Ya Bezzer!

I have him on 98 league appearances.

40 does it most years. 9 out of 15 seasons. Record tally for third bottom is 44 points, the only time a team has got more than 42 points. I'm guessing though that due to the compact nature of the league this season this years points total to escape the bottom two spots will be one of the higher ones, perhaps even a record total.

Maybe it's not a coincidence that we don't do it at home.

From the opposition view - this result surely relegates Dundee United. 13 points behind with the worst goal difference. Pretty much snuffs out any hope they had.

Aren't two of them against St. Johnstone. We are now only 3 points behind them and they are in terrible form.

Would take a point tonight, no problem.

There is 7 points between 11th and 4th. And 36 points to play for.

Criticising his managerial ability is fair game but there are an awful lot of people who aren't really interested in his managerial ability and are simply using the first available bad spell to air old grievances. It helps no and in fact hinders any potential recovery when the club is in a very difficult position, on and off the field. Instead of supporting, far too many people have the knives out. Don't tell me what's happened at Fir Park in recent weeks didn't have any effect on the players on Saturday.

McGhee is called arrogant but check out comments like this.

What McGhee needs to do is a video telling us about his favourite dinosaurs and that should get the fans back on side. Also wonder if it's the same old yins that booed 'arrogrant' Tommy McLean season after season until of course he won the cup. If the managers position becomes some kind of personality contest, as it seems to be at the moment, then we are well and truly fucked.

138. How many more supporters there were at New Douglas Park than there were at Fir Park.

McDonald has something like 8 goals in 23 matches this season. He is also joint top on assists, 7. He runs himself into the ground and on days like yesterday is one of the few players that looks up for it. I find some of the views in this place truly baffling these days.

Johnston has pace and decent feet but I think you get very little end product out of him. He's got 2 goals in 35 league appearances, you need more than a goal every 18 games out of a forward player like that. His assist rate isn't good enough either, he has 3 assists this season from 20 starts, while Ainsworth has 7 assists from 12 starts. McDonald also has 7, Moult and Pearson 4. So he's our poorest performer out of all the forward going players by some distance yet seems to start week in, week out. I think he really needs to up his game when it comes to the final third. I would be inclined towards a midfield four of Pearson, Lasley, Gomis and Cadden at the moment.

I don't disagree with what you are saying but there are degrees. Fans are entitled to vocally display their displeasure but today we had supporters screaming personal abuse at players 7 minutes into the game. Last week we had the support singing "You don't know what you're doing" and mocking the manager minutes after we had equalized in a cup match. There is being passionate about the team and there is being a disruptive and negative influence on our results. Right now the poisonous negativity coming from our support is helping no one.

I don't want to get into the whole 'uber fan' debate either but that quote above, to me, totally misunderstands the whole concept of being a supporter. It's kinda ironic that these very people would probably be the first ones to wave banners about football supporters being seen as 'customers' when they behave like customers themselves.

I'd be inclined to simply match up against Dundee Utd and get each player told to win the battles. The players need to step up.

Maybe the fact that you can't recognise McGhee's factual record is telling of a lot of the opinion on here recently. Baraclough lost 4 league matches in August out of 5. McGhee has lost 4 league matches between now and November the 21st.

Ripley.

Lasley has missed 7 matches this season and we have lost 6 of them and the one we did win, we stole the points (1-0 away to Kilmarnock). Must be a coincidence that out of those 7, the 3 worst results of the season - defeat away to Morton, 0-6 v Hearts and then today, are included.

That remains to be seen. What is actually fact though is that Barraclough lost the same number of games in August as McGhee has in three months of league fixtures.

The last two league performances have been very poor but people need to remember where we were last season and even at the beginning of this season. People also need to remember we are 6 points from a Top 6 place and 12 points from bottom. The amount of negativity that comes from our fan base can't be dismissed as one of the big problems at the club. Within 7 minutes of start of the match, fans were screaming abuse at players and for the second week in a row I saw fans screaming at each other. Last week we lost to a world class goal in the last minute and people called the performance a "tactical disaster". This week, when 2 wins on the trot would see us shoot up the league, people are taking about "oblivion" and inevitable relegation. Sadly we live in an era where people are conditioned into extremes. Everything is the best ever or the worst ever when actually it's not. Our fans need to take a long step back and here and look at what is actually going on. Are we in a good position - no, was it a sore one today - yes, but there is a hell of a lot of football still to be played the reaction to what is in effect two poor performances, is totally over the top. This time last season we took 1 point from 24, just remember that before you lay the blame of the world at Mark McGhee.

The transfer policy since Les Hutchinson took over has been abysmal. I think Baraclough brought in 18 players.

Two league games?

Very, very, very poor performance but why McGhee is getting all the blame I can't understand. A lot of those players are dross under their third manager. I didn't agree with the line up or formation but the players just didn't look up for it, Kilmarnock wanted it more and that is inexcusable and not the fault of the manager. Take Lionel Ainsworth, whether you think the way he was singled out for the Partick Thistle result was right or wrong, he had a chance today to show what he could do and make sure he was in the team next week. Instead he was dire and got hooked at half time. And it wasn't only him, most of the team was in the same boat not just performance wise but attitude wise. Also, another abysmal performance where Lasley was missing. There are guys on here who could tell you his age down to the minutes and seconds but we are much worse without him. Much worse.

If this season has taught us anything it's that we should always play 4-4-2.