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I think I'd start Sparrow or Said too, to pull them out wide.

Stama hopefully scores a couple to top off a fine week as he is going yo be a dad again in June ( congrats) Mindset under JBA totally different. He wont accept standards slipping and fact Thugovetti is back with them makes me want to thrash them even more.

Starting to think you all fear a Stuart Kettlewell masterclass after his epic 2-0 win against Partick!Come on ladies and gentlemen relax so easy i am looking forward to the next round draW already. The game shall be over by half time we shall be home and dry.

I’m really hoping we end up getting him back but we should be adding another CB anyway and If he does come back then we have even better squad depth.

Perhaps we will take some more “risks” up front, as in less Worried about maintaining possession, and take some shots from outside the box or earlier crosses with players in the box. Same as for any team that sets up to defend amd hit us on the break, getting an early goal or two should help force them to change tactics.

Team v County for me would be Ward JK Mcginn Gordon Longelo Fadinger Preistman Just Slattery Maswanhise Stamatelopoulos AP in so we have a natural ST to occupy their Cbs in the low block.

Its going to be all us. Crazy amounts of possession, id say over 75%. The task is to break through their rear guard

Oneills comments sounded as though he wasn't aware of Welsh's views until after it went through and now he's back he can see that the lad is gutted

Ross County have a game tonight in Perth and I suspect they'll practice a bit of squad rotation. They'll be a tough nut to crack, but are sitting bottom of the Championship for a reason.

I anticipate a long day of bus parking low blocking.

From O'Neill's comments it sounded like he didn't really know the current rules and was instructed from above to do "just in case". 100% agree we shouldn't wait around though, and be moving forward on the basis he isn't coming back.

We've got a manager that will set the team up accordingly,send them out with the correct attitude and won't accept our standards dropping so I have no worries that we'll win this one but it will be a hard game but no harder than any other we've had this season.

Yeah, but reading stuff like this starts to give me the fear.

Easiest game of the season!I can't believe what I am reading here we are going to pump them rotten and TJ is going to bag a hat trick!

It'll be a tough game. County as per usual will take no prisoners with the likes of our old and dear friend Lacovitti turning out for them. They'll sit in and will be difficult to break down. With our injury list, I'm taking nothing for granted. As MJC, points out, our cup record isn't great.

I just don’t trust Motherwell when it comes to Cup ties. We’ve seen it all too often over the years when we’ve had good teams we’ve blown it in the cup against sides we were well capable of beating. The St.Mirren Semi Final this season being prime example. As you said, we just didn’t turn up. I wouldn’t put it past us to not turn up again.

Yes, that is correct, only two teams in a season. I think that O'Neill's comments were quite classy, but we can't be expected to wait a couple of weeks to see if Welsh can come back.

If Welsh plays minutes for Celtic does that mean the only other team he can play for this season on loan is Motherwell ?

Every team is a danger in the Cup but the point remains we should have too much for Ross County with the quality we have and the style we employ. Sure fluke results can happen but I'll be genuinely surprised if Ross County turn us over.

Macclesfield is a warning. Best team available must play its a cup game one bad performance and your out til next year. We have a better than normal chance this year with the team we have and a favourable draw we could do well.

No team has dominated us this season, absolutely no one. Even the Stephen Robinson masterclass in the Cup was absolute bollocks. We just didn't show up in that one. As bad as we were had we not lost the 3rd goal when we did, we had momentum at that point, we shot ourselves in the foot with the 3rd goal gifting the game to a bog standard St Mirren team. We've only lost 3 games, in which we beat ourselves rather than the opposition turning us over. The kind of stats Motherwell have delivered this season I have never seen before in any of my 50 years watching us in the top flight so if we lose to Ross County it will be an enormous shock. I expect a hard game but we should be too good for them.

If they're going to go into administration again, they might as well do it splashing out big wages on good players.

Georgie Gent comes on as a late sub for Barnsley at Anfield in the FA Cup

Fair enough from O'Neill. Welsh is their player and I can imagine he wont actually be happy going back. Been immense but attitude top class and really taken club to heart. Sane also with Balmer, always smiling and always got involved with celebrations, wish both every success but if we could get Welsh back it would be awesome

Derby wanted him too