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With 10 minutes to go St Johnstone are 2-0 up with 62% possession of the ball. Ross County have had zero shots on target with a front 3 of James Scott, Nicky Clark and Gary Mackay Steven. I get its a different competition and they will see Saturday as more important, but I presume St Johnstone would be the same......

He's a midfielder

I didn't realise they had so many of our former players

Not knocking the lad but that’s only his 4th of the season in league 1, three of which have been in the last month. Great to see him starting to get goals and long may it continue, he’s still only 19 so plenty of time to see him in a Motherwell shirt.

We beat Celtic without him, so I would agree. Hopefully not to many others missing though. I think we have proved the managers system is more important than the personnel but I still want us to put out as strong a team as possible.

With Balmer gone we must be looking to bring someone in no matter what. But also look to Welsh returning later in the window. I'm hoping Welsh features at Falkirk tomorrow and that rules out a loan to anybody but us later on in January. That leaves only a permanent transfer available this window to all but us and his wages might prove prohibitive to those other teams showing an interest. With a wee bit of luck this whole circus could work out quite well for us. And if we can't beat County without Welsh I would be amazed.

Get another centre back in and let Celtic worry about what to do with Welsh. I feel really sorry for the lad, but we cant be hanging on the line waiting for them to make a decision.

Olly Whyte scores again.

At least stama has hit the target once.

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.