Ya Bezzer!

Will always remember his first last game for Motherwell down at the still oval Rugby Park. Crowd sang "(I Want You To Know) Please Don't Go" for most of the match. Tommy Coyne scored early and somehow we survived about 83 minutes of constant battering to come away with a 1-0 win. Remember it like yesterday and it was, gulp, over 20 years ago.

I can independently confirm this. Two seem to have been 1 match suspensions for red cards and he was rested on the last league match of the season against Partick with the Rangers play off looming. So he's missed a maximum of 2 matches injured in four seasons.

Josh Magennis was obviously deeply hurt by the comparison because he got a lot better after I said that.

For me Moult doesn't have the attributes that top level clubs are looking for in a front player, pace and physical presence, so I'd be surprised if he did end up at Crystal Palace. Also, if you look at his scoring record he's always been pretty streaky. 8 of his 11 goals this season have come in 3 matches and 1 of the other 3 was a penalty. He's a good player at our level but I think if he moves on it would be to a Championship/League 1 level side I'd suspect.

On a related topic, I see Lee Erwin is top league goal scorer at Oldham.....with 2 goals in 21 matches. History will vindicate me.

Hibs have been getting 15,000 crowds week in, week out. A lot more than they did struggling in the Premiership.

With all due respect (you know what's coming when someone starts with that) that sounds like the sort of guff you'd get from Rangers or Celtic fans. The points column is the only thing that justifies Premiership status, not the park (which is shite) or the stadium (which is also). Accies therefore warrant their inclusion although that may change this season. As I said earlier in the thread Accies deserve a lot of credit for competing at this level, just like, say Dumbarton, who turned Dundee Utd over in the last result, do for competing at Championship level. Also I think the rivalry with Accies has grown again over their three year stay in the top division and gives us something more than just another fixture. Admit it, if we'd scored that last minute equaliser against any time it would have been celebrated, but didn't it mean just that little bit more because it was Accies?

QotS have gone into meltdown this season. Looked like they could challenge for promotion then lost 7 in a row and are on a no wins in 12 run at the moment. Thomas should get a game as they don't really have any left sided midfield/forwards. Recently brought in Danny Carmichael from Hibs on the right and with Lyle and Dobbie in the middle that looks decent on paper at least.

He's played 18 out of 21 league matches this season and in the previous match McGhee put him on in the 26th minute to replace Cadden. Some horses for courses going on, some trying to give young lads a chance as well but I don't really think he is a bit part player.

We sent McDonald back up front when we went 1-0 down and that left us short in midfield. McGhee was obviously concerned about that and didn't want to risk effectively going down to 2 in midfield by bringing Ainsworth on too early in the match, especially with a very young inexperienced player in there. By waiting until the last few minutes and then taking a defender off, not something he would have considered doing with 25, 20, even 15 minutes to go, I think tactically McGhee got it completely right......although no one will start a 'McGhee Got It Right' thread I suspect.

How good do you think we should be? Accies might not be Barcelona but they are a tough team to beat. Only three teams outside the Top Four have beaten them this season and one of those was us at Fir Park. With the exception of Celtic no one has gone to Douglas Park and won by more than a single goal. Accies deserve a lot of credit I think for even being able to compete in this league with 800 season ticket holders. Conditions today were bad, Accies plastic pitch is atrocious and the strong wind, not helped by the stadium being open to the elements made things very hard today for the players. And don't forget we had something of an ad-hoc side out with a few young players in there - one making his first team starting debut. I felt we competed well over the 90 minutes considering we were down to 10 men very early in the match.

I agree that his pace was on the wain but I think he improved massively as a player in his four (I think) seasons here. In the end though he was more a hard worker than anything else and I don't see what he would bring us anything that Cadden can't do.

McDonald absolutely bust a gut today from defence to up front.

Don't get me wrong, at the time I was shouting for a penalty but I think on reflection the defenders hand was in a natural position and referees very rarely give those these days.

Moult goes from 1 out of 10 to 10 out of 10 with one header! He had a stinker and then pulls it out the bag. Deserved point would not have deserved to lose than.

When the incident happened I thought straight away 'red card' so right now I think Lucas has fucked us over rather than the ref. Before the red card we were well on top and had all the chances. Since then we've not created as much and Moult doesn't look interested playing up front on his own. Accies haven't really had a clear cut chance but I'm concerned about the area between the posts between 20 and 40 yards. We are not defending this area and when Accies look dangerous its through the middle rather than down the sides.

Difference is, we want him to play.

Sounds like we were lucky......Inverness had most of the chances and hit the bar and the post. Still take it though.

Dread words on Radio Scotland......."There's been a goal at Inverness......" Followed by the most incredible relief.

I LOVE CRAIG CLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Signing in the million pound bracket is a gamble never mind at our freebie/reject level. He's brought in Tait and Heneghan and basically made a first pick player out of Cadden. Some others have been injured and not able to contribute and others were only brought in to act as back-up. Moult and McDonald are always going to be the front two if available, for example, so opportunities will be limited for Blyth and Bowman and its unfair to judge them as anything other than back up. The same goes for Brill. We don't have enough quality in the squad but I don't think it's a point your finger and blame kind of deal. Inevitably at the level we are shopping at you aren't going to get a player ever time or even half the time. I don't think McGhee's record is any worse than Barracloughs or McCall's later years. We are at the dross level in finance terms and it should be more of a surprise if we get a good one than a bad one. It's just something people are going to have to accept, especially when the inevitable happens and we lose real quality players who are coming to the end of their time with us - Hammell, Lasley, McDonald. Facts are their replacements just won't be the level of quality that many fans have not just got used to but have actually quite complacent and entitled about. This season we are the 12th best supported club in the country and teams just below us have chairman who are still prepared to plough money in meaning actually in terms of financial clout we are lower down still. That's where we are right now and I think quite a few of us haven't quite grasped that yet.

Inverness are 5 home matches without a win and only have one win in the last 12. We have a pretty good record against the bottom 6 teams this season, finger crossed we can get at least a draw if not a win from this one. Really need to turn 3 points up before the break and this is as good a place as any to make it happen.

McDonald for his goal.

People need to get a grip. We are 3 points off the Top 6 with a game in hand. You'd think we were rock bottom. The whole 4 wins thing means diddly squat in a season where there have been so many draws. People also need to adjust their expectations in this new age of fan ownership. We had 2,700 fans at the match and I'm afraid that's where we are at the moment. As for the performance it was always going to be difficult against a better team in poor conditions. First goal was a terrible goal to lose when I thought the match was fairly evenly pitched. Samson seems to be getting the blame and he should have done better but he didn't give the ball away in his own half. I've not seen TV pictures but I was at the opposite end of the pitch and I could see it was never a penalty. Never a penalty so how Madden is giving it I'm not sure. But here's the thing....Aberdeen reacted first to both penalty rebounds and that's not good enough. Players need to be more switched on because that has cost us points tonight. Second half there was a collapse after Lasley went off. I'm afraid Clay and Lucas aren't good enough and Lasley is still our best available midfielder....even at 37. We desperately need to strengthen midfield in the transfer window....if we can afford to. This is our big weakness that has to be addressed. Someone said we have better players than other teams around us....well I'm afraid we don't in central midfield. Tansey/Draper is better than we've got. Gillespie/McKinnon is better than we've got. Osman/Edwards is better than we've got. If you concede midfield, you concede that match....it's that simple. Third goal, well I'm afraid Tait has had a nightmare all match. Hayes destroyed him and that can happen when you come up against one of the better players in the league. We are lacking at the moment. Lacking a little bit of luck, lacking a little bit of refereeing goodwill, lacking a bit of quality, lacking a bit of confidence but we aren't miles away. If anyone thinks we'd be doing better with another manager I'm afraid they are kidding themselves but if you want to go down the St. Mirren route maybe you need to look at what's happened to them. I never expected us to be a Top 6 team this season and I don't expect anything other than 7 teams slugging it out for the rest of the season with not much between any of them. That's the state of affairs, if you want to lose the head, fine but where does that get us?

Yeah the wind is to 'drop' to a mere 20mph. I think we'll be seeing big Jadyn Stockley starting tonight for Aberdeen and some wind assisted hoofball.