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Just back from the game. It's a bit of a trek for me these days, with the drive to Wemyss Bay and the ferry, but glad I went to that one. Just read through the comments and I think Ya Beezer summed up what I thought. TJ and Davor looked like they wanted to get sent off early doors. I think Kaleta is a liability TBH, never defends his area and seems to wander back when we have a break against us. Tony Watt saw a fair bit of the ball today and I thought he was doing a lot of the things that he used to do for us, control the ball and quick flicked passes but at the moment they're just not coming off for him. Thought the defence looked pretty solid mostly and (on my son's insistance) I kept a close eye on Halliday. He honestly does a lot of stuff that he's not going to win gold medals for but his positional awareness and ability to break up stuff coming towards us and jump in when someone makes a mistake can't be underestimated. A lot of his forward passing maybe isn't finding the mark but he does a lot of important stuff, a lot of it unseen. Vale I thought made a big difference when he came on and Nicholson should have got an easy 3rd (if he was onside). Good to see Slattery and McGinn back on the pitch. I actually thought we were pretty comfortable after the 2nd goal. Aberdeen had a lot of ball, but there was never what you would call a backs to the wall defending performance. I actually thought we were worth another goal or two. On a side note, in the second half a couple of times when we had men still up the park when the ball went to Ox.....Ketts was screaming at him to play the ball out quickly and he stopped and wasted time instead. The gaffer was losing his shit about it. Still, ye canny beat a wee trip home with 3 points in the bag.

We’re never scoring today, it just has that look about it already.

Kelly doing Kelly things against Hibs...

We started slowly today but grew into the game as the first half wore on. Oxborough had one good save at 0-0 but we could easily have been 2-0 up before the first goal. Typically, we reverted to type and gave the opposition too much respect during the second half. That said, after they hit the bar, at no time did I think they were getting back into the game and we actually took the sting out of the last 20 minutes quite efficiently. A very enjoyable 3 points. Nick Walsh should be removed from the refereeing list forever.

Ahem.....

Ox was decent today, making at least one goal-stopping save. His distribution and urgency were, however, honking.

No need to apologise. I hate their manager too.

That was a red card all day long. It occurred right in front of us. At first I thought that Watt had actually been nutted. I've seen several such incidents over the years and the culprit has always been red carded. The culprit's comments to match officials in the aftermath wouldn't have helped his cause either. I suspect though that TW wound him up in some way. You simply can't behave like that and expect to stay on the pitch. Jimmy Teleen's comment afterwards that he didn't see it was nothing short of bizarre as it happened about 2 feet in front of him.

Sorry you missed it but hope you work more games based on that record.

If SK subs earlier they will get more minutes. Players should be going all out for 60 mins then sub to continue that level of intensity so we have it for 90 mins.

We win again

Home safe

It's not enforced, very often, but the rule on violent conduct includes an "attempt" and doesn't need to connect: Violent conduct is when a player attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball, or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made. So by the strict letter of the law, if the ref thought that he tried (but failed) to headbutt Watt with excessive force, then he can give a straight red.

We’re in trouble now. Up 1 against 10 men

Davor and moses need hooked at half time.

And we'll done watt for the assist.

Never in doubt, I had a feeling it was coming. Pleased for Wilson!

There we go 💛

Watts had too many half shandies over the festive period 😞

I mean we have a registered shot on target this first half, So theres that 🤷‍♀️

I wonder how much performance and team selection has been affected by illness?

Motherwell have been so generously giving teams struggling this season a break so no doubt we will give Aberdeen the same today. We are such a kind and compassionate club 😂 In all seriousness Utd scraped a 1-0 vs this mob last Sunday so it wont be an easy game

Cheers pal, my bad jokes on road up would melt anything in close proximity 🤣🤣