MJC

You think/hope that that’s the reason for him missing. That’s what I assumed when I heard he was out altogether but a post on here suggested he was being rested. I don’t know that posters source I’m just going by what was said.

Someone said he was ‘rested’ today. I don’t know if that’s the case or not but if it is then it’s unacceptable.

Some of our fans never ever learn.

If Spittal wasn’t injured today then serious questions need to be asked of Kettlewell and his selection. We had absolutely nothing about us today. Two league wins in over twenty games now is absolutely shocking. And with Celtic dropping points to Killie today that means they will be even more likely to scud us next week as they bounce back.

I’m sorry if I caused any offence. I’ll rephrase. That team is going to be defeated quite soundly today and concede several goals, in my opinion.

No Spittal today? Injured I take it? That’s a hammer blow if that’s the case. The undroppable Captain Fantastic and Paton keep their places. That team is going to get fucking hammered today. 4-0 Hearts.

At the moment yes we have more of an upward momentum than Ross County but there is a long way to go and things can change quickly. In terms of the playoff, if we finish 11th then our momentum would be downward, or so you’d think, whereas the Championship side’s momentum would be the opposite*. I’d much rather we just avoided the playoffs altogether. *And yes, I do remember that the last time we were in the playoffs we beat the Championship side 6-1 over two legs, I’m not likely to forget it. But unfortunately none of the sides we could potentially meet in a playoff this year are managed by Stuart McCall.

Quite a bold statement to make when the team currently in 11th have a game in hand over us and we are almost certainly facing back to back defeats. Plus it’s only February, there’s a long way to go yet. With the way we defend and our goalkeeper being in horrific form plus our inability to win football matches it’s seriously naive, imo, to not be worried about us being in the playoffs just now.

Can’t believe he’s still playing.

And we also threw away a 3-0 lead at Pittodrie, conceded two at Morton and can’t defend to save ourselves. If we end up in a playoff against Raith Rovers or Dundee United with them having upward momentum then we will lose over two legs, nothing surer.

Not a hope in hell we beat either of them over two legs. That’s why we simply must avoid the playoffs as that would effectively mean straight relegation with the added agony of two games to draw it out.

We did. But we won’t draw with them next week.

No. Hearts are not the same side they were when we won at Tynecastle back in early September. They are in great form, they have the best striker in Scotland and they will just have too much for us. That’s why chucking away a 3-0 lead last night was so costly because we’re now looking at back to back defeats in our next two games and the pressure on us to go to Livingston on the 28th will be cranked right up.

Not a chance we're winning this one. And yes, I do know that we won there earlier in the season but Hearts are a different animal now. They didn't even know who their manager was back then but now they've hit form and Shankland is back to his clinical best. He will run riot against our defence. As the poster who has correctly predicted the outcome of our last five games on here (draws with St.Johnstone, Killie and Aberdeen, a win over County and a defeat in Greenock) I am confidently saying that Hearts will beat us on Saturday. "Here I go, six in a row"

We will lose. That’s the only certainty from this one.

I see what you did there.

3-0 up and not winning is unacceptable. Getting pegged back as early and with all the momentum with the opposition and getting a point is a bonus. VAR is an absolute scourge on the game. That’s my summary of tonight.

Willie Miller is an arsehole. Fuck him.

Yeah. 4-3 to Aberdeen in the last minute and you’ll get Motherwell fans going “that was a great spectacle for Scottish football” and other pish like that.

Get VAR to fuck. And the same goes for Willie Miller.

4-3! Willie Miller near enough choking about that on the radio.

Kettlewell isn’t going to get sacked if/when we lose tonight. Whether you think that that’s right or wrong he is simply not going to be sacked after a loss away to Aberdeen, regardless of the context.

And, what?

Even if we score another two we’ll only concede at least another two up the other end.

As soon as they scored to make it 3-1 just after we went 3-0 up that was always going to be the case. We lost momentum straight away and our opponents know that we can’t handle pressure on our backline. It’s a case of how many Aberdeen want to score now.