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Off topic but I have just watched Kilmarnock's equaliser at Tynecastle. The lines are drawn and it is identical to Hendry's disallowed goal on Saturday. The scorer is leaning and his shoulder is in front of the defender but this one stood. Very frustrating.

0-0 A clean sheet and keeper really didn't have a save. So it has to be a defender. Toss up between Welsh and McGinn. Went for McGinn.

it was not our day on Saturday. The first two goals had an element of luck. Others say the ball was moving at the quick free kick. I thought the player who received the ball was offside and the linesman was caught out by it. If the player had gone and scored instead of it going for a corner it would have been reviewed. The corner looked like a mis hit, a St Mirren player deflected it and it landed at a St Mirren players foot. The second goal was a great finish but again the ball was deflected into his path when a Motherwell player stuck out a leg. Two down was always going to be a tough gig. The managers team selection was wrong. Welsh should have played from the start and the handling of Slattery was all wrong. He changed the game at Livingstone and had a great game v United but should have been subbed off after 70 minutes to ensure he was ready for Saturday. Watt who has been outstanding played more bad passes on Saturday than he had in the whole season. Fadinger and Said were anonymous. That said maybe that is credit to St Mirren who allowed us to play it around at the back but once the ball was in midfield they chased and harried and got in our faces. It is now up to JBA to motivate the players and make sure we don't dwell on this. A win at Aberdeen would be great.

Will the Cooper bar be open tomorrow and showing the game?

One worrying thing for me is that two managers, McInnes and Presley have changed things at half time and we have struggled. After the first round of games all managers will have had a close look at us. Let's hope JBA is able to adjust our way of playing if the opposition has sussed us out.

Manager needs to rethink the goalie being 40 yards from his goal. That cost us today and other clubs will be watching. Oh and imagine the melt down if it had been SOD who gave the ball away for the goal.

The tactic of a defender taking a by kick and passing it to the goalie boils my piss. By definition the goalie is the worst outfield player in the team and if we continue with that tactic we will lose crazy goals. Also having the goalie standing 40 yard off his line will lead to someone scoring from their own half. Twente tried a long range shot in the second half but it was a poor effort. I think the manager is in for a rude awakening when the real stuff starts.

Youngsters on now and it's 2-0

Half time subs, SOD, Balmer, Sparrow and Halliday. Off McGinn, Wilson, Miller, Stam

Water break after 20 minutes.

Team v Twente looks like 442 Ward, Johnny K Gordon McGinn Wilson Watt Fadinger Miller Slattery Maswanhise. Stam

It looks like Naismith has had a big GTF as he has ruled himself out. Thank goodness

I remember him as a tiny wee lad at Braidhurst in the seventies. He didn't half grow.

Our colours are claret and amber. Not claret, amber and white. In the fifties and sixties shorts were either black or white. Now we can have claret or amber shorts.

The manager that is being touted that really frightens me is Maloney

It's the people who put money into Davel then jumped ship. Will they stick it out this time?

NO Mashwanhi

On 4/2/2025 at 5:37 PM, thewelllfan said: Players Leaving at end of Current season/Loan expiring Balcombe - Returning to Brentford Ward - Contract Expiring Mair - Returning to Norwich Kaleta- Returning to Wolves Casey - Contract Expiring Blaney - Contract Expiring Thompson - Contract Expiring Seddon - (Club option of further year) Mcginn - (Club option of further year) Davor - Contract Expiring Halliday - Contract Expiring Paton - Contract Expiring Andrews - Returning to Coventry Callahan - Contract Expiring Taveres- Returning to Hibs Ebiye- Contract Expiring Plange - Returning to Palace Dickson - Returning to Man City Vale - Returning to Blackburn Luke Armstrong - Returning to Carlisle We are relying on a squad of players who have no investment in the club. To go into a relegation battle with a whole load of players who will all be off as soon as the season finishes and will not suffer the consequences of relegation really gives me the fear.

A massive game. The most important for a while. A win gives us a slim chance of top six but more importantly puts us nine points in front of Kilmarnock and at least seven in front of Dundee with six games left. Lose and it is three in front of Killie and four in front of Dundee if they beat St Mirren. We will then be right in the relegation play off mix.

I remember getting into an argument with someone when I think it might have been Owen Coyle missed a sitter in the last minute that would have won us the game. Eyes bulging, froth coming out of his mouth this guy left the player without a name. I asked him how do you think he will be feeling tonight knowing he could have won us the game got a win bonus for him and his mates and been the hero. I am sure he will be sick. The answer was something like he's shite anyway

Cammy was a real gentleman. He was so pleasant and easy going. I got to know him in the late sixties when I was a reserve player and Cammy drove me to training. I met him a few times in Hamilton and he was always up for a chat. He had a mountain of stories from his long career in the game. He once told me that one of the best things he did in football was to get a leave of absence from his work (he was a PE teacher and part time coach at Fir Park) so that he could be involved in the preparations for the 1991 cup final when he worked along with Tommy McLean and Tom Forsyth. I'm so sad to hear of his passing.

Wimmer gives me the fear. No idea of Scottish football and is only familiar with English football. Talking of press and energy, things that any manager would say. Only a gradual introduction to his ideas when we need a quick change.God I hope I am so wrong.

The bloated squad is a real problem. The new manager has to assess over 30 players and come up with his best eleven. This could take a few weeks especially if he is new to Scotland and has little prior knowledge of our players.

Remember the old joke. How did Rangers get on today? They lost 1-0. Oh who missed the penalty?

I can imagine the Valakari out, melt down on here if we had taken 2 points from 9 games. I find it extraordinary that the biggest critics of Kettlewell come on here and defend a manager who is regularly criticised for his tactics and team set up. Anyway we have 30 points after 21 games. Any Motherwell manager's first priority is to keep us in the league. In the last 10 years the highest points that have been in the play off is 36. (that's what we had in 2015) so with 17 games to go even if the total is higher this year we need three wins to achieve that objective.