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Motherwell FC (Season 2014/15) = 26.9% of available points won Individually, LASLEY (20 league starts) = 28.3% of available points won Individually, CARSWELL (10 league starts) = 23.3% of available points won Playing togther, LASLEY + CARSWELL (9 league starts) = 25.9% of available points won CARSWELL, playing without LASLEY (1 league start) = 0% of available points won LASLEY, playing without CARSWELL (11 league matches) = 30.3% of available points So Carswell has won less percentage of available points individually against the overall team average and against Lasley individually, as well as less against the average playing with Lasley or without Lasley. Whereas Lasley has won more percentage of available points, individually against the overall team average and against Carswell individualy, as well against the average playing without Carswell.

Is there anything in the rules that bans planting a hedgerow along the line?

Dundee were struggling to win before we played them but they were banging in goals, in fact they have now scored in 19 consecutive league matches, an impressive feat, and I always thought that was going to be bad news for us because if you can score 1 against Top 6 sides the likelyhood is you are going score more than 1 against us and that's the way it turned out. Kilmarnock on the other hand are struggling to win mainly because they can't score goals. They have only 1 goal from open play in their last 6 matches (plus 3 penalties) making them one of the teams with an even worse record than us for putting the ball in the net, at least recently. They seemed to have really struggled since Odadeyi got injured. Kilmarnock haven't been conceding nearly as many goals as us though so, at least looking at it on paper, I think this will be quite a tight match. The next two matches are the kind that fill you with dread - Celtic and Dundee Utd away - so this is a match we really need to take something from, if not win. If Kilmarnock turn us over, given the lack of goals they have scored, then we will need to really start worrying.

I'm sure Ian Baraclough isn't looking for excuses. He's responsible for the recent results. If he didn't want to be responsible for them he wouldn't have taken the job. However we have been dire from day 1 of the season and to a certain extent Baraclough has inherited the problem, he didn't make it. Therefore you have to cut him some slack, however he is in charge now and we can't go on with performances like those at Hamilton or Dundee and it's up to the new manager to make sure it doesn't happen again, or at least not too often, because performances at that standard will see us relegated. I thought when McCall left and the performances got slightly better, and after we got the wins against Partick and St. Mirren, we might kick on a bit but that hasn't happened. I think there is very little realistic chance of climbing the league now and finishing 10th has to be the managers aim, if he doesn't manage it then I think his position would have to be assessed and we look at what has and hasn't happened under his watch but until then that's his marker. Baraclough should be criticized and scrutinized just like everyone else at this time but he certainly shouldn't be under pressure in terms of his job unless there is a cataclysmic drop in form and relegation becomes a certainty well before the end of the season.

I'm watching a team where at least half if not more of the players have just given up but even though Lasley is not having a good season I watch him and I see someone that is at least trying. He's 35 and he's still the guy that's doing all the running. That shouldn't be the case for a start. Also, I think you have to accept that not having a regular midfield partner is not exactly ideal - one week it's Carswell, the next it's Vigurs, then Law, then Lawson, then Ramsden. Unlike, say, McManus, he's never had a settled partner along side him. Also Lasley turns out every week when I'm absolutely convinced there are players hiding in the physios room right now that don't want to roll their sleeves up and get out and play. Football players aren't stupid, I'm sure there must be seasoned pros sitting in our dressing room on a downer looking round at their team mates and thinking "the guys around me aren't good enough". But you know what you could rattle through our squad and most are a rank or two below Lasley as players and I'm sure he knows that just as well as we do. That must effect his performances. There's only so much one or two guys can do, we need to perform as a team and if we don't get at least 8 or 9 guys out there performing then we don't have much chance.

Can someone tell me why defenders can't look left and right to make sure they are in line, when that is the most basic prerequisite of defensive play? They clearly don't give a damn when they can't be bothered to show enough concentration and positional awareness to cover the absolute minimum you'd expect from unpaid parks players. You could freeze frame just about any Motherwell match at any point this season and we are an absolute ragged mess. If any of these stupid pricks ever have to cross a road they'll be wrapped round an axle in no time!

Even the Motherwell teams that struggled under McLean had players that aren't even comparable to the guys we have now. Contrast someone like John Philliben, a player that would go to war for you every week, to cowardly lion Stephen McManus.

Probably the only possible way this season could get worse is if we did this.

McGhee gave Hutchinson his debut.

Definitely the worst team I've seen since 1986 when I started coming regular.

Probably will be. He's been atrocious since Baraclough came in anyway.

Don't see any dog fighting going on. Does that mean it's just relegation then? Right now it's us and St. Mirren that are going down because Ross County will definitely pull ahead of us in current form.

Baraclough may be a shite manager or a great manager or somewhere in between but the problem here is the players. We have a dressing room full of shitebags and that's that. Why do you think Stuart McCall walked away in the first place?

Elbow apparently.

Positivity only gets you so far. There are arses that need kicked and kicked hard.

Players should be paying the costs of all the supporters that went up there. Fucking disgraceful, week after week.

If we installed an artificial pitch we'd never win another game again. We'd be non league in 5 seasons!

Are you serious? Maybe you can ask the court that when you get arrested. By the way Shay Logan is from Wythenshawe.

Ainsworth is a pain in the arse who will never reach any height in the game deserving of his potential because of a serious work ethic problem but at the end of the day we have three players in the squad that you have a decent chance of getting a goal out of and Ainsworth is one of them. In fact in goals to game ratio I think he's statistically top this season. I just think that, like so much this season, we just have to put up with him until the summer when we can make major changes.

The Partick game was incredible. Pressed them high up the field dominated the match. Then second half we just sat back and Partick dominated. Hard to say if one, both or neither was the managers plan. If you ask me this team is incapable of actually implementing any kind of tactical instruction. They go out and you cross your fingers.

Everywhere is a concern but I think the accepted wisdom is that you "build from the back". If we stop conceding goals, especially avoidable goals from individual mistakes like we have been, we will probably pick up enough points to stay clear of the two bottom spots.

Yes. My favourite Motherwell defeat!

Put it this way, our two heaviest defeats of the season were matches O'Brien missed. He's the best defender at the club by a country mile.

Our best result and performance this season was when Kenny Black was in charge. The stick this guy gets is all speculation, hearsay or pure scapegoat stuff. We've not performed all season with three different managers in charge. I'm afraid it's down to the individual players now and no one else. So many not trying, so many making terrible mistakes, so many not anywhere near playing to standards they have already established. Kenny Black is not responsible for Fraser Kerr passing it straight to an Aberdeen players playing it out from the back or for Stephen McManus dozing off standing next to a guy that's scored 19 goals this season.

This season has been a real hard grind, one of the very worst I can remember in 30+ years. I've been to 16 matches this season and I'd say I've seen 1 90 minutes, against Dundee Utd, that was even in the realm of being acceptable, never mind actually good.