Ya Bezzer!

With a unfit Fletcher and relegation almost certain I don't see it. Expect a Turnbull-Ciftci-in-the-Sun type display from a few years back! I'll even be bold enough to say if we score the first goal, I can see a pumping.

Think you are not seeing the minus sign! Ross County win they stay up.

Something I noticed but forgot to mention. Liam Kelly was wearing an all black kit, the same as the referee. I've noticed goalkeeper kits clashing with other kits a few times over the last few season, does nobody bother about it anymore?

Only at rapping.

You don't need to go that far back to get a bowl of grease soup.

Off the ball he's a complete liability. Players go past him like he wasn't there. He's scored some decent goals for us but today was only his 2nd assist of the season and overall he wouldn't be in my first eleven.

I've not had a football pie for ages. I'm at the age where I need to start eating better, but I've found that in Scottish football it's one of those deals where the lower the level of football the better the food. One suspects Hamilton Accies cuisine might take another leap forward in the coming weeks!

It was his 25th goal of the season and it also bettered his previous season best, 24, for JVC in the Dutch 4th tier. I think it was just down to that unless anyone knows anything else.

Game never quite recovered from the long VAR check and Kevin Clancy's whistle happy performance. Some really nice stuff mixed with some really poor stuff but I think we edged the match even though Kilmarnock dominated spells in the second half. For me though they didn't really look like scoring while we looked dangerous going forward and Van Veen might easily have had a hat-trick today.

Hope Dundee Utd win today. They were 3/1 to beat St. Johnstone!

This.

I hope Dundee Utd win today. They were 3/1 to beat St. Johnstone!

A study came out recently where Scottish football was identify as one of the worst leagues in Europe for youth development. We're miles behind and attitudes like the above is one of the reasons why, which, incidentally, is based on what? Not every academy player will make it but we have to develop youth players much better than we do and that means giving more players opportunities at younger ages more of the time. Currently Scottish football is, quite frankly, pathetic at developing youth. Importing dross on the other hand....

Lamie was fine last season he was just one of those players who was badly effected by the dip in form this term. He also did fine when he came on as a sub a couple of weeks ago and it didn't effect our performance at all. First choice should be Casey and Butcher but we need to remember Butcher is 33 next season. So is McGinn. So you'd like to see the average age brought down a bit if we are playing 3 at the back.

Ross County will absolutely be in the bottom 2 so there is only really one spot teams need to avoid. It's highly unlikely Kilmarnock and Dundee Utd win most of their games and if they do they are beating Ross County and St Johnstone who are both below us anyway. They also have to play each other. We should be fielding youngsters every week.

I like this years kit. I kinda wish we'd swapped the shorts around with the home and away kits though. Big advocate for white shorts. That's our colours and there is no getting away from it. We should have a hoop most of the time but I think it's OK to have something different once in a while. Just not anything like the 'harlequin' kit......

The only stats I could find (although I was using Yahoo for some reason rather than Google) were for the English league but the Top 25 best average goals stats were all pre 1960 and 14 of the 25 were pre war. So I think it probably was easier to score. In the 1800's they were averaging almost 5 goals per game and then up to about the 1970s it was around 3 - 3.5. Now it seems to be averaging around 2.4 to 2.8. I mean I don't think the dimensions of the goals has changed but I'm sure the average height of a goalkeeper is probably about half a foot taller these days!

Without wanting to take anything away from the pre war era football it's worth nothing that in Ferguson/MacFadyen era teams lined up with 5 forwards and 2 defenders.

You Tube brought up Scotland's play off match against Serbia, a mere three years ago, and there was Leigh Griffiths knocking home a penalty in a Scotland shirt. Now he's playing for Wodonga Platypuses. Or something.

Hopefully away wins aren't like buses for Killie.

You just compared going to the football to other activities I don't do any more based on cost. I will renew but probably in August.....when I've saved up a bit. However I know quite a few who have stopped going because of increasing cost/declining standard. It's a difficult balancing act for clubs like Motherwell with relatively few fans and rising costs but we have to be very carefully not to price what few fans we have from coming along.

No team has ever finished in the bottom 2 with 40 points so 1 win will almost certainly keep us up. Also our goal difference is massively superior to all the other teams so two draws gives us a 99.9999999% of doing it. If you are still worried at that point you probably don't go outside in case you get struck by lightning.

Interesting to see all the hoopla over St Mirren making Top 6 when we scored more goals and conceded less than them. In fact we had the best defensive record in the league after Rangers and Celtic. Of course it's all about points but still kind of indicates we were a little on the unlucky side this term.

Our last 10 matches against Celtic it's P10 W0 D0 L10 F4 A30

Very frustrating game. Dundee Utd's second half performance probably shaded the game for them but we had so many chances to end the match 2-0 and didn't take any of them. Was impossible to say if our disallowed goal was good from my position in the stands, thought the first penalty probably was one although Fletcher is absolutely looking for it. Didn't play badly but we were down a level on recent performances.