MJC

He’s been our best signing this season. I know he had a nightmare against Kilmarnock but overall Kelly has been solid for us. When you think that at one point we were looking at the possibility of Chapman being our No.1 for the remainder of the season then Kelly has been a massive upgrade.

My thoughts exactly, beating St.Mirren is always very satisfying.

Full time 1-0. Big win that, well done ‘Well and great to finally get a win against that mob.

SEVEN minutes???!!!

If we had a goalscorer in that team we could easily have been pushing for top six. That’s how poor the standard of the current top flight! Hopefully this is addressed in the summer as we’ve not had anyone that could adequately be described as a goal scorer since Moult left.

Mugabi on for Long. Looks like we’re going to try and hold out for 1-0.

Indeed, we’ve been awful but I’ll take us being awful if we’re lucky with it.

Potentially massive goal. Get in!!

1-1 straight away and United a goal up at Hamilton.

Good to see Gallagher starting and a surprise to see Dunne in the squad. I didn’t think we’d see him in C&A again tbh.

I think this one is a stick on draw. 1-1

From memory it’s been 3-0, 2-0, 6-0, 4-0, 4-0 in Cup games against Morton at Fir Park from about the mid 90s. History is certainly on our side in this one but that counts for nothing in reality. As long as we are professional and up for it on the day we should progress.

That’s the sort of Cup scenario where Motherwell typically fuck up. But I agree with you, we have a good chance of getting to the semis at least here. Obviously we need to take care of Morton first but realistically we should, we are a better team than them. Then if we get past them at in all likelihood play Hibs at Easter Road, we’ve shown that we can win there this season. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t fancy our chances.

Except when we’re drawn at home to a lower league club and they’re drawn against each other in Round 5 meaning one of them will be out before the Quarter Finals though, eh? It’s a good draw for us and potentially a great opportunity to get to the Semis. One game at a time though.

I think so aye, I just switched it on about half way through it and heard him shouting about a penalty decision and comparing it to an incident in the Dumbarton v Aberdeen game. Its up on ClydeSSB’s Twitter page now. edit: no it was a penalty that Accies didn’t get

Elsewhere in the Cup, Brian Rice has just lost it on Clyde 1 over a penalty decision. Shouting, swearing the lot.

Well played Motherwell. Job done and done so emphatically in the end. That’s all you can ask for in ties like these. Fingers crossed for a kind draw tomorrow.

This. Whatever his commitment levels are I’d have Gallagher in the team before Mugabi any day of the week. I think it’s a given that he’ll be away in the summer, but until then we’ve still got survival to secure and hopefully a Scottish Cup campaign to be played so our best players need to start. From Gallagher’a point of view you’d expect/hope that if he’s serious about getting a bigger move and making the Scotland squad for the Euros then he’ll be desperate to play and prove his worth between now and the end of the season.

Good of him to say but talk is cheap and the players and the club have done plenty of talking this season, especially via the Twitter account. Hopefully we see this turned into results on the pitch and with a good performance today plus a favourable set of draws tomorrow we get a Cup run going.

I think it’s too early to judge Graham Alexander as Motherwell manager as he deserves a summer transfer window at least to show his worth. However, if as has been mentioned, the likes of Mugabi and Crawford are being retained to be first team regulars next season then that is concerning, to say the least. Only time will tell of course and as I said, the manager has the ‘grace’ of a summer transfer window to prove he’s the man for the job.

Absolutely. We should be starting with our strongest 11 possible and trying to get the game won as comfortably as we can. It’s a. Cup tie, therefore it’s a must win game so we treat it accordingly. After the Killie debacle I’d be bringing Gallagher back in, hopefully he’ll feel like he has a point to prove. That said I will never underestimate our capacity to make a pigs ear of any game, especially a Cup tie but I think we’ll be fine tomorrow and if we get an early goal we should win with a bit to spare.

And Hanley’s just scored

I just think that, like quite a few of the current squad, his attitude and application lets him down regularly. He clearly is a good player with ability but he just hasn’t shown it enough in C&A.

Agree with that. In the case of Declan Gallagher, he was excellent for us from July 2019 - March 2020. Just what we needed, a solid centre half who was comfortable on the ball. This season though for whatever reason he just hasn’t looked the same player. There could be a few reasons for that which we will never really know, but personally I suspect the added pressure of being captain plus perhaps having one(or both) eye on his next move especially after playing a big part in the national sides Euro qualification may have contributed to that. Whatever it is if he does want to be elsewhere then it’s best for all parties that he goes.

They’ve beaten us twice in the league in that time. Both times at Fir Park, 2-1 last February just before the lockdown and 1-0 in December this season. And of course they knocked us out of the Scottish Cup on penalties in February ‘20 as well. Our last win against them was in December ‘19. So while we’ve not got the worst of recent records against them on paper (P6, W2, D2, L2) the fact remains we haven’t beaten them for well over a year.