Motherwell v Dundee 26/02/2025

[SteelmaninOZ]

 

[Ya Bezzer!]

1 hour ago, grizzlyg said:

Yup....had his usual heart in mouth moments but never hid and put in some great challenges. 

He had an accidental world class diagonal tonight.

[FirParkCornerExile]

Dochertys post match interview on Sportscene was utterly delusional. He thought Dundee were by far the better team and created enough chances to take all 3 points. Ido agree I've see worse teams at Fir Park than Dundee but his analysis was a mile out. 

[Big Wispy Flossy]

8 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Dochertys post match interview on Sportscene was utterly delusional. He thought Dundee were by far the better team and created enough chances to take all 3 points. Ido agree I've see worse teams at Fir Park than Dundee but his analysis was a mile out. 

Kettlewellesq

[joewarkfanclub]

Great result tonight, building nicely on Saturdays performance.

The higher intensity football is so much better to watch and you get the feeling the players are enjoying themselves more as well.

No failures tonight. Everyone put in a shift and earned more than pass marks.

Thought we controlled it first half and limited Dundee to virtually nothing. Dont remember Balcombe having to make a save.

Second half they changed their system and got more control of the ball and you felt that the goal was coming as Miller and Halliday started to tire.

Thought the subs gave us some impetus back and it was nice to see us finish strongly and get the winning goal.

Wimmer is impressing me so far. We start games well and on the front foot and his in game changes improve us.

Looking forward to how he deals with a trip to Ibrox.....

[weeyin]

45 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Dochertys post match interview on Sportscene was utterly delusional. He thought Dundee were by far the better team and created enough chances to take all 3 points. Ido agree I've see worse teams at Fir Park than Dundee but his analysis was a mile out. 

I'm OK with managers sticking up for their team in press interviews.

I agree, however, he was a mile out in his analysis.

[MJC]

Massive win last night. If we are to avoid the playoffs that is exactly the game we need to be winning.

[Richie]

Last night was the most I've enjoyed a game in a while.

Anticipation before it and butterflies at points, as opposed to nigh-on apathy.

Players seem to enjoy it more. Must be much more fun with a bit of creative freedom and actually being pro-active, rather than being asked to cede possession and sit in.

Casey's goal straight from the training geound and had a near identical one not long after.

Our play encouraged the fans, which in turn encouraged the players.

With such high intensity its inevitable we'll drop off at some points, but I think then its important to be more clinial and make it count when we're on top.

If you add first half yeaterday and second half at Tannadice, its decent progress in a week.

[El Grew]

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. 

[steelman1991]

Sitting in the Cooper gives a great view of the tactical set-up and throughout the last 3 managerial appointments the game has been squeezed and played completely in half the width of the park. So nice and refreshing tonight to see the game stretched and both wing backs moving wide as soon as Balcombe had the ball.

[FirParkCornerExile]

49 minutes ago, Richie said:

Last night was the most I've enjoyed a game in a while.

Anticipation before it and butterflies at points, as opposed to nigh-on apathy.

Players seem to enjoy it more. Must be much more fun with a bit of creative freedom and actually being pro-active, rather than being asked to cede possession and sit in.

Casey's goal straight from the training geound and had a near identical one not long after.

Our play encouraged the fans, which in turn encouraged the players.

With such high intensity its inevitable we'll drop off at some points, but I think then its important to be more clinial and make it count when we're on top.

If you add first half yeaterday and second half at Tannadice, its decent progress in a week.

Correct, fans will accept it if things go wrong and they can see what the teams trying to do.  No matter what any manager says it's still an entertainment business and I think a few fans may have stuck longer with SK if we lost but we're pushing teams hard, playing a bit of football and creating chances. SK stuff was utterly turgid. Games with not a single effort on goal even against pish. Main priority was not to lose never to win. No width to our play, boot it long all game, it was utterly mind numbing. Even if we hadn't got the winner last night most Motherwell fans, though disappointed, would have seen some entertainment and that we may be progressing. None of that was happening under SK. Last night I enjoyed my first game in  months. Even the Aberdeen win we played for 15 mins thankfully got two goals but the spent 45 mins being dominated by 10 men from a team who didn't win a game in 15.

[Benson]

Maybe nothing,but thought I seen an exchange of words between Thomson and management team,didn't look like Thomson was happy,another thing anyone any idea of employment terms for management team.

[Benson]

Really do think ap will fit into the set up and score goals.

[grizzlyg]

6 minutes ago, Benson said:

Maybe nothing,but thought I seen an exchange of words between Thomson and management team,didn't look like Thomson was happy,another thing anyone any idea of employment terms for management team.

Was probably " boss....I'm feckin knackered, last manager told me to stay put once I reached halfway line" 🤣🤣

[Spit_It_Out]

I tell you one thing i have no idea wtf Kettlewell and co have been doing fitness wise with this team this season everyone near enough are totally blawing out there erse about the 60-70 min mark.Wilson is done by 30 mins his fitness is shocking.

i honesty cant wait until we get some players in next season that will fit in with the system properly just hope Daws isnt in charge of the pc and enter button.

[mio]

48 minutes ago, Benson said:

Maybe nothing,but thought I seen an exchange of words between Thomson and management team,didn't look like Thomson was happy,another thing anyone any idea of employment terms for management team.

I saw that at the end as well, I wasn’t sure what was going on but it looked like Thomson was crying? Might be wide of the mark but I think he looked upset rather than it being any exchange of words between him and the manager 

[weeyin]

34 minutes ago, Spit_It_Out said:

I tell you one thing i have no idea wtf Kettlewell and co have been doing fitness wise with this team this season everyone near enough are totally blawing out there erse about the 60-70 min mark.Wilson is done by 30 mins his fitness is shocking.

Playing a high press high tempo game needs a level of fitness many teams and players take months to achieve. Completely different from, say, playing on the counter attack.

McGhee used to like to play that too, and even with a full pre-season, his sides ran out of puff after an hour or so. 

Under SK, we scored plenty of goals very late in games and you can't be that unfit to still be competing at that stage.

 

[Kmcalpin]

Very encouraging last night. A 6 pointer and we won it with some style. Not getting carried away though as one swallow and all that. A real team effort and good to see the likes of Halliday and O'Donnell play well too.  I wasn't encouraged by the pre match line up but that proved to be unfounded and in the first half we played well on the ground with pace, passing and some nice football.  I thought Lennon Miller was at his best, and in a more advanced  role, although not 100% fit. Our Viking up front put in a real shift, although he's not a goalscorer.   The football on offer was exciting and the fans responded to that. We could have been out of sight by HT but it was what it was.  One point of concern was the ease that Dundee got down our flanks but that can be worked on. A high intensity first 45.

We were always going to run out of gas in the second period and Dundee changed their set up to some effect. We were under the cosh for a large part of the second half and it was no surprise that Dundee drew one back. As Weeyin says it will take the squad months to up fitness levels and MW will be well aware of that.  Perhaps our substitutions were a tad late but maybe that was more down to match officials. I thought Moses and Harry Paton did well when they entered the fray, with their fresh legs.  It speaks volumes for the team to come back and score the winner after losing a late goal. 

Both sides claimed for penalties but neither was given, ours without even a VAR check. I thought Dan Casey's power of recovery was impressive not to say surprising after being out injured for a spell.  

The fans rightly applauded the team afterwards and stayed on to show their support.  It just goes to show what a bit effort and positive attitude on the field can do. The atmosphere was far better last night than it has been for months. 

Onwards and Upwards.

 

[wellsince75]

Got to add that the FP faithful when Dundee scored created the energy that had been missing in the 2nd half. 

The crowds reaction to Dundee's goal really lifted the team.  Well done to all who were there. 

[wellon]

Probably been said elsewhere, not read all the posts but credit to a couple of guys I've given stick ( on here) to...sod and davor, both played their part last night, will take a bit more to fully convince me, but a good start.

Balcombe also looked a lot more assured.

[wellon]

14 hours ago, wellgirl said:

Dundee fans calling for the manager to go on social media 

I don't think they'll go down, passed ball well, st johnstone also got good win, it's going to be interesting at foot of table, thats why a win for us was great. 

[wellgirl]

4 minutes ago, wellon said:

I don't think they'll go down, passed ball well, st johnstone also got good win, it's going to be interesting at foot of table, thats why a win for us was great. 

They've got a tough run coming up if you look at their fixtures. 

(Dundee). 

[FirParkCornerExile]

7 minutes ago, wellon said:

I don't think they'll go down, passed ball well, st johnstone also got good win, it's going to be interesting at foot of table, thats why a win for us was great. 

said that last night at the game, Dundee are far from the worst team we've played at Fir Park. Any one of 6 possibly 7 teams could end up in the play offs or go down. Even DU, had we beat Dundee Utd at the weekend we'd both be on the same points. I think Dundee Utd are extremely unlikely to be in the mix but they've lost 4 from their last 6 so they need to get their act together. With so many teams so close to each other we will all cut each others throats so a real unexpected could end up going down. If St J can beat Dundee at the weekend the cats is right among the pigeons. Id love it to be St Mirren 😁

[Kmcalpin]

I think the top 6 and bottom 6 are what they will be at the split. Can't see St Johnstone finishing bottom. 

[FirParkCornerExile]

20 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

I think the top 6 and bottom 6 are what they will be at the split. Can't see St Johnstone finishing bottom. 

Its a long shot but I think DU could fall out the top 6, apart from their win over us they are on a piss poor run too.