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I came on here to be very bullish about the match and then something crept into my head. "What if Alan Gow scores?" The answer to that is I'll probably have to be diamorphined by four sturdy men and a doctor.

I'd be very wary about bringing Hammell in. Sure, we've missed him but he's hardly played this season and he's come back only to break down again. I don't think he's essential to defeating St. Mirren tonight and I'd keep him back for now.

This. We might not score 3 but this is the attitude you have to have at the bottom. We have the points advantage, the GD advantage, we've got better players, we are at home and we are in better form. Go into this game with nerves and we are a Championship club next season. St. Mirren HAVE to win, all the pressure is on them and we should be piling it on them instead of worrying like some old dear. If we score the first goal their moral will collapse.

Probably favourites now, with Hibs bottle crashing. However Rangers next game is away at Qos, and the last two matches of the regular season are against Falkirk and Hearts. They have improved but they are not putting teams away, even their recent 4-1 against a terrible Cowdenbeath team needed 2 very late goals to make it look more convincing than it was.

2013-14 - 11th - Hibernian - 35pts 2012-13 - 11th - St. Mirren - 41 pts 2011-12 - 11th - Hibernian - 33 pts 2010-11 - 11th - St. Mirren - 33 pts 2009-10 - 11th - Kilmarnock - 33 pts 2008-09 - 11th - St. Mirren - 37 pts 2007-08 - 11th - Kilmarnock - 40 pts 2006-07 - 11th - St. Mirren - 36 pts 2005-06 - 11th - Dunfermline - 33 pts 2004-05 - 11th - Dunfermline - 34 pts 2003-04 - 11th - Aberdeen - 34 pts 2002-03 - 11th - Dundee Utd - 32 pts 2001-02 - 11th - Motherwell - 40 pts 2000-01 - 11th - Dundee Utd - 35 pts In an average season 36 pts keeps you safe. Doesn't look like it's going to be an average season.

Obadeyi, from what I've seen of him this season, is a very good player. He's going to give any full back problems.

Partick are actually in pretty good form at the moment. They've beaten St.Johnstone, Dundee Utd, Inverness and got a draw at Pittodrie recently. The only team to beat them in the last 5 was Ross County. Given our record at Firhill, which if you take away the 5-1 victory last season is pretty poor, I don't think anyone should be too bullish about beating Partick. That is going to be a difficult match for us. We are also going to be under a lot of pressure in that match because even a draw probably isn't enough, assuming Ross County beat St. Mirren. I believe the Ross County/St. Mirren match is played on the Monday which gives them a bit of advantage there as well.

We need to be utterly ruthless on Tuesday and plunge the sword right into their chest. No fucking about, no nerves, no harking back to previous games, no thinking about Ross County. We are in a gladatorial battle with two others, fighting for survival and on Tuesday one of them is on their knees and we have the chance of finish them off. Of course we could have done the same to Ross County earlier in the season and we turned in an insipid performance and they haven't lost since. Obviously not seen St. Mirren since the last match but by all accounts in the last few matches they've looked like a beaten team and they've only scored once in about 5 or 6 matches. Tuesday is do or die. Kill or be killed. That simple.

Long was garbage yesterday from virtually the first minute. He missed everything not just the cross that led to the goal. The first time he caught the ball was in the 32nd minute and Kilmarnock must have had 5 or 6 crosses in that time and a couple of shots. For a big boy he has no presence about him. He doesn't use his height and weight at all and as far as punching the ball goes Twardzik is much better. Twardzik has made some errors but over 25+ games and he's turned in man of the match performances and kept us from getting right drubbings. Long has probably had as many mistakes now as Twardzik in a quarter of the matches. Twardzik has a better clean sheet record than Long, and Long has been playing in a team that's performing much better with a half way credible defence in front of him. I said after the match yesterday that Baraclough will have to have a hard think about it. The stakes are huge now and I'm afraid confidence in Long is being whittled away, something we really don't need when we are battling for survival. No one wants to change a goalkeeper at this stage in the season, in our position, but we just cannot afford any more mistakes. However it is in goals has to perform. End of story.

Not exactly damning evidence.

St. Johnstone are in decent form, I think that's our best bet of any other team beating them at the moment.

It actually looks EVEN worse in the highlights and it looked pretty bad at the time. It's like he was blindfolded or something.

I don't go with this argument. If it's 0-0 and a forward misses a sitter it's still 0-0. If the goalkeeper makes a howler it's not. The two are not comparable in terms of consequence. At the end of the day you can't put a goal that was actually scored next to a theoretical event that might have but didn't happen. However I do agree that Erwin is getting plaudits because he scored a late-ish goal and because of that people forget the preceding 60 minutes of the match. The manager brought on Sutton and switched Erwin's position for a reason.

We were much better with Sutton at centre forward than Erwin. Defenders fear Sutton, they don't fear Erwin. Just having Sutton on the field changes the whole KIlmarnock approach to the game. Also, Erwin was a completely different player today when he went out wide. Bringing on Sutton and putting Erwin out wide was the key decision in the game and we looked miles better for it. I never said anything about Sutton being MotM, I just said we looked much more dangerous as a team when he came on, which was undeniably the case.

Are you saying we were better in the first 58 minutes than we were in the final 32+? Kilmarnock slightly shaded the first half. Second half we were well on top, especially after Erwin went out wide replacing Grant who contributed nothing.

First of all after a pretty ropey start to the match I thought it was a well deserved victory and pretty encouraging because Kilmarnock aren't a bad team on the evidence of the last couple of times that I've saw them. The second half performance was strong, particularly after Sutton came on. On the negative side though I can't agree with some of the posts I've seen saying Erwin was man of the match. I thought he was pretty poor today until Sutton came on and he got shunted out to the left. From then he was good, you felt from his body language that he had a point to prove and he took his goal very well but he is still very, very raw. Other areas of concern were Conor Grant at left midfield. He just can't play there and is a waste of a shirt, when he came off and we moved Erwin out there we improved enormously because we had play coming down both sides something that just hadn't happened before in the match. Thirdly, George Long is mince. Another goal conceded today that should never have happened. He looked like a bombscare from the first whistle and it was hardly a surprise when the goal happened. He has his team mates to thank for getting him out of jail today. 2nd half performance was very encouraging but I think Baraclough should be thinking about the points I've raised above. Long is worse than Twardzik and I think he really needs to look at it. We simply cannot afford any more mistakes from him in this run in. Secondly when Marvin Johnston isn't around Conor Grant just isn't an option in that position. And thirdly we look much, much, much more dangerous with Sutton on the park. Big disappointment concerning the Ross County result but we have the chance to bury St. Mirren midweek. If we play like we did second half today we should be up to the job.

I'm pretty sure that to this day Tommy Coyne is the only player to finish a season in the top league as top scorer with three different clubs.

Got my biggest ever football related kicking after this game just outside Queens Park station. Proper on the ground kicking/stamping the fuck out of me, type deal. The fact that they were so fucked off about the result means I can have a chuckle about it though! 2-0 up was it? Oh dear!

Quite a good comparison because like Cooper, Coyne didn't have any pace either. It was all about space, movement, technique with Coyne and again a lot like Cooper, at the end of the day, instinctive ability.

I like straight talking, not something footballers do very often, and big Buff gave it straight. Guessing he doesn't do Christmas cards with Davie Hay, Roy Aitken, Alex McLeish or Harri Kampman!

Funnily enough I was looking at player loans in the Championship and the standard date that loan deals expire is the 5th of May. Quite a few clubs could have important players missing going into the play offs, for instance Hibs would have sent back Martin Boyle to Dundee, Keith Watson to Dundee Utd and Dylan McGeouch to Celtic, three players that have been in the first eleven most weeks.

Would go to this game but every time I've been down at Rugby Park recently we've been woeful. Probably haven't even seen us score a goal there since the 1990's!

John Sutton's 2 goals last night equaled Stevie Kirk's 63 Premier League goal record, making him the joint top Motherwell goalscorer over our 30 year top league stretch since 1985/86 and possibly since league recontruction in 1975/76. Unfortunately Willie Pettigrew straddled the 1970's reconstruction period and I'm not sure how many he scored in the old and new league systems. He scored 80 overall, does anyone have individual season tallies for Pettigrew? Anyway, here's Sutton's 63 league goals 1. 23/08/2008 - Dundee Utd 2. 30/08/2008 - Hibernian 3. 13/09/2008 - Celtic 4. 27/09/2008 - St Mirren 5. 05/10/2008 - Falkirk 6. 28/02/2009 - Inverness C. Thistle 7. 14/03/2009 - Dundee Utd 8. 11/04/2009 - Rangers 9. 13/05/2009 - Inverness C. Thistle 10. 16/05/2009 - Hamilton Academical 11. 22/08/2009 - Kilmarnock 12. 28/11/2009 - Dundee Utd 13. 23/01/2010 - St Mirren 14. 30/01/2010 - Aberdeen 15. 30/01/2010 - Aberdeen 16. 06/03/2010 - St Johnstone 17. 13/03/2010 - Hearts 18. 18/04/2010 - Dundee Utd 19. 18/04/2010 - Dundee Utd 20. 24/04/2010 - Hearts 21. 05/05/2010 - Hibernian 22. 05/05/2010 - Hibernian 23. 15/08/2010 - Hibernian 24. 25/09/2010 - Hearts 25. 10/11/2010 - St Johnstone 26. 26/12/2010 - Rangers 27. 19/02/2011 - Hamilton Academical 28. 27/02/2011 - Celtic 29. 27/02/2011 - Celtic 30. 19/03/2011 - Kilmarnock 31. 23/04/2011 - Hearts 32. 23/04/2011 - Hearts 33. 24/08/2013 - Partick Thistle 34. 31/08/2013 - Kilmarnock 35. 14/09/2013 - St Mirren 36. 28/09/2013 - Ross County 37. 28/09/2013 - Ross County 38. 23/11/2013 - Kilmarnock 39. 14/12/2013 - Ross County 40. 14/12/2013 - Ross County 41. 29/12/2013 - Partick Thistle 42. 01/01/2014 - St Johnstone 43. 11/01/2014 - Hearts 44. 15/02/2014 - Partick Thistle 45. 21/02/2014 - Dundee Utd 46. 01/03/2014 - Hearts 47. 08/03/2014 - Hibernian 48. 08/03/2014 - Hibernian 49. 19/03/2014 - Inverness C. Thistle 50. 22/03/2014 - Ross County 51. 05/04/2014 - St Mirren 52. 19/04/2014 - Celtic 53. 19/04/2014 - Celtic 54. 07/05/2014 - Inverness C. Thistle 55. 13/09/2014 - Ross County 56. 21/09/2014 - Celtic 57. 13/12/2014 - Ross County 58. 20/12/2014 - St Mirren 59. 27/12/2014 - Partick Thistle 60. 10/01/2015 - Dundee 61. 31/01/2015 - St Johnstone 62. 20/03/2015 - Hamilton 63. 20/03/2015 - Hamilton v Clubs Hearts :7 Ross County :7 Dundee Utd :6 Hibernian :6 Celtic :6 St Mirren :5 Inverness :4 Hamilton :4 Kilmarnock :4 St Johnstone :4 Partick :4 Aberdeen :2 Rangers :2 Falkirk :1 Dundee :1 He has a further 11 cup goals, giving a total of 74. 02/02/2009 - Inverurie Locos 02/02/2009 - Inverurie Locos 09/07/2009 - Llanelli AFC 09/07/2009 - Llanelli AFC 05/08/2010 - Aalesunds FK 09/01/2011 - Dundee 09/01/2011 - Dundee 05/02/2011 - Stranraer 13/03/2011 - Dundee Utd 13/03/2011 - Dundee Utd 16/04/2011 - St Johnstone He's also a handsome big lad!

NAW. I don't want to have to go to Douglas Park ever again, never mind for a post split relegation match!