Motherwell v St Johnstone 26/04/2025

[wellfan]

Tough watch today but it was good to see Wimmer changing things up and there were a few really good individual performances too. 

[Welly Machine]

We do seem to have a knack of making things difficult for ourselves but great 3 points in the end.

[Yassin]

Not having a go but I would quite like to see an MJC league table like the BBC used to do with Mark Lawrenson's predictions. I'm not sure we'd hit double figures. 

[grizzlyg]

4 hours ago, Andy H said:

Yea, we are going down....  Fuck me backwards

Kcuf em? 🤣🤣

[grizzlyg]

Evening folks. Yes usual rollercoaster but hey its 3pts and we are now 7th. Would take ridiculous run of results to see us in play off place.

Slattery,  Johnny k , watt very good. Wilson must be honking If he can't get game ahead of Thompson.   Huge rebuild in summer but let's enjoy the victory.  Would have been scary If we had lost....COYW

[Welly Machine]

1 hour ago, El Grew said:

That’s a decent shout but other clubs will probably be trailing him too. Still if you don’t ask…. 

Think he was pretty prolific in the Lowland League with Hearts and presumably they had doubts he could make the step up when they let him go last year.

Definitely looked impressive today but aye, he would probably have better options. I would imagine he is under contract for at least one more year so may be beyond our means even if we do receive a big transfer fee this summer.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained through.

 

 

 

[twistandshout1983]

Hearts sacked Critchley now in other news , they are very very poor

[Big Stall]

Thought we were poor the first 20mins or so and our only tactic appeared to be long ball to beat the trap. Stepped it up however & played decent stuff in spells. If we had a bit more firepower we could have taken a stack off them.

Made it hard in the end, but 3points is what matters. Thought Sparrow had a really good game & that was probably fat tonys best match since he came back.

Mon the well!

 

[SteelmaninOZ]

The Gaffer said 

 

[Spit_It_Out]

2 hours ago, grizzlyg said:

Evening folks. Yes usual rollercoaster but hey its 3pts and we are now 7th. Would take ridiculous run of results to see us in play off place.

Slattery,  Johnny k , watt very good. Wilson must be honking If he can't get game ahead of Thompson.   Huge rebuild in summer but let's enjoy the victory.  Would have been scary If we had lost....COYW

I would like to add Tom Sparrow to that list he was fantastic never stops running won't give up no matter what been really impressed by him this season he has proved me so wrong and I am so happy that he has.

 

[stv]

2 hours ago, Toxteth O'Grady said:

That's the Hearts manager just been sacked. 

Give them Kettlewells phone number .

[Kmcalpin]

2 hours ago, twistandshout1983 said:

Hearts sacked Critchley now in other news , they are very very poor

With only 4 games to go too! When Kettlewell left some fans were saying it was too late in the season to change managers!

[robsterwood]

How did O'Donnell get on at centre back? Pleased Wimmer realised he cant play right back now. 

[texanwellfan]

1 hour ago, robsterwood said:

How did O'Donnell get on at centre back? Pleased Wimmer realised he cant play right back now. 

I thought he was fine  

[stv]

1 hour ago, texanwellfan said:

I thought he was fine  

Gives we the fear when he looks down and can't decide which is his left and which is his right foot. He's an accident waiting to happen every game.

[Stuwell2]

9 hours ago, weeyin said:

I'd be amazed if 42 points isn't enough to stay above 11th.  

2023/24 11th team (and 10th) had 35

2022/23 11th had 34 and 10th had 40

2021/22 11th had 35 and 10th had 42

2020/21 11th had 36 and 10th had 39

2019/20 Covid year so skipped it

2018/19 11th had 32 and 10th had 33

I won't go back any further, but it would be an unusual table this year if 42 is anything less than 10th.

Hope to feck it doesn’t happen but if Killie, RC & Dundee all beat us, Hearts & StJ then their points would be

Killie 47, RC 44 & Dundee 43

Killie or Dundee can afford to lose 1 game as long as they beat the other in their head to head meaning a loss to Hearts would put us 11th on 42. 
Personally I think 11th will be a team on 39 or 40 points this season. 

Edit: other permutations are available ie Dundee could draw with is, beat Killie and be on 44 leaving us 11th on 43 points. 

[SteelmaninOZ]

 

[texanwellfan]

46 minutes ago, Stuwell2 said:

Hope to feck it doesn’t happen but if Killie, RC & Dundee all beat us, Hearts & StJ then their points would be

Killie 47, RC 44 & Dundee 43

Killie or Dundee can afford to lose 1 game as long as they beat the other in their head to head meaning a loss to Hearts would put us 11th on 42. 
Personally I think 11th will be a team on 39 or 40 points this season. 

Edit: other permutations are available ie Dundee could draw with is, beat Killie and be on 44 leaving us 11th on 43 points. 

We just need to go beat Dundee next week!!

im also hoping that St Johnstone go on and win the rest of their games. 

[weeyin]

I have no fear about finishing 11th.

Much more interested in securing 7th place.

[Gadgey]

4 hours ago, texanwellfan said:

We just need to go beat Dundee next week!!

im also hoping that St Johnstone go on and win the rest of their games. 

Aye, as much as I have no love for St Johnstone, I would love to see Simo do the impossible, get a straight run at a prem season and do his old club a favour in the process.

[FirParkCornerExile]

36 minutes ago, Gadgey said:

Aye, as much as I have no love for St Johnstone, I would love to see Simo do the impossible, get a straight run at a prem season and do his old club a favour in the process.

Frankly I want teams with similar resources to us to go down and be replaced with teams with less resource . Thats why I hope Falkirk fuck up and Livingston come up. A league with Livingston and Ross County in it gives us less chance of going down that a league with St Johnstone and Falkirk  in it.

[Spiderpig]

13 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Frankly I want teams with similar resources to us to go down and be replaced with teams with less resource . Thats why I hope Falkirk fuck up and Livingston come up. A league with Livingston and Ross County in it gives us less chance of going down that a league with St Johnstone and Falkirk  in it.

You think then that Falkirk have the players and resources to stay in the premiership?

For me if they get promoted they will be big favourites to go straight back down it's a big step up in quality from the championship.

[Kmcalpin]

A crucial win yesterday and the result, not the perfomance, was the only thing that mattered. I thought that Johnny K, Watt and Slattery were the pick of the bunch. We lost 2 soft goals , but that's par for the course this season.  The starting line up looked insipid on paper but it did the business. It was a blow to lose Maswhanise before kick off as this game was tailor made for him. 

St Johnstone were fired up as we knew they would be and committed 3 fouls before 3 minutes showed on the clock. That theme continued and Steven MacLean's inconsistent awarding of cards was a bit annoying. He also found an additional minute to add onto the additional 5 minutes at the end. Not often we see that.  The final 25 minutes or so were torture to watch as we retreated under an onslaught, largely toothless it has to be said. 

One mildly amusing facet of the game (I can say that in hindsight as we won) was the introduction of Uche Ikpeazu. There was a murmur of anticipation, even amongst Well fans, when he rumbled onto the pitch. I was expecting him to appear a bit earlier, but as he's only played 15 minutes this season, it wasn't surprising. He caused chaos in our defence frequently requiring the attention of 3 defenders. Although not especially talented, or effective, his imposing physique caused us problems. He dwarfed Dan Casey and swatted him aside like an annnoying fly.  Hopefully he'll cause more chaos for opponents in St Johnstone's remaining 4 fixtures.  

Onwards and upwards. 

Time to renew my season ticket.  

[wellsince75]

Falkirk have a much bigger support than Livingstone, as such resources should be stronger. 

I like the fact that they try and play football v's the eye bleeding Livi approach. 

Add to that Livi's plastic pitch, not sure when they're replacing but I'd much prefer all SPL clubs to have grass pitches. On a basic level it should be a standard requirement for any SPL club.

[wellfan]

11 hours ago, stv said:

Give them Kettlewells phone number .

He’s probably still on the phone to them the now, blabbing about Theo Bair.