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See, I actually agree worh us selling players. My point is that selling Scott WASNT a necessity! We sold 3 kids last summer for decent fees and had £80k of external debt, that isnt dire straits. We would still have got £1m or even more in the summer. There needs to be some forward planning, or what happens when we sell all our assets and are left barren for a year or two and at the same time drop down the league or god forbid get relegated? That money in the bank would dissappear very quickly, then we would be in a world of trouble. If we sell players there MUST be a plan to replace them. In the case of James Scott, he brought so much more to our squad than goals! We have been very lucky this season to find ourselves in the position we do. We are where we are DESPITE Robbo's signing policy and squad building, not because of it. Nearly every single fan has noticed how poor our strikeforce is this season and highlighted the need for a target man type central striker, but Robbo is obsessed with signing very poor wingers and if I hear "he can play all across the front 3" again Il punch a hole in my fucking wall. That isnt what we need, and trying it over and over and over is not gonna change that fact. Seedorf & Manzinga wouldnt get a game in the Juniors, Hylton is an honest player who has the odd great moment, but just isnt very good. Long is a good player but is completely out his depth as a target man. What Scott offered was an out ball. He could take the ball for a run and allow support to get up the pitch, he could hold the ball up and play it back to the midfield support. Now the ball is going forward and nearly everytime coming straight back at us, killing our offensive ability and heaping pressure on the midfield and defence. If we were gonna sell Scott, we needed a replacement who could do a similar job. Tony Watt seems to be something like that, but is apparently not fit enough to start which isnt good enough. If we are gonna have a formation and gameplan then we need to recruit specifically to that formation, not sign vague players who can "cover" several positions, in most cases badly

I agree and disagree with various points you've made here, mainly agreeing about what Scott brought to the team and mainly disagreeing about your judgement of other players, especially those that haven't had a lot of game time, but at the end of the day what we got for Scott was bite your hand off money. Also I think a lot of our problems were already there before Scott was sold. The striker position has been a problem since Moult left and I've said from the beginning of the season all through the 'good times' that I didn't think our midfield was good enough. It should be built around Campbell but while Polworth and Donnelly are better than we've had most of the time under Robinson I don't think they are bolted on Top 6 level players. Polworth might have got assists and Donnelly goals but their overall quality and the specific blend in midfield is, I think, still open to question. I accept it was difficult to replace Turnbull and Gorrin from the Turnbull-Campbell-Gorrin midfield of last season but the TYPES of players we have brought in aren't the same. Donnelly just doesn't have the same quality as Gorrin on the ball and Turnbull provided the goals getting forward from midfield. Donnelly's goals have mainly been headers and penalties, set pieces essentially, he's not getting into those dangers areas of the box like Turnbull did that turns open play into goals. As a result Campbell has struggled also due to a level of dysfunction in the middle of the field.

When Watt signed, Stephen Robinson did describe him as “hungry”

Going to be a tough game with the way we are playing but don’t see any reason why we can’t take 3 points here. I would possibly change the system for Saturday, I don’t feel the 4-3-3 has worked for the past few weeks. I’d be tempted to go 3-5-2 and have Watt alongside Long. I think Long is crying out for someone to play along side him as his hold up play is decent but there’s never anyone near him.

Time to move on from last night's defeat, and I include myself in that. Lets look ahead to an important game. Time to get back on track again, in the first installment of a double header. Time for a change in formation and perhaps some personnel?

I noticed on the official site that Watt's home kit sponsor is "MJC Garage Doors". I can only imagine their advertising slogans: "This door will never work" "Worst door I've ever seen" "It's OK now, but will be broken by the end of the week" "I prefer RFC Garage Doors"

When you’ve got wingers that can’t tackle or give up the ghost when they lose the ball and full backs that constantly get caught out of position our flanks are horribly exposed. For me that’s where one of the main problems lies.

For as shite as we've been since the hamilton game,there's still a lot to be positive about,win on saturday and theres a decent chance come the end of the weekend that we will be back into 3rd and then have a home cup tie 3 days later.now is definitely the time for calm heads as these 2 games will have a big impact on how the rest of our season will pan out.

Scott’s done his ankle ligaments in training and could be out for the rest of the season Could quit easily done the same with us and then we’re £1m + quid down Wish the boy all the best but these thing happen in football sometime better to strike when the irons hot

Earlier in the season we won back to back matches against Kilmarnock and Ross County. In both games their keeper let in a howler and our keeper made a great save in the last minute of the match. If you'd swapped just those events round we'd have lost both games and since we lost two games on either side that would have been six defeats in a row and probably a crisis on the forums. In football, especially in the Scottish Premiership, it's all about small margins, I thought we played some decent football at the beginning of the season but we've probably not been that good since about October and we've got by with a bit of luck and the fact the opposition is no better than we are. We are Motherwell and even our best teams, and despite being in 3rd for a lot of the season this one isn't one of them, have a wobble or two. The upcoming matches are going to be important but since our recent form shows results against Hibs and Aberdeen and loses to Livingston, Hamilton and St Johnstone I don't even think you can say they will be season defining. I will say though that if you look at the teams that play 4-3-3 in this division - Aberdeen, Rangers, Motherwell - they are all in bad form and it looks like the tactic has been figured out.

Well according to Alan Campbell the boys put a great effort tonight. I think anyone who parted with 24 quid tonight to watch that will beg to differ.

Not normally one for hysterics after a defeat, but can’t help but look at how far Killie & St Johnstone are behind us never mind Livi and Hibs.....We have been awful since the break... The sooner Dunne and Turnbull return to add reinforcements the better. Oh and can we please stop playing with Long and 2 lightweight wingers, just does not work, nobody holds the ball up, nobody to win the ball in the air. Watt must play on Sat, if he’s not fit enough he should play the first 60 mins rather than bring him on.

Ok a bit of calm is needed , we are on a shit run of form just now,3rd defeat in a row, but 26 played and still joint 3rd so no pant wetting required. Yes we need to stop the rot and get back on track but calm down people, we are in a good position heading into the split and the chase for Europe

Lazy fuckers. Mazinga is a complete twat.

The wheels are well and truly coming off. Our January business was a disaster.

Must have been the last kick of the game virtually. We are doing our level best to fuck this season up.