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Robinson better get his Joe Lewis voodoo doll out again. Joe has probably been Robinson's most important player while Motherwell manager.

100% agree with this. I’d go back to 4-3-3 with Archer, O’Donnell, Ohara, Gallagher and Grimshaw at the back, Campbell, McGuire and Polworth in midfield and Hastie, Watt and Lang up front. Although I suspect we’ll see almost the same team that started at Ibrox, 5-3-2, just with Polworth in for Crawford.

————————Chapman Grimshaw——-Mugabe——Lamie——-McGinley Seedorf——-Crawford—-Polworth——-Hastie ————-——-White———Long

Find some of the comments on here about Tait a little surprising. I thought when Hastie came on last week he went past him at will, in fact did Tait not get yellow carded for pulling him down and then get hooked? When I’ve seen him play for Saints this seasons he’s been exactly what you would expect, fairly solid but limited and struggles badly against pace. I’m happy to have O’Donnell over him. Must keep Gallagher in Jan, otherwise I suspect we could be looking at a relegation dogfight in March/April. Would love us to sign someone decent to play alongside him.

it's hard to see why they'd want to stay around to be honest. We're not a club moving forward.

This is very much a case of players suddenly being better the minute they left us, both Hartley and Tait took plenty of stick on here. Tait did not accept an offer and only came back when Covid hit then made out it was all the clubs fault, he was slow and past it by all accounts and Hartley was a Dino who just hoofed it up the field. Both O'Donnell and Carroll are better full backs than Tait was when he left. The pair of them have gone and in my view both needed to move on, we simply failed to replace Hartley and that was the actual mistake.

At the time i though letting tait and harley go was the right decision,from our point of view i thought we had as good as we were going to get out them,i thought tait played well against us last week and looked in decent shape and would easily walk into our team,ive no idea about hartley but I'm sure he would be a far better option than either mugabi or lamie,failing to replace either with guys of even of similar standard has been farcical.we definitely miss there leadership,either player had no problem about sticking up for themselves and there team mates against opposition players,you wouldn't see that now,were far to soft in that department.

As I posted elsewhere, in games we've actually played we're averaging about 0.92 points a game in 2020 and it's roughly the same for season 2020/21. If we keep up that trend we'll finish on 36-40 (ish) points, depending on how Kilmarnock and St Mirren's appeal goes. That involves slipping down the league to what is usually a bottom 3 position with the possibility of relegation play-offs. That there is the 2020 form under Robinson. The only reason we care about form is to crudely predict what is likely to happen next. Those additional 6 points completely skew the trend and you would be mad to think they are somehow relevant to our actual on-field performances. We are absolutely in relegation form regardless of whether those points are there are not.