MJC

We are yes. When you add in the horrible experience of having to play Celtic, encounter their supporters and have them swarming all over Fir Park and the surrounding area then it makes this draw an even less enticing prospect.

Great result tonight. Awful draw for the next round unfortunately.

Might need to start calling him van Veen pen. Doesn’t matter how he scores though as long as he does.

3-0 KvV again from the spot!

Penney, Efford and Tierney start tonight. McKinstry and Aarons on the bench.

I would have thought so too. Likewise I see Nicky Clark has joined St.Johnstone from Dundee Utd.

Inverness have traditionally made it difficult for us at Fir Park in Cup ties. Barry Wilson lobbing Gordon Marshall from about 40 yards inside the first ten minutes and them sitting in with us huffing and puffing but never really looking like get back into it still gives me nightmares. In fact I’m sure the two times we have beaten them in Cup ties at home have been on penalties after a 2-2 draw in ‘97 and 3-2 AET under Jim Gannon. (and yes, I am fully aware that that won’t have a bearing on what happens tonight)

In fairness to him he didn’t really get much of a chance to properly impress the last time as he signed on the January deadline day in 2020 and the season was cut short six or seven weeks later. The closest he came to impressing me was being thwarted by an incredible one handed save by Fraser Forster in a 0-4 defeat against Celtic.

I try and forget that that game even happened tbh.

I’m just giving my opinion on this signing. I’m not a cheerleader and nor am I the/one of the individuals in charge of our social media publications making wee reels about our signings or filtering party hats onto players heads. I just wasn’t impressed by Aarons when I saw him here before and in the two and a half years since then he has barely played. I don’t see what he will bring to the team.

Not too enthused by this signing. I wasn’t that impressed with him pre-covid and he has barely kicked a ball since. Pointless signing imo.

Absolutely! And after our latest European ‘adventure’ if I never see us play another European match then it won’t be a day too soon. Obviously the Scottish Cup is the more prestigious one but I would take a league cup win any day. Plus a league cup win would give us the added bonus of not having to play in Europe. #The passports in the drawer! The passports in the drawer! And that is where it’s staying And that is where it’s staying And that is where it’s staaaaayyyyyinnnggg!!!! The passports in the drawer! #

We absolutely MUST play our strongest available side on Wednesday night. It’s not acceptable for us to simply treat this as a lesser game just because it’s the league cup and we don’t have a strong enough squad to be able to rotate it.

Aye, came in just before lockdown in early 2020 and made just a handful of appearances.

I think we’ll get beat.

Ya_bezzer would be delighted.

6-0 now though to be fair I don’t think we’d fare any better against this Celtic side. I fully expect them to beat a side by double figures at least once this season, it could well happen today.

I don’t think there is widespread ‘hate’ for Alexander in the support. Obviously some do hate him as we’ve seen in this thread, but I think overall it was more that the support were scunnered with the way we were playing, that we won three league matches in five months and there was no obvious plan from Alexander going forward. No one knew, indeed, he himself didn’t seem to know what his team would be from one week to the next. That was incredibly frustrating especially when we weren’t winning games and then to rub salt in the wounds Alexander would often come out post match and say that we played well.

Graham Alexander could break into your house and you would blame the folk that fitted the locks, or the Motherwell support for it. He clearly could do no wrong in your eyes so no point arguing about it. What I would say is that it is nonsense to suggest that the fans forced him out. He came to a mutual agreement with the club to leave after overseeing two of the worst results in the clubs history. There were no protests outside the Main Stand or chucking season tickets on the park, just some of the fans who forked out to travel to Sligo giving him deserved criticism for that debacle. The next day he met with the board and off he went.

Your assessment of the players you mentioned is spot on, too many are simply not good enough. Alexander definitely left us in a mess but this is not simply down to him. This goes back to Robinson’s tenure and some of the guff we brought in during that time and the money we spunked in doing so. Between him and Alexander it doesn’t bear thinking about how much we squandered on absolute dross. Alan Burrows and the board need to take responsibility for the mess we are in. They allowed those two to deal so poorly in the transfer market and allowed Alexander to go into this season with this current squad only to be humiliated against Sligo and we found ourselves managerless on the eve of the league season. Result of that is we appointment a rookie manager to work with a terrible squad of players. As I said, if this ends badly this season then it’s on those in the boardroom.

Shields is a lower league player, he’s completely out of his depth at this level. The same could be said of Efford and Morris. Both of them made an impact last week but they will never be the long term answer. We need to be a lot more shrewd in our transfer dealings.

Well that was disappointing but we can’t complain about losing. The positive from today was a very good goal which was well set up and well taken. The negatives unfortunately were all too common. Bullied in midfield and weak defensively. We were inviting pressure onto our backline from the minute we went ahead and that was always going to end badly. Results and performances like that are going to happen, that’s something we are just going to have to accept going forward with the current squad we have. We just need to pick up as many points against our ‘peers’ as we can to avoid relegation/the playoffs this season.

Been coming unfortunately.

We need a second here, if we get that then we’ll win.

Superb pass from Spittal and a really good finish.