MJC

Well Alloa have knocked us out of the League Cup once before so… But in all honesty I would not trust Motherwell to win ANY Cup tie regardless of who the opposition is. I would though prefer us to have the easiest game on paper to give us the best chance.

Or maybe he doesn’t remember something that happened the best part of a decade ago now? I’d hardly describe 2016 as “very recently”. I don’t doubt that you have met fans of both clubs that fit that category, but at the same time that can also be applied to many Motherwell fans. I’ve said this before but there are plenty who never set foot inside Fir Park for run of the mill games yet come out of the woodwork for Cup semis/finals or European games then disappear again. And usually those are the ones who have the cheek to call Old Firm fans glory hunters.

I care who we draw because I want us to have a good cup run. No doubt it’ll be Celtic or Rangers home or away, or else Hearts at Tynecastle and that will be that for us.

Good to see you still “feeding the troll” as well as talking shite. I was stating a fact. When Rangers were in the lower leagues they regularly had big crowds. A fact that doesn’t support the suggestion made by the poster I quoted that because Rangers were playing in the lower leagues their fans would have no interest in supporting them.

It was their first season (back) in the top flight. And why would he not have been supporting them in the lower leagues? Rangers regularly sold out their allocations home and away while they were playing in the lower divisions at the same time as Celtic had to shut the top tier of the stand at Parkhead as their fans lost interest without Rangers in the league.

While it was brilliant to beat them at Ibrox I just think that beating them at Fir Park in front of the home crowd especially next Saturday first game of the season, lights on (probably) would be that bit better and more satisfying. Can’t see it happening though.

I wasn’t there and haven’t seen any footage so can’t comment on performance or result. But it was clearly a stiff test against a good team and we come out of it with a draw. Fair play to the manager and the team.

Can’t see us getting anything I’m afraid. Most likely a frustrating narrow 1-2 defeat in what is a typical Motherwell v Rangers game at Fir Park, the type we’ve seen all too often over the years.

Haha did they? Tonight just gets better 😄

Even I get it wrong sometimes!

Well…I did think it would be 3-0. Good job done in the end and a special strike to seal it from TM.

However…

Eye bleeding stuff this.

Ward comes back into goals tonight. Stam starts up front.

And they have it, regardless how tonight goes. It will be unacceptable if we don’t win. But I’ll be there supporting them as best I can. Unlike you. 🙂

100% and tonight is going to be extremely tough for us and I’m not confident at all. That said though failure to win and progress will be completely and utterly unacceptable.

Yeah and Ross County away in 2017 and Hearts at home in 2019. Being seeded means next to nothing for us in this competition and as you say you can't trust Motherwell to win any cup tie against anyone.

I want to like Slattery as he does have 'something' as we saw the other night but disappears too often. Watt and Fadinger it's too early to say but they look lightweight and could be overrun easily especially when it comes to League fixtures.

Indeed it did, especially combined with the long sleeved base layer.

It definitely is because the team simply isn't good enough to expect anything better. There is very little football in that squad and we are badly lacking in defence and up front. Looking at the opening round of fixtures it's hard to see us getting much, if anything. We will lose to Rangers, lose to St.Mirren and Hearts and then we have Kettlewell's Killie Pies at home in which, on paper at least, is already "must win" for us.

Had he ever done it before he signed for us? And he certainly hasn't come close to repeating it since he left. Van Veen had the season of his life for us in 22/23 and that was the exception to the rule for both him and us as a club to have a 25 goal + striker. It was once in a blue moon stuff.

Unless we pull a significant improvement out of the hat this won’t be pleasant for us. 0-3 defeat.

It must have been the exceptions to the rule on the few occasions I’ve sat in that sections then.

We won. That’s the positive. The less said about the performance the better. Tuesday night is must win but that was the case regardless of the result today.

Should have been a penalty there! Where’s VAR when you need it