Ya Bezzer!

6 clean sheets as well. If you take the Celtic game out, it's 8 wins and 8 clean sheets. 6 of them have been 1-0 wins though so they haven't generally been blowing teams away.

Would like to see Thomas and Cadden get a start today but I think Erwin is really struggling and with Sutton scoring most of our goals recently I don't see a place in the team for him at the moment other than substitute. At least its a nice day today....

Dropping Sutton for Erwin? Really?

I was furious with the performance against Accies but we can't fall into a state of complete dejection because if we do that as a support the club is basically doomed to relegation. It's difficult but we have to get back up again for the Aberdeen match. There is no point criticising players for a perceived lack of moral character when we are in this difficult situation if you as a supporter can't set them an example. I know its a two way street but at the end of the day Motherwell Football Club should mean more to supporters than it does to a guy who wouldn't know where Motherwell is if there wasn't a professional contract in it for him. That doesn't mean that we need to delude ourselves. The players deserve criticism but when the next game comes round we also have to support these same guys because the future of our club is in their hands.

I never even saw any smoke bombs yesterday, I must have been so furious with what was happening on the park I didn't even notice. I did see the boy with the backpack though. Someone shamed his mother!

Not exactly how I'd describe him yesterday or in the last couple of games. Ojamaa reminds me a lot of Scott McDonald, obviously a talented player but someone who comes across as huffy and selfish. There was a great example yesterday when he had a simple ball to play in Ainsworth into the box and took the ball himself and tried to go run round the Accies defence himself. He's obviously got a petted lip from being asked to play out left as he hasn't bothered his backside in the last two matches. When Ainsworth shows you up for effort then you have a problem. Ojamaa is obviously a talented player but he has an attitude problem which is obviously why he has failed at a higher level. There you don't get to do what you like and have to play in a rigid system and work hard at aspects of the game that aren't glamourous. Well it looks like that's how things are going to be under Baraclough as well so he needs to adapt or risk falling by the way side.

Baraclough will be at a massive disadvantage over Gannon because Gannon had a far bigger war chest to spend than any other Motherwell manager post administration.

Might be why Accies have scored three times as many goals as us this season - 35 v 13.

On their two performances Accies would have humped us last season as well, just as Dundee Utd did. I've already said it tonight but Accies are in a different league from us as a football team and come the end of the season that might actually be literally true.

Never mind Motherwell, professional football will be offloading some of these guys if they don't pull their stocks up quick smart. Sadly this is what has happened to Hibs last season. They had a squad full of unmotivated out of contracts that knew they weren't going to be at the club in the next season and we have something similar with 15+ out of contracts from a squad of 24, most of whom will be on their way. We have a small squad but there is hardly any competition for places because 8, 9, 10 of those players are completely out of the picture and shuffling around waiting to be freed. In the past we've had a good dressing room but it's obvious there is a big big downer behind the scenes at Motherwell right now. Next season can't come soon enough.

Congratulations to Dom Thomas for his first man of the match award. Only his second sub apperance and he's the big man in that dressing room. Hopefully the first of many.

I'm amazed we were as high as 42. Probably a good portion of that was pass backs.

If Baraclough thinks we weren't outplayed today then he's gone into denial mode already. The contrast between us and Accies isn't just a top six team versus and bottom six teams it's more akin to a top league team versus amateurs. The gulf between us and them is absolutely humiliating.

SEASON 2014/15 AGGREGATE SCORE MOTHERWELL 0 HAMILTON ACCIES 9 You could count on one hand that number of matches I've left my seat before the final whistle, I just never leave before time is up no matter what the score is but today I left at 4-0 and before I'd got out the stadium it was 5-0. An absolutely shambolic performance from start to, well I can't quite say finish because I didn't see the last 5 minutes or so but that team should be absolutely ashamed of themselves after that. From the first whistle we looked like a team about to get a thrashing and I mean literally from the first whistle. Accies could have scored three times in the first 2 minutes when we failed to defend three three crosses into the box and that pretty much set the pattern for the match. Our first half performance wasn't worthy of the term 'professional football' and for that every one of those players should be utterly embarrassed to lift a wage for being out there today. It wasn't even worthy of the term 'school football'. We had no confidence, no shape, no organisation, no determination, no work ethic, no pride and that's not even addressing our footballing deficiencies that's just addressing the characters of the players. Footballing wise we couldn't even do the basics. The entire performance was a conglomerate of shocking technique and ability allied with laziness and defeatism. Accies, who lets remember operate on a far smaller budget than we do, over the two matches I've seen are on a completely different footballing planet from us. They have team spirit, aggression, an attacking mentality, good organisation, pace, passing, they find space everything we don't do. Why is it that someone the size of Dougie Imrie can bully someone like Stephen McManus? Just about everyone of the guys out on the field today needs to have a good hard look at themselves in the mirror tonight. Not a pair of balls between the lot of them on that evidence. There was one faint glimmer of hope today. Dom Thomas came on and played more football in a couple of minutes than the other 10 had managed over the entire match. There was no public transport today so I walked to the match from Motherwell in the wind and rain and that's what I got as a reward. I literally put more physical effort in to get to the game than these imposters did over the match. An absolutely black mark, one of the all time lows in my time of as a supporter and when you add it together with the match at Fir Park, the League Cup match and the Albion Rovers game is there even any point in going over to New Douglas Park when the team is that fucking shite? Even if it was one match you could write it off but it's not, it's a series of some of the most dismal football I've ever seen from Motherwell teams. Utterly deplorable, utterly unprofessional and a complete insult our support.

True. Thought he might have had 1 or 2 sneaky sub appearances earlier in the season when we were struggling for bodies.

Cummins is just back from Ayr Utd is he not? If Ojamaa can only play for us or Legia then surely the same applies to Cummins, he can only play for Ayr Utd or Motherwell. I don't think O'Brien is earth shattering by any means but unlike you I don't have confidence in Ramsden, Kerr or Reid to play at centre back. I would bring O'Brien back.

Also we only have a 24 man squad as it is, with something like 15 out of contract players. Even if we paid a quarter of them off that would cost a fair bit of money and we'd have to bring in replacements which would be a further cost.

Honestly I'd be surprised if we have anyone comes in other than O'Brien/Ojamaa extending their loans or replacements if they don't. Not one of the players that are out of the picture that are going to go on to a better club or contract so they will sit tight and pick up the last 6 months of their contract here. The ones that might do and we want to keep, will hold tight until the summer looking for a better deal as out of contract players. To be honest, I don't think we should be throwing money at the squad anyway, as far as I'm concerned we have more than enough already to survive in the league and shouldn't even be in this position. Getting the team to perform to previous standards will add much more than bringing in January window players who will more than likely not have been playing this season either having been sidelined by their clubs or being free agents.

Walk and burn off some of that Christmas excess! That's what I'm doing.

Or use deflated rugby balls to master the 'bounce'.

Good examples in McCulloch and McDonald although I think McCulloch is the better one in regard to Erwin. I remember writing somewhere, perhaps here if it existed back then, that McDonald was a very good player but he'd never score goals! As regards Ojamaa, I thought he was poor yesterday and I wouldn't let 6 or 7 minutes of highlights change that opinion. Of course he has something extra in him that most of the rest don't have and that will show but he needs to work harder and have a better attitude than he did yesterday. I don't know if he had an off day as players do or if he was upset at playing on the left but if it was the latter then the manager has to have a word with him because I think he should be playing there regularly for the benefit of the team. He's quick, has skill and has a left foot so for me its a no brainer that he plays wide left with our lack of options in the squad. Ojamaa - Vigurs - Ainsworth behind Sutton is surely our most effective attacking line up. There's no reason that I can see why Ojamaa can't do what Jamie Murphy used to do on the right wing, play wide but come inside and get 10 goals a season.

I don't think anyone is saying any more than he will need to improve in front of goal if he wants to make it as a striker. No one is running him out of town on a rail. The last player I remember being in a similar position to Erwin today was McFadden against Celtic and he missed too. It happens but when you are trying to make your name as a young striker then I think you need to be more composed than Erwin has been so far. I'm sure Erwin will be sitting at home tonight kicking himself regardless of any supporter chat because he'll know as well as anyone.

Didn't exactly set the heather on fire at QoS. In fact they have a young striker, Gavin Reilly, coming through who they clearly though were better than our guy. I've always felt a bit sorry for McHugh because he never really got a chance but all that time on the sidelines has not been good for his career in terms of progressing as a footballer.

When a striker misses a glaring chance it's going to be commented on so if Erwin has a future in the game he better get used to it because football isn't a game for the psychologically weak, especially the striker position where it is all about goals. He also missed a sitter against Celtic and has made a fool of himself diving around in the box so he needs to pull his socks up and try and live up to his potential. I'm all for youngsters getting their chance but when you are in with the big boys you have to take it on the chin just like everyone else. Also we weren't poor for the previous 75 minutes, we played very well for 45 of them.

A few candidates. Ainsworth was good on the ball but we didn't get it to him enough in the second half. Hammell came back and did well. I thought O'Brien had a pretty good match and made some important challenges. However I'd give it to Lasley. Excellent first half, back to his best, second half mucked in with everyone else.