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looking back on Saturday, a very professional performance. some nice goals in the second half as well as some pretty decent football. Banana skin avoided. Though Foley done well when he came on. Lamie for Campbell was a weird sub, would liked to have seen Cornelius. Watt and Jock Brown kept referring to Dec as being exceptional which I found bizarre given he had next to nothing to do. Favourable ties in the next rounds and a good chance to go and have a pop, Hibs probably suits us more than being away to Livi, Killie, St johnstone etc.

For the sake of pure speculation and a view to next season. Connor shields at QOTS worth a look? Started at Albion rovers, got a big move to Sunderland which never really worked out and had a few moves since, 9 goals in 17 games this season, 3 assists. Out of contract in May, still only 23. Anyone know more about him?

couldn't have said it better myself, those sections have driven themselves nuts with the conspiracy theories they are cooking up in their heads.. 'if it was false news the club should have announced as such' and 'I have no problem if club keep it in house as Burrows said himself all contracts are personal' - huge contradiction here, like you said the club don't have to announce anything, and probably never will, Dec will leave in the summer and that's that, there isn't going to be some shock finale, You have absolutely no idea what has gone on, none of us do and based on that, surely taking the word of the club and Dec himself that he is indeed injured as opposed to a single article in the daily record seems the more sensible option? what happens if he plays on Saturday and Triggers this magic extension where does that leave your wild theories?

In a game where we were likely to dominate large spells of possession, Mctominay made perfect sense last night, someone that can take the ball out from the back and build. I don't think it is a case of being preferred to Gallagher, the game just didn't suit someone who's main attributes are defensive, doesn't take a football genius to figure that out. I think Gallagher's injury although suspiciously timed is just that, really bad timing, Gallagher was absolutely nailed onto to start after his performances against Serbia particularly, there is no way he would risk that surely, if he wanted the move in the summer I don't think the club would have been difficult to deal with regarding that, certainly not enough to drag it on for the best part of two months before he was back in squads. everyone seems to be tripping over themselves to make up conspiracy theories without having any evidence, other than an article in the daily record which should be taken with the slightest pinch of salt just Imagine this, could he actually have been injured, MENTAL, I KNOW !! Gallagher has found himself in a position that no one would have anticipated, he owe's the club nothing at all, he was good for us, we were good for him, one last decent pay day for him coming I am sure, thanks for your service, next.

Obviously it would be good to know if we can watch the game but I can't the imagine the lack of announcement by now will put people off. surprised one of Burrows fan boys on twitter aren't at his front door looking for an answer.

I was thinking it would be a fairly decent gesture to let Fortmartine keep all 'gate receipts' however I don't imagine they are shy of a few quid?

Fair point, after posting I was going through the 'enough options' in my head and only really came up with Polworth in CM, and without knowing too much positionally about Cornelius he looks more of a tenacious battling midfielder, as opposed to a creator, would that be correct? with the Scottish cup coming up, we might get a chance to see him along with the likes of Semple and Devine and the sooner we can secure safety in the league Alexander might take a look to see whether or not it's worth keeping them around going into next season?

couldn't agree more regarding O'Donnell, I think it comes down to expectations, expecting an international player, he has been fairly consistent all season, which is fairly hard to come by these days, Allan Campbell is often praised for how consistent he is. If O'Donnell was happy to hang around then i'd be all for it, we could do MUCH worse.

why can't we ship him out on loan? i'd say we have enough options in the middle?

I didn't have a good feeling about winning on Saturday, saying that I didn't expect to lose by that score line, conceded very poor goals. I'm not one for blaming the plastic park usually, but the players just don't seem to be able to stay on there feet at all, it looked as though Alexander tried to get around playing football by going direct (which was effective V st Mirren a few weeks ago) it didn't work, evidently. as frustrating as results like these are I normally don't let them get to me too much, I can accept they happen every so often, nature of supporting a club with a budget like ours, my one gripe though is that we had quite a few of them this season. Those sort of results have to be few and far between.

Mcburnie is an easy target, purely because he hasn't been very good, which is fair doos, If Che Adams comes in and starts banging them in, I am sure you won't be arsed. I notice you didn't mention Lyndon Dykes, is that because he has been the total reverse of Mcburnie and put in a solid shift up top? I am in total agreement that Turnbull should have been in the squad, probably the best player outside Rangers in the league however I accept that he is battling for a spot in the most competitive part of the team and Clarke (rightly so maybe?) is remaining loyal to the players that got us there. Gilmour is an interesting one, I would love to see him in the squad but surely none of us can sit here and say he merits it right now, he isn't playing enough football to be in with a shout, Both Turnbull and Gilmour are the future of the Scottish midfield and there time will come sooner or later. I can't think of many more who are hard done by not to be in the squad? Ryan Gauld maybe, can't claim to have seen him play a single minute since he left Dundee utd so I couldn't say either way.

Any idea on the teams?

Apparently we played a bounce v Hearts yesterday, any idea the result? feel free to delete this post if necessary.

If this has been mentioned already, apologies, why are we in the traditional away dug out and doing the warm up in the other end of the park?

I think 5 or 6 is a bit of a stretch, other than Pitman and possibly Guthrie I don't think any of them are much better than what we have, Possibly on par but they certainly don't walk into our team.

Win would have been nice but a point isn't the worst in the world. A good performance for the most part, some better decisions in the final 3rd it could have been all three. Clean sheet as well which is nice considering we have shipped goals last two weeks. Crawford was excellent, Magloire grew into it. Hard to have a pop at any of the performaces.

Jock Brown has an absolute hard one for Barry Maguires delivery. It's pish.

A lot of folk on twitter annoyed at Johnstone being dropped. He done okay on Saturday, nothing more nothing less, he turned 17 about 8 weeks ago, we need all the experience we can get on the park just now, he will get plenty of chances, we need points on the board first. Not the time to be chucking boys in at the deep end, whether you agree or not O'Donnell is the sensible approach.

Campbell makes it, Roberts starts, Lawless back in the squad and O'Donnell in for Johnstone.

Anything but this. Not the worst idea in the world, although we are already very short in the middle of the park so with an injury list as long as ours we can't sacrifice another body that can play in the middle.

Lamie V Magloire, you have a case. I went with Magloire cause he is an unknown quantity, it's hard to judge him on last Saturday because the whole team were rotten, he also add's a bit of pace, he may be suspect to the odd heart in mouth moment where as we know Lamie is suspect to them. Polworth v Watt, I think Watt would put in a smashing shift in Midfield, but I don't think now is the time for square pegs in round holes. would we lose Watt's ball carrying if we played him in the middle?

Injury situation hasn't improved ahead of tomorrow's game by the sounds of things, Campbell and o'hara doubts. would like to see us line more conservatively; kelly O'Donnell Magloire Mcginley Johnstone Carroll maguire Crawford polworth Watt cole/long

on the topic of Gallagher, Tweeting players is f***ing embarrassing, can we please stop it.

This is absolute nonsense, Hartley and Tait were done with us, they were great servants on the park and good leaders in the dressing room however there time was up. As for Adam Livingstone, every Motherwell fan going wanted him to get a run in the team, it never happened for one reason or another, he is though now in playing league 2, to say he is better than any left back on the books is way off the mark. I have said before, and stand by it, that our own youth players seem to be protected from fans which is understandable, one of our own and all that but if Maguire was signed from Solihull moors he wouldn't be getting as easy a ride.

He had a good season last year, whilst Turnbull was out injured. Polworth only signed for us in the summer turnbull picked up his injury. I'm all for having a go at a player for not pulling their weight but if your going to do it, make sure your not spouting shite.