Motherwell v Peterhead 15/07/2025 🏆

[stv]

3 minutes ago, weeyin said:

and most of the wee keepers add a few cm to their wiki page.

Measured while wearing long studs

[wellgirl]

8 minutes ago, stv said:

He’s wee for a keeper let’s just leave it at that

No chance 🤣 big ox is 6 feet 5 so maybe the sooner he's back in goals the better. 

[grizzlyg]

Have I logged onto a maths tutorial website by mistake? Jeez!!!

Regards

Grizzlyg 1.626 metres and 67.585kg 😅😅

[FirParkCornerExile]

A real slog tonight but we got there in the end. We tried to do the pressing game but too often the passing was slack and broke down. Peterhead kept it really tight at the back and we struggled with it . Be interested to see how we fare against teams who open out but no doubt there are still improvements needed. However if you were the guy at the back of section F in the Hunter stand who abused nearly every player you need to get a grip. Boo'd SOD onto the park , never left Euan Wilson with a name and berated Gordon most of the game. We were all feeling frustrated but fuck me you were way over the top.  

[wellgirl]

3 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Have I logged onto a maths tutorial website by mistake? Jeez!!!

Regards

Grizzlyg 1.626 metres and 67.585kg 😅😅

Well aye. This is what happens when you aren't around to crack jokes... 

[weeyin]

5 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Have I logged onto a maths tutorial website by mistake? Jeez!!!

Regards

Grizzlyg 1.626 metres and 67.585kg 😅😅

It wasn't a maths tutorial, it was mostly needed for doing the messages at Fine Fare.

[wellgirl]

Just now, weeyin said:

It wasn't maths, it was mostly needed for doing the messages at Fine Fare.

My pal used to work at Fine Fare 

[weeyin]

4 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

My pal used to work at Fine Fare 

When I was learning to drive, my mum used to make me drive her to Fine Fare on late night opening Wednesdays "for practice".

Or it might have been Gateway by then.

Back to the football - we need two new central defenders ASAP.

[wellfan]

Just home and not entirely sure what to make of that, so I’ll stick to the positives and negatives.

Positives

Watt and Fadinger look like tidy additions to the midfield.

Connelly looked fairly comfortable on his first start — barely tested, but not at fault for their goal.

Manny could be moulded into a diamond with time.

Just is a tricky wee player who I reckon will be useful in certain games.

Slattery’s cross for the goal. 

Negatives

The defence. Again. Jesus Christ.

Wilson — what on earth has happened to him?

I’m not sure how Sparrow fits into this team now.

Stama is either crap or not being used to his strengths. 

The rain.

 

[AllyMax]

2 minutes ago, weeyin said:

When I was learning to drive, my mum used to make me drive her to Fine Fare on late night opening Wednesdays "for practice".

Or it might have been Gateway by then.

Back to the football - we need two new central defenders ASAP.

If we're still going to play with wingbacks, the two in the middle are going to have to be bloody good along with the sweeperkeeper behind them.

[stv]

6 minutes ago, wellgirl said:

Well aye. This is what happens when you aren't around to crack jokes... 

The maths bit was a lot more humorous than most of your jokes tho .

[weeyin]

Just listened to JBA's post match and he mentioned AP needs better crosses to be effective.

He definitely looks more effective with the ball in front of him.

[MelvinBragg]

42 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

You'll probably know that I'm not Slattery's biggest fan but he came back last season and was pretty good.

These two games this season, garbage.  Watt wasn't very good either and when you add that to our central defensive issues that's a big hole right down the middle of the pitch. Plus there is the centre forward position, again didn't see anything convincing from the guys that played there tonight.

You aren't going to do anything at any level of football unless you sort out the spine of the team.

There were occasional good spells of forward play, the two goal scorers did well.  Maswanhise when he came on.

But there was also fairly long spells when we looked disconnected, slack play, poor passing, poor delivery,  poor set plays, laboured movement and tempo.

It was all about winning tonight but unless performances improve we are going to come a cropper in one of these matches and if we play like this against Rangers it's going to be a very bad start to the season.

Two games in, now we need to see better play.

 

Just shows you how people can see things differently. I thought Watt shows promise and played a couple of passes that with better movement ahead could have led to something. And thought Maswanhise offered little when he came on. His pace is a tfreat but seemed unwilling to try and beat his man. Goal aside, I also wasn't convinced by Longelo although I agree Fadinger shows promise. Don't think he's a winger though...

 

[wellgirl]

4 minutes ago, stv said:

The maths bit was a lot more humorous than most of your jokes tho .

It's not me that cracks the jokes to be fair..... 

[weeyin]

Maswanhise was definitely more effective on Saturday. Although, tbf, Peterhead kept a good defensive shape that kept space behind to a minimum.

[pretzel]

Baa Baa Baa Barrrrry

[well_said]

Any chance we could stick to football chat please?

[MFCL84]

On 7/13/2025 at 8:28 AM, wellfan said:

because they’re always good for conceding at least 1 or 2 soft goals. 

Yeah, and that was another one tonight, but at least we got the win (just).

[purestate]

Interesting how Watt’s performance has split opinion.  I wonder what the his expected role is. I can see him more in a deeper role initiating the play with Slatts and Faddy expected to be more dynamic in their movement.  Tonight it didn’t quite click between them. 

[weeyin]

10 minutes ago, well_said said:

Any chance we could stick to football chat please?

Do you only chat about football when you're at the game?

The mods on here are useless anyway, so doubt anything will change.

Meanwhile, we only win games this season when SOD is playing. Discuss.

[well_said]

1 minute ago, weeyin said:

Do you only chat about football when you're at the game?

The mods on here are useless anyway, so doubt anything will change.

Meanwhile, we only win games this season when SOD is playing. Discuss.

I certainly don't waste my time discussing maths theories, and it's nice of you to admit you are useless.

[SteelmaninOZ]

The gaffer said 

 

[MFCL84]

Of the new guys tonight I thought that Fadinger and Watt did well. I have high hopes for those guys as the season develops. I need to see more of Longelo, Just and Sule. Longelo had a couple of decent strikes, was keen to go forward, but wasn't tested defensively. Just has good feet, but tries to do too much at times. Sule got next to no service.

[MFCL84]

19 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Meanwhile, we only win games this season when SOD is playing. Discuss.

To give SOD credit, he did change the game a bit when he came on. He played a wicked cross into the box and rolled a nice through ball into the box (sorry, I don't recall who got on to the end of it). Unfortunately, he also sclaffed one right across field that could have been a bit more embarrassing than it was. He gave 100% when he came on, and I will always appreciate players that give their all.

[texanwellfan]

3 hours ago, MFCL84 said:

Of the new guys tonight I thought that Fadinger and Watt did well. I have high hopes for those guys as the season develops. I need to see more of Longelo, Just and Sule. Longelo had a couple of decent strikes, was keen to go forward, but wasn't tested defensively. Just has good feet, but tries to do too much at times. Sule got next to no service.

I only saw part of the first half but I like the look of Just