Ya Bezzer!

We've been poor apart from the goals and don't deserve to be ahead but football isn't and never will be fair so we'll take the good fortune. Good to see Campbell score. Got 6 goals from a curtailed season last time and he's got us the lead tonight. He gets into good areas and I think its a part of his game that goes a bit unnoticed and something he can get better at as well. I did say after the first game of the season we build the team around Turnbull and Campbell....

With all due respect you are stretching a bit. We finished four points behind a great Rangers side in 93/94. Celtic at their lowest ebb in 93/94 were still a better than any team in the league last season other than, arguably, the current Celtic team. Again the Hibs and Hearts sides of that era were far superior to last seasons, budget cuts or not. Aberdeen were still a genuine force with title aspirations etc, etc. The point is Robinson supporters are using 3rd place as if it denotes a fixed value like a Queen in a pack of cards. It doesn't. It varies from year to year - points, wins, defeats, goals scored, goals conceded, standard of opposition etc. It's entirely possible to finish a season in 3rd place and be mediocre. Or in McLean's case, be probably the best Motherwell side most of us have actually seen. If you genuinely think our team and our performances last season matched other 3rd place finishes then say so and stop with the parlour games. Of course, I know you don't because to do so would be ridiculous.

It's not a negative spin. It's putting into context. Finishing 3rd was an achievement, no doubt. But it isn't equal with our other high league position finishes. Only a fool would say Robinson's 3rd place had equal status with, say, Tommy McLean's, for example, or, in my opinion, with any of our other 2nd or 3rd place finishes. Robinson deserves some praise for guiding us to being 'the best of the rest' but at the same time it must be accepted that the standard of the league last term was atrocious and that almost any other year our performances wouldn't have seen us finish where we did. We need to look beyond just finishing 3rd like that fact alone encapsulated all that needed to be known about last season. The two best things Robinson has done in his time at the club have been his League Cup run and the second half of the season 2018-19.

I agree it's only two games BUT the whole 'finished third' thing needs to be put into context. Firstly our form was in a serious dive when the season was curtailed prematurely by Covid. Secondly since 2000 a third placed team has only lost more matches from 38 twice, than we did in 30 last term (which was 12 defeats) ie, we weren't even that great in, probably, the lowest quality top level season ever. Also we've only won 1 match from our last 11 (from a pretty favourable fixture list BTW) so it's not just a problem that's suddenly appeared. It's way, way too early for burning effigies but I do think that there have been consistent problems over a period of time that just haven't been addressed by the management team, the right back position for instance, and people are entitled to vent their frustrations. Robinson has plenty time to turn things around but ultimately this is a result driven business and if you don't win that's just how it is.

Since James Scott left we've won 1 match out of 11.

So far this season we've got 5 shots out of 33 on target. Explains the two 0's I suppose....

Outside the brief Gorrin era it always has been under Robinson.

Been having an interminably indecisive text conversation with the other half so I've not even been paying attention today. Seems like trying to organise something with someone that changes their mind every 20 seconds is preferable to watching Motherwell.

After Celtic, we had the highest amount of possession in a game and the most shots in a game. Good. Then you get to shots on target and we were second worst. 1 shot on target out of 15 is awful. I have to say I'm not convinced of our strikers ability in front of goal. We don't have anyone you could really have any confidence will score you a goal going into a game, no Moult, no Coyne, no Higdon etc. Looks we need to get the shooting practice in.

One of Robinson's biggest flaws is his complete inability to mould a balanced squad. There is always too much of this, not enough of that.

Anyone that thinks Robinson is going to Bournemouth, or any Championship club, needs the interior of their house bubble wrapped.

Outside of Rangers and Celtic the league is utter garbage and much of a muchness. We could finish 3rd or 12th. When I was watching Aberdeen it struck me just how old the core of that squad is. They look tired to me. They were pish last season which is how we managed, somehow, to cling on to 3rd and I don't expect them to get better unless they bring in a slew of new signings which doesn't seem likely given their chat about huge financial loses. Hibs should be doing much better than last season. it will be interesting to see how Jack Ross does. Other than that there is really nothing out there that's above mediocre.

Part of the game is knowing when not to make a challenge. When players make these sort of challenges when it's completely unnecessary it actually really irritates me. It wasn't a red for violent conduct but some times I think players deserve red cards just for stupidity.

I lived down in Moulescomb for a bit in the early 90s. I actually used to get the bus up here at the weekends to go to Motherwell games. The enthusiasm of youth! Remembering going to a Brighton v Liverpool FA Cup match. Think it was 2-2 and Liverpool scored late to take it to a replay but my memory is hazy. It was a long time ago and those were the days of unrestrained, reckless abandon.....

Liam Grimshaw's style of football was made obsolete in 1867 when Queen's Park invented passing.

We missed Hartley defending and attacking corners most of the time he was here. Guy was perma-injured.

You have to assume he's not fit or carrying a niggle or something. Robinson must know what his record is when Campbell doesn't play. If he doesn't know it's P12 W2 D2 L8. Well now it's P13 W2 D2 L9!

Basic decision making right across the board was terrible. Manager trying to be clever with his selections, Gallagher's idiotic penalty give away, Long & Lang missing chances they should be putting away, Donnelly missing a penalty, Lang's daft challenge for a red card. Absolute self destruction tonight.

We have Campbell and Turnbull and one is on the bench and the other is out on the left. Just stupid. These are the players you build a team around. Also - can we start a GoFundMe to buy Ross Stewart?

It was 3-2 to Morton but it should have been 5, 6, 7, 8 to Morton. They absolutely demolished us and Joe Chalmers at left back got one of the worst goings over I've ever seen in football. McDonald on as a sub brought us back into it but even in Extra Time, when you'd have thought the momentum would be in our favour, Morton totally gubbed us and could have scored a 2 or 3 in the last half hour. It was one of the worst humiliations I've ever seen as a Motherwell fan. We've lost to teams like Alloa Athletic or Albion Rovers but they were crappy, scrappy matches that could have gone either way. Morton absolutely pumped us that night and we were an utter shambles. Probably not seen a lower league side roll us over like that since the Ayr United match at Fir Park.

Ha! Includes results like beating Spain in Spain and.....what else? Unless you think 1-0 wins over the likes of Slovakia or Bulgaria are noteworthy. By the way stats from the match; Possession - Spain 75% N. Ireland 25%. Corners - Spain 22 N. Ireland 0. Shots - Spain 25 N. Ireland 1. Fair play to them for winning but it was a fluke.

Barraclough must give a hell of an interview. Last I looked NI U21s hadn't won in 6 games and were second bottom of the group on 0 wins.

Scott Fox has inconsistent to say the least. He was poor at Thistle then had a better spell at Ross County but eventually went off the boil there too. Assuming he will be 2nd choice. Saw him last season play for Partick against Alloa and he was pretty ropey while Jamie McDonald at then other end was outstanding.

I doubt Tommy Wright left St Johnstone to come to Motherwell. His aspirations will either be England or international. The guy knows the league and how to grind out results but I'm not sure I'd especially want to watch his brand of football. They weren't exactly queuing up outside St Diarmid's on match days.

This. Guaranteed if the same happened to anyone on this forum at their place of work they would be pissed off about it and probably go on Twitter or Facebook to mouth off. From Tait's point of view the club have done him over. The club however has to take account of the new economic situation and since the contract hadn't been finalised I don't think they did anything 'wrong' but it was definitely an unfortunate situation. The club statement is, I maintain, badly worded and unprofessional looking. A multi million pound business putting out a retort in the form of an emotive press release detailing an employees contract negotiations is embarrassing. It's totally unnecessary. If anything the club comes off as bitter that Tait didn't sign the reduced contract.