El Grew

Not that they are required based on what we watched from them yesterday but the stats from the SPFL website show St Mirren are top of the crime count league with 396 fouls and 74 yellow cards. Nuff said I think!

A draw probably about the right result as neither side really did enough to win it. We were always up against it after giving them a 2 goal start.

Not too take anything away from today, but what about this for a series of results: Season 1959/60 League Cup 12/8/59 Rangers 1-2 M’Well 26/8/59 M’Well 2-1 Rangers League 28/11/59 M’Well 2-1 Rangers 18/4/60 Rangers 0-2 M’Well Four wins on the trot and all in the same season.

Wow! All credit to the new management duo and the players today for a terrific performance. That 1st half was one of the best I’ve seen from a ‘Well side in a long time. To be 2-0 up at half-time at Mordor was totally unreal. Sure the 2nd half was hold onto your hat stuff at times but the players held their nerve well and Rangers were a spent and sorry looking bunch at time up.

You’re never out of a game at 1-0 and I did fear the worst when they equalised, but all credit to the players for getting their sleeves rolled up and going for the win. What a difference it makes not giving the opposition 2/3 of the park to play in. I know it may have weakened us taking Halliday, Miller and Slattery off but Halliday was jiggered and Slattery & Miller are both just coming back after injury so I think it was the right thing to do. Hopefully this win helps to lift the players (and fans) spirits. Messrs Wimmer and Koc seem like a breath of fresh air. COYW.

I believe that we’ve signed too many players that have already been carrying some sort of injury.🤬

IMO we have got the worst squad of players I can recall since 1967/68 when we went down. I think where we are right now, that talking about tactics and formations etc. is a complete waste of time. Those picked to play against Dundee should be told that their job is a straightforward one - go out, put in a shift and win the f*cking game because they owe it to the club and the fans.

Current form would tend to support your thinking: Us at Home P13 W5 D3 L5 F17 A22 Pts 18 Dundee Away P12 W3 D3 L6 F17 A22 Pts 12 Having watched us through the years, more times than not when we’ve been we involved in 6 pointer games we bottle it.

I think what you say is fair and reasonable and I too always felt he had a limit on his football ability. However, I always felt he made the most of the attributes he did have and always worked his socks off when he played for us. I always felt he would be best used as a defence protecting midfielder, operating in the spaces between defence and midfield. And like you, I’d have him back.

Be interesting to see how Alan Campbell does against us.

Thanks Kyrk. 🤣🤣🤣

An intriguing, if slightly risky appointment from a board I didn’t think had it in them to think outside the box and all credit to them for that and for avoiding the usual suspects whose names appear every time there’s a managerial vacancy. A very warm welcome to our club Michael and wishing you all the very best in your new venture. I hope it won’t be too much of a culture shock for you. COYW.

Time to bin this thread.

Totally agree Grizzly. He’s one of those rare players who has a consistently reliable level of performance. He reminds me very much of past stalwarts like Joe Wark, Martin ‘Kaiser’ Corrigan and Brian ‘Buff’ Martin. Unfortunately he’s out for 4 months after a thigh op and he’s approaching 35, an age at which it gets increasingly harder to recover from injury.

I think perhaps St.Johnstone may be too far behind to avoid automatic relegation and St. Mirren and Hearts have too much about them to be drawn into a scrap for the play-off spot. That would leave ourselves, Ross County and Dundee as the ones involved in that and I think the next few games will go a long way to decide who will end up there. Sat 22nd February Dundee Utd v Motherwell Ross County v Dundee Wed 26th February Motherwell v Dundee St. Johnstone v Ross County Thoughts?