Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

[MP_MFC]

We cannae even go out the cup properly, f**k sake. Need to watch another game of this shite season.

Highlight of the night was my chicken pakora arriving just after half time.

[thisGRAEME]

Once spent £80 on a sledge that to date I've used once and until tonight that was the biggest waste of money I've ever had.

[RostokMcSpoons]

3 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

Highlight of the night was my chicken pakora arriving just after half time.

Extremely envious, and all of a sudden extremely hungry.

[ropy]

19 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said:

Once spent £80 on a sledge that to date I've used once and until tonight that was the biggest waste of money I've ever had.

I bought a £300 Go Pro 18 months ago, not out the box yet

[well fan for life]

I spent £330 on a season ticket about a year ago so that's been a sound investment imho.

[Busta Nut]

4 minutes ago, ropy said:

I bought a £300 Go Pro 18 months ago, not out the box yet

I want a go pro but I'd defo do this with it

[Gianfranco]

The only positive in this entire shit show of a season is that we and the national team are now amazing at penalty shootouts.

[crazylegsjoe_mfc]

I’d love to keep Liam Kelly, but I can’t help but think he must feel like he’s so much better than everyone else in front of him. 

[ropy]

26 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:

I want a go pro but I'd defo do this with it

I bought a chainsaw (mini) last week, got that set up today.  Don’t have any trees.

[ropy]

4 minutes ago, crazylegsjoe_mfc said:

I’d love to keep Liam Kelly, but I can’t help but think he must feel like he’s so much better than everyone else in front of him. 

Is he better than Cole and Long?  Worth a go?

[ropy]

1 minute ago, ropy said:

I bought a chainsaw (mini) last week, got that set up today.  Don’t have any trees.

To clarify, I bought a telescopic hedge trimmer (I do have high hedges) I paid an extra £20 to get the one with the chainsaw option.

[Swami]

3 minutes ago, ropy said:

I bought a chainsaw (mini) last week, got that set up today.  Don’t have any trees.

This is a chilling post. 

[YassinMoutaouakil]

1 hour ago, Gianfranco said:

The only positive in this entire shit show of a season is that we and the national team are now amazing at penalty shootouts.

The O'Donnell effect

[YassinMoutaouakil]

I was working but after seeing Hastie's penalty described on Steelmen as "one of the best in our history" I'm fucking buzzing for these highlights like.

[Archie McSquackle]

Pretty much the highlight of Hastie's contributions this season. Well taken penalty mind you (as they all were).

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5 hours ago, YassinMoutaouakil said:

I was working but after seeing Hastie's penalty described on Steelmen as "one of the best in our history" I'm fucking buzzing for these highlights like.

It was lashed in, I didn’t see it move 

[Casagolda]

To be fair to Hastie, he probably did more when he was on than most managed in two hours. 

He put Long clean through on goal, was denied a stonewall penalty, almost scored himself and did just about take the net off with his pen in the shootout. I’d give him a start on Wednesday, can’t possibly be worse than Lawless has been these last two games. 

Outside of Kelly though, who bailed us out again, there wasn’t really any other pass marks last night. It was the sort of lackadaisical, half arsed performance that’s plagued our season. 

Scoring the ‘winner’ in the 119th minute and not having the professionalism to see it through sums this shower up.

[crazylegsjoe_mfc]

19 minutes ago, Casagolda said:

To be fair to Hastie, he probably did more when he was on than most managed in two hours. 

He put Long clean through on goal, was denied a stonewall penalty, almost scored himself and did just about take the net off with his pen in the shootout. I’d give him a start on Wednesday, can’t possibly be worse than Lawless has been these last two games. 

Outside of Kelly though, who bailed us out again, there wasn’t really any other pass marks last night. It was the sort of lackadaisical, half arsed performance that’s plagued our season. 

Scoring the ‘winner’ in the 119th minute and not having the professionalism to see it through sums this shower up.

I’d agree with all of that. Lawless by his own admission isn’t quick and I don’t think he’s got enough (based on his showings so far) to play out wide in the absence of pace.

I can kind of see why Alexander may have tried to use him as a number 10 based on his supposed attributes, but he’s not really had an impact there either. 

Hastie looked up for it and hungry and whilst it was extra time against a tiring Morton team and he’s been ineffectual for most of the season, I’d be tempted to give him a go against Accies, like you say. He must surely know he needs to buck up his ideas for any sort of career now too.

[Desp]

Imagine this team winning the Cup and us having to hero worship a group of charlatans for the next 30 years or so? f**k that. 

Get this season so far to f**k. 

Graham Alexander has a monumental task ahead of him in the summer. I've basically reserved any judgement of him so far as this lot aren't his players. But it'll be the biggest summer we'll have had in a long time. 

[Ron Aldo]

To be fair to Hastie, he probably did more when he was on than most managed in two hours. 
He put Long clean through on goal, was denied a stonewall penalty, almost scored himself and did just about take the net off with his pen in the shootout. I’d give him a start on Wednesday, can’t possibly be worse than Lawless has been these last two games. 
Outside of Kelly though, who bailed us out again, there wasn’t really any other pass marks last night. It was the sort of lackadaisical, half arsed performance that’s plagued our season. 
Scoring the ‘winner’ in the 119th minute and not having the professionalism to see it through sums this shower up.

That last paragraph sums us up perfectly. There's been games this season where we've clearly just thought we need to turn up (hiya Accies) and had our arses handed to us every time. Last night, despite toiling for 2 hours, we've obviously assumed "job done" after scoring so late on. I'd like to think that Alexander will keep treading carefully until we're mathematically safe but have visions of him giving some players a few home truths once that's confirmed and he's (hopefully) showing them the door.

Theres probably not much between this team and Robinson's 17/18 team in terms of ability but the difference in mentality is night and day. Hopefully a massive clear out takes place in the summer and Alexander can turn us into a right bunch of horrible b*****ds next year.