first team on there….. JBA….. take a bow for that selection and set up…… Jesus I think we may have a “special one” here we need another goal tho lol🤣

Personally I think Fadinger holds that midfield together but he does need rested. Be interesting to see how we look without him.

Im just hoping the plan isn’t to be heavily beaten

Totally agree, I think this is an utterly crazy line up. This will be a really tough game and that’s like a second string side. I get the need for resting players etc but this is a wholesale change. I think JBA has this all wrong tonight. Be delighted to be proved wrong so we will see. Not sure if he’s trying to be overly clever here?

What on earth does he ask for at the barbers? “A short back and gloss please” he is a danger right enough, him and Bowie will cause us problems

I know what you mean but I do think he’s been carrying an injury, I thought his movement was significantly better on Saturday. Outwith his penalties his other goals are proper strikers goals. There is a good player there, it may just be he’s not suited to our style of play and I think that’s the same for Hendry, unless it’s going to take a bit of time for strikers to get used to it? I have a feeling he’ll start tomorrow

I actually thought that Stama did well when he came on at the weekend and looked sharper and quicker than he has done? Maybe his injury that he’s been having bother with has cleared up or he’s been at a sprint coach or something but I’d play him from the start. I still think he’s a better and cleverer player than Hendry. i was glad also that he took the penalty away from Maswanhise. Showed confidence and belief that’s he’s the striker, he’s the penalty taker.

I have a feeling this will be a really good game. I’ll be going along to this looking for a win and I’d love to beat Hearts on Saturday as well seeing as their wheels are now coming off the bogey as expected. They were rank rotten today against Aberdeen and they played like a traditional McInnes side.

Just listened to King Billy Dodds giving his review of the game and it has no resemblance to anything I’ve just watched. Killie were outstanding in the 2nd half??? Apparently Maswanhise’s goal was a toe poke and goalie error, second goal “came from a corner” and a VAR penalty got us back in the game and saved us when Killie were the better side. thanks Billy….. now fk off back to new Cumnock

Great win at a horrible place. Take that every day of the week.

He also said that driving at 5mph in an area filled with prostitution was him just being a careful driver

Really solid first half again but I have a wee bit of Falkirk vibes. Be Good to see if we’ve learned our lesson from that game. as long as we start the 2nd half with the same intensity as the 1st half then I’d hope we will be ok. and to play football the way we have on that surface is phenomenal tbh. Fair play.

I know the reasons and completely get it but i do find it a tad infuriating to see just on the bench today. Clearly he’s knackered but he’s very good on these plastic park monstrosities. Hopefully he’ll get on in the 2nd half and link up well with slattery again.

I think there’s maybe an issue with him settling by the sounds of it. Although it does surprise me a bit as I watched Slanes you tube thing and Lennon had said all communication is in English between the players and management so you’d think it’d be much easier for him. I have watched Udinese a few times and they are a good side and they are a massive team, all units who are all mobile and good on the ball. Lennon still just looks (and is) a young boy. But I do agree a move back to Scotland would be backwards step. It’s a difficult one for him.