Ya Bezzer!

I feel like a guy looking up at a suicide on a window ledge shouting "don't do it".

20-1 on Queen of the South is unbelievable given their record against Hibs and Rangers this season.

Dougie Ramsey will be upset.

Against my better judgement I have a ticket for this.

Guessing Johnson won't be risked on the Hamilton pitch, even if back to fitness.

It's not a problem for me. You always put out your strongest XI for the next match. If someone gets injured so be it. Players can get injured training, warming up before the match or microwaving an egg, no point worrying about it.

Accies at Douglas Park will be our hardest match of the run in, I'll say. A lot of people on here wanted to take a couple of games form over 10 years of results against Partick, well we'll have to go and win on that pitch for the first time ever if we want to avoid the play offs. That's a big ask given our previous attempts. Also I suspect Accies are no where near as bad as some are making out, especially on their own patch. They've not won but they have a few draws in there and they are the only team to take any points off Ross County in recent times. They outplayed Dundee Utd for long spells and should have got something at Tannadice. And just like at Partick all the pressure is on us, away from home. Two factors that have not been in our favour recently. As I said, this will be our toughest 90 minutes of the rest of the season.

All the Rangers loan players are loaned until the end of June. Good wee rouse there from Mike Ashley, another 5 monthly wages paid by The Rangers.

There's no point playing them if they aren't fit but if they are they have to be risked because we are at the last chance saloon now.

If the play offs are extended into June then we could be without George Long, Louis Laing, Tony Straker, Conor Grant and Mark O'Brien as their loan period expires at the end of May. All contracted players are signed up to the end of June.

We have 5 players that have scored more than once this season in the squad. McDonald will leave in the summer, I don't think there is much doubt about that. That leaves Sutton (11), Ainsworth (6), Erwin (4) and Vigurs (2). You want to 'bin' three of them. OK......

It will probably be a ticket match, same as last time. We'll get the stand behind the goals and that little kid on stand at the side.

There is also the chance that Morton could replace one of the smaller sides in the division, Cowdenbeath/Alloa.

Hibs have 'easier' games than Rangers - Alloa, Livingston and Falkirk, although Livingston have found a bit of form as they attempt to avoid relegation after a shocking season. Rangers have Dumbarton, Falkirk and Hearts. Dumbarton have been in holiday mode for a couple of weeks being in mid table so you'd expect Rangers to win that easily enough but Falkirk and Hearts will be sterner tests. Queen of the South could well get 9 points out of 9 from Alloa, Dumbarton and Livingston. If they did so they would still have a chance of finishing 3rd or even 2nd.

For me the two hardest matches are the first 2 matches post split so if we can get something out of them I honestly think 15 points is doable. However going to Douglas Park, I have to say, fills me with dread these days.

Although signed players are normally signed until the end of June, I'm lead to believe that some loan players are signed on deals that expire at the end of May or the end of the first week of May which is the end of the Championship league fixtures.

I would have liked County at home first but not bad overall. We need to go to Douglas Park first though and that is a must win.

If you look at Falkirk, a similar sized club to ours, they have been down in the Championship for 5 seasons now and they still attract roughly the same number of fans that we do in the Premiership 3,500 - 4,000. That proves that clubs can maintain a fan base a division down, if they are winning most weeks and challenging for promotion, although whether that's how it would go for us is open to question.

So you want to take all the experience and quality we have and throw it out the window when we go into a tough Championship league full of experienced old pros? That would be madness. The first thing Hearts did when they went down was bring in experience in Gomis, Buaben, Pallardo, Zeefuik, Eckersley, etc.

Absolute rubbish. What about Kilmarnock when Sutton came on and we played better. It was only a couple of weeks ago so I doubt you have forgotten so soon. Some people around here are very selective. And what about the entire season when Sutton started up front and we finished 2nd? As for "he is slow...etc, etc." he is the 4th top goal scorer in the league this season. Celtic have spent millions of pounds and don't have someone on 11 league goals this season, on top of that he has scored more goals than an other Motherwell player since Willie Pettigrew and is something like 4th on our post war list. He's got into double figure every one of the 5 season he's played for the club. As for the "if we are not creating chances" well who do you want in that situation? Someone with an absolutely superb chance-to-goal ratio like Sutton or someone that runs around a bit but is 70% less likely to score? There's some kind of myth some of you out there like to repeat that Sutton doesn't contribute or we are better when he's not in the team. Well here's the facts. We have won 9 matches this season and John Sutton has started 5 of them and scored winning goals in 3 of them. In another 2 of those wins the winning goal was scored after John Sutton came on, (recent wins against Kilmarnock/Inverness) and in the remaining 2 wins Sutton scored a total of 4 goals coming on as a sub. So he has literally contributed to all of our 9 wins this season and scored 5 goals in the process. Goalscorers are worth their weight in gold. Getting rid of Sutton would be a terrible mistake.

This sort of attitude needs to be booted the fuck out of Motherwell. Alloa, Raith Rovers, Cowdenbeath, Livingston et al have got results against Rangers this term. I'd actually rather have Rangers than Queen of the South. Against QoS all the pressure and expectation is on us to win and QoS are a good team who have played well all season and would have a lot of confidence. Whereas Rangers all the pressure is on them and they are a flaky team. Pressure and flaky teams don't general work out well.

Might be meaningless by that time, as we need to beat them and have Ross County drop points elsewhere somewhere along the line. From a Motherwell point of view, I'd want Ross County first. Beat them at Fir Park and all of a sudden their run is over and we are right down their necks again with 4 to go.

We are the big favourite to finish 11th but that's been the case for a while. The only difference is most supporters have come round to the idea. Our recent home record is pretty good so I don't think it's impossible for us to win three out of three there. Difficult but not impossible, especially if we get good supports out and make a lot of noise. We are due Ross County at home, so if we win that, and can win our other home matches, then you are looking at a couple of away matches that could make the difference. I don't believe Ross County will get full points from their next five, so we have to scrap and fight as hard as we can so that if/when they do drop points we are right behind them. I'd say we have maybe a 25-30% chance of overtaking Ross County. Everyone else is safe in my book. What we can't do is go into a play off in poor form with the fans on the teams back. If it is a play off let's go into it flying and with that confidence I think we have at least a 50/50 chance against anyone trying to get up.

I don't know if others will agree but if we are going to go down, I think it might be for the best for Rangers to be promoted. I suspect they won't be as bad next season as this one and that leaves us playing for a play off place from the very start of the season. I think we could compete against Hibs, QoS, St. Mirren, Falkirk for a Championship title but like I said Rangers I'd expect to be a lot better next season. Of course that means being relegated by Rangers in a play off which is stomach turning. Like you say though I'd fancy us to win a play off against Rangers more than any of the others. The pressure on Rangers would be immense and I don't think their team is much better than ours at this moment.

McCall v Baraclough - the loser takes the blame!