wellfan

I don't think I've overlooked the points you're making here.

Let’s not allow something as inconvenient as the laws of the game to get in the way of SFA officials doing their jobs properly.

For those of us who don’t live in the future in the southern hemisphere, the game is on 2 September.

Lowry. The one player who kept trying to make things happen. And a nod to Paulsen for keeping us in it.

That was a tough lesson today. This team still has a lot to do to improve.

Clancy is an absolute cunt, but we worryingly look all at sea today.

Embarrassing collapse. And we can’t blame it all on the useless officials.

Senior/junior is a grade (or level) not an age bracket.

Anyone who chooses to obscure their face with a balaclava or similar at a football match, or anywhere else, has something to hide. They’re criminals. We see them elsewhere in society. Identify them, ban them and be done with it.

Balaclavas.

Now Europe and the League Cup are out of the way, he’s seen what he’s got and knows what he needs. As such, I fully expect several to be sent on their way and one or two more in.

Flares? That’ll be another €15K. Ban them.

No shame in that defeat. We can only hope the manager and our senior players have learned a shitload from those two legs.

Beaten by the superior team over the two legs. However, our inability to (a) prevent crosses into the box and (b) defend those crosses is a massive concern. But oh well, back to the League Cup and the glamour of domestic football…

Keeper.

He’s alright, thankfully. https://x.com/forfarathletic/status/2092527099105972534?s=46

Or maybe we penalise those actually at fault by using video evidence to identify them and ban them.

€100,000 in fines/costs in Europe, plus another £15,000 domestically. Twats. Just ban them until they can learn to behave. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/08/25/club-statement-on-fan-behaviour/

Imagine how boring this forum would be without differing opinions. It’d be just like that self-congratulatory circle-jerk over at P&B.

Eythor deserves the chance to show us what he can do this season. As for Stama, the new manager will likely give him an opportunity, although we all know how that’s likely to end.

Premier Sports 1 at 17:45.

Gutted. That was a 1-1 at best, 1-2 at worst sort of game. They’re clearly streets ahead of us, but we didn’t deserve that final result. What can you do, though, when you’re up against a team like that, an appallingly biased referee and some utterly crazy VAR interventions?! Game over.

If AJ sets us up similarly to the Stenny game and the players perform as poorly as they did yesterday, we should expect to be embarrassed on Thursday. But if he sets us up as close to the Helsinki game as possible and those players reproduce that performance, I’d expect us to do well. No fear. Although I suspect yesterday’s embarrassment, coupled with the additional exertions of extra time on a plastic shithole, has taken the wind out of the sails of most of the players.

That’s on the manager and he needs to come out and own it.

Diabolical. The wrong starting XI and a disgraceful performance.