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Tony Watt by a country mile. A few others had good games and Slattery was no doubt the pick of those, but Watt's touch, hold up play, ball retention, work rate were all first class. The finish for his goal was none too shabby either.

He has been in this vein of form for over a year. If he was challenging for a midfield berth I would agree with you, but we are really short of strikers and it would only take an injury to Adams, Dykes or Nesbitt to have him under consideration given our dearth of alternative options. Much in the same way Gallagher got into the squad, you only need to be the right guy at the right time.

He hasnt featured in our matchday squad since 21st August. His appearance at Ibrox was on the 29th August.

Beginning to wonder if his non appearance on our bench is due to discipline issues and he has just chucked it. Even Robbie Crawford has made the bench the last couple of weeks.

Not sure googleing "why is Steven Lawless a mutant" would have shed any light on the original post......

As well as a mutant? Poor guy......

Certainly an area of the team Scotland are short in. Not any worse a shout than Nesbitt on current form.

To be fair, Im not on Twitter so a bit of context might have been useful. Totally agree he shouldnt be tweeting about other teams. Thats a discipline issue Hopefully GA will deal with it.

Im not sure that Grimshaw has been poor. Grimshaw has been Grimshaw. We all know he is limited on the ball, but will run himself into the ground for the team. To progress, we need more than that. But right now, we dont appear to have many better options that are fit to play.

Really? Is this purely because he is a Rangers fan? If you want to question his football ability fair enough. But we arent a big enough or rich enough club that can afford to ignore players becausen of their personal preferences, surely? For the record, I dont see him as a first team starter.......

This could be a proper battle. I hope it turns out that way as we are perfectly set up for that kind of game and to play on the counter attack. It would be good to have Sondre back, but to be fair to Lamie and Mugabi they both look better players alongside Ojala. Huge game and another massive test.

I read that Celtic have denied Dundee United tickets for todays game as well. Althought to be fair given the view at both grounds, you would be as well staying at home and watching on a stream.

That was the one that put the tin lid on it for me. He had been horribly inconsistent all game and was lecturing players like they were wee schoolboys when they got annoyed at him for damn good reason. But you NEVER see that decision given. A shrill blow of the whistle and a waggy finger to get back is usually about it. To make it worse SOD hadnt actually stolen that much yardage. Just a very officious humourless robotic performance.

Really good 3 points from a tough fixture. Ross County moved the ball about well, but similar to the Aberdeen game, we limited them mostly to chances from wide angles and Kellys saves were all ones youd expect him to make. I think until Goss is fit or we stumble across some other combination in midfield we will just have to get used to this style of football. It is effective, if not overly easy on the eye at times. Slattery was very good again today, he is carrying our midfield pretty much by himself every week. He is the only one in there with any composure ir ability to make a forward pass. With another decent player in there beside him he would look even better. Took his goal very well. Tony Watt was outstanding though. His first touch is excellent and his ability to take the ball in and drag us up the field, dance round players or just buy us a foul is a joy to watch. Bring on the Jambos!

Always seems to set the right tone. Still early days, but if the team keep following his mantra, you cant help but feel we are headed in the right direction. Disappointed that Sondre is out, but if Ojala has shaken off his knock then we should be ok at the back. Would like to see some fluency coming into the midfield, but ultimately any kind of win will do!

Just cause Kirky isnae in yet!

This^^^^^^ My hero!

The german model appears to be a good one. They seem to get more right than they get wrong. It would be nice if we had that kind of leadership and innovation in Scottish Fitba. Meanwhile, Celtic and Rangers could always cut their cloth and live within their means?

Do you not think £34 for an adult and 2 kids is reasonable though? I think the club have a difficult task here. If we dont charge fans of the big 2 and the likes of Hearts the same as they charge us, lots of our fans would be really unhappy about the fact that we are giving their fans preferential treatment. I agree that £30 to watch an SPL match is ridiculous. But we didnt start the fire......

We dont appear to charge away fans more than our own, and we do very well by kids. I dont think we can criticised by anyone in this regard. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/tickets/fir-park-entry-prices/

Allan Burrows has already proven that he listens to our fans and stands up for them when required. You just need to look at the play off games v Rangers and the fact that they no longer get access to tickets in the POD for proof of that. Both these decisions cost the club financially, but were the right thing to do to protect our supporters and enhance the matchday atmosphere when they visit. They should of course be charged whatever they charge us to go to their stadia as playing the Mighty Well should clearly be considered a "premium fixture"

We should never take any team lightly. We just need to look to the Airdrie game for proof of that. No easy games in this league, so the test is how we approach it. Do we have the right mental attitude? Can we follow up a good result at Ibrox with a solid performance at home? If we can, its a big chamce to put another 3 points on the board and set ourselves up nicely for the trip to Tynecastle.

Looking forward to this one. Each game that comes along now seems to be setting us a specific test. If we really are destined to be a top 6 team this season, then we need to go out and show it by despatching a team that has caused us problems in the past, but that most would fancy to be finishing bottom 6 this season. A lot will rest on who is fit and who is injured. I think our chances will be greatly improved if either Sondre or Ojala or both are fit. No harm to Mugabi or Lamie, but there is a reason that we have looked steadier defensively of late. Goss would be another that I think would improve our chances if fit. Grimmy gives plenty of energy, but it would be nice to have someone alongside Slattery that was comfortable on the ball. Front 3 pretty much picks itself, with Roberts the only one in real contention to challenge them at the momment. Fingers crossed our physios can work some magic.

Ojala and Slattery had very good games and Woolery was much improved. However, went for the unfancied McGinley as he was rock solid all game. Probably his best game in a Motherwell shirt at the most difficult of venues.

A very good point at a traditionally difficult venue for us. I thought we started fairly well and it was good to see us trying to play on the front foot at Ibrox for a change. However, goals change games and theirs was clearly offside and very hard to take given the start we had made. After that their crowd got behind them and you could see them visibly take confidence from it. We held our discipline and defended well for the most part, although we rode our luck once or twice. Second half I thought it took us 10 minutes or so to get back into the game, but you could see us slowly gaining in confidence and when we scored I certainly felt we could get a second, but we were wasteful with the ball at crucial stages and let them off the hook a bit. No idea where the 6 minutes injury time came from but delighted we were able to defend so resolutely for a well earned draw. This team is starting to demonstrate a mental toughness we havent had for sometime. Previous Motherwell teams would have crumbled and lost that game. We are far from the finished article and still need to get the midfield sorted, but if we can keep our best players fit and on the pitch, we might just do something this season.