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There’s not really any debate about Bair though, is there? Everybody agrees with just about everything you have posted. From his previous record, to the fact his signing made no sense, to the fact he would not be anywhere near first choice had anyone else been available or showed any ability to score goals. You have more than justified your criticism and backed it up. If you care to scroll back you will see that, when he signed, I agreed with your concerns. I still do, although I acknowledge what he does add to the team in the absence of a better option. But having expressed your views my point is that you appear unable to let it go until such time as the situation resolves itself one way or another. And that is Steelboy like. So, no, my observation was not “a lazy attempt at shutting down debate”. It was a way of saying that there is no debate and repeating those concerns time and time again is pointless. Again, nobody really disagrees with you. So you are debating with yourself. But ok, as far as Bair is concerned, unless the situation changes I’ll keep on scrolling.

I thought Steelboy was the one on this site that became obsessed with certain players. Bair appears to be your SOD or Spittal. Not quite Burrows, but getting there. Most of the time you are debating with yourself as everybody...including me....agrees with what you say. Perfectly valid comments and questioning of a risky signing policy. If I am wrong, point me towards anybody who has stated that Bair as a striker is up to the standard we require. Or even that we should have signed him in the first place......project or not. Being realistic, going on about Bair's lack of goals or his signing is going to change absolutely nothing right now. Taking into account our injury issues, the below par performance of our other strikers on admittedly limited game time, the fact our best young prospect is far from first team ready and finally the formation our Manager seems to prefer. The same formation he adopted last season. So not one introduced solely to counter this season's challenges. Every single Motherwell fan would gladly swap Bair for a regular goal scorer or welcome a structure that could facilitate a proven goal scorer being played alongside him. If either Shaw or Wilkinson is that striker then I trust Kettlewell to alter things. But nothing I have seen so far suggests that either of those players is the solution. Shaw's attempts against St Mirren and Rangers were poor and cost us points. What would you be saying if Bair had missed those chances? Wilkinson looks to have some decent ability but has no pace and dithers on the ball looking to get a shot away. He himself has said he is not a target man, despite his height. I sincerely hope my assessment of both players is wrong as all I really want is my team to win games. No matter who scores. Biereth might have been the player to replace Bair but Charles Dunne robbed us of that option for now. One thing was perfectly clear on Saturday, we were a better unit with Bair on the park than we were with Shaw and Wilkinson contributing the sum total of zero when they came on. At a time in the game when others were finding it tough to keep going I expected a bit more effort and support from both.

No point really responding to any of that. Ive given plenty of mitigation to my position which you seem happy to ignore. You obviously have no interest in finding the middle ground and seem determined just to win the debate. Thats fair enough and you are entiteld to your opinion. As I said before, its a matter of perspective. I will continue to look at the positives.

A lot has been said about the attitude and approach of our team when they face the old firm. It’s pretty obvious from the video that our players are not happy at all with a gallant defeat. Let’s hope we can channel those emotions into our next game and get back to winning ways. COYW!!

Captain obvious speaking here but our current set has us playing some delightful football but with too few goals. So I would try Shaw up front for a few games. He seems to be the most mobile and looks to have some skill and positional awareness for a goal scorer. Let’s see what he can do when working with a fresh midfield. Yes, he’s missed a couple of chances but strikers at every level don’t convert every chance.

Ok then, Play mugabi up front as a striker, has Stevie Hammell hacked your account?

As much as I rate Turnbull and want to see him do well, I don’t see him getting near a Steve Clarke starting XI, even if he was playing regularly. He doesn’t do enough off the ball, nor play at the required tempo for many managers. It’s a shame really, I think his quality would have been far more appreciated 10-20 years ago and I’m interested to see where he ends up next. I’d say Lewis Ferguson is the lesser talent, by some distance, but he’s doing very well in Italy.

Social media reports he's stable.

Agreed. But the happy clappers here will say that we can't drop Bair because our performances have been great with him as the big battering ram and that's all that matters.