Ya Bezzer!

SOD is so slow these days he's not viable as anything other than a hold-the-line type defender. If your tactics are to sit deep and play with 4 or 5 across the 18 yard line, fine, but I don't think that's how I'd be approaching this match. I think SOD's role these days is to come on late in the match to shore us up defensively. As an out ball, not so much, especially against Celtic who play with pacy wingers.

Just something I noticed about the Old Firm, and hopefully I don't put a curse on us by mentioning it, but between them Rangers and Celtic have spent close to £80,000,000 on transfer fees this summer alone and yet despite this 12 out of the 14 league matches they have played this season have have had 1 or less goals between them and their opponent. That's an incredible amount of money to drop in Scottish football to basically drop points or scrap past teams with a tiny fraction of their spending power.

Our record at Dundee is incredibly spotty so todays result could literally be anything. The last six is literally L, D, W, L, W, D. If you are looking for trends, Maswanhise has scored in 2 out of the last 3 against Dundee.

It's to do with people over reacting to a single defeat. It's one match that got away from us.

Seems like some people need a bit of a reminder.

I'm prepared to put that down as just one of those nights. Thought we played some good stuff in the first half an hour but we found it difficult to find space with Aberdeen basically playing 8 at the back. They score with their only shot on target and we go in at half time 1-0 down in a match we've totally controlled and dominated. I think we had something like 80% of possession at that point. Second half we give a goal away with a mistake within seconds and then the game is gone and a lot of heads went down. Might as well blown for full time then as we just weren't at the races 2nd half but that can happen when things go against you. Worth noting we have 8 points after 6 games when it took us 8 matches to achieve that last season. I think the season can still go either way but we can't afford too many more losses like that because they absolutely kill confidence.

We've averaged 59% possession over four league matches, two of which were away from home. That's pretty good.

Incredible to see individual players being slated when we've just put in a superb team performance and got a great result. It was the same at the match last night when all I heard was Vogts being criticised. Not great goals, great performance, great start to the season..... It seems like even when things are about as good as they will ever be for Motherwell fans, a lot of them still want to whine and moan. Seriously, after last night we are talking about Maswanhise's alleged taxi conduct? It'd be funny if it wasn't also grim as fuck.

This decade Ibrox is our third most productive away venue after Easter Road and St Mirren.

OK, United had 10 men for most of the match but we turned in a bit of a master class tonight and even before the red car we looked a level above them. Hit the post twice, keeper has made a couple of decent saves, could have been a 5 or 6 nil easily. Lowery was superb, Kanga looked good too. We were just a slick outfit tonight.

Well Lyall Cameron is bound to score a header against us!

Didn't we turn down a big fee for him from a Norwegian team last season?

A lot of stuff to look at and learn from but at the end of the day there are three undefeated teams in the league Celtic, St. Mirren and us.

It's one thing to say this on a forum or conversation, most people would agree with you, but in actual reality It's an absolute nightmare to legislate - which is why it's probably not going to happen.

I think it's pretty simple. If you are costing the club more money in fines than you bring in individually then the club has every right to jettison you. The club (and every Scottish club since it's far from a Motherwell specific issue) needs to clamp down on fan behaviour now. For a start any fan that goes on to the pitch should be insta-banned. Today's SFA announcement on Rangers and Celtic is a step in the right direction. Fans on the pitch. Stadium closure. Flares, stadium closure. The softly, softly approach just hasn't worked. It's well known in general society that 50% of all crime is committed by 10% of all criminals. Likewise all these supporter related problems are being committed by a very small number of people. If you nip this problem in the bud it'll soon be gone. You don't deal with it you simply embolden the small minority that are already creating issues.