MJC

Think we’ll get beat.

Our new away kit isn’t too different to last seasons Dundee home kit apart from the position of the ‘club’ tartan and the dark blue tone as opposed to the steel grey. Both kits are of course made by Macron.

That’s a smart kit.

That’s a very good point that steelboy makes that we never look comfortable when ahead in games. It seems that our set up under SK is designed to stop the opposition playing and then throw everything forward when that fails and we need to chase the game. Fair enough that did work for us several times last season with the amount of last gasp equalisers we got but going forward that’s not a sustainable approach because we can’t afford to go behind in games with the mindset of “it’s okay we’ll just throw the kitchen sink at the opposition and hope we score” because that won’t keep working for us as our luck will run out and teams will get wise to this. I like Stuart Kettlewell, despite his faults, and I do think that he has been good for us during his time in charge but he needs to adapt our approach to games going forward or things will take another big downturn this season and we might not be able to get out of it this time. We absolutely cannot go on another run of 15 league games without a win again.

To be honest being seeded for the last 16 in this competition hasn’t given us much in the way of benefit in previous years. We were seeded last year and got paired with St.Mirren away. In the past we’ve been seeded and got Hearts, Ross County and Dundee. If we did manage to get out of this group then we won’t be going any further than the last 16 regardless of who we get, you can set your watch by that.

I’m calling this right now…. We’re not qualifying for the last 16. Cue the usual “Ach who cares it’s the league cup” ”I’d rather us play shite in the league cup” ”it’s all about the league” However, the League Cup is one of our best chances of getting a cup run and maybe even lifting silverware again, so we can’t just afford to write it off.

Shoddy stuff. penalty shootout loss incoming.

Early signs are that we are a threat from set piece deliveries. However else you view that that is a positive in our league and at our level. It will get us goals.

Hearing that a big chunk of it is going to be invested in the women’s team, with the rest being used to make our new away kit…

It wouldn’t be like us to recruit another crock who spends more time injured now would it? Like I said earlier this is isn’t going to be pretty today even against such weak opposition.

We’ll win I reckon but we’ll make it harder for ourselves than it needs to be. 2-1

I can’t deny him that one, but even his Co-commentary that day sounded over exaggerated and pretentious.

He always has been. He has the ‘gift of the gab’ though so people fall for his cheeky chappy, everyone’s pal act. He’s false and pretentious and laughs at his own shite patter. I wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

It is definitely shite but a sign of the times unfortunately. TV companies know that this is their best way to make money out of football nowadays so it’s only going to get worse. The BBC Scotland channel will be charging subscription fees for their Friday night coverage of the lower leagues within the next few years.

Some kits when you see them for the first time online look awful but then when you actually see them ‘in the flesh’ they don’t look quite as bad, sometimes they even grow on you. But not this one. This one is fucking horrendous. It looks cheap, tacky, badly designed and in true Motherwell FC fashion, tries too hard to be ‘different’ for the sake of it. How hard is it to just keep it simple and traditional? There doesn’t need to be a band or a hoop every year, all it takes is subtle changes here and there like the collar, the sleeves, the colour tone, the texture and so on. So many other clubs manage to change their kit every year without deviating from their core home colours and design. Not us though!

Blair Spittal scored for Hearts in a closed door game against Partick Thistle last night. Game finished 2-2.

Wonder how long it’ll take some on here and more likely the media to call him Steve ‘Sneddon’ just like Theo ‘Blair’ and Chris ‘Humphries’ etc. Welcome to the club, great to see another new face in.

That we appear to be keeping him on is a nonsense as he will spend more time on the Clyde 1 phone in this season than he does playing for our first team. You do wonder if our manager and we as a club will ever learn. And I’ve absolutely nothing against Andy Halliday, he seems a good guy and certainly had plenty of ability but he’s almost 33 and can’t stay fit.

No but knowing us we probably will.

It’s all about getting match fitness and sharpness in at this stage so it’s encouraging to see us rack up the goals albeit we can’t read anything into it. The fact that remains that anything other than progression from our League Cup Group is unacceptable and I’d even go further and say that if we don’t make the quarter finals then it also not good enough.

Some encouraging and negative signs from that. Miller did well and we actually looked decent going forward for once but on the other hand we looked as leaky as ever at the back. Obviously pretty difficult to read too much into a game like this but it gives us some idea of where we are at this point. The best thing about tonight was seeing us play in last seasons home strip. It’s just a pity we’re trading it in for a Lidls junk aisle lookalike horror show.

100% this. If we are relying on SO’D as our main right back/wing back this season then I suspect we will be in trouble.

Great strike from Miller .

They’ll probably recall him in January and send him back out somewhere else.

No it’s Hearts that are in the Europa League Playoff, not us.