Ya Bezzer!

Easy, it will tip some people over the edge and lead to trouble and violence. You can deny this but show me the study that says when you introduce more alcohol into an environment it produces less violence and a calming effect. There are none, because it doesn't. Secondly, aren't people always complaining about the price of going to a football match? Yet these same people suddenly have all this extra cash so that as soon as you can get pints in a ground they will be throwing fivers over the bar. I'd actually question the economics of it, especially at a smaller club like ours. If 1,000 people each bought a pint at £4, the club would then have £4,000 minus all sorts of costs. It wouldn't even bring in a lot of money. Clubs are trying to bring down policing costs that are huge but I'd bet you anything the police would not allow alcohol on sale at football grounds with reduced policing. Thirdly, if the legislation mirrored that in England and you weren't allowed to watch football while drinking, why would you want alcohol in the stadium anyway? Go to the pub before or after the match, or just sit in the pub and watch Soccer Saturday. So there we have it. It will lead to more trouble at matches, the economics of it I think are being exaggerated and I doubt it would bring in much extra income and in the context of watching a football match, it's completely pointless. Throw in the fact that the quality of the experience and product would probably be poor and over expensive and that I'm already fed up getting up and down out my seat 15 times a match without guys with a couple of extra pints of fizzy lager in their bladders, and I'll leave it at that. If it was introduced I wouldn't quite football over it, I just think it is a backwards step.

I never said anything about buying it.

Pretty much, it would be a period of adaptation rather than the end. I don't want to get relegated but if we do I still be going to the matches and the consolation, and it will be a consolation, is that it will be something different that I've ever experienced before. I started coming regularly the season after our last promotion. Another consolation is that the new play off system means that there is a promotion interest for quite a few clubs right up till the end of the season.

Pretty much this. I'm against the re-introduction of alcohol for a variety of reasons but even if it was re-introduced you can guarantee you'd get a shite plastic beaker of Carling and pay over the odds for it. If you want a drink go to a decent boozer before or after the match.

He's young he might not be ready to start all, or even some, of the games, but he should certainly be coming off the bench. I can understand Baraclough holding him back so we can have an impact player coming off the bench that can change the game with 20 - 25 minutes to go but I don't understand not playing him because he's been just about the only thing to enthuse over lately.

If you go to the greyhounds everyone uses the bookies, they don't go online to make their bets. It's all part of the occasion, the fun of it. And nothing beats the punter triumph of handing in a winning slip and getting real money off a real bookie.

We played some really good football under McCall for the last 6 months of season 2012/13 but overall the standard of play under him wasn't great and was often pretty poor.

Me too. I'm cutting back my betting but if there was a bookies at Fir Park I'd probably put my Saturday line on there. I guess the problem for bookies in a football ground is that most people will be betting on the home team, or at least that match, and there isn't the wide spread of different bets so potentially the bookies could take a big hit if the home team wins. Not that that's a problem at the moment!

Motivator? Motivated to do what? Lose every week by a barrel load of goals? It's was 2008 the last time we failed to get a win in a 7 match run. I wasn't Stuart McCall's biggest fan but to call him 'very very lucky' under our current circumstances takes some nerve. Let me guess? Baraclough has been very very unlucky to lose 4-0 to Celtic, 5-0 to Hamilton, 4-1 to Dundee etc, etc.

The thing that worries me most is that we have so many players out of contract. If it does happen, we are basically going to have to rebuild the team with probably fewer season ticket sales, less gate income, less money coming in generally and a whole lot of player budget cuts. Player recruitment would be absolutely crucial otherwise we could go from being a Premiership standard team to being a bog standard or worse Championship level team over a close season.

The point is that our recent form is garbage while the other teams are picking up points. Ross County for instance haven't lost more than 2 games in a row since September. St.Mirren have also picked up. We, on the other hand, are in our worst form of the season. This is the reality, ignore at your peril.

Laing had a nightmare debut but we need him to be better than anything else we've had this season and shore up the defence. By all accounts Grant did well and he scored a good free kick. Perhaps if him and another new arrival can kick on we can do a bit better, but I think we'll be doing well if half of them are an improvement on what we already had. We definitely need Pearson and Hammell back. I also think Dom Thomas could be a crucial player for us in the run in. I'd like to think that by watching matches at Fir park since 1982 I can spot a bit of quality amid all the mediocrity and dross and in my opinion Dom Thomas has that.

Ross County have taken 5 points in 2015. St. Mirren have taken 7 points. We have taken 1 point. Replicate that form over the remaining games up to the split and we would be bottom, 4 points behind Ross County (effectively 5 with goal difference) and 7 points behind St. Mirren (effectively 8 points). We have to improve dramatically to have any chance.

Football is a strange game. We'll probably win again this season but it's hard looking at the evidence of the season to see where or how. As for the example above, probably the greatest factor was that Ross County were playing Aberdeen, the best of the rest, one week and Motherwell, the worst in the league, the next.

I'll bet you anything Lasley wasn't fully fit yesterday and was rushed back for the match. Playing Ramsden, Grant and Lasley in midfield is a managerial failing rather than anything else. Total lack of balance or variety.

Dundee have scored in every match bar one this season, we have not scored more than one against anyone other than Ross County. So just taking that into consideration getting anything more than a point will be a big surprise. Inverness are just on a totally different level from us this season. They will pass us off the park. Kilmarnock are very up and down. Probably our best chance of getting a victory but what state will we be in if we lose the two before for a record of 8 defeats out of 9 which, sadly, I think is very likely?

It's all Vigurs fault and then he doesn't play and nothing changes. Then it's all Ainsworth's fault and he doesn't play and nothing changes. Then it's all Lasleys fault and then he doesn't play and nothing changes. Then it's all Twardzik's fault and then he doesn't play and nothing changes. Now it's Reid's turn to shoulder the blame for a huge, season long, collective failure that includes two managers. We have been dire across the park, all season. Trying to narrow it down to one cause looks like the most desperate kind of hopeful thinking.

Without Lasley we are 2 - 12 down this season and have picked up 1 point out of 12. No point making this about individuals when it's all about a collective failing.

One of the things that really worries me is that there is belief out there based nothing more than the fact that because Motherwell haven't been relegated for a long time it won't ever happen again. I've been reading this "we'll be alright" stuff all season.

This whole season has been 'gotta win the next game' or 'important few weeks coming up' followed by total failure. Baraclough has not improved anything and if anything we are worse, 1 point from 21 is our worst of the season and we are defensively even worse than before, conceding an average of 3 per match. If that stat doesn't change we are basically finished. Doomed. In terms of formation, tactics, style of play we've been as dire as at any other time this season. I'm getting absolutely sick of saying this but next week is must win and a lose is unthinkable - to lose 7 out of 8 in our position, at this end of the season... It's kind of ironic that so many on here had the knives out for Kenny Black and yet the only time we have even looked like we might not be relegation bound was when he was in charge.

Should have started. I said it earlier excluding Sutton, we had 2 goals in the line up and 1 of them was 6 months ago. You need a goal threat and with the exception of Sutton we don't have one.

(Sarcastic) Goalkeeper's not tall enough.

We've lost 5 and drawn 1 out of the last 6 and are currently losing to the bottom team in the league who have lost 10 out of 11 at home. If we lose this today serious questions need to be asked about Baraclough. We are getting worse rather than improving. If Baraclough can't improve the results then he's not doing his job - that simple.

.....unless Sutton scores we are fucked. Which has been the story of the season so far.

We cannot lose this one. Huge second half. Lack of goals is chronic. Sutton aside we have 2 goals this season in the line up. 1 for Ramsden, 1 for Erwin, 6 months ago on the first day of the season....