Second half revival not enough for Motherwell

[neillyboy]

Didn't travel, and only saw highlights on telly. The one striking thing over the last few weeks is our slowness out of the traps. And surely we need to look at benching young Kipre - he looks to have turned into a stiff block of wood that can't head a ball. Bit concerned at the moment; we need to get back on track and string some performances together or we could be heading to Hampden in 'Scared Stiff Sam' mode !

I totally agree about benching Kipre. He has been an absolute bombscare at the back of late in situations that call for basic defending. If he's picked for the final and plays as badly as he has been lately, Celtics attack will tear him a new one. We can't afford that to happen.

[steviex]

A more respectable final scoreline but you can't go in 3-0 down at the interval and realistically expect to take anything, even though it sounds as though we almost did.

We've hugely improved this season and Robinson, his staff and the players deserve alot of credit, but we really can't afford to keep failing to turn up in first halves of matches as we've done all too often this campaign. Ross County at Fir Park in August and Rangers at Hampden are prime examples of this where we got away with being slack and wasteful on the ball because the opposition couldn't take advantage of it before we woke up in the second half but we weren't so fortunate today.

We could very well be humiliated in the Cup final if we turn in a similar first half performance as Celtic could easily go in five or six up at the break. The Cup run has been superb, but it would be a real shame if it ended in utter embarrsment.

Dont worry we will win the Cup[

[steviex]

No reason we should lose to Aberdeen we've played then twice and the game we did lose we could easily have got something. Aberdeen are nothing special.. we need to stoop hoofing the long ball though and get back to playing football we it should be .. on the pitch not in the air.