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Absolutely. The sending off got the crowd behind the team and actually made for a good atmosphere at Fir Park for a change. Definately the best we've had this season and probably going further back aswell. There was even singing from the Cooper Stand ffs! Without doubt that was the best home game of the season in more ways than one.

Good night's work and a very good result in difficult circumstances. Well done Stuart McCall and well done Motherwell.

At the very best, 0-0. At worst, 1-0 to Dunfermline. Neither result would surprise me in the slightest, we will not win on Tuesday and I think we'll even struggle to score against a side who will be on a high after their win at Kilmarnock and who will fancy their chances to beat us. We on the other hand couldn't buy a win just now and we are playing extremely poorly so I fancy Dunfermline to take at least a point from this one.

Yes he did, but sadly for him for every good game had he'd have three bad ones. He was regularly beaten at his near post, his kicking and distribution was poor and he couldn't deal with crosses into the box because his judgement was appalling. He was a bombscare of a goalkeeper and you were on tenderhooks any time the ball went near him.

You know how you often hear managers or players or even supporters of a particular team saying that they believe that they are due to give someone a right good hammering? Well I think that about us ahead of Saturday, except in reverse. I can honestly see Dundee United taking five off us this weekend because unlike us they've got goals in that team and we'll no doubt give them plenty of opportunities to boost their goals for tally if our recent performances are anything to go by as we do our usual stand off their attackers and allow them to rain crosses into the box and cut our defence open. 5-0 to United

Alot of good and fair points in this thread. To an extent, I have to actually agree that Motherwell supporters have been spoiled in recent times with top six finishes, Cup finals, Europe etc. and all on a shoestring budget. We are a small club with a small fanbase especially compared to the likes of Hearts, Hibs, Dundee Utd & Aberdeen, yet we have managed to match and outperform these clubs in recent years. However that doesn't stop supporters giving criticism where it's due and when the team is playing poorly then criticism is warranted, so long as it's not just plain abuse directed at players as that just doesn't help atall. People pay their hard earned money to support the club and if they feel they're not getting their money's worth then it's their right to say so. What I would fully agree with though is that the 'younger' generation of Motherwell fans, that is Motherwell fans under the age of say 30 have definately been 'spoiled' in that they've never seen us relegated or playing in a lower division. I'm in my mid twenties and for all my time following the club we've been a top flight club which is quite something when you look at similar sized clubs such as Partick Th, St.Mirren, Dunfermline who have been up and down on more than one occasion during that period.

That's being kind to him, he couldn't even manage that. He ended up playing 2nd fiddle to something like five different goalkeepers when he was with us and the only time he got a run in the team was when there was no other goalkeeper over the age of 20 at the club to provide competition. Yes he 'tried' but he just wasn't good enough and whenever I think of Woods I think, Scottish Cup 4th Round, 2-1 up against Rangers, five minutes to go...Stevie Woods...Gordon Durie...and that was that. Not by any stretch of the imagination his only major fuck up whilst with us but it was the worst given the circumstances and kind of summed up his entire time at the club. That was 'Woodsy' at his best.

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The original poster is entitled to his opinion, but I don't agree or think that McCall's time is running out, not when we're 4th in the table, still in the cup and having reached a Cup Final and finished top 6 last season. However poor we have been playing of late, all of that more than buys the manager time. We are playing poorly just now though and our performances at home this season have been poor to say the least and of late we seem to have nosedived. Like it or not, that merits comment and we need to start seeing improvements very soon because although we're doing well to be sitting where we are just now, that does not excuse the dreadful displays that have been served up of late. Let's just hope McCall can get things back on track and at least performing better. I don't expect us to win the league or the cup, I don't even expect us to finish 3rd or 4th, but I do expect us to play better than we have done of late and I don't think that's too much to ask. Over to you McCall.

A real 'Mr Motherwell'. Rest in Peace

1-1 with Murphy netting for us.

The last time we had two home ties back to back in the Scottish Cup was in 2007 when ironically we played Morton in the same stage before drawing St.Johnstone in the Quarters. The least said about that game the better though.

They certainly will, this tie has the potential to bring in an excellent crowd so hopefully it doesn't get snowed off or anything. We'll need to play better than we did against Queen's Park as I doubt Morton will be quite as generous to our backline as they were. The way we've been playing at home this season, this will be no foregone conclusion and we'll need to be right up for this and at our best because Morton will come here and fancy their chances. Looking forward to this one already

Full draw: Hibernian v Dundee/Kilmarnock Motherwell v Morton St.Mirren/Hamilton v Ross County Inverness/Dunfermline v Celtic Ayr Utd v Falkirk Rangers v Dundee Utd Hearts v St.Johnstone Aberdeen v Queen of the South

Could have been worse, but this will be a hard game for us and is most definately a potential 'banana skin'.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

Well you say you want us to be independant, yet at the same time infer that whatever the 'Old Firm' do dictates what the rest of us should or shouldn't do? Like I said, Rangers have no more rights to claim 'One Step Beyond' as their own than we do. Likewise with Celtic and the huddle (which we also did for a whole season in the early 00s). At the end of the day, it's a piece of music which was played after a goal. So what if Rangers also play it? It's not a 'Rangers song/tune' and what Rangers do or don't do surely doesn't have to influence us. At the CIS Cup Final in 2005 our whole support joined in with the Hampden tannoy in singing 'Is this the way to Amarillo' even though several other clubs' supports had done likewise at their matches around the same time but there was no problem with that, and likewise a couple of years ago when we started playing that 'Scooter' song after it was played in Bucharest against us. It was just a 'catchy' tune that was played inside a football match to try and help the atmosphere.

It's a tune that is played when they score, hardly a hard core Rangers anthem. The song in question makes absolutely no reference whatsoever to Rangers and is no more a Rangers song than 'Ave Maria'. If you really want us to avoid playing a particular song/tune over the tannoy because another club happen to use it at their ground then I would say you are being oversensitive in the extreme. Tell you what, while we're at it, the current Rangers captain, Steve Davis is from Northern Ireland. And guess what? So is OUR'S!!!!!! Oh no!! Shall we strip Craigan of the captaincy because Rangers have tainted the appointing of a Northern Irish captain? And our first choice goalkeeper's first name end's with the letter 'N', just like Rangers' first choice goalkeeper AllaN McGregor! Should we drop him and banish him from our first team to avoid playing a goalkeeper who's last letter of his first name has been tainted by association with one half of the Old Firm???

We also sing "we hate the Hearts and we hate Dundee", which Hibs fans also sing and have done for many a year. Should we also avoid singing that like the plague to distance ourselves from Hibs?

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At no point have I said that I wouldn't take it, nor at any point have I said that I'm not happy with the result today. The performance did concern me however.

I can't be right every time.

In a Cup game yes they are of course, but that doesn't mean that what was an extremely poor performance against a third division side should pass without comment.

Yes I did and I was wrong. We scored four. However the final scoreline doesn't tell half the story from today as Queen's Park dominated for large parts of the game and created numerous good chances so although we've won by four clear goals we were very fortunate to do so and in the end the scoreline is actually very misleading.

I'll just sum this up very quickly; We were poor today and the scoreline greatly flatters us Queen's Park dominated the game and created several decent chances and had they a decent striker would have scored at least three today Our midfield was non existant The young players that came in, Forbes & McHugh didn't show anything to suggest that they can cut it Murphy had a good game Ojamaa's goal was an excellent finish The main thing is that we're in the next round