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Always looks like he’s ready to burst into tears.

We have Preistman and Johnny K to come back so I think we are good.

Good mention for Thor, he won numerous balls in the air. That will give us another option to play a different attacking style. hope we can keep JT in right frame of mind. I’m sure he’s a bit down after that PK. He was totally none existent for his time in the secomd half. Had he scored the PK that might have been him off on a good run but now we have to wait and see how he handles it.

Lowery for me. Put in a hard working shift off the ball and a lot of good stuff with the ball. Coukd be a key player for us

At least next string of games has every team playing midweek.

We saw a few of those players coming back today. So lots to look forward to. Feel sorry for SOD. That was a total mismatch today but he hung in there and done well after getting booked pretty quickly. Towards the end I’m not sure if our defenders learned from Freiburg or just couldn’t catch the St Mirren guy but well done om not pulling him down when he was thru and Paulsen saves it.

I wouldn’t describe it as a worrying performance. Things we need to work on for sure though.

I know they have the new rule about player goes off for a minute if they have treatment but I thought they still stayed on if yellow card was given to opponent who injured the player?? they got a yellow amd we had to play a man down for at least a minute. That makes no sense!!

Let’s see what AJ and the team are made if. We were coasting and now we need to score another two with no reply.

Yesss deserved secomd goal

JT. Yaassss

Although our window closes Sept 3rd most others close Sept 1st, so I would assume we won’t sell to a Scottish club meaning we should be “fixed” by Tuesday.

Did Thor score last time he was here? Another 0-5 please.

On the other hand our young average age may well be our big advantage. Fearless, fit and full of running, getting better with every game and training session, as the season goes on.

The way injuries are going he coukd be starting every week in a different position at the back or right mid.

They definitely have a lot of pluses in their favor and so easily coukd have an untarnished reputation if they just follow the rules. Them bringing in money by being paying fans is very easily eradicated by the outgoing money required to pay fines. Once they (whoever they are) start costing the club money repeatedly then it is better without them. Would rather have them at the games but at some point you have to draw The line and say no more.

Can’t believe we are being written off from European football by some oF our fans. We had Jens for a season and AJ has been here 5 minutes and look how much we have improved, whilst dealing with “best” players leaving and big injury list. We may not win a european contest but we are already more than capable of Competing and what a joy it would be to see us competing in league format euro competition. I’d rather have that than the meaningless league cup but I do understand that people would want us to win a league cup. It would be ideal to do both.

On the plus side being in Europe may hamper Hearts, Celtic and Hibs(?) in the Scottish league and aside from that I think it has been a good comparison for us to gage where we are as a football team and I’d say it confirms we are heading in the right direction.

Looking beyond today I think we have a pretty strong team and a decent squad, for the season ahead, when all or most of the players are fit. It could be after tonight that we are the only team out of the 5 Scottish teams that won’t be playing in Europe but that’s more down to the strength of our opponent rather than our performance. However, we are not out yet COYW!!! Let’s go for it

Haven’t seen Motherwell play in Europe but hopefully rectify that soon. The next best thing is hearing about about all the travel adventures. Good luck to all those traveling and hope you get rewarded with a great display from our team.

Our defense looking pretty good, our midfield looking pretty good, surely we can get one or two of the forwards on our books to start scoring? AP, Hendry, Thor, JT, RCC, new guy.

We can take a few Positives from the game but also a few lessons. We certainly didn’t embarrass ourselves and didn’t allow a goal from open play but obviously we need to look at how we defend set pieces. Freiburg definitely better than us but of course they are since their squad is about 240m versus our 14M. Wouldn’t surprise me if Freiburg win the whole tournament. Realistically we won’t win the tie but hoping for a good performance in Germany

While disappointing result, we were playing the Europa league runners up and a team that are almost worth 20X the amount we are worth. We are also missing key players and still bedding in new players and new manager. Looking at the bigger picture I think it looks very bright for our season ahead. Hopefully we can go over there and play well and get a decent result.

I can’t tell from the stream how noisy our fans are. Nees the crowd to fire up and help the players get going…… and keep going.

I’m hoping we keep JT and use him out wide where he played his best stuff last season. We want as strong a squad as possible ao keeping him will help towards that.