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You cant use the played out of position card for Craigan. He's made mistakes all through his career. Mind you in his defence so has every other player in our team at some point. I am sure Craigan and the management will know when his time is up, and they wont need us telling him, tho it's tempting

Looking at the Derby site, they appear to be trying to bring in a striker (Sammon been quoted), as they dont rate Porter and seems surplus to requirements. Could he be on his way back here? who knows, just need to wait and see. 3 and a bit days to go....

youve got to wonder why we did sign him.

pulling out of challenges, not going flat out etc etc You would think we had a semi final to play on Sunday just saw the highlights and in particular the penalty. What was Craigan doing? Rather than attack the ball, he decides to turn away from the ball and jump into the Saints player, arm first at neck level. Mental decision especially from an experienced player.

Hibs being the exception then!

would also add "bad day at office"

is it right that we had 63% of possession? End of the day we got beat with debatable penalty decision. Going by recent results in Perth, it seems like it's a difficult place to get points, whether thats down to an improvement to saints defence, or more likely very poor pitch even things up.

It's another crossroads game. Will probably tell us whether we will be pushing up or dropping down the league. We cant seem to cope with Hibs at all. Hibs will play for a draw, as they cant afford to lose. We will huff and puff, and then Riorden will score and that will be that sadly.

What is it about the old boys club in Scotland? Thought with the appointment of McCall, we might have seen something different.

got to welcome new faces comming into an extremely light squad. Whilst i understand our younger players need game time, hence loans out, we probably wont get a better opportunity than this season to blood more of them in OUR first team. Our squad is not the biggest hence todays signings, so it seems strange to weaken it almost instantly by sending two out. Seems it's a balancing of books situation to me.

the signing of a 34 year old experienced pro, and the loaning out of two of our younger players for them to get experience. Just goes to show that even a 12 team league is apparently no place (unless it's a last resort) to blood youngsters and give them a chance. I do wonder how this would be reversed in a 10 team league

think i will watch more of the u19s now! at least thats free, and it's more or less going to be our first team anyhow

McCall has got an impossible job if you ask me. We've lost 4 players from a squad, where we could ill afford to lose anyone. Yes, those that left had questionable ability, but trying to replace them at this stage of the season is difficult, as there wont be that many free transfers available. The chances are his wages budget is less than what Brown had to deal with.

you've got to ask why? they seem to be making the same mistakes over and over again.

you are right about a fine line, however, with that many individuals stating they are on the verge of turning their back on the club, can the club afford not to show even the slightest bit of ambition? As for the pitch, are the drains goosed again? Re Transfer Monies, noone expects us to buy anyone, but it would have been nice to use part of the monies to fund another player in addition to the player on reynolds wages. Thought that was the whole idea of trying to get rid of Reynolds pronto.

as McCall has said he wont see the transfer monies

given the amount of bookings craigan is picking up recently, i wont be long before he's resting anyhow.

was he playing?

by the sound of things Meechan got himself involved when he came on. Will be interesting to hear the views of those at the game.

tell you what we better hope Murphy goes nowhere and stays injury free, as he is our only creative player at the moment!

given the abuse Fitzpatrick got and he scored an important goal, i would doubt it would shut up his critics.

we've just moved Murphy away from a position where he is doing damage

we are only 9 points (3 wins) above 11th with half a season left. Anything is possible. Your confidence may be miss guided, this is Motherwell you are talking about, especially as we are lacking in squad numbers and quality.

forbes another excuse for another thread