ABERDEEN 3-3 MOTHERWELL – FULL REVIEW & HIBS PREVIEW

6 GOALS WERE SHARED ONCE AGAIN BETWEEN ABERDEEN AND MOTHERWELL AS THE DONS FOUGHT BACK FROM 3-0 DOWN TO EARN A DRAW.

Good evening and welcome back to another live episode of red tinted glasses here on the red tinted Glasses YouTube channel I feel a bit like Shaden Morris just now being left isolated on my own but don’t worry Phil May is coming to join the show um in a bit coming up on

Tonight’s episode we will look back at yet another six goal Thriller I guess is the right word um Aberdine and motherwell draw 33 and once we’ve dissected what was an eventful night up todrey we will look ahead to the weekend’s visit of Hibernian at Padre but with Callum

Absent of course I’m going to make some substitutions and hopefully more effective than Neil waru’s four changes to the Aline starting lineup Phil better late than ever how are you doing this evening I made it sorry I was eating eating some noodles and I didn’t realize the time I ordered some noodles and

Delivery and the time got away from me Glenn but yes no I’m good how are you yes good thank you very much hopefully I don’t need to sub you off after 20 minutes and uh we can keep things going um but I think of just about recovered

From the roller coaster that is the the game last night because I think was I saw it was 71 years since aberin came from three goals down last did that in 19 1951 ironically against Saturday’s opponents coming up hibs when we were both 3-0 and 4-1 down and the game finished

44 I can’t help but feel last night did have that sense of another kind of War it classic and and I did think we were going to do the unthinkable um at one stage and and come back and win but alas not to be it’s I can’t help but feel two points

Dropped and we’ve only really got ourselves to blame given the the team that we started the game with yeah um I think it was one of those things where I don’t know the when the lineup came out I was kind of shocked um because I just

Didn’t really see War ever lining us up that way um you know I think it’s kind of been well well documented that you know the five at the back just hasn’t hasn’t worked for us at all this season um so yeah it was a bit of a bit of a

Strange one to start with yeah what did you make of of course four changes to the starting lineup Kell Rose coming back in in goals in place of Ross Duan um Duke dropping out for me was a bit of a surprise more so with Shady Mo keeping

Um his place in the starting 11 Stephen gartman um Jamie mcgran Connor Baron also returning to the starting 11 um Angus McDonald and Richard yansen dropping out as well um I’ll go into a bit more detail but just first reaction to seeing kind of those

Changes yeah I mean I was like you the the Duke one was probably the biggest shock to me um I think you know when waro first came in he sort of well we all sort of thought he was going to maybe try and promote a bit more with um

Just just with the style of football that he plays um you know sort of quick quick counterattacking Wingers um and I think you know the the lack of Duke was um a bit bewildering especially with the impact he had when when he did get into

The fold um yeah and yeah like I say Morris keeping his position just makes I don’t know as much as I like the sort of laughing joke about Shady Mo H he’s not a football or is he well the thing is he didn’t even keep his position he was deployed in in a

Different position but as Kaiser pointing out one natural Center half was unbelievable you know we had one Center back one Striker and eight midfielders um in that lineup and you know after the game Neil warnett coming out and saying that Richard yansen was ill and it threw

All the plans out if that was the backup plan to Richard Jansen being ill I do have a little bit of concern around that because what does it say for Angus McDonald because we’ve basically restructured the backline to accommodate a Winger at right wing back which we’ve seen already this season under bar

Robson doesn’t work and we’ve then taken Nikki delin who has a good engine on him and can get up and down that flank as a right wing back into an unnatural position at right center back in a back three a back three that has not worked for this Aberdine Team all season why

When you’ve got a natural Center back and a center back that did very well for us last season I’m quite ironic after after the last episode where um I think it was Scott mcclanan said that Callum was trying to gently remind me that maybe McDonald wasn’t that good well I

Would can rather have Angus McDonald in at Center half than shayen Morris at right wing back um going forward for the rest of the season yeah and I mean I think it kind of confused me even more because I think on paper McDonald’s the type of player you would

Think would be one of the first in a waro team like he’s you know a traditional English Center half like you would have thought that he would have been in at the spine in the same way that Shin is you know the first name on the team shooting is Midfield because

It’s the same sort of thing he’s a traditional ball winning No Nonsense Midfield so yeah to to to admit him to put Shady Mo at right wing back just beggers believe really yeah and and as Paul Donaldson pointing out if Angus McDonald isn’t available we’ve got Jack mil who

Could play in there um as well I can’t remember if Jack Millan was actually on the on the bench or not but I just hate this you know what is it putting Square pegs into round holes it doesn’t doesn’t suit us it it never has and I mean

The the first 25 minutes was probably the worst football I’ve seen all season and that’s going some and I think when you looked at the team lineup and the first 25 minutes as a whole had the manager not been Neil Warick I think the the chaos coming out

Of the stands would have been even worse than than what was already there and I’m not saying just because it’s Neil Warick fans aren’t annoyed because you just I know you weren’t at the game last night but the the reaction coming out of the stands was just so much Fury um and I

Think as well frustration because we could all see quite clearly certainly you know just looking how early we gave away the penalty that Shaden Morris wasn’t working I think the one positive was that Neil Warick did react it was just unfortunate that it was it

Took us to be 3-0 down before the the reaction really needed to come in because to be honest he could have made that change at one nil and he probably should have made it at two nil as well yeah no definitely and I mean it’s one

Of those things where you know the likes of Morris you know he’s he’s not great anyway but you know it’s even tougher on him than the fact that he is throwing in at Wing back and I think we’ve said it multiple times this season and you know

In spells of last season when he was deployed in that position you know the same way as you know at times Ryan Duncan gets played at Wing back you know it’s you know it’s it’s no fault of theirs they don’t have any POS positional awareness for that but it

Doesn’t really excuse the the lack of effort and just the general lack of ability and I think that’s the thing as well you look at look at the squad there’s players who probably should be getting more game time that aren’t um for the for the likes of Morris yeah and

I I totally agree with this point from Ali Penman as well if we started the way and lineup we had after going 30-0 down we win that game at a counter and I’m sure there’s plenty of people just looking even some of the comments that

Are coming in with us live here on the YouTube channel tonight so many people took one look at the the team lineup and went the is that and I’m not singling out any one player um as I know it will probably feel that we’re doing

Um but I think you take one look at that team lineup and say one Center back one Striker the are we doing and I think you know listening to sports sound on the way the way home last night uh Willie Miller said even Stuart kettlewell alluded to our lineup and

Almost maybe being a bit disrespectful um to Mother well by you know maybe coming across as we just need to turn up and beat this mother well team given kind of what had happened at the weekend for for them and kind of us disrespecting them by only going with

The one Center back um which maybe incentivized mother well for that that opening 20 minutes but incentivized them or not our performance was an absolute disgrace uh in that that opening exchanges in a game that you know many of us would have felt was one that we

Kind of really had to win to kind of increase our chances um of getting into the top six yeah and I think it’s another thing as well you know like like like we’re saying about the one natural Center half we know how good mother well have been going forward

This season I mean Blair SPS had a career Revival in some senses you know like his output’s been amazing Theo b as well been superb and obviously we’ve seen that um last night as well um so yeah to I I can kind of see where cat’s

Coming from in the sense that it’s it’s quite disrespectful to them you know and it’s almost naive in a way which is quite surprising given you know the the experience in The Dugout yeah absolutely and the thing as well you know speaking about last night

Is a game that we had to win again Kaiser making the point and it was something that we were discussing in the office today out of our three out of our games in hand we’ve taken three points which is utter shite and you know we speak about St Johnson away we need to

Win to boost our chances draw dundy at home need to win to go above them boost our chances draw motherwell need to win to boost our chances go above them draw really that those three games and given the way that the games went okay maybe not the mother give given we a

Three- n down but since Johnson should have been three points we literally threw away Kell Roose I’m not looking at you dunde one nil up cruising again throw that away because we don’t react to the game obviously goes on to see Barry Robson lose his job

Last night don’t even start with the the the right team put ourselves 30-0 down yes we come back to claim a point unlucky with v not to claim all three but we should have never been in a position the saws in in the way we were so we keep

Shooting ourselves in the foot just now um and another Point that’s been raised a few times is once again we’re almost turning into a 45 minute team um given the way we seem to play in spells of games yeah it’s it’s a lot I would say it’s a little bit concerning obviously

It’s still early in in in big Neil having control of the squad but um but yeah it’s I guess it’s been the story of our season really like even when you look at the the European games as well you know most most games that you know we have a

Solid footh hold in we just throw it away and it’s you know through no quality of the opposition it’s usually just through errors or people just sort of switching off at halime and not coming out the race the second half it’s I don’t know it’s one of those things

Where it almost makes you think does it go bigger than the manager like is this really just you know is is this just the mentality we’ve got as a squad which you know is arguably Pro probably more concerning than who’s in The Dugout yeah or it points to you know I know I’ve

Banged the drum about the about the squad being good enough are their question marks got to be asked of the squad itself I know question marks will be certainly asked of the recruitment but is the squad really as good as we we thought um kind of as you mentioned maybe mentality

Maybe characteristic but again we obviously showed a bit of that to come back from 3-0 down John Keel can’t make tonight’s live but did leave a comment before we went live um saying that yesterday was both what is the problem and potentially the solution the playing Squad is so onedimensional but there’s

No way I could see us coming back from 3-0 down before Warick and certainly on that last point I said that as well I think under Barry Robson we we don’t come back from 3-0 down in that game I know a few people have joked at the fact

That bar Robson wouldn’t have changed it until the 70th minute um if he was still in charge but even you know when when he makes the double change to bring on Angus and Duke I couldn’t help but feel there were certainly a few players that thought I need to put in some effort

Here because I am going to get my bollock shouted off um at halftime if we go in 30-0 down but on the the point as well about the squad being one-dimensional again you look at shayen Morris there’s only one way he’s beating a man and it’s drilling a p past the

Defender and hoping to swing it in he doesn’t even mix it up he doesn’t look to cut inside one attack and then drive down the wing the next the defender knows I’ll just give you space to knock the ball by because it’s all you’re going to do to me all evening and at

Times you go back to the game against Bonnie rig when we were struggling to break down a team we’ll just hump it long and hope for the best yeah no and I think that that’s that’s the issue I think you know more so the fact that we have became so

Onedimensional and the fact that we we tend to be quite narrow and how we set up having quality in wide areas I think is really important and especially if an end product um from from your wide wide players as well um so you know it’s and that’s one thing about Morris as well

It’s like he can knock the ball past you as much as he wants his final ball is usually pretty shocking yeah he’s not a great finisher and you know um I’m not trying to say that um Vinnie is the answer but you know at least at least he

Could come in he could go wide he posed a little bit of problems it’s the same with Duke that that’s the the the the the joy that Duke brings is that he makes Defenders think he causes problems he can actually create on the back of

That my my other my other kind of fear on the back of last night as well is obviously how not only how poor shayen was and what that now means for his appearances the the rest of the season just when you mentioned Vinnie’s name is if he’s not to play another minute for

Aline this season we’re only really left with Johnny Hayes Kellan Phillips we don’t really know if he’s an out andout Winger Ryan Duncan at a push I again I don’t know if Winger is his natural position again question marks around the the Recruitment and the lack of depth in

That area an area that we’ve known All Too Well has been a problem but potentially goes deeper to the fact that we knew this was a problem going into the anary transfer window and we stuck it out with Barry Robson for whatever reason in the hope that it would get

Better and again shooting ourselves in the foot and maybe on the fact of dropping points last night our only real hope of European football this season is winning the Scottish cup yeah it’s um as as every as every week goes on it’s um it seems like it’s

Just getting a little bit more distant that sort of um the sort of golden chalice of European football um and I think you know for for for Cormac as well that’s you know that that that should have concerned him long before you know he sacked Robson um

Because that that that’s the money maker you know we we need that income to make us competitive we need that income to sort of boost our sort of lucrative nature as well because you know the the the likes of signing another meowski when he inevitably leaves in a season or

Two if you’ve got that lure of European football makes that so much easier you know and no one likes to hear us say alin’s a stepen stone Club but for a playing perspective it is every club’s a stepen stone Club even your big clubs like AC Milan or steepen stone clubs

These days so it’s you know there’s there’s absolutely no shame in it um but yeah it’s um we’re lucky we’ve got a somewhat favorable draw in the cup obviously Kil at home will be tough but you know it’s nowhere near as bad as what I could have been yeah and look you

Know VK puts a point saying you know good grief the blocks first match was a week ago he barely knows the players names he might not know the players names but hopefully knows that not to playay play a back three any more and again that was kind of the point being

Made on sport sound last night um with the fact that kind of doing that sort of experiment of a back three to see if it suits the squad is something you do in August not at this sort of stage of of the season but this is where we’ve we’ve

Kind of of put ourselves in you know Johnny M who’s been on the podcast before and speaking about the the Aberdine manager’s job not being an apprenticeship you know saying last night as well it’s not just an apprentice it’s not an apprenticeship or should be seen as a holiday um for

Managers and I know there was a bit of frustration at some of War’s comments after the game or his mannerisms which will will’ll come on to but H Willie mcferson did send me a message earlier that that did make me laugh and I know I

Passed it on to you as well when he said last night was another horrid experiment gone wrong when you want to bake the perfect cake you need all the ingredients Warick forgot to add the flour and now was left with egg on his face and I’m sure he won’t make that

Same mistake when we come to the starting lineup against hibs on Saturday no and I think he’s got that added impetus as well of um you know as as he said um I think in one of his his first pressors you know Nick Montgomery was

One of his boys and when he was a he was a coach was one of his players and you know that that us to get you know just keeping him in his place letting him know that he’s he’s still the master as per se um you know I’m hoping he just

Comes out you know No Nonsense back four strongest team you know we’ve got which you know really was the team that that that came out after the half hour mark and last night yeah and then hopefully just pull pull something out the bag because we really need it yeah we really

Do need a bit of Warick magic coming into the weekend or or just something to go in our favor because as I said in terms of talking about on the pitch it didn’t really work out that way and shayen moris kind of set the tone for

That opening 25 minutes in his own poor personal performance giving away a really cheap penalty getting wrongs side of um the mother well player and it just looked lazy it looked looked poor and of course um the player that I slated on the podcast in Theo bear makes

Absolutely no mistake in blasting it high into the roof of the net to to give Mother well the lead yeah I don’t think anyone can have any complaints about the the decision I mean like I said earlier it’s you know majority of Morris’s fault but I mean you know partly not not not

To blame I mean he’s not got the experience to to know he’s going to get caught goal side uh wrong side of the player in that position um but but yeah it was it was just a lazy I’ve got to make a challenge so I’m just going to

Throw a leg in um but yeah it was um wasn’t a great start no it wasn’t and the things didn’t really get better either of course motherwell finding themselves 2N up and I can’t remember if when they hit the post if that was at 1

Nil or 2 nil I feel like it was at at one nil um but that ball across the the face of goal both McKenzie and gartman kind of left it to each other I think McKenzie think gartman’s going to get it gartman doesn’t get it McKenzie leaves

It and and thankfully um Kell Rus is alert and manages to P push it onto the post and and for us at that stage it bounces out but what proves to then be that the next goal was in very similar fashion when once again the ball’s

Driven across the face of our goal and I don’t know when I was watching the highlights back ear earlier for me I wasn’t quite sure if Gman could do better what kind of reminded me and I’m sure it was in a Watford game when the striker kind of fools the defender by

Shouting like leave it and the defender then leaves it and goes on to to score instead because he kind of goes to to clear it stops and Theo bear thinks well my Christmases have come at once I’ll really make Glenn eat his words and doubles up mother Well’s lead yeah no

I’m the same as you I I don’t know if the shouts came from a mother well player or if the shouts came from you know Roose which would seem a bit strange if it did but um yeah I don’t know if he was just all about sixes and

Sevens like I say being that out and Out Center half in the team I don’t know if he was too focused on try to coach not that you would need to coach like Sevin but you know try to coach them through a little bit in terms of holding the line

And whatnot that you just switched off completely and yeah but yeah it was bit a second goal ConEd even like you mentioned kind of like couple of the Defenders switching off even I’m sure it was the second one as well where Shaden Morris was kind of just in the middle of

Our half and the just kind of just jogging back there was no intensity to to get back in and get in front of the get in front of the ball and make life difficult and kind of the same when it comes to the third one he the third one

Look is he’s really unlucky it just so happens that he’s the player the ball deflects off of back into the the path of um of divine to to make it 3-0 and at that point obviously there was a few few members of the the home crowd that that

Departed I remember turning to to Ian and Patrick and said well if this goes 3-0 I’m going and then looking at the clock and went I’m gonna be home by half eight that’s way too early to be home I’ll give it give it another five

10 minutes and in the end I’m glad I did stay but um I I don’t certainly blame anyone for leaving at that stage because I mean what we were being served up was nothing short of atrocious yeah no the third goal was um again it’s it’s one where there just

Didn’t seem be any fight or hunger really I feel like you know spittle shouldn’t have been able to take it as far as he did in the Box you know see feel like so many players turned their back and again like like I said earlier spitt’s having a decent season so far um

And you know that’s the sort of player that we need going forward um you know just was going to pick the ball up and drive I feel like sometimes we’re we’re too reluctant to just take on a man umh but yeah know like I said nothing much

Morris could do he did look a little bit gormless kind of stand around in the box but it did kind of ping off him like but like rabbit in the headlights was was Shing Morris probably and I think probably as well like thinking not again like yeah I’m

Involved again I mean I do feel bad for him because I mean you know when he when he did get subbed off that must have felt awful like I I mean I did see earlier that his Instagram he deactivated his Instagram and stuff so like you know if if folk are dming in

And being R just it’s a bit DED really but I know I was gonna I was gonna ask you of course because you know Neil Warick said he wasn’t afraid to to make changes if things aren’t aren’t going the way as I said personally I think he

Could have maybe made them a bit sooner and Shaden Morris and Dante pvar both were were taking off Sam Gordon making the point here that Warick made a point of explaining things to pvar in depth when he hooked him he didn’t even look at Morris and obviously um you know

I was mentioning about the kind of comments that were heard from from Nikki delin last night um aimed either the crowd’s reaction or or Shaden Morris as well and if it was aimed at the the crowd’s reaction because certainly when Dante pvar was was the first man to be

Subbed off there was a lot of booing and for me I personally felt really sorry for Dante being the the first player taken off in that situation and I think that was probably what the booing was aimed at Dante being the the first player taken off as I think the crowd

Expected it to to be Shaden um and I think Dante can feel a bit um unfortunate I guess in that sent he’s not it looked like he was trying to be played off in behind Bo meowski and that’s not his role um and then shayen morrris um obviously

Ironically cheered off um inside half an hour what you make of obviously fans that that do that I mean everyone’s obviously entitled to their own opinion but as you you know you mentioned there he’s gone and deleted his social media but already having a tough time as it is

You can understand can understand the fans frustration though yeah no definitely I mean and like I say like football’s a game of emotions people are frustrated people have spent hard earn money they’ve sacked off going out on Valentine’s Day to watch Shady Mo pu an

Absolute stinker um so no I I get it but like I say I mean I do I do feel sorry for him and you know even pvar as well I think he’s in a bit of a clean run in in in the media that’s came out after it

But um yeah I mean I suppose it’s difficult you know it’s going to sound very sort of the little tofu in W karate of me but you know we we all have bad days at the office it’s just unfortunate that as an athlete your office is you

Know 11 12,000 people um and if you have a bad day it’s very very public um yeah so I I I hope it’s one thing that doesn’t knock him too much like I say whether I want see an aine shirt again I don’t quite know but you know he is

Young I suppose he is really our main conventional Winger that we’ve got at the club at the moment um but did sign him for a hefty fee which we’re probably not going to recoup unless he pulls out a stellar per performance towards the end of the season and so yeah it’s it

It’s a tough one but um yeah I can see why you got the the sort of sticky did coming off and I think you know a couple of the points here you make is well it’s it’s the you know other fans of other clubs will will probably laugh at this

But it’s the pressure of playing for a club like Aberdine where the expectation from our fan base is so high and unfortunately the level of performance that we’ve seen from shayen Morris hasn’t matched the price tag that we paid for him um and obviously there’s another couple of players in there as

Well when you’re forking out that sort of money we’re expecting um better um whether or not Shaden can handle that pressure and expectation obviously remains to be seen I know he’s been unlucky with with injury as well but in nights last like last night it doesn’t

Fill us all with with much hope and confidence that that can be done going forward um I suppose the big positive of course is on the back of then making the changes in the way that Neil Warick does is that we grab a goal back so quickly

Um and do it off a mother well um throw in we win the ball back well some good interplay between um boan Leon Clarkson and Duke and for a player that a lot of our fans have been I wouldn’t say up and down on but unsure on given his performances this

Season that was a really cool and confident finish from duke um and probably one that he needed um as well um to get us back into the game for some reason V wanted to take an age to check how they could rule that out yeah and I think what you know we’ll

Come to it later but I mean what I what I noticed with that one was I’m pretty sure when I was having look at the the footage this morning um was that V took the line from The motherwell Defenders outside of his shoulder um which you

Know compared to the one later I thought was um was rather rather ambiguous um but no I think I think Duke getting getting back on the score sheet um you know it only does w for and it’s one of those things we were hoping um Warick

Was going to be able to sort of instill you know bring bring back the Duke that we knew give him that confidence and I’m hoping that he’s given them that I mean like they looked like they were very buddy buddy at the full time whistle um so you know hopefully that’s that’s just

A sign of him becoming more comfortable getting back to his best um and yeah like I say if if we’re going to be playing a 4-33 or whatever it might be going forward I think Duke’s got to got to be in there somewhere yeah and that

Point there about the the Buddy Buddy NE mcferson picking up there the arm round the shoulder from Warick sh um last night make the point before about she felt it’s very evident that that Robson belittle Duke obviously not seeing as much game time maybe an attitude um

Issue I know there’s been kind of rumors around that but we kind of saw last season if you kind of care for him if you kind of nurture and make him feel loved we get the best out of him and clearly Neil waru’s taking that approach

As NE says the arm around the shoulder you know the Buddy Buddy approach as you go to feels that affection and he wants to re repay that that Faith to only Neil warock but also the Aberdine support and by doing by getting himself on the score sheet lifted the crowd but lifted his

Own confidence and the good thing was we kind of kept our feet to the floor and put mother well on the back foot and um for those that maybe watched the game on on Friday night between green and Morton and motherwell when Morton took the game to motherwell they looked scared they

Looked nervous and once we scored in that first half that’s what motherwell looked for the the remainder of the half yeah know and like I saying just going back to that I think we can all see that Duke’s a confidence player I think he always has

Been you know when he went on that run last season and he was Unstoppable and it’s just a shame he’s not been able to go on a run so far this season in the same way that Blake zimowski has um but yeah know I think I think mother Well’s

Issue is that I would say their back Lanes very similar to ours in the sense of it’s not very assertive you know Liam Kelly is not the most commanding goalkeeper their backline doesn’t really like stepping out too much um and it’s it’s the same as us when when when we

Have a lot of teams on top of us we can often crumble because we just don’t seem to have that sort of solid organization at the back um and yeah and it’s again it’s it’s one of those things where you know we’re going to keep on saying it

Everyone’s going to keep on saying it on Twitter that if we just came out like we did after the half hour mark right from minute one you know we probably would have ran away with the game quite comfortably um because it was it was it was a totally different team um

Effectively and that was only in making two two changes um so yeah it’s it’s a strange one really it was a team of two shaky Keepers yeah but also you mentioned kind of motherwell having a bit of a a shaky defense ironically on on the flip side for us once we brought

Angus McDonald on our defense looked a lot more assured yes motherwell um go on to to score a fourth goal which was was disallowed and did cause opportunities H in the second half but most of those opportunities were coming about down to the fact that we were

Pressing and they were looking to catch us on on the Counterattack and again as Neil War pointing out the fact that Angus McDonald tired towards the the kind of end of the game due to due to lack of match minutes really um but again as I said kind of bewildering how

He’s not played as much th this season but back back to the first half and we get ourselves right back into the game Stephen gartman scoring his first goal at P todrey um for for the club Liam Kelly adamant there was something wrong in the buildup I don’t know it what what

It was if because I know you were watching on TV if there was the commentary or what the the check was for I think it was first of all a foul and then possible offside but again another lengthy check yeah I think I think he was calling for something inside the six

Yard BL I didn’t didn’t catch it because we were um we were out last night but um I think I think from what I could see on on the highlights andu I think he was calling for something I don’t know if he was just sulking there was too many players

Around him as Keepers tend to but yeah I mean I didn’t see anything wrong with it and I mean it’s a it’s a good finish as well yeah and I mean I thought it was a good initial save from from Liam Kelly and then obviously Gman in the right place

At the right time to to put the ball in the back of the net and I just wondered if Liam Kelly was just protesting to just try and slow the game down in the hope that V could maybe maybe find something but thank thankfully not despite um V’s best attempts and that

For me was the big takeaway from from last night’s game is that all our goals including of course the the fourth goal that was disallowed from boam miosi all our goals went to lengthy V checks and there never really seem to be a opportunity to celebrate you know I’d

Have probably been bouncing around at 33 and similarly if we’d gone to go 4-3 up but it didn’t have that kind of energy lifting and I think it also kind of affected the crowd as well because the crowd were right up at 33 and then I was

Like oh we have to wait oh yeah you know we couldn’t and players likewise I’m sure wanted to just get going straight away but each time we have to wait a good two three minutes before we could carry on yeah no it’s it’s one of those

Things where it is true what they say that VAR does sort of kill it from a spectator like an in stadium Spectators point of view because you don’t know what’s going on it’s fine watching on the TV because you’ve got the replays and you kind of go oh there’s maybe

Something there or blah blah blah when you’re in the stadium it just totally sucks the soul out of you and even more so when it it’s seems to be such a regular occurrence for us you know like thinking back to majority of the games we played at pauri this season there

Tends to have been a lengthy VAR stoppage for what is most usually nothing you know going back to the Celtic game you know the the lengthy offside check for I think it was abada or Palma what are their yeah Palma yeah and I I I just don’t quite understand it

Because there’s plenty of times where we’ve you know conceded goals or had potential penalty shouts and it seems like they just get brushed away almost immediately um and it yeah it’s very tin tin foil hat wearing potentially but you know it it’s just something that doesn’t

Quite add up really it it doesn’t and obviously Paul making the Paul Dons making the point as well one of the goals I think I’m sure it was a second one when it it was a VAR check for offside then a foul then it was offside again fans in the stand have absolutely

No idea what what’s going on V is not for a matcho fan is all TV benefit um but unfortunately it’s here to stay I obviously it’s the been the midseason review for V where the accuracy has increased to 98% so the SFA are happy with it although they’ve came out and

Identified 13 mistakes I think it was um and two of the 13 mistes Stakes were in games involving us which should have seen opponents receive red cards um retr you know being upgraded so and obviously we’ve still not discussed the the fourth goal from last night’s game um as well but quite weird

From last night as well that going in 32 down um at halim felt disappointing and motherwell probably delighted to hear the halftime whistle when it came yeah no um the momentum is definitely with us come half timee um and I’m just glad that we managed to come out the Trap

Seally as quick and second half I think if it had gone longer without us getting getting The Equalizer as when I think mother well would have kind of grown into the game bit more because we would just shut up shop and almost immediately yeah and I agree with that

As well I think you know staying on the on the front foot for as as long as possible in in the start of that that half did prove beneficial and being in the Red Shed or certainly if you’re at that end of the the ground The Equalizer seemed very weird because you don’t

Really see it kind of going in it was based more off the reaction of those in the the lower deck um reacting to to know that we’ve we’d equalized and and for me that was another kind of Duke of old the way he was in the right place at

The right time and the ball somehow finds the back of the net and off the post and I think on the last episode Seymour was talking about being on boam meowski first goal scorer for the last five or six games so um blindly I I followed his faith and had buan to score

And aberin to win only for Lee to to tweet us last night to say that he had Duke last school scorer at 14s or Duke double as well at 11s I was like I could share these before the game not after um instead but but well done Lee on on your

Winnings but uh look at at 3-3 Phil you couldn’t help but field was probably only going to be one winner at that stage and all the momentum was with Aberdine yeah no definitely it was a um like you say it was like the Duke of old

I think to to hold off the the two Defenders and sort of you know somehow managed to get his head to it was um you what what we’re all wanting to see from him um and it was it felt like it was all us I mean like I say at this point I

Was just running off of the the foot mob stats um as I as I walked back from from prin street but um and it seemed like you know apart from obviously XG which take that as you will it seemed like it was all aine um you know Dave cormack’s

Definitely taking the the XG um out with that because a few po have picked up on this point in uh in the comments that the musical boxing personally I was disappointed we didn’t push on enough after we equalized I wonder how much that is down to to some of the players really

Bursting a gut for me Connor Baron L Clarkson were really motoring trying to get everywhere and at times we were leaving gaps in behind that that motherwell could could exploit on the on the counter and similarly to that as well Kevin Grant saying I thought we lacked composure after we equalized we

Went back to the long balls instead of keeping the ball on the deck and working spaces with more than 30 minutes left we should go and win the game and I I tend to agree with that from Kevin because at times when Angus McDonald was like pinging low drilled

Balls in behind for Duke to Cha to chase we were causing motherwell problems but motherwell are such a tall physical team anytime we put the ball up bis mugabi khum butcher were like thank you very much I’ll have that and likewise if if it allowed motherwell to return the ball

High up into the air they had Theo bear they brought on J Jonathan Oba as well to be a physical present and try and ruffle up Stephen gartman and Angus McDonald so resorting to the hoofball played back into mother Well’s hands and allowed them to to get a footing into

The game for 10 15 minutes and really did kind of Sting some of our our momentum um after we equalized yeah no definitely I mean it’s that’s the tactic that you know not not to try and sound like I’m belittling mother well or you know similar teams that’s the tactic

That they tend to prefer coming to p with I mean be’ seen it for years that’s why s m tended to be so effective against us um you know sort of nullifying it because they had tall physical Strikers and they had Giants in defense same with Livingston you know

Tall physical Striker Giants in defense just going back to a hoofball does nothing to help you in that scenario and it’s exactly what they want you to do and that’s why you know like like I’ve said before I think I’ve think I tweeted mostly weeks when we play Bad is that

Width wins games you know when you’re coming up against teams like this you know you’re just needing somethingone that’s going to stretch them wide and create that space in the middle for someone to get on something yeah and I agree with the point from Sam Gordon who

Says as a positive I thought Baron was brilliant again last night just everywhere um he’s kind of really been putting in a shift and this is kind of why I thought that under Neil War we do kind of bounce back compared to obviously previous management because these players and and he kind of

Detected it a little bit from L Clarkson in his pre-match presser where he speaks about really kind of learning from Neil war and wanting to impress him because he has this order where when he speaks you listen um but yeah it feels weird to be positive about these things because I

I do feel it’s two points dropped and it is a game that we shouldn’t have been putting in that position um I think Paul Hannon sums up a feeling amongst I’m sure a few fans as well where he said Warick said in his first interview let’s

Have some fun well let’s not if it’s like last night well certainly not like the first 26 minutes um boam meowski does find um himself in good space when he’s looking to get on the end of balls from Leon Clarkson and does find the back of the net but the linesman’s flag

Was up very quickly um so you know and certainly again in real life at the game I thought Bo was Miles offside so thought this one wouldn’t take a long check lo and behold it does and if you look at the still that’s been put out on

Social media we retweeted it off our our Twitter account from I know former guest of the show Alan mcari he put up the the picture Scottish Football n v doesn’t help itself with with the line drawing for for that one does it feel no it’s from from where the dotted lines come

Down it looks like it’s on side and I don’t know if it’s just the angle it’s at that’s made it go skew with or what and like I say the fact theyve taking the line from inside the mother well player’s body seems a bit strange like I

Say the the earlier one they took it from outside of the body um I just and even then it’s like if you’re calling his head offside from from the still it looks like his head’s getting pushed offside so then are you going to flag as

A pen like what are you going to do it’s strange as well because as you say the the line on the the mother well Defender it kind of looks a little bit curved but on the the lines down from their armpits or whever you’re you’re pulling the line

Ban’s line is behind that of the mother World Defender but then when they draw the lines on the ground buan is suddenly in front of the defender um apparently offside supposed to be the one that you can’t argue with with um V but here we are

Yeah I mean bring it bringing what is it bringing the arson vanger rule give given the benefit of the doubt well this is a thing because I did wonder you know surely benefit should be going to the attacking team but I know a lot of people have said well surely we should

Just go with what’s happened on the field but on the field was was flagged offside so maybe for those of a a Scotland rugby um persuasion if uh the onfield decision is no goal then they have to find conclusive evidence to overturn said decision and if if last

Nights had been flagged ons side um then they should have to find conclusive evidence if it’s a decision that tight to to rule it offside in those situations where a piece of paper could barely separate the the two players yeah this I don’t know it again

It’s it’s the tin foil heart in me that that just wants to scream consp say but um I just I just don’t yeah I I don’t quite understand how they’ve they’ve come at that conclusion so assertively like you know and and like I say it’s a whole thing with the lines

And how they’ve been drawn that just yeah I just can’t quite wrap my head around it yeah um Stuart kwell um complaining about mother Wells disallowed goal in the second half ruled out for I mean eventually ruled out should say for the most blatant push of Callum butcher’s career into the back of

Nikki delin um who then cleans out Jamie mcra in turn cleaning out Kell Roose what I will say is can Kell please learn to catch the ball because he should have been catching that cross in the first place not just punching it straight back to danger again um but I

Don’t know what Stuart Kett as Well’s complaints is because it’s a blatant foul yeah I don’t know if it’s just a classic you know you you’ll fight your corner regardless of you know how small that Hill is um but yeah no it’s I don’t think you would have ever

Got that you know unless St cwell himself was on V well of course Stephen mlan on V last night who Brother played for mother well just just saying you know since you put your tin foil hat on I’ll put mine on um as well God this is going to become like

Info Wars right the glasses Mary um ultimately though you know we couldn’t complete the turnaround we do draw 33 do you agree with the sense that overall it feels like points dropped um especially these home fixtures you know I’m going back to the dunde game the

Game last night as well these are games where we should have been taking six points not two yeah no I think I I think it it does feel like two points drop like I say um the the team that came out at the start just felt like it negated anything you

Know positive that we could have started with I think as well it’s important with the games in hand that we’ve got and the fact that you know we were all kind of hoping we’re going to be sprung on a new maner bounce and it was games that you

Know games like mother well that that we would have looked to sort of propelled ourselves up and and back into that sort of top six shout and then sort of where more where more toward wards where we want to be yeah that’s the thing now the

Remaining game in hand we have is of course that away trip to to Den’s Park in the middle of March where I’m not sure what the goal difference is i’ not I’ve not looked at the table but we at least draws level on points with with

Dunde at this moment in time so it’s not like it would even currently Leap Frog Us in to the um top six uh a debate I was having with um g at my work today would you take finishing in the bottom six if it meant winning the Scottish cup

Because his argument was unless you get if you get into the top six is it really great if you don’t finish in the top four because potentially missing out on European football of course winning the Scottish cup guarantees your European football as well yeah I mean I’d be

Inclined to say yes and that’s purely just because I’ve never seen us win a Scot cup and so be a fun one for for for me and like i’ said earlier on you know Europe is the money maker for us you know whether we finish ninth or we

Finish fifth you know it’s not really a big difference Ninth Place isn’t going to bankrupt us fifth place isn’t going to boost the bank balance enough to do anything sizable um to challenge at this rate you know given probably the overhaul that’s needed to the squad the

The income we’re probably going to get off boam meowski and the sale of Lewis Ferguson from bologna if of course he does go probably negates a bottom six finish um this season but but of course we’re well obviously hoping that we do finish up as as High um the table but um

Yeah I think you know if you offered the fans the chance of silverware versus the and you end up in the bottom six most fans would probably take that um but of course the opportunity to continue the March towards the top six does continue this Saturday as I said hibs are the

Visitors to Padre three o’clock kickoff um what do you think Neil Warnick learned from last night um in terms of how he lines the team up presumably not yeah it has to be it it’s got it’s got to be a four at the back whether he goes 442 451

433 I think our defense is geared for a four um and I think we’ve got the correct bodies in the Midfield um to to to go with either you know a four and a in in some sort of diamond or you know a five um as as I think new war tends to

Tends to tended to prefer anyway not we seen it last night but that tended to prefer over his career um Richard Jansen missed out last night due to due to illness um obviously Angus McDonald coming in after after the half hour marking for me impressing but you know

Given what we saw in the first half an hour it wasn’t hard to to impress um on on what we’d seen who do you think War goes for um if the choices between Richard J and Ang as McDonald I think he’d probably go for yansen I think purely just to have that

Lefted Center half in there but also you know like like he’d said that that McDonald wasn’t quite up to his match Fitness and I think throwing him in off the bat against the likes Yuan and and that new French boy they’ve got that I’m not going to try and prounce his name um

You know that the speed that they’ve got if he’s not fit enough and he’s not sharp enough he’s more than likely just going to get turned um pretty easily so I I think you’ll stick with and I think well consistency in Center half Partnerships is so important I think

You’ll stick with the two that know each other and whether Angus sort of comes on later you know whether it’s either a straight swap or if we are sort of sitting comfortably and he he wants to throw an extra Center half to to to assure things up not that I’m ever

Really a fan of that but you know if he does want to get him some minutes in the legs then you know it’s it’s definitely doable yeah I suppose one I did enjoy last night about Angus McDonald was when motherwell were starting a Counterattack and he was like that and just

Cleaned um I think it was their substitute Sam Nicholson just cleaned him straight out just took one for the team and that’s kind of some of the non-nonsense approach that I want to see because sometimes we’re a bit um footing around making some tackles um in those situations where it just breaks up

The play stops the momentum of the the attack so um or that’s him just countering the the the tiredness that that came in um you’d expect Duke to to come into the starting lineup um probably in in place of shayen Morris um would you would you expect to see shayen

Morris involved in the team at all this weekend I think just due to lack of actual team he’s most likely going to be on the bench but I think it’s probably wise to keep him out if he can um because I think you know I don’t think the Ovation

To him coming off the Ben should he need to would do much for his uh his confidence or his overall desire to play I think though that it’s an interesting point because if you bring him on uh and the game saying nil nil and we’re bringing him on to try and influence the

Game you’re probably right the Ovation and be like oh for sake but if we’re three nil up and you’re bringing him on just just to try and give him some minutes and try and do something to win the crowd back you’d like to think that fans aren’t going to be booing him

On the pitch when we’re 3-0 3-0 up but yeah I think Glenn yeah I say you’d like to think but stranger things have H have happened um obviously dant pvad as I mentioned I I personally felt unlucky to to be hooked after after half an hour do you

Think he’s potentially a player that may not start this game um at the weekend obviously Killian Phillips on loan from Crystal Palace may be pushing for for a start as well yeah I think I think it is all entirely dependent on how he lines up the Midfield um you know whether he

Goes to a four or a five and I would like to think it’ll be you know sort of shiny and bar and holding the fort for the main part and then whether he goes with you know like we’ve seen in one of his earlier games you know PV mcra and

And Phillips sort of floating around um sort of as a mix between box to box and sort of out and out 10 um you know Clarkson as well I thought but he did look a little bit laggy when you know towards the end of the game so whether

He gets a little rest and sort of sort of comes on to influence the game later if needed you know that’s always an option and I think that’s the sort of Joy we’ve got just now with having like a Phillips pavara mcra at our disposal it does give us options Off the Bench

Which can actually provide something different in the Midfield mhm yeah know that that that’s a very good point about kind of the lagginess and and being able to alternate that kind of player in behind um buan meowski and what was I guess pleasing last night was the fact

That obviously buan didn’t even score last night and we still managed to take something from the game as well so we weren’t overly relling on him but I guess it was a case of last similar to last season where when buan wasn’t scoring it was Duke that was was

Propping us up um in terms of hibs it’s difficult to to know what to expect from them of course um you know this new financially backed hibs but still inconsistently um inconsistent as ever um but it feels a bit Rich saying that given what we’ve seen from aine this

Season yeah no I think um hibs always tend to come out the same way they they try and have a quick front line that that can hit you um on the counter you know they’ve got they’ve got midfielders there that can create chance and and can can pick out a pass um and

Sort of you know they they’ll just flood the channels as they always do you know like I say that they’re they are a classic Pace Merchant of a team um which you know it it works for them so I don’t expect them to do anything

Different no I and I expect them to come up here and and look to play on the front foot and cause US problems but interesting you know seeing comments from hibs fans is kind of around um Nick Montgomery stubbornness um kind of I guess what we’ve saw in the

Early part of the season and that kind of being detrimental to hibs um at this this stage so you know as much as he’s still kind of new and learning he’s maybe not won all the Hib Support over as yet and it could be a game where we

Look to for straight hibs and obviously being at home you wouldn’t like to think you hear much of that a away support but try and frustrate hibs and and build the momentum within within padri and get the the crowd going because you know as I said from Wednesday night you know 3-0

Down the crowd some obviously rightly left but there the momentum grew the crowd got with the team so it’d be nice for us to kind of start this game on the front foot yeah I think kck’s needing that as well um you know he’s not exactly being on the front foot um you

Know and how we start a majority of the games outside Bonnie rig um so yeah it’ be nice to see see us come out the traps a little bit see him get a little bit excited and read up on the touch line and see if that sort of then sort of

Trickles into the actual you know product on the field um would be would be interesting to see how that Dynamic works as opposed to sort of immediately coming in a little bit sort of standoffish and and just trying not to make any mistakes yeah um one last thing

Then before we wrap up um Warick kind of comments after the game you know was kind of a bit laughy and uh and jokey what what have you made of kind of some of his his comments because again that seems to be something that that split the the support personally can’t help

But feel you know last night when he’s laughing at the first half an hour if you don’t laugh about it you’re going to cry about it and I think those that are thinking Neil war’s coming up here and thinking it’s a joke I would have loved

To be a fly on the wall in that dressing room because I don’t think he was laughing and joking with the players at at halim I think he’s experienced him putting on an act for the media and I think that’s all it is it’ll be an act for the media and something totally

Different behind closed doors no and I think that’s the case I mean people I seen people saying that oh he doesn’t care and I think well if he didn’t care he wouldn’t have changed it as quick as he did um also as well I mean it’s rare

We would have came back from 3-0 down earlier on in the season it’s rare that we would have made the changes when we did earlier on in the season um and and even then it’s like I guess it’s just from you know I’m like I know that when

I’m in sort of situations that are sort of I guess you could say a bit more Awkward you know no one likes to speak about how bad they’ve done 30 minutes in a game or whatever I get a little bit laughy I get a little bit jokey because

I you know I guess it helps me not go absolutely tto um so I think people are just reading it far too much it’s his personality it’s what he’s going to be like you know it’s he’s always been like that um and I think people are just

Trying to pick at it for something to be annoyed about and I guess you know from some of the ones that I’ve seen it’s been like I told you so like haha look I knew it was going to go this way um but you know if things were going positive I

Can almost guarantee that that would be the tweets that are going out yeah yeah no absolutely I agree with that and I agree with West Coast on I don’t get why there’s any focus on War’s interviews he’s playing the media bring it on um let him play the game if he’s playing

The media and focusing on what’s going on in the pitch but I guess it goes back to what I kind of mentioned a few episodes ago he’s obviously going to be judged by what happens on the pitch uh and obviously that kind of opening half

Hour still stung for a lot of us um so I I do understand why people are getting their knickers in the twist but once the results fingers crossed start coming then um I’m sure we’ll be with we’ll all be with him because are you with me I’m

Always Phil thanks for very much for joining me um this evening well done on lasting longer than 20 minutes um maybe that was just me channeling my inner body robs and failing to make any subs quicker it’s the first time anyone’s ever said that to but thank you very much for ay

Filling in once again in the absence of Callum and myself and Callum will be back on Monday evening providing he’s not working at nandos um he’s not on the episode so he can’t bleep this out um looking back at the weekends action and of course taking a look ahead to the

Trip to rugby park um so Neil Warick will finally get a week on the pitch with the team ahead of that trip to face and Derek McKinnis so thanks once again to Phil thanks once again to all of you that have tuned into this stream live on the red tinted Glasses YouTube channel

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