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Enjoyed reading your comments. Would agree with much of what you say. I have quoted this part in particular because I have found the treatment of McHugh unacceptable. This is a guy who got a concussion by putting his head where it hurts for the cause. He came back after a lengthy absence and did not change his style, still committing himself to challenges that could have resulted in further concussion (I think it maybe did once?). He is a heart on the sleeve player who gets it wrong from time to time but the margins between a great tackle and a foul can be slim. He plays on the edge and bookings can be the result. McHugh treated his captaincy responsibilities very seriously last season and was an excellent captain. He has admitted that the pressures of the role were hugely demanding, I think in part because he took the role so seriously. I heard an interview with Craig Tanner where he mentioned that McHugh always made that extra effort to continue to include him as a member of the first team squad despite his injury. This is a character that should be applauded not villified. Yesterday's red card is far from clear cut. The ONLY people I have heard argue that it was a certain red are Motherwell fans. Baffling!!!! Seems to me that there may be something more at play here. I can't put my finger on what that might be but the treatment of McHugh has been very disappointing.

In the play off he ruled out our sixth goal although he pulled the play back for a penalty.

Did Thomson not ref one of our play-off games against Rangers? If there was ever a time he could have cheated us, that would have been it. If we really thought we are ALWAYS going to get bad decision against us when he's the ref, we should prepare like Hearts did and practice playing with 10 men. We can make all the excuses we like, but every single man in claret and amber on Sunday put in performances that were 10 times worse than the ref - and performance is something each player controls. It wasn't that long ago that we we beat Hearts at Fir Park when we went down to 10 men - and that was also during a shaky spell of form. The players used it as a motivation to step up their game, not to down tools and give up.

We signed about 7? 8? players in the summer? We could’ve quite easily not signed a single one in the and it would’ve made literally no difference to our season so far! With the exception of Aldred who was hardly an unknown quantity, not a single one has made any meaningful impact and most have barely featured at all! We must be pissing away literally thousands of ££££’s a week for no reason and whether it’s “in the budget” is neither here nor there.

The board will judge him on his performance since being appointed. His first full season was two cup finals, a finish of 7th in the league, and a ton of money made on the cup runs and transfer fees with Kipre being a player he signed. For all your talk of losing finals, 8 league wins at home and the likes those are the actual facts. Last season went well in most people’s view and that was shown by a large increase in season ticket sales. This season is not going well without a doubt but none of us know what targets the board set him, if it’s avoiding relegation I believe he will achieve that.

Burrows , the Board and indeed the well society have been very quiet this season in the media and seem to hope the Robinson problem will just go away . They are all to blame for the shambles that was our signing policy in the summer. They do however have a chance to redeem themselves by doing something about it. Sometimes it takes a bigger man to admit he was wrong ..... I just wonder how much money has been wasted this summer on wages of players who have made no difference.

In recent years, we’ve kept McCall, Baraclough and McGhee longer than we should have, leading to more embarrassing defeats than necessary. Same is happening with Robinson. I’m somewhat conflicted on the issue as I don’t think a manager should be sacked on the back of yesterday due to the pivotal nature of the questionable red card. However, the writing has been on the wall for some time, he’s barely got a tune out the players since the league cup final 12 months ago and in my eyes, his signing policy in the summer eliminated any ‘goodwill’. Unfortunately, Burrows and the Board are now in a horrible predicament as any new manager is going to get a baptism of fire with the run of games in December.

Craig Thomson. Stamped his influence all over the game. Match winning performance.