grumpy Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 6 minutes ago, texanwellfan said: Well if we use that approach, the other side of the coin is our goalie making mistakes meaning we were unlucky against hearts and Killie. Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 9 minutes ago, texanwellfan said: Well if we use that approach, the other side of the coin is our goalie making mistakes meaning we were unlucky against hearts and Killie. Yes that’s absolutely fair comment. And that’s why winning on Saturday was all the more satisfying because we had been on the wrong side of goalkeeper errors in those games. But looking at our team we are badly lacking up front. AP needs at least half a dozen chances before he converts one and his first touch always seems to let him down. Even RCC was guilty of a poor miss at Pittodrie the previous week before he scored his worldy. Maswanhise is our talisman and our best hope of converting opportunities if we’re being honest. It’s a frustrating one because if this team had a KvV, Moult, Bair or first spell Tony Watt then chances are we would be sitting with far more points on the board from the games played so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yabba's Turd Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 On 10/1/2025 at 9:58 PM, wellgirl said: Not really concerned about Jens going. When he was appointed some of our fans were going - who the hell is he - how's that? I personally think he's in it for the long haul but you can disagree if you like I'm only posting this here publicly so you'll see it. Is your registered email address current? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wishielad Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 On 10/1/2025 at 8:28 AM, wellfan said: If JBA turns us into a stable, top-six possession side by the end of the season, he’ll inevitably be poached. That doesn’t mean game over though. It means we’ve built that identity, and the job is simply to bring in another manager to continue it. I trust the new Chairman to do exactly that. The trajectory is now set regardless of who’s in charge. The aim obviously isn’t winning the league every year. It’s stability, entertaining football, European qualification, and a decent cup run or two. At the meet the manager event it felt like Max Rogers is JBA's successor when the latter moves on....as he will. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 4 hours ago, MJC said: Yes that’s absolutely fair comment. And that’s why winning on Saturday was all the more satisfying because we had been on the wrong side of goalkeeper errors in those games. But looking at our team we are badly lacking up front. AP needs at least half a dozen chances before he converts one and his first touch always seems to let him down. Even RCC was guilty of a poor miss at Pittodrie the previous week before he scored his worldy. Maswanhise is our talisman and our best hope of converting opportunities if we’re being honest. It’s a frustrating one because if this team had a KvV, Moult, Bair or first spell Tony Watt then chances are we would be sitting with far more points on the board from the games played so far. Not too much we can do about it at the moment except hope things start to click and if not hopefully our defence will hold up. Welsh is helping in that respect but no use for this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 1 hour ago, Wishielad said: At the meet the manager event it felt like Max Rogers is JBA's successor when the latter moves on....as he will. No clue who Max Rogers is so I don’t know if that’s a real option or a joke that’s over my head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 26 minutes ago, texanwellfan said: No clue who Max Rogers is so I don’t know if that’s a real option or a joke that’s over my head He's our assistant manager who, in the Meet the Manager session, said he also wants to play the same style of football and has ambitions to be a manager. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 22 minutes ago, weeyin said: He's our assistant manager who, in the Meet the Manager session, said he also wants to play the same style of football and has ambitions to be a manager. I should pay more attention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 4 hours ago, texanwellfan said: I should pay more attention Call yourself a fan? 🤣🤣🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 8 hours ago, Wishielad said: At the meet the manager event it felt like Max Rogers is JBA's successor when the latter moves on....as he will. I definitely thought that whilst watching. He was hand picked by the club so isnt Jens man. Wouldnt be a huge surprise, albeit, Im always a bit warey of a no.2 being promoted to manager. I think its called Malpas Syndrome! Shame Max looks a bit like Malpas as well. Thats not gonna help my phobia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 11 hours ago, MJC said: Celtic have now failed to win their last two games and they will get a hounding from their supporters and the media over the next few days. Cue the backlash on Sunday. Celtic fans are currently hounding their board anyway due to the perceived lack of investment over the summer and their Champions League exit. The last 2 games wont have helped their mood, but its not going to have any influence on where their support is at in general. And where the support is at will have a much bigger influence on the teams performance than 2 bad results. Lets not try and pretend this Celtic team is anywhere near peak Rodgers. If we play to our best we have a very good chance in this game. Lets concentrate on that and ignore Celtic for once. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mio Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 We’ll not be losing this game, that Celtic side is becoming poorer by the week, they have a manager working his ticket out of there, they have a reliance on players who are getting too old and a fan base who are becoming even more toxic than the other lot in the other side of the city. If we can play as we can and how we did v hearts we will do fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 3 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said: I definitely thought that whilst watching. He was hand picked by the club so isnt Jens man. Wouldnt be a huge surprise, albeit, Im always a bit warey of a no.2 being promoted to manager. I think its called Malpas Syndrome! Shame Max looks a bit like Malpas as well. Thats not gonna help my phobia! Malpas's time in charge could be described as being No.2!! Ba boom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yabba's Turd Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 14 hours ago, Yabba's Turd said: I'm only posting this here publicly so you'll see it. Is your registered email address current? This is not a social request. You've made spurious allegations and we'd like to follow up with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 We will miss having Welsh at the back so it will be tough for us on Sunday. Even with Celtic below par this will most likely be our hardest test of the season so far. Even if Just is available again, he’s just recovering from injury amd probably a bit rusty. Slattery still out, so we are down by 30% on starting outfield players. Having said that, the team is still capable of putting up a good show but will it be good enough to take 1 or 3 points ? If there are no silly mistakes in defense and if we pick this week to improve on converting our chances we might just come away with a point or three! COYW!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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twistandshout1983 Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 6 hours ago, texanwellfan said: We will miss having Welsh at the back so it will be tough for us on Sunday. Even with Celtic below par this will most likely be our hardest test of the season so far. Even if Just is available again, he’s just recovering from injury amd probably a bit rusty. Slattery still out, so we are down by 30% on starting outfield players. Having said that, the team is still capable of putting up a good show but will it be good enough to take 1 or 3 points ? If there are no silly mistakes in defense and if we pick this week to improve on converting our chances we might just come away with a point or three! COYW!!!! Not having Welsh available is a blow Thought he was excellent last weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 30 minutes ago, twistandshout1983 said: Not having Welsh available is a blow Thought he was excellent last weekend It is. But we have McGinn back, so that should soften the blow a little. Id be more concerned with Balmer partnering Gordon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 43 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said: It is. But we have McGinn back, so that should soften the blow a little. Id be more concerned with Balmer partnering Gordon. Sounded like it may be more than McGinn back too, depending on late fitness assessments. If McGinn isn't ready to start, I'd be more inclined to have Johnny K, SOD, Longelo and Gordon as the back 4 rather than put in Balmer - but I'm sure JBA has already figured out what he wants, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 I’m going with ……….. Celtic 2 Motherwell 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 23 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said: Celtic fans are currently hounding their board anyway due to the perceived lack of investment over the summer and their Champions League exit. The last 2 games wont have helped their mood, but its not going to have any influence on where their support is at in general. And where the support is at will have a much bigger influence on the teams performance than 2 bad results. Let’s not try and pretend this Celtic team is anywhere near peak Rodgers. If we play to our best we have a very good chance in this game. Let’s concentrate on that and ignore Celtic for once. Heard it all before I’m afraid. ”There for the taking” ”We’ll never have a better chance” ”They’re playing shite we’re playing well” And I’ve yet to see us ‘take’ either one of the Old Firm when they’ve supposedly been there for it. Maybe if we had a goalscorer as I said like a Higdon, KvV or Moult to take the chance that you need to take when it comes we’d be in with a shout, but we simply don’t have that in our side. And at the back we are weak, even weaker without Welsh and were very lucky not to have been a couple of goals down against Aberdeen at half time last week. We would not have got away with that against Celtic, regardless of how poor they are by their standards. Too many of our fans are getting carried away with themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellsince75 Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 Im delighted to be in October and not lost a competitive game whilst playing attractive football. win/lose/draw tomorrow I'm hopeful that we give a good account of ourselves . Getting something from the game would be an excellent outcome. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 58 minutes ago, MJC said: Heard it all before I’m afraid. ”There for the taking” ”We’ll never have a better chance” ”They’re playing shite we’re playing well” And I’ve yet to see us ‘take’ either one of the Old Firm when they’ve supposedly been there for it. Maybe if we had a goalscorer as I said like a Higdon, KvV or Moult to take the chance that you need to take when it comes we’d be in with a shout, but we simply don’t have that in our side. And at the back we are weak, even weaker without Welsh and were very lucky not to have been a couple of goals down against Aberdeen at half time last week. We would not have got away with that against Celtic, regardless of how poor they are by their standards. Too many of our fans are getting carried away with themselves. We have literally beaten Rangers twice at Ibrox in the last 2 seasons with teams that were much poorer than this one, having failed to do so in the previous 27 years. We havent beaten Celtic at Parkhead for a while, but we have had a couple of creditible draws. Again with much poorer teams than this. Nobody is getting carried away here. No one is saying we are going to pump Celtic, we may well lose. But if you cant allow yourself to have just a little hope right now, Im not sure when you can. Isnt that what following a shite wee diddy club is all about? PS you do know we have scored more goals than Celtic this season, despite not having a striker like Higdon or KVV? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelvinBragg Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 18 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said: We have literally beaten Rangers twice at Ibrox in the last 2 seasons with teams that were much poorer than this one, having failed to do so in the previous 27 years. We havent beaten Celtic at Parkhead for a while, but we have had a couple of creditible draws. Again with much poorer teams than this. Nobody is getting carried away here. No one is saying we are going to pump Celtic, we may well lose. But if you cant allow yourself to have just a little hope right now, Im not sure when you can. Isnt that what following a shite wee diddy club is all about? PS you do know we have scored more goals than Celtic this season, despite not having a striker like Higdon or KVV? Don't you come round here brandishing facts. That's not what we do round here.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 16 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said: We have literally beaten Rangers twice at Ibrox in the last 2 seasons with teams that were much poorer than this one, having failed to do so in the previous 27 years. We havent beaten Celtic at Parkhead for a while, but we have had a couple of creditible draws. Again with much poorer teams than this. Nobody is getting carried away here. No one is saying we are going to pump Celtic, we may well lose. But if you cant allow yourself to have just a little hope right now, Im not sure when you can. Isnt that what following a shite wee diddy club is all about? PS you do know we have scored more goals than Celtic this season, despite not having a striker like Higdon or KVV? The first of the two wins over Rangers came completely out of the blue, nobody expected us to win that one. Celtic go into this in poor form and by the sounds of it quite a few of our fans actually think we are going to go there and beat them. That scenario never ends well. We are playing some good football this season and I’m enjoying it, that won’t change when, not if, we lose against Celtic tomorrow but we need to be much sharper in the final third if we are to make our good play properly count going forward. I’m not going down the nonsensical route of trying to kid myself and others that “games against the OF don’t matter” because of course they do. I just don’t believe that this team is capable of going to Celtic Park tomorrow and getting anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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