Ya Bezzer!

Things could change but remember if we hadn't played a total shambles of a Rangers team we'd have been a Championship team this season. The opinions on the board are not based on one game or even form since the start of the season. There has too be improvement starting now, we can't go on like this.

Next four matches are huge, for the club and Baraclough. Cup match v East Fife, defeat is unthinkable in that one. Two home matches against Kilmarnock and Ross County, then away to our Lanarkshire friends Hamilton who have already opened up a wee gap on us. If we go to NDP and lose again I'd imagine the reaction will be vociferous.

He's had nearly 30 matches in charge and had a lot of backing from the club, including money to spend on players, which you and me will have to pay for at the end of the day. Besides the wins against Rangers, who you ought to remember were being matched or bested by the likes of Alloa Athletic and Livingston last season, and you'd be hard pressed to see many positives. Warning siren should have been sounding when we lost at home to Dundee Utd who then got hammered by Hamilton 4-0. We have two defeats against teams this season who's only three points in five matches have been against us. Things need to turn around, in a sustained way, very soon.

Even a win next week might just be papering over the cracks. Strong trends beginning to show themselves now.

OK, here's a damning statistic, in 27 league matches under Baraclough we have scored more than once.....6 times.

Baraclough's league win percentage now down to 29% and our away record under him is absolutely chronic.

Taylor taking an early shower. Might not need one right enough!

4th consecutive week we've conceded 2 goals. Not good enough. Won't pick up many wins having to score 3 goals.

Quelle surprise.

Sounds worrying, the whole direction of the play seems to have switched in favour of St. Johnstone.

Looks like Gary Locke's sacking will come a week too early for us. Sounds like St. Johnstone are coming more into it.

If you are interested Craig Moore scored in 4 minutes for Ayr Utd.

GOAL! Moult or OG, one of the two.

St. Johnstone have played Inverness and Hearts, so 2 out of 4 are the same but, OK, put it this way - bookies have us at 3.40 and St. Johnstone at 2.15. All I'm saying is I think a draw would be a decent result tomorrow.

St. Johnstone have lost 2 out of 13 home matches in 2015. Motherwell have lost 10 out of 13 away matches in 2015. St. Johnstone have scored in every match this season. Motherwell have failed to score in 50% of our matches this season. Doesn't look good does it? St. Johnstone have also conceded in every match but we've conceded 6 goals in the last 3 games so we are probably going to have to score twice to get anything out of this game. Would be happy with a point and then we really need to beat Kilmarnock at home. BTW John Sutton was dropped in favour of Steven MacLean last weekend who scored so I'm guessing MacLean will start again tomorrow although inevitably we'll see Sutton on at some point.

See St. Mirren fans are saying Craig Reid is being linked with a move there.

Michael O'Halloran is probably one of the quickest players in the league.

St. Johnstone have an excellent home record. They have only lost two home league matches in the last 10 months and the last team to go there and win, other than Celtic, was Hamilton Accies back in the first week of January. Before that you have to go back to October 2014 when Kilmarnock won there. They have a few injuries at the moment, particularly in defence but Graham Cummins has scored 3 in 4 so we'll need to keep an eye on him and of course they have Sutton who may or may not come back to haunt us.

As perhaps Gannon's chief hater on this board I'm saying that wasn't one of my major reasons to take agin him!

I'm sure I read on the Sheff Utd site that they had brought in 7 times what they paid for him.

I think we should be setting aside modest sums to bring in players if only to raise the general quality of the squad but I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'd be surprised if any of these players leave for a fee. If you want to sell players on, you need to develop them yourself. In fact if you look at the list of players we have sold for cash the vast majority of them were home grown and most of the rest were foreign players sold to foreign clubs. I remain skeptical about the likelihood of selling English players back to England which seems to be the plan at the moment.

There are far too many long balls being kicked from hand by the goalkeeper, we need to play it out from the back. We have two wingers that are rapid, a long ball down the middle isn't exactly playing to our strength.

Yeah, it is 8. I counted a draw as a win. But general trend is the same.

I'm keeping a goals conceded map this season and so far of the 6 goals we've conceded 3 have come from the right back position and none from the left back position. Draw your own conclusions. In any case Aberdeen are very strong down the wings, they will give most teams a roasting down the flanks I'd imagine. With the full backs pressing forward and the interchanging between the three attacking midfielders, our full backs often found themselves in the middle of a triangle with little cover from wide midfield players.

I was unhappy when Josh Law was given an new contract so my position on him is clear. We released better players than Law during the summer. However I don't think Baraclough is going to chop and change at this stage. We've got some difficult games out of the way and now he'll be looking to play what he sees as his strongest team against more manageable opponents. The fact that Law was given an contract extension, has played the vast majority of matches under Baraclough and started the season as a first team choice suggests he is going to be our right back for at least the foreseeable future.