Aberdeen v Motherwell 07/02/2026 cup

[Wellsince1976]

7 hours ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Not for me , for the simple reason we tumbled to Gardiner after 3 seasons and 78 games.  Calamity Woods was with us for 9 years and double the amount of games and most certainly double the amount of fuck ups.

I can`t remember the Gardiner fcuk up, but I certainly remember Woods gifting Rangers a late Scottish Cup equaliser at Fir Park, which took the tie back to Greyskull which they won.

 

[MJC]

16 hours ago, Spiderpig said:

If its not us, who gives a feck who wins i know i dont.

That’s nice to know dear.

But I care.

Okay?

Artichoke. Cholmondeley. Pedigree CHUM.

I care.

[MJC]

9 hours ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

It wouldn't surprise me. You don't need to be good to win a cup as both Aberdeen and St Mirren have proved.

Seeing the draw only reinforces my belief that St.Mirren will go all the way.

One of the OF won’t be in the Semis, Hearts and Hibs are already gone, ourselves or Aberdeen won’t be there and they have a perfect draw which they will almost certainly win, so that’s them in the Semis Finals.

As for us, if we get past Aberdeen then that’s a tough one. We’ve fallen to Championship sides away from home twice in the past few years and Dunfermline will rightly fancy themselves in that tie with a big home crowd and Neil Lennon knows how to win big games.

I think it’ll be academic anyway as I don’t think we’ll beat Aberdeen.

[FirParkCornerExile]

4 hours ago, Wellsince1976 said:

I can`t remember the Gardiner fcuk up, but I certainly remember Woods gifting Rangers a late Scottish Cup equaliser at Fir Park, which took the tie back to Greyskull which they won.

 

Two of my Favourite Stevie Woods efforts 

 

Playing at Home to Killie in a relegation battle . Their keeper boots it long, Phillibin (I think ) sees it going long leaves it for the Keeper Woods comes out the ball bounces between them goes over Stevie's head into the net.

Another in our relegation struggles in the dying minutes, he goes to boot the ball long and belts it off Billy Dodds arse and the ball ends up in the net ...

And the Rangers one is stuff of legend.

[MJC]

I’ll never forgive Woods for that Rangers mistake. It was ridiculous and unavoidable at so many levels.

[grizzlyg]

4 minutes ago, MJC said:

I’ll never forgive Woods for that Rangers mistake. It was ridiculous and unavoidable at so many levels.

Also add the cup tie in 1995 when for first time in his career he raced off his line by about 20 yards and got chipped

[weeyin]

Every player makes mistakes. It's just that when you're a keeper, they lead to goals more often.

When you're a Moult or a Higdon, your mistakes also cost goals at the other end, but people tend to forget those.

[Fergie79]

44 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Every player makes mistakes. It's just that when you're a keeper, they lead to goals more often.

When you're a Moult or a Higdon, your mistakes also cost goals at the other end, but people tend to forget those.

Coyne away in Dortmund is the sorest striker miss that immediately comes to mind.

[joewarkfanclub]

7 minutes ago, Fergie79 said:

Coyne away in Dortmund is the sorest striker miss that immediately comes to mind.

Aye. An uncharacteristic miss from The Cobra.

Gordons save from Moult in the 2017 League Cup Final is up there.

Not really a miss as such, as it was good hit/save, but if it had gone in, it could well have changed the dynamic of that game.

[claretband]

I’ll never forgive Woods for that Rangers mistake. It was ridiculous and unavoidable at so many levels.

Bit like when you fart in a lift??


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[weeyin]

4 hours ago, MJC said:

I’ll never forgive Woods for that Rangers mistake. It was ridiculous and unavoidable at so many levels.

Good job you're not our current manager who likes the environment to be a "safe space" (to use KBA's own words) where players aren't afraid to make mistakes.

[well_said]

5 hours ago, weeyin said:

Every player makes mistakes. It's just that when you're a keeper, they lead to goals more often.

When you're a Moult or a Higdon, your mistakes also cost goals at the other end, but people tend to forget those.

Aye , but higdon and moult didn't have the advantage of using their hands or not for stevie woods. Only goalie ive ever seen that played with his hands in his pockets. Useless prick.

[0Neils40yarder]

6 hours ago, MJC said:

I’ll never forgive Woods for that Rangers mistake. It was ridiculous and unavoidable at so many levels.

For being pretty shite, hes done alright has Stevie

[weeyin]

22 minutes ago, well_said said:

Aye , but higdon and moult didn't have the advantage of using their hands or not for stevie woods. Only goalie ive ever seen that played with his hands in his pockets. Useless prick.

They did have the advantage of using the feet they trained kicking a ball with since the age of 5.

[MJC]

37 minutes ago, 0Neils40yarder said:

For being pretty shite, hes done alright has Stevie

The top goalkeeper coach in the country. He wouldn’t have lasted as long as he had at Celtic if he wasn’t pretty decent at coaching.

But sometimes those who are great coaches weren’t the greatest players and Stevie Woods falls into that category. 

He was here for the best part of a decade under numerous managers yet never made the No.1 spot his own. He continually made the same unforced errors like getting beat at his near post, coming for cross balls and completely missing them and his dreadful judgement and kicking led to various cheap goals conceded. The one against Rangers was the most high profile one but it was just another in a long, long line of clangers as he had plenty before it and would go on to make plenty more after it.

And that is why Stevie Woods is right up there on the lists of many Motherwell fans worst ever goalkeeper.

[0Neils40yarder]

11 minutes ago, MJC said:

The top goalkeeper coach in the country. He wouldn’t have lasted as long as he had at Celtic if he wasn’t pretty decent at coaching.

But sometimes those who are great coaches weren’t the greatest players and Stevie Woods falls into that category. 

He was here for the best part of a decade under numerous managers yet never made the No.1 spot his own. He continually made the same unforced errors like getting beat at his near post, coming for cross balls and completely missing them and his dreadful judgement and kicking led to various cheap goals conceded. The one against Rangers was the most high profile one but it was just another in a long, long line of clangers as he had plenty before it and would go on to make plenty more after it.

And that is why Stevie Woods is right up there on the lists of many Motherwell fans worst ever goalkeeper.

He was shite...but we've had much, much worse 

[MJC]

31 minutes ago, 0Neils40yarder said:

He was shite...but we've had much, much worse 

We have. But the length of time Woods was here sways it for me. Nine years, never first choice, kept turning up like a bad penny and making the same errors time and again.

An example of much worse would be Jordan Archer. But he made only a handful of appearances with the last being an absolutely horrific display against Accies. After which he left and was never seen or heard of again.

With Woods he would pop up again and again after the first choice goalkeeper left or was out injured and would remind the support just how much of a bombscare he truly was. Had he established himself as our undisputed first choice goalkeeper and been solid and reliable for the remainder of his time with us then the howler against Rangers in 1998 would have been largely overlooked as one of those unfortunate isolated moments, similar to the aforementioned Tommy Coyne miss. 
 

But that’s now how it panned out with us and Stevie Woods.

What I would say for him though is that he found his ‘calling’ or his ‘forte’ when he moved into coaching. Some things are just meant to work out a certain way and for Stevie Woods it was clearly coaching as he has shown for many years now that that is what he is clearly best at. He’s worked with and coached top goalkeepers like Craig Gordon, Fraser Forster, Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel. And they all speak highly of him as a coach.

[well_said]

1 hour ago, 0Neils40yarder said:

For being pretty shite, hes done alright has Stevie

It must be easier to tell goalies what to do than actually be a competent goalkeeper.

[well_said]

9 minutes ago, MJC said:

We have. But the length of time Woods was here sways it for me. Nine years, never first choice, kept turning up like a bad penny and making the same errors time and again.

An example of much worse would be Jordan Archer. But he made only a handful of appearances with the last being an absolutely horrific display against Accies. After which he left and was never seen or heard of again.

With Woods he would pop up again and again after the first choice goalkeeper left or was out injured and would remind the support just how much of a bombscare he truly was. Had he established himself as our undisputed first choice goalkeeper and been solid and reliable for the remainder of his time with us then the howler against Rangers in 1998 would have been largely overlooked as one of those unfortunate isolated moments, similar to the aforementioned Tommy Coyne miss. 
 

But that’s now how it panned out with us and Stevie Woods.

Was that not Chapman against accies?

[MJC]

Just now, well_said said:

Was that not Chapman against accies?

It was you’re right, my mistake. The same point stands for him though, ie. worse than Stevie Woods but we never saw him again after that game.

[grizzlyg]

Think maybe move this chat to former players thread