Ya Bezzer!

Too be honest I'm not too bothered about Ojamaa leaving as long as we bring someone else in who is half way decent. We need someone to come in and score 6 goals at least in the second half of the season and rescue us like Willie Falconer did all those years ago. I don't think it really worked out for Henrik this time, he wasn't contributing assists and wasn't scoring enough to justify taking up a forward role. Judging by his body language I don't think he was too happy playing under Baraclough either and to me he didn't really look that interested in the last three or four matches. I think when Henrik looks back on his career I have a sneaking suspicion that the best football he played will have been with us in his first spell.

He's what you get if you cross Steven Caldwell with Stuart Carswell.

Yeah, Fraser should have been in. Fraser had the squad no. 1 in 2009/10 and Hammell was no. 3 and Hammell was the first on my list, think I just over looked him. Pretty sure I didn't miss anyone else out.

He missed out by 5 days.

Just put one name in and then it gives you as "Give In" option. Something like that anyway. The answers come up then.

Only a league cup appearance at Clyde. Scored as well.

I got 58 out of 69 but I did type all the names in about 15 minutes before so I had a slight advantage. Even so I missed out a regular starter from this season...

I put together a wee Motherwell FC player quiz, if anyone is looking for a wee time waster. Since we are half way through a decade the question is this - Can you name every Motherwell FC player who has made a league appearance since 1st January 2010? There are 69 (according to my sources) and I bet you can't. You have 15 minutes to come up with as many as you can remember and some of them are not very memorable! Click on the link below and hopefully it works. http://www.sporcle.com/games/ya_bezzer/motherwell-players-since-2010

I don't think you can judge a manager on the January transfer window. Most players are under contract or have been out the game for 6 months and who know what kind of budget is available at this time of year when clubs are in limbo between season ticket money running out and league money being paid out towards the end of the season. Also remember players we are interested in might not necessarily be jumping for joy at the the chance to join a demoralized dressing room and team that gets absolutely humped every weekend. I'm guessing, all things considered, that the last January transfer window would have been a lot easier to attract a good standard of player, if available, that this one. This season is Stuart McCall's mess and the contracted players mess, not Baraclough's. It's as if someone threw an anvil out the window and people are blaming Baraclough if he doesn't catch it before it hits the ground.

You mean we've not signed, with no money, good players in their prime years? I'm afraid finances dictate we need to catch good quality players either at the end or the beginning of their career so that's hardly a big surprise. There will be the occasion find like Ojamaa or Anier but in reality those players are hard to find.

Why? In terms of size of the club we are probably a Top Six team. Accies, Inverness, Ross County, Partick Thistle, St. Mirren, St.Johnstone all smaller sized clubs than us. Kilmarnock are roughly the same. I said it before but if all these teams are cutting their cloth then we should be aiming at a Top 6 place as a matter of course. If Rangers and Hibs re-establish themselves that puts us a few places further down again but we have as much in the way of resources as any other provincial professional club in the country. I've never seen Motherwell relegated in 30 years of going to Fir Park and although we escaped on technicalities a couple of times one of them was down to, hopefully, a one off event in administration and the other was in a 10 league team at a time when the 7 city clubs dominated Scottish football, something that isn't likely to happen again to quite the same degree. We are in big, big trouble this season and I think some people are underestimating how big that trouble is but if we escape relegation this term then I don't see why we should view ourselves as some sort of doomed club when half the teams get smaller attendances and have less money coming in. Everything being even Motherwell should be a mid league team in the SPFL and I don't see why if we are properly run on and off the field why that should change dramatically. I don't see why we "bare the hallmarks of a Championship level club" or why "we'll most likely be looking at it within the next few season". We've been shocking this season but our last poor season saw McGhee come in and turn the team around and bring us a long period of high finishes. That's what we should be aiming for instead of writing the club off as another Morton.

If you can bring in maybe 3 players and your best player this season has been the current goalkeeper I'd say you probably wouldn't be looking to get a new goalkeeper as a priority - even if you aren't that happy with him. Will be interesting to see if Cerny even starts matches at Hibs, they extended Mark Oxley's loan till the end of the season.

His last match was in a 5-1 humping off Dundee Utd.

St. Johnstone have only conceded 3 goals once this season and that was in August to Celtic. Looking through the results there is a bit of an ominous trend. St. Johnstone haven't lost away to a bottom six club this season - 4 wins and 2 draws.

Right now we ARE the worst team in the league. That's quite apparent just from looking at results. Contrast Ross County's defeat to Celtic against ours. Their heaviest defeat since way back in October is 3-1 to Inverness Caledonian. Our last 3-1 defeat was being held up as an improvement, which it was, on 0-4, 1-4, 0-5 defeats. St. Mirren have picked up 4 points out of 9 and that's with some absolutely atrocious refereeing that has cost them points and a fairly recent undeserved defeat against us. They are clearly a better team since Gary Teale took over whereas you couldn't exactly say Baraclough has had a similar effect with us. As for David Clarkson, he might have 0 goals in 8 but he also has 7 goals in 13 starts. If we'd had had someone come in and score 7 goals, not only would they be our top goalscorer this season, we probably wouldn't be in our current predicament. St. Johnstone have won 4 of the 6 matches in which James McFadden started, previous to his red card against Hamilton. That's only one less than we've won all season in 23 league matches. We aren't stick on for relegation right now we are not heading in the right way and if you had to make a call right now....

The standard of player we are being linked with is really starting to concern me

And some exclamation marks!!!!

Can't see us going with two up front away to United in our current form. Think Erwin will play wide.

My guess. Twardzik Kerr - Ramsden, McManus - Watt Law - Carswell, Pearson, Reid - Erwin Sutton Not exactly inspiring.

Pretty amazing that 4 of the top 10 pre war highest scoring strikers played for Motherwell - Hughie Ferguson, Bobby Ferrier, Willie Reid and Willie McFadyen and three of them scored virtually all their goals for us.

I agree that's how it looks right now but football as we know is a "funny old game". There was no reason to believe we'd beat Dundee Utd after 5 defeats on the trot. When a football team goes out on to the field you can never be entirely sure what you are going to get.

Baraclough said Hammell had an operation today and would be back in 4 weeks. Seemed quite positive that it would sort out his injury problems. Also said we had another signing in the pipeline but obviously didn't say who it was. Won't go through before the weekend though.

Only scored 6 in their last home match! Dundee Utd have only lost once at home this season as well. This is what winning coupons are made of. Also see United haven't kept a clean sheet since November. Can we score in this one?

Well I think it's pretty obvious, points win prizes as Brucie would say. It's our points tally, not our performances that will determine if we go down or no and just as well or we would already probably be relegated! Perhaps worth pointing out that St. Mirren have improved since Teale took over and put untried youngsters into the team like Mallan, Mclear, Lewis Morgan and Jack Baird.

I was writing in a professional capacity yesterday so I was in full flown literature mode. I'll try to make sure it doesn't seep through on to the boards again.