Ya Bezzer!

Don't think anyone is saying Miller is a first pick but you could have him in the squad and maybe give him some minutes of the bench. If you look at the three emerging young Scottish players this season, Barron, McCowan and Miller, none of them will get a look in under Clarke.

Of all the players who have started a league match in the Scottish Premiership this season 70% are non Scots.

Noticed that we've not taken league points three fixtures in a row at any point this season and we've won our last two.... Ross County have also only lost at home to Celtic and Aberdeen this season. Although on the other hand they have only scored 1 goal from open play in their last 6 matches (plus a pen and an OG). With 6 draws in 13 matches this season for County it might be a tight affair.

Had literally completely forgotten about Craig Clay. I will never forget Joe Chalmers performance at Greenock though. Jesus. 🤣

He move his hand in an upward motion. If you move your hand towards the ball it's always going to be a penalty. Well maybe not against Rangers and Celtic but almost always!

A lot of the current top level referees are pretty inexperienced. It's the same as inexperienced players they are going to make mistakes. In a way you can accept it from Hardie but Beaton is a different story.

I'm giving it to the man with the smallest shin pads in the world - Kaleta.

Motherwell love to make a 2-0 lead hard work! It's never been any other way! 🤣 First half there were times when it looked like we could rack up our highest win of the season. St Johnstone were so slack in their passing and we looked dangerous going forward. Thought Kaleta and Maswanhise caused them a lot of problems and gave us the out ball we've lacked when they've not been selected. Second half we just turn off a bit and St Johnstone got better. Unfortunate penalty, one of those ones where it's pretty soft but it's always going to be given when the player brings his hand towards the ball, or at least that's how I saw it in real time. After that it was the standard nervy last 20 minutes that we've all seen a thousand times before. Finally VAR did us a favour. Good 3 points, could have been better in the second half. And Davor missing that sitter at the end, yikes. Good to see Paton back. For me he's a McGinn-esque player. Decent, gives you 100% every week.

The whole striker thing is amazing. We are living in the 21st century when football as a whole has moved away from strikers. It's a legitimate tactic now not to play with a traditional striker. If you even take a look around Europe at the highest level the best strikers are guys like Lewandowski and Kane who, football wise, are from a disappearing era. I know Motherwell isn't a town that is on the cutting edge of modern development but surely fans have noticed football isn't like the 1980s any more.

It will be anathema to most Motherwell supporters to give any praise to Rangers but I thought Rangers were actually pretty good off the ball. Their press was good and they won every aerial duel. They made it difficult to get any flow going and they took Miller out the game. On the ball they are still way below where you'd expect a team with Rangers resources to be but the ugly side of the game they did well. However a lot of Motherwell fans simply won't accept that the oppositions performance had something to do with our performance.

The last manager to actually take us forward was Graham Alexander so maybe you shouldn't be that surprised. A lot of our fans are living in cloud cuckoo land and a lot of them use supporting the club as an excuse to target individuals. The analysis on here in a lot of cases comes down to faces fitting.

St Johnstone have been better recently but they are still vulnerable defensively. You'd imagine the first thing they will do in the next window is get a goalkeeper cos the ones they have are probably the poorest in the league. Upfront Kimpioka and Sidibe are big dangers. It's almost like a bizarro St Johnstone, for so long successful with a tight defence without offering much up front, now the total opposite.

Kaleta was our best player.

Well the manager achieved our first semi final in a while and only the 11th League Cup semi final in our existence. We've rarely ever beaten the Old Firm in our post war history and the only two times we've beaten Rangers or Celtic in a semi final in 40 plus years was a historically bad Celtic team that didn't finished top 2 over a run of about 5 seasons, and a Rangers team managed by Pedro Caixinha that was even worse than this Rangers team. We've over achieved getting to the semi final. Slating the players and manager seems a bit unseemly to me. The odds before this match were Rangers 1.3 Motherwell 8.5. The bookies don't get it wrong very often.

Poor performance. Never really got into the game at all. Looking for a decent start but we hardly had a touch for the first 10-15 minutes. Rangers weren't great but our goal came against the run of play. Midfield was never in the match, not even for a spell did we have any control and I don't think we've won a header in Rangers half all match. Even Lennon Miller was subdued today. You need big game players for matches like that and we don't have them. When Rangers scored 4 minutes into the 2nd half the writing was on the wall. We didn't get it right tactically but lets be honest most of the players froze as players at our level usually do. Just need to put it behind us and try and keep our decent league form going.

Even if that was the case surely exits have to be kept clear? I'll take a look at the thread.

Rangers will always be favourites in these ties but this is a great opportunity to beat them in a semi final. Clement is under huge pressure and failure will see Rangers implode. Missing O'Donnell and McGinn with their experience is a bit of a blow though. Fingers crossed though, it would be a nice boost personally since I have a pretty shitty week coming up!

Was anything made about the massive overcrowding in the South Stand during this game? Not for the first time when hosting Celtic. You'd think this kind of very serious safety issue would be a topic for discussion but I've not seen anything, although to be fair I've not been online much recently.

Good first 20 minutes, we should have taken the lead but we didn't and looked burst afterwards sitting way too deep. Our strikers were 35 yards from our goal line and Celtic's centre halves were sitting 10 yards in our half. You just can't play like that against Celtic as their players will always be better at one-twos, making little triangles, passing, winning the ball and finding space in tight situations. It's only a matter of time. You actually need to play a more expansive type of football and we didn't, at least after those first 20 minutes. First two Celtic goals came from us back pedalling far too much when we should have defended much higher up the pitch. At 2-0 it was game over and basically a training match. I assume as it went to VAR it was a red card but I didn't see anything in it from where I was. Overall a match were Celtic's overall quality, at least in a Scottish context, was clear. With the exception of Lennon Miller none of our players get close to theirs but I still would like to see a more positive attitude in general. When we are on the ball we should be seeing multiple players automatically making runs into the box and it's like maybe one will go, or maybe not. I understand that physically, mentally, technically we don't have top level players but I'd still like to see more attacking intent. Defences are poor in this league, that's including Celtic's, and if you can get that right you'll carry a big threat. Unfortunately we aren't and it's mostly tactically and systemic rather than the actual players.

All our best performances this season have been Robinson up top with two attacking midfielders in a 3-4-2-1. You obviously have a bee in your bonnet about this guy. Robinson was better first half than Watt was second half. If it's a choice between Robinson's shot stats or winning I know which one is more important. The big problem we have isn't Robinson playing, it's having 5 across the midfield with no natural attacker out the lot of them.

Yep. Poor quality match. Dundee have won it and they pretty much did nothing in the second half. Was a bit puzzled by the half time substitutes. To be fair we were poor but taking off the two strikers who had been totally isolated during the match didn't seem like the correct cure for that particular illness. Once again two up front didn't really work and we looked like we did earlier in the season before we brought in Maswanhise to link up the play. So why then take off the two strikers, replace them with another two and continue with a broken system? Overall, a match with not much quality or chances. Tavares should have finished and skied it and I think it was Lennon Miller that got off a long range shot that the keeper did well to save. Other than that wasn't really anything to talk about other than a few 18 yard boxes stramashes. Dundee probably just edged it as they had some momentum in the 30 minutes up to half time and you could say a goal was coming but really today was a big let down, even putting aside the fact that we lost.

11 of Dundee's 13 matches this season have been 2.5 goals or over. If you just count league matches of the 14 matches Dundee and Motherwell have played, 12 of them have been 2.5 goals or over. Might be a bad day to be a goal net.

Just watched the Rangers highlights to see what the fuss is about and......that Hibs penalty is nothing like the one in our game. The Souttar one should be a penalty but I don't think it should even be a yellow card. Casey's was a flat up save! 🤣

I'm going for Miller. Though Liam Gordon was excellent as well.

He was unlucky to get a serious injury right after joining Hull. These things can make or break a career. Just look at David Turnbull who's really struggled after two serious injuries.