Ya Bezzer!

It's impossible to say if McGhee would have kept us up but I've said it before and I'll say it again - McGhee is the only manager who has done anything other than scrap along the bottom with Austerity Motherwell. Personally I think he should have been given at least one more game, the match at Kilmarnock, but the supporter reaction to the Dundee match really panicked the club into making the choice that they did. What was that choice? To replace McGhee with a vastly inferior manager. Since then we have dropped to second bottom, our goal difference is worse and our points per match average has basically stayed the same (actually decreased by a very small margin) despite having an easier run of matches. Our performances have been poorer over a more sustained period and in actuality changing the manager hasn't made any positive impact. Given McGhee's record, and the clear lack of potential quality replacements, I think we were a little bit hasty in the decision. However it's also true that McGhee's behaviour had become erratic and bizarre and he seemed to have lost the players. Was it a phase or something more serious? We'll never know because history didn't transpire that way.

It would be absolutely hilarious if Rangers signed Heneghan. It would be absolutely tragic if Rangers signed Moult.

Dundee Utd have been up and down all season but are finishing in decent form. They have more goal power than Falkirk with Murray, Andreu and Mikkelsen. Their achilles heel is they aren't great defensively but neither are Falkirk I still fancy United to get through to the final. All the chat is that the Championship has been fairly weak this season, no great teams. I think any of the Premiership teams will be strong favourites to win.

Cos he's murder?

I don't mind changing the short colours here and there for variety but basically our colours are amber shirt, claret hoop, white shorts and I think we need to get back to the more traditional strip. Far and away the best strip we've ever had was the one we wore in a friendly against Leeds Utd a few years back. Absolute belter.

Blyth and Bowman have 12 starts 15 subs and 1 goal between them. El Bahktaoui's has 11 starts 15 subs and 3 goals. 3 x as many goals for, presumably half the wage outlay. El Bahktaoui's 3 goals would make him our 3rd top scorer behind Moult and McDonald. And putting aside the stats - he's just a much more capable player than certainly Blyth and probably Bowman as well. 'Making any sort of impact' can sometimes come down to the manager preferring to play a big guy like Haber up front on his own and the style of football employed - which probably hasn't been in El Bahktaoui's favour.

The sticking plasters over his ears should have given it away.

Hammell, Lasley, Campbell, or McHugh. McHugh was involved in that calamitous goal although Jules put him right in it, Hammell went off, that leaves Lasley and Campbell and I'll give it to Campbell. He went off as well though although who knows why....

One time I saw Jens Lehmann buying plastic cutlery in the pound shop. Guess that was a sign we were staying up on a technicality.

The team probably deserved to be relegated on Saturday's performance. If we don't sell out the stand at Accies the supporters deserve to be relegated too.

Incredible! It's not what you know, it's who you know....

Darren Young basically walked out on them. Must have another club lined up you'd imagine.

I agree and disagree with various parts of what you've said there but I particularly agree with the transfer strategy. There's a young lad, 22 years old, at Airdrie called Andy Ryan who scored 23 goals in 32 league matches this season. Stand out in the division, almost single handedly put Airdrie in the promotion play offs. Meanwhile we sign guys like Blyth and Bowman. I'm sticking my neck out here but I'm saying if Andy Ryan had been given the same opportunities as Blyth and Bowman have he might just have equaled their 1 goal tally. Do we even look at these players? I don't know if he could cut it at this level but I see us signing players who I know can't.

I can reveal then that my mystery player was none other than James Keatings. Obviously not come to pass.

Falkirk had nearly a thousand more fans at their match against Queen of the South. They haven't posted a sub 4,000 crowd this season in the league. Here's a list of our attendances that are worse than Falkirk's lowest attendance which was 4,170. Dundee - 4,078 Dundee - 4,002 Ross County - 3,870 Partick Thistle - 3,759 St. Johnstone - 3,739 Inverness C. Thistle - 3,696 Kilmarnock - 3,684 St. Johnstone - 3,588 Aberdeen - 3,428 Ross County - 3,177 Inverness C. Thistle - 3,131 Falkirk's average league attendance was 5,032. Ours (including matches against Rangers and Celtic) was 4,436. Dunfermline also had a higher average attendance - 4.438. Their crowds tend to fluctuate more but they had 6 home matches with more than 5,000 in attendance compared to our 2 (Rangers and Celtic).

Having more fans.

What we need is quality players like Mallan, Morgan & McGinn.

If we go down I think a few Motherwell fans will be in for a shock when they realise teams like Falkirk and Dunfermline are actually bigger than us. Could potentially be a dog fight between Inverness, St. Mirren, Falkirk, Dunfermline and Motherwell just for a play off place, never mind the title.

I agree our signings have been terrible but they were terrible before McGhee came in. I'd suggest that at the very least our transfer policy is being steered in a certain direction and while the manager might have the final, I doubt, for example, that McGhee identified and lobbied to sign players like Bowman, Lucas or Frear. I don't know but it certainly looks like we have relationships with various scouts and agents rather than managers identifying players and then signing them.

St. Mirren have probably been the best team in the division since the winter break. It's not like they have been struggling, they've been absolutely flying. Raith Rovers were on a 15 match without a win streak before Hughes turned up. Since then 4 wins in 8 matches. Gotta put that down as an improvement. Just wasn't enough.

Well McGhee came in and sorted out the mess that Baraclough and Robinson left behind. He did it because he's a much better manager than either of these jokers. Might be the last top 6 finish for a long, long time.

We are all old hands at this football lark. We all should know teams that have been terrible can out of nowhere turn in a terrific performance. And that's what you've got to belief otherwise there isn't much point going to the match. Or even supporting a club like ours. Potentially my last match of the season (I hope!) as I don't think I can make it to the Kilmarnock match (first missed home match in 7 years) and Inverness away I'm thinking about going to but I'm not sure yet.

When his budget was cut McCall went down the pan as well. We have a totally flawed transfer policy that extends back beyond McGhee. The English non league gems idea just hasn't worked with one or two excepions. The team is full of garbage that can't cut it at this level.

Hamilton (H) 0-0 Dundee (H) 2-3 Ross County (H) 0-1 All we had to do was win ONE of those matches and we are probably safe. That's what happens when you appoint someone with an attrocious record in management. To be fair his win percentage is 1% above his 21% at Oldham so I guess that's improvement. How many relegation haunted teams do you need to be with before you actually think to yourself.....maybe I'm not very good at this. I'm asking you Robbo.

McHugh and Campbell were probably our best players today and he chooses Campbell to take off. As poor as we were today Robinson's substitutions pulled a defeat out of a draw. Better not be manager on the first day of next season.