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Fucking pathetic.

Penalty or not, that is what a striker needs to do…put the ball in the net. Well done Biereth!

Same old script. We can’t score goals and we can’t keep goals out and that is a recipe for disaster. We should have signed Steven Fletcher in the summer. For the wages we have wasted on Obika, Shaw, Bair and Wilkinson we could surely have been able to put together a deal that would have given him the ‘buzz’ he was after. He would have scored more goals than the four of them put together, I have no doubt of that.

We are slow fucking slow as a team.

Thoroughly uninspiring stuff. Shaw and Bair are both utter dugmeat and both should be hooked at half time.

That’s true. Big test for both of them today.

Shaw starts and so does Bair, undroppable by the looks of things. Butcher and Biereth make the bench.

If we go with one man up again, especially if it’s Bair, then questions will start to be asked of Kettlewell. I think we’ll see a different approach today though. Unfortunately I can’t see us winning. I reckon it’ll be a drab, stodgy 1-1 draw.

He keeps up this form then he must be in serious contention for the Ballon d’or. Hopefully we draw Utd at home in the Scottish Cup so we can give Louis a heroes welcome. It doesn’t matter if he scores the winner against us, Louis Moult could shit on the steps of the Main Stand and he’d still be a hero to me. 👍

That’s the way of it unfortunately. Ironically enough we had the opposite last year. We were supposed to play Killie on Christmas eve (the Saturday) and TV moved it to the 23rd/Friday night.

Some Motherwell fans are like a dog whenever they hear a packet of crisps getting opened the minute any popular ex player leaves or even merely hints about leaving his present club. 😂 That said on this occasion I wouldn’t be against a short term deal for KvV in January if it was atall possible, which it almost certainly won’t be. When he’s two years older and been out injured for a lengthy period mind you…

100% this if both are fit. We’ve given Bair his chance to lead the line and it’s got us nowhere. Time for a different approach.

We have to win this one, no two ways about it. If we don’t then we’re in trouble.

This place will be some laugh if a 41 year old Craig Gordon gets the nod for Scotland before Liam Kelly. Never mind the fact that he’s won over 70 caps for Scotland, won numerous trophies for Celtic, a Scottish Cup for Hearts, played in the English Premier League and is still clearly a top class goalkeeper. Nah get oor Liam in there. I like Kelly, I think he’s a very good goalkeeper for us but he’s nowhere near Craig Gordon’s level.

Perhaps they were only taking into account the condition of the playing surface and the immediate surrounding areas when they put that out? Jumping the gun of course but maybe they hadn’t taken travel and police advice properly on board at that point? Obviously it was the right decision to postpone given the weather warnings and as I said much better to do it today rather than tomorrow.

I didn’t realise this thread was for generating laughs. Although I did have my tongue slightly in my cheek when I talked about Fir Park having it’s almost annual weather related postponement at some point over the winter. For all FP has had its issues over the years I don’t think it’s ever had a sink hole, yet anyway. Granted I’m no Billy Connolly but I would have thought that most people would have realised that I was being slightly ‘satirical’ about Fir Park when I said that.

Even by your crass, snidey, pedantic standards that’s piss poor. I notice you missed out the first sentence of that quote, about it being better to postpone it now than wait til tomorrow when people have started travelling. But anything to be awkward and argumentative eh?

Better to postpone now than wait until tomorrow when fans have started travelling I suppose. That will be another midweek game to be fitted in somewhere and no doubt we’ll get the usual Fir Park flood/structural damage/fire/lightning strike/power cut/sink hole postponement at some point over the next few months so hopefully we don’t end up with a backlog at some point.

Biereth is almost reaching David Ferrere levels of greatness the longer he’s been out. Obviously the circumstances are different but there are also similarities too. Like Ferrere he comes on as a sub in a second half against Hibs in a match we don’t look like scoring in. His contribution is different but also like Ferrere he turns the game around for us and we win. Cue Motherwell fans (me included) thinking we have a new hero, a new goalscorer on our hands….As we know Ferrere did nothing else in his short time with us and now it remains to be seen if Mika Biereth will/can do any more when he finally returns from injury. Only time will tell but pinning our hopes on an injured loanee who hasn’t played 45 minutes of football for us coming back fully fit and being the answer to our problems is optimistic, to say the least.

We're coming off a run of four defeats in a row. We could do with turning that around. I don't see anything unreasonable in saying that. As for the R word. At this time - October with the majority of the season to go - I am not nailing my colours to the mast and saying that I think we will be relegated. However if we don't start scoring goals and keeping clean sheets then it's a distinct possibility that we will be relegated, or at least be involved in the dogfight at the bottom.

Disagree. We badly need points on the board.

According to the BBC forecast the worst of the weather is meant to be on Friday so might be okay. Assuming the game goes ahead it’s hard to see anything other than another blank and another defeat. 1-0 home win.

And we have scored only seven goals all season and can’t keep clean sheets. Unless we start doing both then we will absolutely be in danger of relegation this season. Fortunately it’s still early days yet and we have players to come back from injury but losing becomes a hard habit to shake off.

Bair just won’t do. Certainly not in our current system and with our current options. I can’t fault his effort but he just isn’t up to it if we are expecting him to lead the line and/or get us goals. Wilkinson and Shaw should be starting up front together in Perth. I’m not saying that they are the answer or that they are good enough, but they should be given the chance. Bair has had plenty and unfortunately he’s only shown that he’s simply not up to it.

“If”. That’s a big word and unfortunately for us is a very big word. We have lost our last four games because we have nothing in the way of goal scoring threat and we are giving away cheap goals. We are in trouble.