Ya Bezzer!

Calm doon.

Not hugely excited by the draw - I've seen us play both Queens Park and Morton many times in the cups, but at least we should get an away day to either Edinburgh city or, my preference, to Berwick.

Would like to visit some new lower league grounds. But I'd also like Ayr United because I like Somerset Park. Would be great if we took a good support down there on a opening day Saturday.

Don't know anything about Bigirimana but what you hear seems promising. With Fisher I'm encouraged that we've got someone with a goal scoring record in the league but on the other hand 50% of his goals were against one team - us - and I'd like to know why he didn't do a thing until the run in. Still seems like an upgrade on what we've got.

Celtic U20s players are on two, two and a half times the wages of our top first team earners. He'd have to take a big drop in wages to come to Motherwell. Will more likely join a Hibs or Aberdeen or go to Championship/League 1 level in England.

Was reading an Ayr Utd thread and it's claimed we are sniffing around their keeper Greg Fleming. He will know Fir Park from having been Gretna's keeper back in the day. Last time I was down at Ayr ( v Brechin, two seasons ago) he got a clean sheet which was probably the last time I saw a clean sheet!

Rangers continuing to throw money on the fire!

Let's hope so.

Great player for us. Became our highest scoring player in the Premier era this season. He's also one of the biggest transfer fees we've ever received. Perhaps more importantly he counteracted the Malpas effect and almost single handedly kept us up that season. Would be in my Motherwell XI along side Tommy Coyne and there aren't many other recent players in there, only him, McFadden and Randolph. We will miss him big time next season.

Depends what kind of balls into the box Robinson wants. I'd associate Ainsworth with making runs to the near post byline and then playing low balls across the box rather than pinging high crosses in. And for whatever reason I half suspect Robinson has a candle lit shrine in his house devoted to Alan Cork/Mick Harford/John Fashanu.

Tom Fry did nothing at Annan and that's League 2. Annan were on a good run and perhaps it was difficult to break into the team but I'm sure the club was expecting more.

Scored half his goals against us this season. Haber-esque.

Was a cracking header - reminded me of Gullit in the European Championship final!

Congratulations to our 5th top goalscorer this season - James McFadden.

That or we are shite.

Yet another defensive collapse.

Houston mentioned last night there were minimum fee clauses on Sibbald - £200,000 for a Scottish club and £400,000 for an English club. So I think we can rule him out.

Ha! Tuesday. I work night shift so I'm never sure what day it is!

Apparently on his way down south.

If there are more players like Clay next season we are down. Nowhere near good enough. It's not even close.

I didn't want Robinson back in the first place and certainly not as manager. I remain unconvinced by him over his tenure but we stayed up and you have to give the guy a chance to rebuild over the summer. In terms of style of football I think we have been pretty dire since Robinson took over, albeit I seemed to have missed our best performance under him on Wednesday, so I want to see a big improvement on that score. We also have to seriously improve our home form. The result in midweek feels like a huge weight off everyone but looking forward, with another city club coming into the league, a big rebuild required, and limited funds I think he is going to have his work cut out for him.

I agree it was a terrible decision but it wasn't Hughes. Vaughan was sent there by the Raith board a month before Hughes was appointed as manager.

I've not put the midweek results into my stats yet but the overall picture is clear, they are the lowest scorers in the league averaging less than a goal per game. Fighting for your life against a safe Ross County who didn't have much to play and still not winning doesn't bode well for Accies.

If we ever move to summer football I'd sign up Ainsworth in a flash. He's some player in May and August.

I'm no Hughes fan boy but Raith's relegation had more to do with them going 15 matches of the season without a win. 11 of them were outside Hughes tenure. The almost unprecedented rise from the dead of St. Mirren in the second half of the season when they went from the worst team in the division to probably the best was also pretty extraordinary.....and unfortunate for Raith. Raith had a lot of hard luck, from going into the play offs on goal difference with two other teams, to losing a penalty shoot out having equalized in injury time and then taking the lead in extra time. Ultimately it comes down to players. Raith probably had a bottom three squad in the Championship last season, Dumbarton continue to achieve miracles, so Raith's time was up. Hughes record wasn't bad under the circumstances but he perhaps over estimated his ability and underestimated the rut Raith Rovers were in. Should they have beaten Brechin - yes. But it came down to a mad 2nd half, extra time and penalties and as the old cliche goes 'football's a funny old game'.