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So it is! Ive mistakenly been calling it ying and yang for 50 years! 😆😆😆

Thats not how some human beings work though, is it? Competition for places is healthy. I know that you know that!

Re Saturday, I think Id like to see McGhee at RB rather than SOD or McGinn. Better to change one position than 2. Unless of course Gordon is fit to start then maybe SOD to RB with McGhee making a cameo late on. Hard to know what to do for the best, but keeping McGinn in the centre is a must. Re MJC he is the ying to my yang. Long may he continue to be our Profit of Doom! We're gonna win the league! 😆😆😆

Not suggesting we should get into any sort of virtue signalling. But given the circumstances, it would be nice if we as a club/support could reach out in some way and show some support to Imrie and his family.....

You've decided he is shite. As have one or two others. You may turn out to be right. But I would say based on the body of evidence to date, it is inconclusive. He spent most of last season injured. He is now on his 3rd manager in a year and a brand new style of play. If we get to December and he/we dont look any better in the goals for column then you might be proved right. Until then, how about we cut him some slack and give him a little support?

I dont think he is struggling. This is the longest he has stayed fit for us, so Im kinda hoping he will get better as time goes on. In no hurry to chase him out the door as I think we will need options until Sule, Robinson, Nicholson and Stuparevic all get fit (although, I fully expect some of them wont play for us again).

The newspapers (I know!) did report an offer of £800k from a Norwegian club that was turned down. I accept that the report could be a lot of shite, but hardly something to pull someone up about.....

I know, but they might come back with an improved one before the window closes......

Lots of St Johnstone fans in the other place, being very complimentary of Hendry. All saying we have a good striker on our hands. Should come with the health warning that these are the same guys that thought Bair was shite......

Apparently his work permit hasnt gone through yet..........

Had a look at his highlights reel and most of his goals are into feet. The odd header but few and far between. Scores a few different types of goals which is good although most with his right foot. Hadnt realised he had scored 2 against us at McDairmid a couple years back. Not sure he offers anything different from Stama. Maybe we are gonna accept the money from the Norwegian team?

Dont remember him at St Johnstone so no idea if he will be any good or not. If we are using analytics to identify targets this season you have to trust he is the type of player we need. We will find out soon enough.

Hearts appear to be a team in transition with McInnes tinkering with his squad in search of his best 11. They have a lot of players and some of them are very good, so how this goes could rely on whether he finds the right formula against us. We have Slattery to come back in, but a few of our players limped off on Saturday, so it will depend on our recovery who is available. Hopefully they all just had cramp given what they put into the game! Osong, clearly isnt going to be fit enough to start, he looks a longer term project, so its likely to be Stama up top, unless we have signed Callum Hendry and he is ready to hit the ground running (unlikely). We really need to work hard on delivery in training this week. Get Said on the right (he has no left foot), TJ on the left and have Slattery and Just working on passes down the channels for Stama to run onto. I suspect it will be another very close game with only a goal in it either way. Id settle for another hard earned draw and keep the unbeaten run going for another week.

We will see. Its still a work in progress with a load of new players still trying to get to know one another and get used to the new managers style/instructions. I think its great we are still unbeaten at this stage with so much obvious growth in the team still to come. Osong will offer something different when fit and if we have signed Callum Hendrie, then we at least have options and competition for places.

We definitely see this differently. The delivery from Longelo and Sparrow from very good areas was rotten pretty much all game. Maswanhise and Said not much better. If any of the numerous opportunities that presented themselves had been delivered across the 6 yard line, we might not have had to go to extra time. For me, our problems in the last 3rd are more down to poor decision making than anything else. Of course, every player can always do better, and Stama needs to do more with the limited chances he is being given, but his work rate and movement are generally fine in this system.

And the Inverness Caley (oldskool not ICT) fans who were there, as there game had been cancelled, made more noise than us! "We are The Caley 'Well" over and over and over! Think we got scudded 3-0?

Agreed. He totally shat giving their player a second yellow on the touchline when Longelo did him down the line and he sent him up in the air. It was a yellow all day long so he should have been off. Need to see the SOD penalty again but looked like a stone waller in real time.

Lots of good performances today. Thought Watt was excellent again. He is going to be the glue that holds us together this season. Fadinger decent again and got the vital goal. Stama did a power of running and led the press well. If our delivery improves he might actually get some chances to score! Just was my MOTM though. Total buzz bomb throughout and the one trying to repeatedly unpick the St Johnstone lock. He did tire towards the end of the game and I would have probably subbed sooner. Just hope it is only cramp he was suffering from and not any sort of muscle injury.

Bailey Rice injured today. Also cup tied. Hopefully puts that one to bed....

Thought we played very well again today. St Johnstone started really well but tonce we figured them out we basically dominated the ball. We do need to be better with out decision making and delivery in the final third, that way, we might allow our only striker to have some shots at goal that he can be fairly judged on! We are still a little weak at the back and gifting some unecessary chances, and a mixture of those two weaknesses could have seen us in trouble today, but we managed to keep the clean sheet and get the goal required to see us over the line, so all good. Osong didnt really show me too much today to suggest he will be the answer to our striking problems, but he was played out wide, so I will wait until we see him thru the middle before passing judgement. I did think he would be quicker than he showed however. Overall, another solid team perdormance and you can see ethe players are all having fun and buying into the managers philosophy. Most of them were absolutely burst by the end. Also nice to see young Xander McAllister get a start. Both he and Luca Ross provided a fresh energy to proceedings when they camae on. Big couple of weeks for the management team now. We clearly need some bodies in the door. Hopefully they will be of the quality required for us to have a successful season. We are so close to having a really good team.

The premise of your post is that every time we have a big crowd we are shite and lose. Its a trope on here that fly's in the face of actual facts. We played well last week at a difficult away venue and didnt lose. We did the same today and are in the next round of the cup. So maybe we need to put this nonsense to bed.

There were 950 at Paisley last week and we didnt lose. Whats the cut off point for ticket sales that guarantees defeat?

I tend to use it. Its handy and you get straight out onto the motorway after the game.....

Tommy McLean is the best in my lifetime, no doubt. Brought us up, built a great team, won us the Cup and came as close as any modern day Motherwell manager is ever likely to come to winning the league (despite finishing 3rd). Without Tommy, no way McLeish gets us to second place. Favourable mentions to Craig Brown, who despite his Judas behaviour at the end, was a very good manager at the right time, and really should have had us through to the group stages in Europe. McCall got us best of the rest 3 times and Champions League Football, but he did have a favourable budget and as others have said, was pretty shit in the cups. No one has mentioned Robbo? 2 Cup Finals in one season is pretty special and if he hadnt come up against one of the best Celtic sides in a long time (twice) he might have an even greater legacy. Worst? Has to be Malpas. The results were honking. The football was honking. Some the players he signed were honking, and he was boring as hell!

Too far away to think about. Lets get the League Cup out of the way first. Hopefully the Miller deal will be concluded and we will have a few more bodies in the door.