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Aberdeen game was decent, Rangers game was good, Dundee Utd game was great. All recent matches. I've been going for 40 years and it's always been the case that if you went to a Motherwell match it was more likely than not we wouldn't win or wouldn't play well. Motherwell are a team you support. It's not an entertainment event. You have to have the stomach for it and you have to have realistic levels of expectation. If you don't, Rangers and Celtic are just down the road. And of course the standard of the game has regressed massively over the time I've been going but that's mostly down to economic factors that extend across the whole of Scottish football and most other nation's football. It's not dross every week but it is a lot. That's just how it is and it's not going to change. So you either have to accept that or move on. Every single person here would love it if Motherwell played better football and scored more goals and won more games but that's not the reason you go.

I think I've read somewhere recently that if you do similar in rugby it's a ban for multiple games. Might be wrong, as I don't watch much rugby. He has endangered an opponent. If its on the ground it's red. Gordon fell badly onto what is essentially a very hard surface.

The quality of football on show in general in the league is poor but I do agree with a few of the posters who have said about the quantity of games having to be played at this time of year. It’s beyond ridiculous. Quantity of games drags the quality down I think. of course the simple solution is to increase the league to 16/18 teams and play each other twice but the clubs will refuse this as they want the poison mobs turning up 4 times a year to our home to rip up our seats.

Good post. Pretty much how I feel as well. I wasn't there tonight but accept that it was a rotten performance. I've seen many such ones over the years going back to the 60s. In those days fans just accepted it for what it was and were just glad to avoid the shops. We had very modest expectations. We might read about teams like Manchester United or Liverpool in magazines and knew little about them. If we wanted to watch the likes of Eusebio or Albert Shesternev then we did so when they visited Hampden Park for an international. Nowadays of course, the English Premier League is afforded wall to wall coverage on the box and the same is true of European football. Last Sunday coming home from the game I reluctantly listened to BBC SCOTLAND Sportsound hoping to catch a quick interview with Stuart Kettlewell, which never came. However we were treated to constant updates of the Liverpool V Manchester United game. A right turn off. Expectations these days are far higher and the English Premier League is the yardstick - everything else gets compared to that and thats just unrealistic.

Unsurprisingly, the Ox has been the busiest keeper in the league but is doing very well. https://x.com/rowleyanalysis/status/1877418641693593945?s=61

Stop trying to be flash.

There was a big scare about him last night but I just want to reassure everyone that GORDON'S ALIVVVVEEEEEEEEEE!!! anyone under age of 30 probably has no idea what I am on about 🤪🤪

I think Wilson does pretty well sometimes but some players he can’t handle and then of course sometimes he’s hung out to dry having to cope with multiple opposition players.

Just been listening to Kettlewell on sportsound talking about Marley Watkins challenge on Gordon. Yes not great but I am getting a bit bored now with Kettlewell whining after every game, yes decisions have went against us but it's almost like he likes sound of his voice. Stuart- maybe focus on the hoofbdll and honking quality we have to suffer at times or is that the officials fault also?

Is this the guy that comes from E.K? Possibly looking for a move closer to home in that case.

I predict a win, loss or draw against Hibs! hmmmm well that was fairly easy. 😂

He does match reports for us ..watches teams we will be playing next few weeks etc

He's my local policeman so I assume he was there to keep the peace 😃

I see what you’re trying to say across your post, but the point I’ve highlighted in bold above is exactly the collective defeatist attitude that enables and excuses the continual downturn in quality and expectation.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news…

This season its dross more often than not. Awful against Ross County , Awful against Hibs, Awful against Dundee, Awful against St Mirren , Awful against Celtic ... all recent games. Aberdeen game we played for 15 mins and couldnt do bugger all against 10 men. I've followed Motherwell home and away every week for 50 years. Have been a season ticket holder for 50 years. I'm well aware of what being a Motherwell fan is and what to expect. I'm not expecting world beating football but Im expecting us to try and play football. Booting the ball high and long all day is not trying to platy football and we play that style far to often this season.

There was one brief flash where he did well to dispossess Killie player and then started to build an attack. Unfortunately Watt's (I think) return pass was behind him and it fizzled out. Seemed to have decent positional sense off the ball. Not much to go on though really as he didn't see much action.

Decent result, if not performance. We've lost 2 in our last 8 and one of them was at Celtic Park. That's reasonable since we've played Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts, Kilmarnock away and Top 6 sides Dundee United and St Mirren.