Motherwell v Dundee United 28/02/2026

[purestate]

26 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

Form - Last 10 league matches

Motherwell    7-2-1    23pts
Hearts        7-1-2    22pts
Rangers        6-4-0    22pts
Falkirk        6-0-4    18pts
Hibernian    5-3-2    18pts
Celtic        5-2-3    17pts
Dundee        4-3-3    15pts
Dundee Utd    2-3-5    9pts
Kilmarnock    2-2-6    8pts
St Mirren    1-3-6    6pts
Livingston    0-5-5    5pts
Aberdeen    1-1-8    4pts
 

Potential points total

Hearts        90
Celtic        85
Rangers        84
Motherwell    83
 

Mods, i know Jens isn’t having it but could we have a a League permutations thread for all the thoughts and speculation? 
 

[texanwellfan]

2 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Aberdeen couldnae beat a carpet they are brutal. Only chance they have against Celtic is if Celtic have a man sent off.

Well, Livi did draw with Rangers so still hoping Aberdeen can take some points off Celtic. Would be great to go into game at parkhead above them. Of course we have to take care of our business and get 3 points at Dens first. 

[santheman]

19 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:

Not according to United fans. Cheating plain and simple. 

The way I look at is if a player goes down when there's no contact then that's blatant cheating.

If he goes down when there's even just minimal contact he's every right to try and gain an advantage and at least make the ref and VAR team have a look.

Today's and Slattery's last week fall into the 2nd category as far as Im concerned..

[Ya Bezzer!]

1 hour ago, purestate said:

Mods, i know Jens isn’t having it but could we have a a League permutations thread for all the thoughts and speculation? 
 

Was just looking and unless I've made a mistake Hearts are due 4 away games and Hibs are due 4 home games post split which obviously won't happen.

Which means there is going to have to be some 'unfairness' in the post split fixtures.

I'm guessing the most obvious way to fix it would be to have Hearts play Hibs at Tynecastle 3 times.

[Stuwell2]

1 hour ago, purestate said:

Mods, i know Jens isn’t having it but could we have a a League permutations thread for all the thoughts and speculation? 
 

As soon as someone starts a thread on that, the wheels will probably fall off the bus, best left well alone mate. 

[texanwellfan]

3 minutes ago, Stuwell2 said:

As soon as someone starts a thread on that, the wheels will probably fall off the bus, best left well alone mate. 

I’m with you on that !! Everyone can just speculate on their own

[weeyin]

Would be nice if we could influence league titles by starting a thread.

[texanwellfan]

Do not underestimate the power of the jinx. 

[weeyin]

6 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

Do not underestimate the power of the jinx. 

A jinx would mean nobody ever wins anything. 

[Richie]

Hopefully Aberdeen's oitch is still slippy and cutting up.

 

 

 

[Kmcalpin]

The Courier is still hurting obviously.

Maswanhise dramatics and Sevelj naivety

There was an intriguing section within Jens Berthel Askou’s programme notes, as he addressed the ludicrous reaction of Callum Slattery which resulted in a red card to Richard King of St Mirren in their prior fixture (subsequently rescinded).

Reflecting on the incident, the Well gaffer wrote: “…the reaction has to be in proportion to the action itself. We’re trying our best to leave that part of a deeply rooted football culture behind us.

“And we will do better going forward.”

Did Maswanhise do better on Saturday?

Was that reaction “in proportion” to Sevelj’s action?

He certainly did a job for his team by drawing full attention to an incident that would have otherwise been missed – as scores of other similar confrontations between centre-backs and attackers are.

The Zimbabwean international folded like a deckchair after Vicko Sevelj swung an arm in his direction, seeking to shake off Maswanhise after a bit of pushing and shoving between the pair. All pretty standard stuff.

However, it was enough to convince VAR Ryan Lee to order Nick Walsh to attend the monitor and, as usual, the on-field referee took his tacit cue: penalty kick.

None of which is to absolve Sevelj of blame.

The versatile Croatian is an intelligent player and, although only 25 years of age, one of United’s more experienced campaigners – certainly in terms of SPFL appearances.

He should not have given Walsh and Lee the opportunity to make that call.

And between Sevelj’s naivety and Maswanhise’s preposterous histrionics, a diligent defensive effort went up in smoke."

[weeyin]

I'll never stop finding it funny when Jim Goodwin teams are upset about foul play or bad sportsmanship.

[dennyc]

2 hours ago, weeyin said:

I'll never stop finding it funny when Jim Goodwin teams are upset about foul play or bad sportsmanship.

What I find hilarious is when Goodwin, O’Neill openly say their player was at fault for giving Officials decisions to make. Often acknowledging that there was foul play by their player, but minor. O’Neill seems upset that VAR had the cheek to point out the Trusty thing was more than the referee had seen on first viewing. Strange how the media did not ask a simple yes/no question of either. Was it a foul? 
 

[well_said]

Because the Scottish main stream media are so far up arsecheeks backside they wont ask questions like that for fear of upsetting them.