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.

To be honest while they aren't great they aren't really any worse than the other teams around us.

Not sure what is more embarrassing the Motherwell 0 bit or the Hibs 3 bit. Abject performance. It was apparent from about 10 minutes we were going to do absolutely nothing in that game. Most of it is on the players, it's not the managers fault when a goalkeeper waves at a cross, but the manager also has to accept some blame when he's unable to alter the course of the game. That level of performance is unacceptable. Defenders looking at each other instead of defending, goalkeeper flapping, Hibs roughing us up and no one doing anything about it. Midfield basically absent with Lennon Miller trying to do a 4 man job himself. Up front it's all wrong. For me it's gone south since we introduced different players into the team. Stam, sorry, but he's been completely ineffective. Wilson moving into midfield, not happening. Seddon and Balmer coming in has put us backwards and turned us into a throw in freak show. Davor is a dead shirt, Halliday had improved but he was stinking today. Watt came on at HT and had zero impact. Upfront, I said it back then and I'll say it again. With Robinson up front we were much better than now. Maswanhise needs to be playing on the touch line instead of playing half the match as a centre forward. OK, McGinn is injured and that forces a change but there has just been too much tinkering around when we had a system that worked earlier in the season.

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.