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Once McGinn and SOD figured out the two big lads, they did well to neutralise them. They couldn’t out-jump them, so one was always blocking the big man and the other cleaning up. Overall, I thought they did a good job. I do agree we still need another CB.

Yes. We are brilliant and that was easy.

Priestman again for me, but I could’ve given it to Slattery or Just. Plenty of good performances today.

On my one visit to Mrs Baillie’s Bar there was one lad serving and a huge queue, and the heaters weren’t working so it was freezing. It’s basically an outdoor shed so winter will never be cosy, but staffing and heating were issues. I see they’ve now added new shelters, so hopefully it keeps improving.

Is today the day we finally give a team a pumping at Fir Park?

The club has as much to offer JBA as he has to offer the club. I’d like to think he sees it that way too.

Unless the club has cleared him to discuss such topics, I’d say Halliday’s crossed a line here. His insights on Motherwell can be valuable, but commenting on a player’s value amid intense transfer speculation is probably pushing it too far.

Putting pricing aside, it’s a fair distance from Motherwell to Aberdeen and back, so a 7.30pm Saturday KO is utterly ridiculous for fans and will guarantee low ticket sales. The people running our game are morons.

McCann’s plastic carpet cloggers aren’t getting anything from Fir Park.

You’ve got to feel for Welsh. That mob are a disgrace. Rotten to the core.

And one of your reasons was that he was hopefully injured. I’d rather he played utterly shite on his debut and got hooked than get injured and subbed.

Wishing an injury on a young player on his loan debut rather than him simply being taken off for not impressing is a strange take. It turns out he actually did go off injured, which is a real disappointment, and it’s even more disappointing that a fellow fan preferred the idea of him being injured instead of just subbed for a poor debut.

Jesus Christ.

If the plan was to run him into the ground until he spewed his ring a few times, then mission accomplished.

Unremarkable game with a much-changed starting eleven, but job done. Why was Luca Ross at left-back? He’s an attacking winger.

No real standouts today, but Priestman edges it for me.

In general, he’s rarely in the right place at the right time, and when he is, he mostly fluffs it. He’s just not got it.

JBA should be picking his strongest eleven today. It's the Scottish Cup.

Most of us can probably agree on this. Scrap VAR and have referee observers review games afterwards, call out mistakes and inconsistencies, and actually hold officials accountable. Let the game flow and deal with the bad officiating afterwards.

Once subjectivity is allowed to creep into a supposedly objective process, the game’s a bogey.

We’ll probably both agree soon enough they’re busted flushes.

If either of Stama or Hendry goes this window, it’s Stama. He’s 18 months into a 3-year deal and clearly not up to it. Hendry’s only 6 months into a 2-year deal and probably deserves a bit longer, but I’m not convinced he’ll come good.

Two things from today’s update that stood out for me: Hendry “overloaded” again. He’s barely played. A signing that just hasn’t worked out unfortunately. JBA the comedian: “Stephen’s [O’Donnell] back jammed up a little. He had to come off, but he managed to bend forward and sign a new deal with us. The back didn’t stop him, and he’s back in training.” https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/01/15/scottish-cup-team-news/

I suspect he’ll be back with us next week. Fingers crossed.

Kettlewell is incapable of change and still believes in his own hype. The bigger idiots than Kettlewell himself are the ones who keep giving him a job after his disastrous Motherwell tenure and subsequent meltdown.