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Motherwell v Rangers League Cup Semi final Nov 2/3


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7 hours ago, MJC said:

Can see this being a “brave effort” type of game on Sunday as we lose narrowly. Rangers losing a game right before we are due to play them never ends well for us and I think we’d need to score at least twice to have any chance as we will concede as well.

Going for a ‘gallant’ 2-1 loss and their winner to come from a late penalty.

Given away by the afformentioned rangurs man halliday so he can watch his heros in a final ( again )

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Interesting to hear Kris Boyd earlier claiming Rangers fans won’t want to win on Sunday

I don’t believe this p*sh tbh but on the other hand this semi final has a similar feel to the 2017 game which finished off another manager

Need to get in about this mob and see what happens 

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SOD confirmed as out on Sunday.

So midfield is really the only question mark.

For me Sparrow has to play, so the only question is, do we play Wilson in midfield and 1 up top or leave him at full back and go 2 up top. Neither have been that successful for our strikers. But I like the control we get with the extra midfielder.

Id go.......

                            Ox

         Balmer  Gordon  Casey

Kaleta                                  Wilson

              Halliday  Miller

     Sparrow            Maswanhise

               Stamatelopoulos

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10 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:

SOD confirmed as out on Sunday.

So midfield is really the only question mark.

For me Sparrow has to play, so the only question is, do we play Wilson in midfield and 1 up top or leave him at full back and go 2 up top. Neither have been that successful for our strikers. But I like the control we get with the extra midfielder.

Id go.......

                            Ox

         Balmer  Gordon  Casey

Kaleta                                  Wilson

              Halliday  Miller

     Sparrow            Maswanhise

               Stamatelopoulos

I rather like that set-up but doubt SK would be so revolutionary and attack-minded from the off.

Whatever formation we adopt I agree with many posters that we need be snapping at their heels from the first whistle.

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59 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:

 

For me Sparrow has to play, so the only question is, do we play Wilson in midfield 

Wilson in midfield was miles better than anything we've seen in there from Sparrow, Halliday and especially Davor. 

I like Sparrow but he's got a habit of ball watching when defending.

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20 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Great honour for Lennon, but a bit of a blow to have our captain and vice-captain out of such an important game where an old, experienced head or two is valuable.

Aye, I feel for SODs; it would have been his first appearance with a club at Hampden in a game like this, I think. Might have played there in a league cup game.

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14 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Great honour for young Lennon but I Just hope the added responsibility doesn't affect his game.   Casey or Halliday would have been other options for captain.

However you get the feeling young Lennon will take it in his stride.

COYW

I don’t think there’s big weight on the heading of captain for smaller provincial clubs, I think it tends to be more looking after tickets on match days etc and I have no doubt McGinn will still be dealing with that even tho he’s injured.

We have more vocal guys there who are more captain like in Gordon, Halliday and Casey etc so I don’t see the burden affecting him. If anything it’s a great move for the club as Lennon being a club captain at 18 will add a few quid on to his eventual transfer fee.

i just hope we don’t freeze, the talk there about the last rangers cis final has given me the fear, can we not just concentrate on the semi and Moults goals…. No more Vietnam flashbacks of big Marshall allowed please 

 

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I don't know about freezing, but we will have a few starters who haven't played on this size of stage before - so we (and they) will learn a lot about how they handle it.

If they all handle it like Moult, we'll be fine.

Having double cup winning Liam Gordon back is a bonus

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Hey folks.

I have one spare ticket for Sunday. East stand Motherwell section, fairly well back in the corner so should be a decent view.

If anyone is interested please message me directly.

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I think a lot rests on the attitude of the Rangers players. They will know that a defeat will see the manager gone. If they support him then they will be up for it. If they don't then they might not be at their best. We need to get in their faces from the start. Get them on the back foot and the crowd will turn on them. 

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1 hour ago, sinjy said:

I think a lot rests on the attitude of the Rangers players.

I have no doubt the Rangers players will be up for it.

They might be a bit edgy and lack a bit of confidence if things go against them, but they will want to win as much as we do.

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Any thoughts of Rangers not being up for it are ridiculous. Any team in any semi-final wants to get to the final. However they may be a bit fragile so as has been mentioned several times, if we can rattle them early and actually score a goal or two it might drain their confidence a bit

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Having watched SK's presser, can the Well Society have a vote on banning "Punching above our weight"?

There must be better ways to say we sometimes do well with the resources we have.

(Aye, I know it's just me being a grumpy old man)

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4 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:

Hey folks.

I have one spare ticket for Sunday. East stand Motherwell section, fairly well back in the corner so should be a decent view.

If anyone is interested please message me directly.

Just bumping this for those at work....

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STOP......grizzly time!

an absolute roller coaster for me as I feel we have a great chance IF we perform on the day BUT let's not think this gers team are rotten, they are still a strong outfit.

For me it's also enjoying going to the game with my mates but also looking up and knowing my dad will be looking down willing the lads on. He is reason I am a well fan and you know what it was best decision he gave to a wee Hamilton lad.

altogether now............COYWWWWWWW

 

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27 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

STOP......grizzly time!

an absolute roller coaster for me as I feel we have a great chance IF we perform on the day BUT let's not think this gers team are rotten, they are still a strong outfit.

For me it's also enjoying going to the game with my mates but also looking up and knowing my dad will be looking down willing the lads on. He is reason I am a well fan and you know what it was best decision he gave to a wee Hamilton lad.

altogether now............COYWWWWWWW

 

Us getting to Hampden for a Semi Final/Final is huge for us as a club.

The number of tickets sold alone is a clear pointer to that. It’s a big occasion that doesn’t come around often and when it does then it’s something to look forward to and gets the mood around the club and the support fired right up. 

As for the game itself, Rangers aren’t on the same level as Celtic, who we did okay against in the early stages last week, but they are still man for man a stronger side than we are and we are second favourites going into this one.
 

We do have a chance but as I’ve said before when we are facing them when they are coming off a bad run and all the pressure is on them then it usually ends badly for us. 
 

 

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