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Can't compare McDonald to any of the guys we are bringing in. McDonald played at Premiership level with Southampton. Having said that I'll literally take anyone right now. You can say we have so many defenders right now but most of them are absolutely gantin' and have been for 6 months. We've conceded 19 goals in our last 6 matches and if that continues we are dead. Finished. Might as well give up now. Bring in another 10 defenders if you like as long as two of them know the basics. Hopefully we sign a few more guys in the next couple of hours.

Complete cretin that ruined a potentially great career.

Most goalkeepers stick to the line these days because they are coached to. Same reason they punch. It's the defenders job to protect the goalkeeper, not the other way around. I just went through our last 3 games and I didn't see a single goal conceded that a commanding 6'3 goalkeeper would have prevented. It's the 30 to 10 yards where we get ripped to shreds, not the 6 yard box. I think the only goal we lost in the 6 yard area from the last 8 was a van Dijk header where the central defender lost the challenge. Did you see the league cup semi finals at the weekend? 4 out of the 5 goals were down to poor goalkeeping.

He's our POTY so far because he's performed better than any one else over the season. That simple and it's the same criteria as any other season. This new guy might be an improvement, if so good, but we'll see how he deals with some of the charlatans playing in front of him. Kerr, Ramsden, McManus, O'Brien and on Saturday, Laing. All terrible over the piece. Twardzik I think has lost some confidence since the Dundee match but I'd challenge anyone to list the good saves he's made against the poor goals he's conceded. I think one of those lists will be quite a bit longer than the other.

Don't really think he's the type of player we are looking for right now. He's a tigerish ball winner with a bit of composure on the ball. Long term he might make a good replacement for Lasley but right now, with relegation hanging over us and limited funds I don't think he's quite what we are looking for. Wouldn't be gutted by any means if he signed on just not sure he's a priority signing in our current dire emergency. Straker didn't look like a winger on Saturday so maybe that wide left position needs to be filled and as I said earlier a sort of Colin Cameron style midfielder, someone who is going to make the runs into the box that Murray Davidson did for St. Johnstone on Saturday. We have badly missed Ainsworth's goals from last season. His goals last term won us 11 points last season.

Don't really think he's the type of player we are looking for right now. He's a tigerish ball winner with a bit of composure on the ball. Long term he might make a good replacement for Lasley but right now, with relegation hanging over us and limited funds I don't think he's quite what we are looking for. Wouldn't be gutted by any means if he signed on just not sure he's a priority signing in our current dire emergency. Straker didn't look like a winger on Saturday so maybe that wide left position needs to be filled and as I said earlier a sort of Colin Cameron style midfielder, someone who is going to make the runs into the box that Murray Davidson did for St. Johnstone on Saturday. We have badly missed Ainsworth's goals from last season. His goals last term won us 11 points.

Well Pearson got goals here and there but he was never really a high scorer and at 32 I doubt he'll be have the legs he had first time round. I've not seen him yet since he came back but I'd expect him to be a slightly different sort of player.

Midfielders that can make runs into the box and score goals are the most valuable commodity in football. We need one. Still 11 hours to go!

Fraser Fyvie was a good player but he's hardly kicked a ball in three years.

Maybe Barraclough wanted to keep it tight and then gradually introduce more attacking players as the game went on. He seemed very unhappy about the goal we lost as if players hadn't done specific things he'd asked them, but as poor as we were if you think about it St. Johnstone didn't really trouble our goalkeeper too much over the match. So in that sense it 'worked'. It seems pretty obvious that keeping us competitive means not conceding goals because when we concede the heads go down. And while a lot of us want the likes of Moore or Thomas to start games I do think there is logic in holding these players back. If we start with them and it's a poor performance and we aren't in the game what do we do then? There is not a lot on the bench that has a proven ability to turn the match around. If, on the other hand, we are poor and not performing well, at least we have these guys who can come on and make an impact on the match. The kid was saying "oh, we are going to get thrashed again" and I said "As long as it's 1-0 we have a chance" and that's the truth. What we need to do is really stay competitive in matches for as long as possible and any points we can dig out will be absolutely crucial, otherwise these familiar scoreslines 1-3, 0-4, 1-4, 0-5 will keep coming round.

Reid has had to play all over the place this season filling in gaps at left back, centre half, midfield. He might not be the best player in the world but he usually puts the effort in and I think he's as good a utility squad player as we are likely to find. Does he make it into a full strength team? Maybe not but I think he is useful to have around.

Do you think I could make it to the top in 6 years cos then I'm over the age limit?

Two week build up to this match?

Or maybe it's a condescending and cliquey boys club of upper middle class professionals that's completely self serving and not interested in open engagement with the wider football community. I need to work 9-5 for three weeks to earn what Willie Collum did yesterday afternoon. With that in mind, I doubt very much if nobody wants to be a ref.

Having seen the highlights I don't have any problems with the red card. Don't think Laing brought him down deliberately but at the end of the day the attacking player should have the advantage and whether it was accidental or not, if an attacker is clean through and brought down that's a red card for me. If it had happened up the other end don't think there would have been much debate among Motherwell supporters! On a separate issue I see John Sutton is now only 3 goals away from beating Stevie Kirk's 63 Premier League goals total. A hat trick up at Ross County would be a good way to do it!

Dom Thomas has something money can't buy. Real belief in himself. Too many of our players are looking to the guy next to him to get their confidence up. Thomas just goes on there and does it even when his team mates aren't the best. Having a player who when he gets the ball just want to go forward is huge for us. He just creates a sense of forward momentum when he comes on and that's why every time he's come on he's changed the way the game was going.

Dom Thomas has turned every match I've seen him come on as a sub. Great attitude and looks like he has real potential. I think this is the third straight match I've given him my vote and he's not even started one. Erwin's work rate and attitude was good today but I am starting to worry about his technical ability.

He's a terrible referee regardless of whether he got the red card today right. The reason the crowd are getting on to him is because they sense a weak and under pressure referee that's highly prone to mistakes.

I thought Kerr quite well today but there was still a couple of tackles that he put in that I just don't think you can make in modern football. Lucky for him we had a complete haddie in charge. Straker certainly didn't look like someone who's natural instinct is to get forward.

Think St. Johnstone will be sitting in the dressing room right now kicking themselves. Was a game they should have won comfortably but they were happy to stay in a low gear at 1-0. First half we were dire and they team were deservedly booed off. Second half wasn't much better until around the 60 minute mark when it became apparent St. Johnstone had downed tools and we got a bit of encouragement from the substitutions and slackness from the visitors. To be fair to the team it was mediocre from back to front but we actually battled for 20 minutes or so and we got some reward off of it. Sutton took the goal really well after good build up from Dom Thomas, who looks different class in terms of attitude and ability. If only we had showed that attitude from the beginning of matches we might be further up the league. All things considered a good point considering the side we had out today, going 1-0 down early and then losing a man in the first 25 minutes. As for the red card, I literally turned my head to speak to someone just when it happened so I can't comment on the sending off but according to the wean it was a red card, although most of the East Stand seemed to disagree!

To be fair to Barraclough he didn't have many options for central midfield today - no Lawson, Vigurs, Lasley, Pearson, Leitch, Ojamaa. Long ball might be our best bet today, get Sutton and Erwin up there.

Could line up a lot of different ways but I'll go with this Twardzik Reid - Laing, O'Brien - Watt Law - Ramsden, Carswell - Straker Erwin, Sutton

Mine is Martyn Corrigan decking Derek Adams in the dressing room.

Without Pearson we are basically fucked. No Lawson, Vigurs, Lasley, Pearson or Ojamaa in midfield? This Straker boy better have shoulders like Atlas to carry the rest of them!

The difference in tactics could be knight and day.