Ya Bezzer!

Deliberately feigning injury to get a player sent off should be a red card offence. Referees might be incompetent and VAR might be a shambles but I doubt they are actively cheating like Slattery was. Trying to twist the incident so that the SFA is at fault is ridiculous. Our player cheated, got caught and is now being rightly punished. Let it be a lesson to others, Motherwell players or otherwise that that kind of blatant cheating is totally unacceptable. And BTW the sort of pathetic paranoia that 'it wouldn't happen to this team or that team ' is exactly the same justification the Old Firm use all the time. Take some ownership.

Falkirk have drawn 1 out of the last 16 league matches. They tend to either win or lose.

Sparrow just doesn't convince me and O'Donnell slotting in for Longelo is filling a position and nothing more. With no Longelo, Just playing up front and Said not selected there was no one running with the ball from midfield and the whole team was far too static. Askou tried something different today but it didn't work and hopefully goes in the bin after today. We've been getting 40-50 touches in the box this season and today it was 14. Pretty much sums it up.

Cos it was our game in hand which if we'd won would put us right in the mix for a title challenge, the media had actually started taking us seriously, and we instantly lost to a Dundee team, that while improving, hadn't won in their last 3 home matches, including Livingston.

Maybe now we can start looking at the fact that O'Donnell will be 34 next season, McGinn will be 36 and Welsh will be somewhere else earning much more money.

First of all Celtic were absolutely abysmal at the weekend. Probably worse than any Nancy performance. Secondly, Celtic have only won one match against a Top 5 team at Celtic Park this season and that was against us with an injury time goal. If we go into this match with the same old loser mentality the rest of this season has been a waste of time.

Was just looking and unless I've made a mistake Hearts are due 4 away games and Hibs are due 4 home games post split which obviously won't happen. Which means there is going to have to be some 'unfairness' in the post split fixtures. I'm guessing the most obvious way to fix it would be to have Hearts play Hibs at Tynecastle 3 times.

Form - Last 10 league matches Motherwell 7-2-1 23pts Hearts 7-1-2 22pts Rangers 6-4-0 22pts Falkirk 6-0-4 18pts Hibernian 5-3-2 18pts Celtic 5-2-3 17pts Dundee 4-3-3 15pts Dundee Utd 2-3-5 9pts Kilmarnock 2-2-6 8pts St Mirren 1-3-6 6pts Livingston 0-5-5 5pts Aberdeen 1-1-8 4pts Potential points total Hearts 90 Celtic 85 Rangers 84 Motherwell 83

Since we will be in different groups after the split, Dundee United didn't score a goal against us this season.

I've been looking around, as far as I can see only two other teams in a major European league have a better defensive record - Union St Gilloise (15) and Roma (16). We've also scored the same number of goals in the same number of games as Liverpool.

Celtic have two games in hand, while we have a game in hand over Rangers, so I think the worst result would be for Celtic to win. A draw would be best though.

This is goals conceded in the last 10 league matches. Motherwell - 3 Rangers - 8 Hearts - 10 Dundee - 11 Falkirk - 11 Hibs - 12 Celtic - 14 Dundee Utd - 17 Aberdeen - 18 ST Mirren - 20 Kilmarnock - 22 Livingston - 23 Celtic have actually conceded 2 or more goals in 6 out of the last 10.

This is a game we should be winning but I noticed a couple of things. Our pattern of results is 2 wins, a draw, 2 wins, a draw, 2 wins..... So I decided to look and see when we last won 3 matches in a row and was surprised that it was way back in September 2023. Hopefully that stat gets updated at the weekend!

Everyone does it in the modern game but it's another total failure for VAR.

So pleased about this win because I'm one of those people who thinks we are genuine challengers for the league, but we had to bounce back after that midweek set back and we did with gusto. We've been the best team in the league over the last 20 or so matches, we now have the joint best goal difference in the league. If we keep this form and performance level going this team could do something amazing but are of course going to have to beat the teams above us.