Ya Bezzer!

Not me, because I was always a fan but its hard to believe there was a time people saw it fit to complain about a left winger scoring 10+ goals a season.

Fingers crossed I can add a 9th MotM award for Murphy below. Not holding my breath though.

We've had or will have to pay for damage at two away ground this season. We will also be in trouble over smoke bombs and missiles thrown on to the pitch last week. It's pretty obvious to anyone bar the 'it's not us it's you' mob that there is a problem with 'Ultra' groups across Scottish football. I broadly support the Well Bois in creating atmosphere but causing damage, smoke bombs, flares, missiles on the pitch and violence is a step backwards to the bad old days. The clubs need to talk to the police and get them to do what they are paid a lot of money to do and that is to remove trouble makers. What happened last night was blatant criminal damage in the presence of large numbers of police. The police also stood and watched at New Douglas Park. They are not doing their job and taking a huge amount of money out of the game.

Stuart McCall's biggest error was made months ago. His squad rebuild was a failure, we do not have the right types of players or even players to play in certain positions. I think the squad is so limited it would be very difficult for any new manager coming in with no scope for bring in new players in the transfer window. If anything it will be players leaving rather than coming in. Therefore I don't see much point of getting rid of McCall, especially if it was costing the club even more money. We won't improve until we bring in at least three or four decent players and that won't happen until the summer. I'm afraid the best we can hope for this season is a return to scraping wins as we did at the beginning because this squad just doesn't have the creativity or pace to do anything else. We've had a period of good times, now we are sub standard and we'll all have to just sup it up until season 2014/15. We have some 'easier' matches coming up so I think the support should forget about what has happened over the last two months or so and support the team and management over the next month or so. As poor as we've been there are points there to be won and getting on the teams back won't help. If a month from now we are no further forward then we'll really have problems and perhaps action will have to be taken but that's speculation on a future that's not happened yet.

They should have scored about 15 seconds into the match!

Let's hope it works this season as well.

Pot, kettle? Our fans did much the same last week.

Last six matches I've seen Celtic 0-5 (0 shots on target) Albion Rovers 0-1 (2 shots on target) Dundee Utd 0-4 (1 shot on target) Hibernian 1-0 (4 shots on target) Aberdeen 0-2 (2 shots on target) St. Johnstone 0-2 (1 shot on target) So 540 minutes of football, 10 shots on target. Or a shot on target over 54 minutes and a goal ever 540 minutes!!!

Van Dijk looked a player.

Las.

Last three matches I've seen 10 goals against, 0 goals scored and 2 shots on target. Dismal.

Not sure how that 11 is going to line up... No right sided midfielder.

Neither do I!

Don't really want to go to the game because I can't see where a result is coming from but I'll still be out there in the freezing cold. At least Forrest is out for them and Ambrose isn't!

The proof of the pudding is this - is the current squad good enough? It's not, not only have most of the players brought in have failed to spark (not necessarily McCall's fault) but the make up of the squad, the balance of the squad is completely inadequate and heavily weighted to defensive players and strikers. We had a situation at the weekend where one player, Iain Vigurs, was injured and because of that we couldn't field one creative, attack minded central midfielder in the game. That's beyond shoddy and veering towards incompetence in terms of re building the squad. Law, Ojamaa and Humphrey left and only Vigurs was brought in who you could say would slot into one of those vacant positions. If budgets cuts are responsible when why did McCall sign Lawson? Anyone? He doesn't fit into our system and he's not going to change the system to suit Lawson. We never really needed a player like him in the first place. So why did he bring him in? Lawson is to all extents and purposes a wasted wage with Carswell and Lasley already on the books. The whole McFadden farrago is highly suspect in itself, dragging on all summer before signing a completely unfit and unmotivated player, but besides him we do not have a single attacking wide player in the first team squad bar a loan player who will probably be booted back to his parent club in January and who doesn't deserve an extension any way. It's December and no one has any idea what our best XI is, because the manager doesn't have a clue how to cobble a team together out of the squad THAT HE ASSEMBLED. If you are playing a 4-4-2 you need at least three wide midfield players, we have one contracted. If you are playing a 4-4-2 you need at least two creative attacking midfield players, we have one contracted and nothing else. If you are playing 4-4-2 you need at most 4 strikers. We have 5, including one that has been brought in on loan and is probably taking a large whack of cash out the club. I don't doubt McCall works under difficult financial restrictions but those restrictions will only get worse next season due to his incompetence during the summer to build a balanced squad that was fit for purpose.

I think that since we have not so much as scored a goal in European competition since Stuart McCall took the helm, a lot of the excitement of looking forward to European matches has gone. But the main reason is I think people are realistic enough to look at teams like Dundee Utd, Aberdeen and Inverness and say they are better than us, and suspect for all the will in the world that we won't finish in a European place. More than likely this current squad will be further weakened in the new year.

I think we have missed Ojamaa more than any other player.

I don't want Stuart McCall sacked because he has enough good stuff banked for it to be taken into consideration when placed against the complete cunt he has made of this season. But I think lots of managers could have us playing better football, rebuilt the squad better in the summer and have progressed us in the cups. True, we are currently 3rd in the league but we won't be for long and I think unless things improve quickly we might struggle to stay Top 6. The biggest concern though is fans drifting away now with a 'dead' season and the inevitable financial problems that will lead to. McCall's predilection for making the same mistakes over and over again has alienated a lot of the support. There's no point in saying 'who could do better' the reason McCall should remain, for the time being at least, as manager is 'he has done this, this and this'. Right now he has enough achievements to cancel out the disappointments but no one can live off past glories long and it's down to him, if he wants to stay in the job, to get adding positives before the negatives take over.

We've not been good enough this season but do you think we will get better if the players have a sit around and realise 'the reality' that they are much worse than they thought? That's not how building confidence works. And confidence is the most important factor in football. Once a teams head goes down it is very hard to get it back up again. Players and to a certain extent managers, have to live in a delusion, otherwise we wouldn't even be competitive never mind any good.

We haven't even scored a goal in our last 7 European matches. Might have something to do with it.

Teams rarely win 7-0 two weeks in a row. So I'll go for 6-0 to Celtic. Nah, I've been watching football too long to fall into the 'we have no chance' category. Someone said earlier they would rather be playing Celtic coming off this defeat than someone else and I kind of agree. We have as much chance of beating Celtic as normal, not much, but it is possible. The big fear is if they score an early goal it could be quite a heavy defeat.

Lawson has been dire. Carswell had a good spell but has gone off the boil again. But the worst thing is the idea that you could play these two players as a pairing against a lower league team that were bound to defend in depth. Neither player has an ounce of creativity to them. The squad is completely unbalanced and if one or two players are missing we don't have adequate replacements. That has to go down as Stuart McCall's responsibility. I make it that we have 6 recognized midfielders in the squad, that just isn't enough for a team that plays four across the middle. We should have at least two players for each position and U20s, who should be playing the same formation as the first team, that come in and fill any gaps, when first team players are injured so we always have 22 players available except in circumstances where there are an uncommon number of injuries.

The season after the Cup win was one of the worst ever but things were different then, you could take your time and build a team over a couple of seasons. Post Bosman teams our size can't do that. I'm afraid like it or lump it it's all about the here and now in 2013.

The midfield and defence have contributed 3 goals this term. McManus and Hutchinson both scored headers from corners and of course the Ainsworth goal you mention. Here's the number of goals contributed by defenders and midfielders in SPFL games this season. Celtic 17 Dundee Utd 14 Inverness 11 Ross County 11 St. Mirren 10 Hearts 8 Aberdeen 7 Partick 7 Kilmarnock 7 Hibernian 4 St. Johnstone 4 Motherwell 3

I'm all for young players getting a chance but we can't field a team like Hearts where they are almost all youngsters. We need to have an experienced frame around the young players. What I want to see though is more young players given more chances, not picking out two or three and ignoring the rest. I absolutely believe you do not know a young players worth until he plays first team football and we have almost entire U20 teams leave the club without ever getting a sniff. That is wrong.