MJC

Anymore? Lawless was never good enough for the level we play at. Not the first time round when he ended up being released after failing to break into the first team and certainly not now. Why we re-signed him is baffling and hopefully we won’t see him in C&A again.

Agreed, who he supports is irrelevant. He should be moved on as soon as possible though, simply because he isn’t good enough and should never have been re-signed in the first place.

I think people need to take the C&A tinted specs off for a bit. Watt has been excellent for us this season but he’s nowhere near a Scotland call up yet. He needs to show that he can maintain his levels of form before he’s seriously on the national side’s radar. As a Motherwell fan I’d much prefer to keep him below the radar for as long as possible and hopefully he continues to get the goals and perform for us without the distraction of playing for Scotland just now. Obviously if he continues his form then he will rightly earn the chance for a call up and if/when that happens then good luck to him, but I’m in no rush to see that happen.

I was the same. He was a journey man who’d failed to make a serious impression at any of the last few clubs he’d been at, yet he seems to have found his feet here and seems genuinely happy while playing well and scoring goals regularly. He’s also built up a bit of a rapport with the support which is absolutely brilliant to see. Yes absolutely agree with this. I don’t think he would be realistically expecting to be selected for the national side just now and from our perspective I’d much prefer that he wasn’t anywhere near that set up. I want our players 100% focussed on playing for us without distractions and we saw with our previous captain that getting into the national team can have a detrimental effect on their club form.

It’s not great to watch and I agree that we are still short in midfield options but we’ve definitely improved under GA. We are a much better coached team now than we were under Robinson and unlike this time last year we have some fight and character in the side. We would not have won that game last year under Robinson, I’m almost certain of that and it’s more likely that we would have crumbled as soon as they equalised.

Not an easy watch but delighted with the three points. Watt yet again our talisman and a cracker of a goal from Slattery. He’s been a superb signing so far.

We’ll make heavy weather of it but I think we’ll win. 1-0 with Watt scoring.

Great to see the kid doing so well and making his mark although it’s sad that we never got to see him break into our first team proper. That’s something that’s so frustrating in modern football, any talented young prospect we bring through and we’re lucky to even get half a season out of them.

Brian Kerr? Now if ever there was a wage thief in a Motherwell jersey, there’s yer man right there. A very talented player but his stinking attitude got in the way of that. The disrespect he showed us when he left was almost Mark McGhee levels.

In fairness Robinson wasn’t like that at the beginning of his reign. He was actually very upbeat and positive before games against either of the OF and our performances and occasionally our results were much better than they were toward the end of his tenure. Sadly I think a bit of the “oor great wee club” rubbed off on him as time went one. You would hope that Alexander has a stronger personality than that and won’t be as easily swayed. He certainly gives the impression that he does so hopefully he keeps us on the right track, on and off the park.

He was genuinely raging himself that night. It was absolute quality listening after all the fawning they’d done over Rodgers in the two and a half years prior to that.

Yes he’s very balanced and reasoned which makes a nice change from the likes of Derek Johnstone, Gerry McCulloch and Peter (Maguire) Martin in the past who never hid the allegiances to either side of the Old Firm. I’m not convinced about Dalziel mind you, I always got the impression that his being ‘a Motherwell fan’ was a bit of a parody on that show. He seems a decent enough guy but a bit of a dafty to be honest.

Sportsound is a disgrace for a national broadcaster. It’s basically an Aberdeen fanzine that makes no attempt to hide it. What other country has a national sports radio programme where the presenter openly refers to a particular side as “we” and along with Willie Miller would happily spend the entire show discussing them? That along with their sycophantic arselicking of Celtic from Liam McLeod in particular (it almost seems like it chokes him that he can’t refer to them as “The Champions” anymore) and that pompous wank Michael Stewart on basically any subject means it’s a show to avoid for me.

I’m sure Gordon Duncan is a Motherwell fan. And I always enjoy listening to Hugh Keevins, especially after Celtic get beat. He tells it as he sees it and a lot of their fans can’t handle it and phone in raging.

That’s Graham Alexander unbeaten in two games against Rangers and both goals conceded in those games were offside.

What is most satisfying for me is that FINALLY we look like a competitive team who are hard to beat. Alexander is taking us in the right direction it seems.

Fantastic performance and result, against all the odds too.

Six fucking minutes?!?

Get fucking in there!!!

Well that is just typical of this fixture. We miss a gilt edged chance at one end then they go up the other end and score. And to compound matters it looked a mile offside. We never get any breaks in this fixture.

He made a cracking save from Billy Dodds in the last minute too. A month or so later he got himself sent off at Rugby Park for elbowing a Killie player in the box and conceding a penalty into the bargain.

There is very little in football that I find more infuriating than the patronising guff about how “we were so brave, yet so unlucky” that we get all too often after a loss to Rangers especially. Far too many times over the past 20 years many Motherwell sides, managers, players and some supporters seem to view anything less than a heavy defeat in these games as some sort of moral victory. Why I don’t know, because despite our dreadful record in this fixture, very rarely have Rangers actually hammered us by playing swashbuckling football and scoring great goals. Many of the games, particularly at Fir Park, have been relatively tight yet we have lost out by the odd goal after gifting them a couple through poor defending or a poor refereeing decision or us not taking chances. Even some of the games at Ibrox have followed a similar pattern. I stand by what I said, if we score first on Sunday we have a chance of getting something.

Steven McLean the referee for this one. I’m sure he was the ref the last time we beat them in the 2017 LCSF too.

Perhaps but for us he was always an excellent stalwart and played over 300 games for us in some very good Motherwell sides and also some very poor ones, but he was always a crucial player for us. I would certainly consider Steven Hammell as a club legend before I would consider James McFadden.

Steven Hammell now inducted to Hall of Fame. Well deserved. A proper club legend.