Ya Bezzer!

Just because football is weird I'm predicting a clean sheet! 😂

There is a lot of inexperienced referees at the top level right now, probably more than there ever has been before. It's not going to get better any time soon. Then you throw in VAR and the fact that the laws of the game are being re-defined almost on a bi-annual basis and it just makes things even worse.

At the end of the day it's easier to coach 'negative' tactics than it is attacking football because attacking football depends on talented footballers. If you can't afford to pay talent and you don't produce any talent then inevitably Scottish football isn't going to be a great watch. But fans are also to blame. They don't want to watch technical football ("Get it up the park!") and have absolutely no patience in terms of team building or coaching. They want instant results and if you win 1 draw 1 lose 3 you can guarentee a sizeable section of the support will want you fired. There is no medium or long term thinking at pretty much every level of the game.

I agree with the first part, McInnes has made an entire managerial career out of shitfesting it. I'm not sure I agree with the second part. He's the sort of the definition of Scottish football's tactical backwardness.

No one of any integrity could talk about that game and not say what he did.

You could name any two Motherwell players and it'd be true!

In the end the referee has done the players and managers a favour by shifting the post match conversation. We were pretty poor tonight. Thought we started well enough and were the better team in the opening stages but as soon as we scored we went completely off the boil. Second half was all Kilmarnock and the equaliser was coming. Could the goalkeeper have done better? Might be being harsh but I thought in real time that he could have got a better set of hands to it. Even without the red card incident the officials had an absolute shocker tonight. Far side lines man looked like he did five minutes revision on the offside law right before the game and the less said about the referee the better. In the end a draw was probably about right but it's disappointing when you are `1-0 up at home and you don't take advantage.

I don't have a problem with Dundee Utd being awarded a penalty for that as long as we get ours. Just basic inconsistency yet again.

Got to be Stam. And I said after the last home match he hadn't shown me much. Well he did today.

Score 4 goals at home and you still can't enjoy the game! Holy shit that game just about summed up everything about how Motherwell make everything as hard as possible for ourselves. Score in 52 seconds, 3 minutes later we are waiting around for a VAR penalty decision at the other end. Go 3-1 up, should be cruising. Goalie concedes an absolute howler. Hey, 4-2, should be easy enough now, eh? Oh here's our old pal Louie to give us 7 or 8 minutes of absolutely bricking it as we stubble towards victory by the skin of our teeth. It could easily have been 4-5 to United. Or any other outlandish score you want to type out 2-5, 7-5, 6-6 etc. I've heard people say we play negative football. Well that was absolutely a game that should be been shut down. Instead Stephen O'Donnell is brought on to defend and ends up chasing a ball 100 yards up the pitch with minutes to go while Casey is trying to take a run and jump at balls only he can see in his imagination. But, OK, OK, we won so I can calm down now.

The responsibility for letting off flares is on those that let of flares. No one else. Can we just stop making excuses?

If there are 4,500 fans at a home match there are probably a 100 or less that are causing all these problems, pyro and other wise. Just ban them. Get rid of them. They are costing the club it's reputation and possible fines, so just take a hard line and get them to fuck. Problem solved. Why should we pander to a tiny minority in our fan base and let them cost the club money and potentially harm themselves or others? They have been warned time and time again and they don't give a damn so just stop fucking around and deal with it.

Obviously we've been shite lately but we are still 5 points ahead of last season. Nothing against criticising the team and manager as long as there is a wider perspective on where we are. But you'd think it was -5 points for a loss sometimes with some of the comments. We've won 6 and lost 7 this season. Yet the criticism seems to vastly outweigh the praise.

1 clean sheet in the league since 24 Feb. That's 27 matches. We've only had 4 in the last 53 league matches.

I wouldn't write him off just yet but I'll say this. There have been quite a few players come to Scotland from Australia in recent years. Very few of them have been any good.