Ya Bezzer!

Nice find. I can put Dave Mackay in my All Time Motherwell XI now! He did play his part in denying Motherwell a trophy though, beating us in the Final.

There was good support on Saturday from those that were there but unfortunately there was only three and a half thousand. We must be down about 1,000 fans at the moment. Come out and support the team against Killie. I know it's not been great this season but last week was our best performance of the season and we need to follow it up and you can do your part by coming along. There was close to 5,000 against Stjarnan with a few dozen away supporters. This is a much more important game than that, this could take us off the bottom of the league.

Pretty much. It will be same again with Straker coming in at left back. We really need to get something out of this match, I think there is an argument for saying it's our most crucial match of the season so far. Kilmarnock's form overall and especially their away form is quite good recently (1 defeat in 5) so we'll probably have to put in a performance to get anything out the game.

I think you are getting a bit carried away to be honest. Pearson and McDonald made a huge difference on Saturday but I'd hardly call being more or less depend on 2 players to stay fit as "strength in depth and quality". I also think you are completely dismissive of St. Mirren. You say they brought in "no one of note" but just for a start James Dayton would walk into my XI if we had bought him. They have actually brought in 6 players in the window some of them are unknowns but so is/was Connor Grant. Facts are St. Mirren have been a better team than we have been in 2015 and will continue to be until we back up our win at weekend with more performances and wins like it. We can all imagine a better future. In terms of run ins, if you take league positions as a general indication of form (not completely accurate, Accies have the worst form in the league and are 5th) and assume it's twice as hard to win away from home as it is at home then you can get a rough estimate of the difficulty. If you do that Partick have the hardest run in, followed by St. Mirren, then ourselves and Ross County have the easiest.

I enjoyed the game yesterday and I wouldn't have been harsh on us if we had even drawn or lost because the level of performance is what we've all been looking for. However, we are still bottom of the league and I think the crucial factor is that Ross County and St. Mirren are in better form than us. To put it into perspective Ross County have picked up their last 10 points in 5 weeks. It's taken St. Mirren 7 weeks and us taken us 10 weeks to pick up 10 points. If we are going to avoid the play off place, never mind bottom spot we are going to have to better Ross County and St. Mirren over the next 11 weeks and despite the win and good performance we are still well behind our opponents in terms of recent form. Yesterday's win took a lot of pressure off of Baraclough but he's still very much in the relegation spotlight and if we don't build on yesterday's performance I'm afraid the knives will be out again because picking up 1 point from 24 between January and now might still be what relegates us, even if we improve in the later stages of the season.

7 red cards this season - not great. That's more than Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and Inverness put together. And that was Ramsden's 3rd red card in 1 and a bit seasons - also not great.

For the third week in a row we play a team on an unbeaten run, although with Kilmarnock it's mainly been draws. They certainly seem to have bucked up a bit since Allan Johnston left. However, this is our game in hand over St. Mirren so we absolutely have to take something from it, and really we should be looking for a win and try and put a run of our own (of the positive kind) together because Ross County look like they are going to be putting some points on the board now. We also have a few winnable matches coming up - Hamilton at Fir Park, Partick and a huge one against St. Mirren so we need to try and get some form going with these games looming on the horizon.

Most of the team played well today. Lasley, who was 'done' last week remember, was terrific and put in a brilliant game saving tackle just at the end there. Erwin ran his socks off for the second week in a row although I wonder where the goals are going to come from with him but his attitude is great. Long made a huge save in the first half, if Inverness had scored then we would probably have been looking at another defeat. However the two real stand outs were Pearson and McDonald. That's the difference two internationals, two Champions League level players can make in this league. McDonald pips it as I felt Pearson tired a bit as the game went on but if we can keep these two fit and get Hammell back suddenly we look like a team again.

I'd kinda of forgotten that going to football matches can actually be an enjoyable experience! Good blood n' snotters performance today. McDonald and Pearson made a huge difference and that's all it takes, a couple of real quality players can kick the rest of the team on. Last week we hardly touched the ball in the first 3 minutes of that match, this week we dictated the play from the start. It just be a small thing but I think it really matters that you put a marker down right at the start of the match. We dominated the early stages and if you do that the other team knows they are in a match. One thing though was we didn't really create many good chances, the irony was the one we did that fell to McDonald, well I think that is the kinda of chance that John Sutton thrives on! After about 35 minutes or so we looked to start a little bit tired and maybe went down a gear and let Inverness back into it. Luckily George Long made a great save to keep us in it. Second half both teams had spells on top and we were a bit lucky in that Inverness hit the post and the barbut we scored two good goals and we did well to lift it after Inverness equalized. Ramsden, I didn't see the incident but it wouldn't surprise me if he did something stupid because he has previous. I was also a bit disappointed with our wide players today although Johnson came into the game in the second half and you can see he has something, Connor Grant wasn't much involved and doesn't look like a natural wide player. Lots of good performances though - Long made a crucial save, Law looks a lot more comfortable at right back, Lasley was great, Erwin worked his socks off, Pearson and McDonald were terrific though. They have raised the whole level of performance. If we can get Hammelll back and fit and sort out the wide positions and I think we'll have a fighting chance but we need to follow this up next Saturday, no use putting that performance in today and then failing against Kilmarnock.

Serious I'm going to the game furious these days, never mind coming back!

No left back, two left wingers, dropped our top scorer....

OK, McDonald coming back had me up for this but that line up is just all wrong. We just put out a team in virtually March with 2 league goals scored. Fucking hell.

The impression I got from the press conference was that Pearson will be on the bench at best. Might be wrong though.

I also spotted Sean Fagan and Willie Kinniburgh. And Celtic still couldn't beat us.

He also said he's matured and he's more a team player now. I hope he's just saying that. We need him to be a greedy, selfish wee bastard like the first time he was here!

I'm pretty sure Arnott scored 23 goals against the OF. He scored 60 odd, maybe into the 70s overall in all competitions so that was a pretty big chunk of his career total. The best strikers were in my time where, in order 1. Tommy Coyne, 2. Scott McDonald, 3. Owen Coyle. The best pairing though was Arnott/Coyne. Over a 100 league goals between them for Motherwell and most of them playing with each other. Besides goals one of my all time favourite memories is Dougie ripping the shit out of Basil Boli who got sent off after a late tackle and then took a maddie and started jumping up and down, stamping his feet and throwing his arms about at the ref. Hilarious.

Of all the centre forwards I've seen go through Motherwell over the years only Tommy Coyne was better.

I'll owe an apology is we finish 10th or above at the end of the season under Baraclough. Since that's not happened yet, I'll hold off for the moment.

I understand the 1 but don't understand the 0! Hopefully McDonald comes in and does a 'Willie Falconer'. 7/8 goals is a bit much to ask but 4/5 goals could be the difference between escape and a whole lot of trouble. Too much to ask for a 'Mickey Weir' and a retina damaging yellow kit as well?

Hopefully this means we have two up front now. Old fashioned 4-4-2 till the end of the season, no more fucking about playing players in weird positions. That way everyone knows what they are doing which hasn't looked the case the last few weeks. Get some tackles in, press them, get to the bylines, play direct, basic stuff, none of this 'I'm a Tactical Genuis' bullshit.

Aye, get them on a bread and water diet, yeah, that'll save us. Even people on defending Gannon now. I've been saying for a while now this is a collective failure and we can now include the support in that. The forum has lost the plot.

I've been a critic of McManus, I gave him the nickname 'Cowardly Lion', that's pretty harsh criticism, but he's contracted for another year and I'm sure he doesn't want to be playing away at Cowdenbeath on a Wednesday next season. He's entitled to speak his mind, especially if it's a valid criticism. Would you stay silent if you thought your manager was making a cunt of things? If Baraclough was doing his job properly these sorts of comments wouldn't be leaking out.

I can't name him for legal reasons but it's on a charge eating a sausage under the influence of alcohol.

If the dressing room is now in a state of schism or in revolt with Baraclough it just proves he is a weak manager who is well out his depth. Also, the criticism of Baraclough in the Wilson piece is spot on. I meantioned it before that match on Saturday. We did not have a single striker on the bench. Chris Sutton is our only experienced centre forward and the 2 other young guys have 1 goal each in their careers, the last coming 6 months ago. Considering we've hardly scored all season you'd think that would be a priority position.

I would actually give him the next two games. I'd actually consider the Inverness match to be well beyond us at the moment and it would be unreasonable to expect us to get anything from it. Kilmarnock have been up and down but that is as close as a winnable match as we are going to get at this stage. He's not had a lot of time to get the new players settled in and our crisis was not his making, it's just that he doesn't seem capable of getting us out of it. Giving him the next two games seems like the best compromise between fairness to Baraclough and the expediency of survival. If he can't get a win there then he has to go, 1 point from 30 is grounds for dismissal in any circumstances, never mind when you are at the bottom of the league and going headlong into a death spiral.