wellsince75

Im not sure its about form. It's more teams have sussed him out and attack the obvious weakness.. He's a very good shot stopper but poor with crosses, particularly in the 3-6 yard line. It's poor management that knowing our captain can't deal with crosses we've not added centre halves Feels like an age since we had likes Aldred, Hartley or Gallagher who all gave much better protection.

Give this man is job in recruitment Completely with you. We need A keeper who commands his 6 yard box would make a huge difference. Central defender who won the first ball and organised us. Centre Mid by the name of Alan Campbell would be awesome . We've got too many journey men and most can leave. Our better signings have been loanees - the likes of Gent and Vale - more like this please. Ideally sign them but if not another season loan would be great.

Loving the comeback and it gives us another glimmer of hope that we'll make top 6. The issue for me is the spine of the team. A strong keeper, centre half, centre mid, centre forward are always key. The first 3 are missing. We never dominate midfield and teams put in cheap crosses week in week out where we concede. I don't know how the inner workings of the club work but I don't trust Dawes to be the man to lead our recruitment

"We also deeply concerned for the welfare of all players ahead of this match" If the pitch is a midden be interesting to see what we do. Not sure I've ever seen players walk off and refuse to participate but ...

if there's any justice in the word the game goes ahead and we skud them 4 -0.

Good to know they're putting supporters at the heart of their decisions. Completely agree - utter nonsense sums it up.

From what I've picked up if the game get's postponed it will be moved to a neutral location on Sunday or potentially closed doors Monday . I've got some empathy for Dundee here, not that many years ago we had similar issues with our pitch

very sensible way forward and completely onboard with this. It's a complete nonsense that someone who's 10-12 points could adrift could end up being promoted. If that was deemed the appropriate way forward for promotion - them same would need to apply for relegation, which no-one would ever sign up for. Overall the Scottish game is like a slow painful death and becomes more amateurish as each season passes.

Was thinking likes of Callan Elliot, Nicholson, Moses should all get some game time. Hopefully Adam Montgomery recovers and gets a few games. Young Ross , Ferrie + Wells are the younger ones who've been in and around the squad.

We're in a position where 1-2 wins will likely see us safe. The youngsters/squad players who we have a chance of being first team regulars we need to start giving them game time. Players we know are leaving start reducing their game time.

McGinn and Casey I'd keep. Completely agree we need someone as a leader in the middle of those 2. Similarly we need to replace both wingbacks - unless we can keep both Gent and Divine. Defence has been an issue this season - I honestly feel the midfield is our weak link for a few years. But then attack also needs some improvement. Overall we need quality throughout the spine of the team.

When signing players in their 30's they need to be of a quality that we wouldn't have been able to afford in their prime. The issue for Halliday, Nicholson (who's 29) I think is the Jan window. Players who are kicking on a bit, not played much football , carrying niggling injuries take time to get up to speed and unlikely to be at their best until next season. When we run as tight as squad size as we have, having several players in their twilight is risky and if we continue with a small squad we need to balance the quality/quantity/risk better than we have this season.

We have been poor and deserve to be where we are . similarly st mirren have had lots of positive press but there’s little between the teams . If we’d won our previous head to heads with them we’d be in their position . appreciate we didn’t but is does show the fine margins . All of which is a bit depressing as it just highlights how poor quality the Scottish game has become . pleased with a point today - it’s at least a fair result .

We’re bang average and have bang average players (in the main) happy with a point - further we get away from bottom 2 the better

disappointed that you feel they'll score against us - expected better

Spittal has been impressive, particularly since Slattery's injury, which I I believe has a lot to do with the balance we've needed in midfield + coincides with when Bair has been a perm fixture. It was always going to be a Hearts /Hibs/Abderdeen type move. Fair play to him and wish him all the very best. He has been a rare commodity beyond his goals - a Motherwell player who's not spent weeks in the Physio room.

VAR - hands up for those who think it's enhanced the game. ???................ Given the clubs are funding this, it would be reasonable for them to vote on whether it stays, goes or changes. If changes it would have to be used sparingly for obvious errors only, and frankly offers very little value. Other than giving us something else to moan and groan about I don't see any tangible value.

like the optimism and it's far better tonic than a pessimistic view. For me our issue has been consistency, we'd need to go on a run that we've not been able to do all season but like you say it's possible and can't think of a better time to go on said run.

Personal view is he's the best manager we've had since McCall, which makes him the best in the last 10 years. Rate him above Barralough, McGhee, Robinson, Alexander and Hammell. Given we've reduced the spending, squad size and he's lost less than 1/3 of games, has a decent enough win record , has us 8th in the league. Plus seems to be a normal guy who cares, speaks well I'd put him close to McCall -who for the majority of time was excellent. He's made plenty of mistakes but appears to learn and move players on quickly. Add to that expect him to improve as he learns and grows. I'm really happy to have him.

completely agree - purpose like a few have mentioned is to correct an obvious error. Feels like there's a bunch of people desperate to prove their value in each and every game, who quite frankly we don't need. There's enough hangers on in footy as it is, having bunch of non players looking at freeze frames is a nonsense. Even with freeze frames I really can't see how Bair handled the ball. Goal should have been allowed. Re Shinnie - for me and in the spirit of the game, thats never a penalty either. I'd have been livid if we got a pen against us for that.

Brilliant post - sums it up to a tee

Aberdeens game mgt was much better than ours. They had better energy, better passing and won the majority of 1st and 2nd balls. Like most teams that play us they dominated midfield , we needed more than just Miller as the defensive style midfield player. That said it was a poor Aberdeen team and with a bit more energy and oomf we could have won. Not great when our best attacking option off the bench is Gent. Brining on Nicholson rather than starting him made more sense. I suspect we're now in no mans land. The slim chance of top 6 is gone, there's still a slim chance of being caught at the bottom. Real shame - we simply blew it yesterday. It's much more fun when thinking about progressing up the league.

Young miller was more than decent and can feel badly done to with VAR

Agree - other than vale I thought all forwards were poor Changing wingbacks didn’t work today either - no real pressure from anyone 1-1 would have been fair - should never have been ruled out

They could give us all night - we don’t look like scoring