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If you have a small squad and less players play more games then obviously that has an effect, especially at this stage in the season. We've also had 8 matches in the last 6 weeks to exacerbate that. It's clear to me that fatigue has been a big problem in the last few weeks and yesterday was just another example of that. There are up sides to having a small squad and consistent selection but now we are seeing a down side. Battering the players with extra training is just going to make things worse. Footballers are human beings not super men. Most of our key players have more than 30 matches under their belt this season and most of them aren't in the flush of youth either. Some others are coming back or have been playing through injuries. Nielsen (18) - Samson (33) Reid (6) - Clohessy (25) Hammell (31) - Tesselaar (31) Hutchinson (33) - Slater (19) McManus (34) - Ashcroft (18) Vigurs (29) - Maksimenko (1) Lasley (34) - Muirhead (15) Ainsworth (23) - McKenzie (28) Francis-Angol (30) - Eremenko (6) Sutton (31) - Boyd (30) Moore (13) - Irvine (23) 282 appearances - 229 appearances So our players have played about 5 more matches on average each.

I think you are being harsh on Reid. We threw players forward to try and get the three points and it backfired. That is going to happen sometimes but while I'll criticize a Motherwell team for not going out to win the match I'm not going to criticize a Motherwell team for trying to win the match in the final few minutes. Do you really want players sitting back for a 1-1 draw against bottom six teams at Fir Park? We didn't play well today and Kilmarnock were the better team in the second half so the points were hardly stolen. Actually, I thought Craig Slater looked a really decent player today.

All the best stuff today came off Vigurs boot.

Not going to criticize the team too much for getting caught on the break in the last minute of injury because we were trying to win the match but it was a poor performance today. I thought we looked pretty flat and tired, we've had a few matches in the last 5 or 6 weeks and I thought it showed today. Second half especially we just didn't seem to get anything going. Poor passing, midfield, wide players, forwards not linking up well enough, no real penetration. Just poor fare, overall. We got lucky with the Aberdeen v Dundee Utd result, we will need to rest up, try and recharge the batteries and get the energy levels back up for the next couple of fixtures.

He scored a decent goal against Dundee Utd in his first start but he's been on the bench for the last two matches. Perhaps not match fit at the moment.

I think I've mentioned this before but I work in central Glasgow most of the time and I've seen all the fans from the various Champions League clubs at close quarters and Manchester Utd are easily the scummiest I've ever come across.

Sounds like Gordon McQueen. In those days beating Celtic was par for the course and as the closest stadium to Fir Park we often took big crowds to Celtic Park. Must have been 3,000 at least at that match. 20 years ago....kind of alarming!

I think we could sell out Fir Park but I don't think we'd get as many as you seem to think. The Motherwell diaspora aren't going to come in from all corners for a Europa Cup qualifying round match. They will for a cup final.

I'm pretty confident Ainsworth will sign on for next season. Of course he might get a better offer but by the way he has been talking he really loves it here. Reading between the lines I think he is pretty keen to stay on.

Kilmarnock have gone into a bit of a slump again after a period of decent results. They are conceding a lot of goals so that should give us a bit of hope that we can continue our good goalscoring vein. Although they concede they also tend to get on the score sheet themselves and Kris Boyd is a player that always puts the fear into me. You can rate him as a player or not but the guy knows where the back of the net is.

Don't think Celtic will bring a big crowd to Fir Park as the league will be wrapped up by then. I want them at Fir Park because we should be looking to beat them at Fir Park. We beat a better Celtic team twice last season at Fir Park and we should be looking to do it again this term.

I agree Ramsden has been a good signing, bit of an unsung hero for me but I think I'm right in saying he is 33 on his next birthday and he has had a few injuries. We can't really afford to be sentimental when we can only afford to carry a small squad. I think Reid has fitted in very well, he's only been with us for a short period but I've been reasonably impressed. Highly mobile, gets up and down the wing and unlike a lot of players like that he looks like he is a decent defender as well. If he keeps up the standard of performance he had today he would be a very decent squad player at the very least. I'm convinced McManus will be here next season but I think we will need to bring someone in because I'm not convinced any of those other guys are ready for a first team central defensive spot. Cummins I don't rate, Kerr hasn't really played in central defence, Murray is just starting his first team career.

Cult player in the making.

Thought Reid, Hutchinson and Vigurs were the stand outs today. All might have won a Motm on a different day but I thought Hutchinson just shaded it.

Ross County were a tough nut to crack as they had 6 behind the ball and were pressing us pretty hard but I thought we played pretty well, with some excellent individual performances from the likes of Vigurs, Hutchinson, Reid etc. Neilsen didn't have much to do but we did get lucky when they hit the post but we could also have scored a few more as well. 9 points out of 9 is still on.

They have an almost identical record to us in the league in 2014 Motherwell P10 W5 D2 L3 Ross County P11 W5 D3 L3

If Rangers want Hutchinson they will get him unless someone has a better cash offer for the player. That's just the way it is and we need to deal with that and if I was at Rangers looking for good/cheap players to bring in then I don't see too many other central defenders of that quality with no fee and a wage that is easy to treble. Given that is the case, surely Aberdeen might also think about making an offer since Russell Anderson going to be 36 next season? I think Hutchinson is a good player but I think he might struggle to find a club at a decent level down south by which I mean a good Championship club or above. For me, although he's a good defender, he hasn't really developed as a player as well as I would have liked. He has good parts to his game but I don't think he's improved noticeably in the bad parts of his game. He still makes the same mistakes you'd put down to 'inexperience' a couple of seasons ago - he has the worst disciplinary record at the club, he gives away too many fouls in dangerous positions, he still charges out of position and misses tackles leaving a gapping hole in defence. Overall he's good enough up here but would a decent sized club down south want him? Young defenders from the SPL/SPFL haven't exactly prospered down south in recent years - Mark Reynolds, Danny Wilson etc. I guess we'll find out where he ends up.

No real stand outs tonight. I voted for Hammell, had a solid enough come back and set up both goals, the ball to Ainsworth was worthy of the top level. That ball really changed the game for me so my vote goes to him.

Thought he could have put on Leitch for Carswell after he was booked. We have three games in 10 days so it didn't do any harm to take off Faddy with the game won.

We deserved to win but the game never really sparked tonight. The opening spell I thought Inverness where the better team, we looked sleepy and our passing was poor, while Inverness looked pacy and full of running. That was the way it was until we scored the first goal, a brilliant ball from Stevie Hammell to Ainsworth that turned a nothing situation into a goal. The second goal soon after knocked the stuffing out of Inverness and although they had periods where they dominated for a while they never really looked like causing us too many problems. If they had scored one of the two glaring chances just after half time it might have been different but they didn't and it wasn't. We picked up after the first goal and played some decent football but it never had much edge and we played a bit like a team that knew they were in a comfortable lead. Apart from the two goals I don't remember either keeper having to make any saves of real note, it was one of those matches when everything was going wide and high. Not a great or terrible performance but a good win that was an important one to win. I think we could have gone up a few gears tonight if we'd really had to. The thing I was most nervous about was Carswell being on a yellow.

A broken finger is probably not his fault but I'm beginning to lose patience with Lee Hollis. He's almost permanently injured. Even when he wasn't first choice he missed a lot of matches - he's not been available for 33 league matches over the last 3 seasons. Contrast with Darren Randolph who hardly missed a game season after season. He hasn't done much wrong performance wise for me but we need a first choice goalkeeper who is more reliable in terms of actually playing.

In the last seven matches Inverness have either kept a clean sheet (five times) or conceded 5 goals (twice).

Any coincidence that our league performances have got better and better the more experience the team has had in Europe? Players get better playing at that level and we have guys in our team now who have 10 - 15 matches of European football. European and international football experience is hugely beneficial for players so if we want to do well at league level the more guys we have with that sort of experience the better. Even if there are slight financial penalties for drawing a far flung team I think in terms of football it's very beneficial.

We'd never had one striker score 20 goals in my time supporting the team so to have two in successive seasons would be incredible. Sutton is currently on 48 league goals for us so it's entirely possible he can get into the 50's this season and then over take Stevie Kirk next season, who on 63 league goals who is our highest scorer during our Premier League run from 1985. The guys ahead of him are 1. Stevie Kirk 63, 2. Tommy Coyne 59, 3. Dougie Arnott 59, 4. David Clarkson 49.

Hopefully they defend the same way they did against Dundee Utd.