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A friend of mine asked me for some betting advice about tonights match and I told him we had no chance and to put all his money on Dundee Utd. That's means we are good for at least a point tonight! The come back starts here.

There is no need to rush this decision. We have Dundee Utd, then it's an international break, then we are away to Inverness. We should be aiming to have someone in before the Dundee Utd cup tie but that's 3 weeks away. We've got 2 - 3 weeks to do our homework and make the right decision. It could be the survival of the club depends on it.

I didn't like Peter Grant as a player but I didn't like Terry Butcher as a player either, or Kenny Black for that matter. It would be pretty pathetic if he was the best candidate and he wasn't given the job because of perceived bigotries in the support. And I'm not saying for a minute that he is the best candidate because I don't know who all the candidates are but you just sense there is still this sectarian dinosaur element in our support who wouldn't accept him from the get go despite him having quite a lot of experience down south - West Ham, Norwich, WBA, Birmingham, Nottingham Forest - and on the face of it being a decent candidate. We are a dead man walking right now, we can't afford to rule out any one for anything other than football reasons.

This is wild and crazy but maybe the new manager, who ever he is, will play Josh Law at right back.

Hoping that's just a coincidence.

Dundee Utd basically fielded a shadow team on Saturday and still won 3-0. Obviously they were keeping back some of their first pick players for this match. However they have lost their last two away fixtures (Inverness and Kilmarnock) without scoring a goal and lost 6-1 at Celtic Park so they have been up and down away from home. Hopefully the team will have had a good hard think about what's happened this week and be determined to make amends.

When people use this phrase "punch above our weight" they make it sound like the SPL/SPFL was chock full of great teams that we miraculously out performed somehow. I'd defy anyone to say we didn't have at Top 4 playing staff, at the very least, through all those high finishes.

Billy McKinlay has literally never lost a match as manager! 2 matches, 1 win, 1 draw.

Leitch will not get the job.

Does no one else have concerns about Coyle? His career seems to have been on a downward trajectory for a while.

Decent shout. Quite experienced both as a player and coach, has had some success and pulled a few strugglers up by the boot straps. The problem though is does he want to manage a team in Scotland with no money?

That season we had two good goalscorers in the side, Higdon and Murphy. There's not much point creating chances if there is no one to score them. Anyway Ojamaa can create chances from elsewhere on the park, I wasn't advocating dropping him, just moving him so we have more firepower in the forward positions.

Billy McKinlay doesn't have a lot of experience as a manager. Think we might be looking for someone a bit more seasoned considering our predicament. The others wouldn't be interested and I wouldn't want Mackay anyway. Locke - no. di Canio - NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.

Not really much around Scotland at the moment. For me the only real shout would be Ian Murray but I don't think he'd be the right fit. He's worked wonders at Dumbarton but I'd like to see someone who has a stronger youth background and Murray's success, as far as I can see, has been based on gathering together a team of old pros. I'm sure CV's are being faxed in as we speak so I'd be happy just to sit back and see what comes in for the time being. I'm not overly keen on anyone on the Scottish scene so let's just see who's interest down south or further afield.

Are you serious? He's walked away because he's realised what a fair few of us had a number of weeks ago - he's not up to the job of getting us out of our worst start to a season for nearly 30 years. How much worse does it get than 4 points from 11 matches? Do you think if McCall thought we were going to start picking up points he would have binned it?

Sadly he had to go. This season's performances weren't acceptable and he's obviously looked at the upcoming fixtures and thought what everyone else was - that we were getting nothing out of them. For me his time at the club was pretty mixed and quite extreme, some high highs but also some low lows. Leitch shouldn't even be considered as anything other than an interim manager. We need a new broom to come in.

Ojamaa has scored 5 times in his last 42 starts for Motherwell and that sums it up for me. Ojamaa, good player that he is, is taking up a forward berth but doesn't contribute any goals. For me, if you want to do well in football you need forwards that score goals and the seasons where we have done well we've had 2 or 3 players getting 10+ goals a season. Sutton and Ojamaa have 3 goals between them in 18 starts. Clarkson has 5 goals in 4 starts. For me Ojamaa should be playing off the left side and Vigurs in the middle, with someone that can actually score playing off Sutton or whoever the other striker is.

I think if we are going to sack him we need to do it sooner rather than later. We have the Scottish Cup and those matches against the bottom sides to try and salvage the season. If we don't get anything out of those our season is well and truly shagged anyway and there is not much point giving McCall a pay off at that stage.

I much much prefer live football to TV football so I'd probably just go to random games. Maybe get round all the grounds in a season. Doubt I'd support a team though but it'd leave such a big gap I don't know if I could entirely rule it out, I wasn't always a fervent Motherwell fan after all.

Instead of a result we should predict how many each Dundee United player scores. 2 Ciftci 2 Armstrong 2 Erskine 1 Mackay-Steven 1 Dow 1 Fojut

Avoided the question, I see.

I'm not going to come on here and say Lasley is having a smashing season cos he isn't but the last and only match he's missed was our biggest defeat of the season. You remember that performance against Accies? Do you think our midfield was improved when he wasn't there?

Ends 31st January.

Didn't see all of the first half but from what I saw we shaded it in chances created. Second half was very poor. Finished 2-1 but it could have been more, 3-1, 4-1. Think St. Johnstone could scored at least two more and Twardzik made a good save. Can't remember us creating too much. Constantly give the ball away and get caught on the break. Fitness is very concerning. St.Johnstone had a match on Tuesday and finished the game much stronger than us. How is that possible?

He's done. Thank fuck he's out of contract in the summer.