Ya Bezzer!

I agree its too early to throw a 2 year deal at Ojamaa but I think it's a pretty easy situation to work out. Give him a target to hit and if he hits it he gets one. 6 league goals in half a season seems reasonable. He's already got 3.

OK, here's how it works. If you play crap and don't win you get criticized. If you play crap and don't win consecutively you get even more criticism. If you play crap and don't win for a long period you get some serious abuse. However, If you win you get praise. If you play well and win you get more praise. If you win consecutively you get even more praise If you play well and win over a period of matches you get praised to the hilt. Hopefully now everyone will understand the whole criticism/praise thing.

Ojaama and Randolph was the difference between the teams. Went for Ojaama.

One of the things I enjoyed about the match. No quarter asked or taken gets the atmosphere going in a ground. And probably the worst one of the match was Clancy on Sandaza - ooofff!

I was down the other side but it looked to me like Sandaza went down like a sack of spuds. The way he went down didn't look like he'd been fouled, more like he'd thrown himself down but again as I said I wasn't close to it, but didn't look a penalty to me.

Great game today. Probably the first time, hand on heart, I've really enjoyed a game since the first match of the season. It was a good old fashioned kind of match, high tempo, some tough tackling, lots of chances at each end and both teams going for it. If you were being honest St. Johnstone can feel aggrieved at not coming away with something, especially as they dominated the first 20 minutes of the second half in what was otherwise an end to end match, but we won and I'm certainly not complaining about it! It was a good team performance, it had to be as once again St. Johnstone came to Fir Park and played very well, they are up the league on merit clearly, but Randolph was excellent in goals and made one or two superb saves that in the end gave us all three points, Jennings was superb in the first half although drifted out of it a bit during the period of St. Johnstones domination and Ojamaa proved that it only takes one player to make a poorish team into a pretty decent team. Felt McCall made a mistake switching Law and Murphy in the second half, Law is better on the left and Murphy had looked better on the right but overall a good performance, a great result, 3 points and I'm sitting here thinking that going today wasn't just an act of loyalty but something actually worthwhile in terms of entertainment and excitement!

Not many better left backs in the league than Hammell. Should definitely get a 2 year contract at least, especially since he's added goal scoring to his talents this season!

I just got round to watching the Dundee United highlights and this is a whole lot of nothing. It's a nonsense that a player is getting a ban for something as innocuous as Higdon's gesture when week in, week out, players are diving and cheating and getting away with it.

I think I know who is going to win this one! Hutchie was immense at the back but Ojaama just gave us a massive injection up front.

Since the Alba cameras were no help at all I'll give my version of events regarding the Craigan sending off which I was close to. Barrowman and Craigan went for a high ball, Barrowman flicked his head back and catch Craigan. Looked accidental but Craigan had a word or two with Barrowman for what he felt was dangerous play. He then held his head for a bit in the affected area and Barrowman came over gave him some verbals and moved off. Craigan lost the plot and then rushed right over to Barrowman and gave him some hair dryer treatment. Then, as far as I could see, with Craigan right in Barrowmans face, Barrowman seemed to lean forward and 'butt' Craigan, not hard or anything but it seemed to me like there was a butting action by Barrowman and he touched Craigans face. Craigan then clutched his face again and the referee ran over and sent him off! That's what I saw, perhaps I'm a little biased of course but for me it was a booking for the pair of them and if anyone should have been sent off it was Barrowman. But Craigan shouldn't have reacted like he did, you expect an experienced player like him to keep a cooler head.

I think tonight proves we need two up front. Higdon did well tonight and formed a good partnership, Murphy and Ojaama haven't played up front so that's just conjecture but again the main point is - TWO UPFRONT.

Things didn't look good when Craigan got sent off. I had a decent view of the sending off and I thought it was harsh but Crags should be using his experience not to get into those kind of situations. However, it didn't really alter things very much - we dominated before and after, except for a little spell immediately after Dunfermline scored. Some great defensive performances and up front Higdon and Ojaama were excellent. Left clapping, not done that for a while - hopefully we can put in that level of performance on Saturday.

In Italy though there are huge numbers of loan deals. Often lower league clubs only have a small number of contracted players with the rest of the squad loaned in from larger clubs. In essence what we've been doing with our younger players isn't that far from the Italian system except it's not quite on the same scale.

I don't see any reason why they can't continue the U19 league but allow a number of over 19 players to take part. It used to be the case with U21 international football and of course there is the Olympics. Perhaps 3 players in each squad could be over 19 and that would give over age players a chance to get games.

Don't disagree with any of this but the fact is the players mentioned aren't keeping us back, they are still among the best players at the club. Take those three players out the club and where would we be? Probably going out the cup a couple of rounds earlier and finishing lower down the league. I certainly don't think we'd see silverware flooding in. To win things you need genuine talent, experience of winning things before and confidence/belief. We had that in 1991, even in 2002 but we don't have that now. There are no Davie Coopers or James McFaddens or even Craig Patersons, Iain Fergusons or Bobby Russells. Currently the 'stalwarts' are the best we have.

Hope I'm wrong but I don't think this is going to be a walk over. Dunfermline are coming off a great result at Kilmarnock, have brought in some good signings during the window and confidence will be up coming into this match - in fact if Dunfermline could get 3 points it would lift them off the bottom of the table - surely a major motivation for them. They also have a decent away record this season, if the league table showed only away points, Dunfermline would be Top 6, 5th in fact. However this is one we must win. It's a chance to arrest our recent poor form and wipe the slate clean regarding our terrible home form. Since we probably won't finish near the European spots with our current home form this match could literally make or break our season.

To those that want to drop Murphy - take a look at who has been scoring the few goals we've got recently. Then take a look at the squad goal tallies. Then remember back to the Dundee Utd game at Fir Park when Murphy was dropped and we gave probably our least penetrating attacking performance of a season filled with them. Then when you've done that come to the conclusion that without Murphy in the side the chances of us scoring a goal drop by about 50%.

I still think Forbes could do something for us if he was developed properly. He has a level of ability on the ball that is quite rare and I think we would be foolish to give that away at this point. Obviously there are flaws in his game, mainly athletic ones, but I think it would be to our detriment if the player with the best eye for a penetrating pass didn't have a place at Fir Park. At the end of the day Forbes fate rests with the managers tactics. If we play a 4 midfield as the last two managers have (mostly) then Forbes is probably surplus to requirements. If not, and we play 5 in the 'Gannon' style Forbes comes into contention. Maybe McCall needs to take that option into consideration as on several occasions this seasons teams have shut us down by playing 5 in midfield. It might not be something we want to do every week but in my opinion Stuart McCall needs to show more formational flexibility and as a result should be using Forbes more.

I don't think many people are saying that McCall should be sacked just that the home form and performances has now become unacceptable. It's down to McCall now to do something but in my opinion he doesn't seem to have a surplus of ideas for doing so or is unwilling to deviate from his current ideas. I just hope to god the football gets better.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I understand you don't make it to many games these days. I started supporting the club in 86 and I've seen plenty of relegation battles. The football we are playing at the moment in the home matches is consistently dire and worse than a lot of the seasons we were at the opposite end of the table.

If you can only score 4 league goals in 5 and a half months you deserve abuse. If you can't win a home game in 3 and a half months you deserve abuse. What footballers need to realise is when normal people in normal jobs fail to that abject extent they don't get shouted at or booed, they get fired and sent down the dole office. Motherwell players don't get paid fortunes relative to other footballers but they do get paid a lot of money relative to a lot of the supports and these guys that earn 3 or 4 or 5 times less than the players are putting their money down and getting absolutely nothing back for it. There are guys doing a full days graft just to pay for a day out at the football and what do they get - an entire season of utter tripe, not one game, or even a wee bad run, an entire season of tripe. Zero entertainment, a goal ever other three games and winless streak that goes back months. But yeah, no one has any cause for complaint.

You must be earning more than me if you are so blase about throwing £30 away every second Saturday.

He's scored 4 of our last 6 goals.

Do we really need a striker that doesn't score goals? He might have various qualities but goal scoring isn't one of them. He averages a goal every 10 matches in the SPL!

Went for Daley as well. That substitution was a total joke. Easily our most dangerous attacking player.