Ya Bezzer!

2-2 away to Dundee United is a decent result, especially as Utd had a pretty strong side out. Just a shame we couldn't concentrate a bit harder after we scored.

Good start, and another goal for Sutton. I'm probably going to be out of the country for the Cup Final so I've got a feeling...

On your first point, you name 6 players. Great. So that means on a good day almost half our team is very young and inexperienced. On a good day. Now how often in the second half of the season have we been able to put out those players that you've mentioned in the same team? All of them have either had injuries or suspensions or fitness problems except Sutton. So on a good day half the team are youngsters but more often than not more than half have been. I already answered your second point, it should be down to the players to motivate themselves for matches. A manager can't do it week after week after week. He can only do it sparingly other wise it just becomes ineffective and routine. It goes in one ear and out the other.

Wasn't there but young teams are inconsistent so not a huge surprise. Unless we can bring in some good experienced pros then things aren't going to change a great deal. Second point, it shouldn't really be down to the manager to motivate the team. Players should be self motivated and I think we have too many players at the club at the moment who are not mentally strong enough to do that. Again it may be related to the inexperience of our team with so many young players. I don't blame McCall for keeping with the side that beat Celtic but hopefully Craigan returns for the next match. He is still the best defender at the club.

Poor, even a point up there would have been massive but this gives Inverness a huge boost, I think they go above us now. Really need to win those two home games now against Aberdeen and Dundee Utd.

Randolph hasn't even played a full season and he's the best we've ever had for some! Dykstra first, Maxwell second, for me. Then you have Howie, Ruddy. If Randolph maintains his form he could go into the second tier at the end of the season but not before. We've had other guys that had good individual season's among a mixed bag (Marshall, Goram, Billy Thomson, even, help ma boab, Graeme Smith).

Gotta Love the Las! But he's missed a few games this season though through injury and suspension, Hammell and Randolph have been excellent pretty much all season.

If someone puts in an offer for Randolph we'll probably drive them to the cash machine! Worth remembering that he hasn't keep these clean sheets on his own and that others, including players folks here are only to quick to slag off, are responsible to. But at this stage of the season Randolph and Hammell would be my picks for Motherwell player of the season.

And the flare smoke cleared my cold right up.

Love these kinds of posts. Not having a go at Gunning or Hutchinson both very good today but Craigan has 350 'Well games under his belt (including about 15 clean sheets this season) and those 2 have 25. Talk about picking and choosing.

Forgot Paul Slane but then hasn't everyone!

The ref probably thought "it's Humphrey that is clean through, Motherwell's advantage if I pull it back".

Lots of candidates. Randolph made some great saves and looked really solid under pressure. Gunning and Hutchinson were rock solid. Hammell was excellent and Murphy and Sutton worked their bollocks off. But I'm going to give it to Lasley. Tremendous performance considering he was doubtful before the match. EDIT: Well I would give it to Lasley if he was included in the poll!

Immense performance today from the team. That's why we are 'Well fans! Everyone gave everything today, from Randolph who had 3 or 4 great saves to Sutton up front who looked like a different player to the one was playing on Wednesday. However, I thought Lasley was absolutely tremendous. I thought he was out for a month when he limped off on Wednesday, even when he was named in the team today I wasn't expecting him to last the match and not be 100% but how wrong could I be? Outstanding. Great atmosphere, great match and funnily enough my flu has cleared right up - the healing power of a glorious 'Well victory!

Dundee United will make it, that leaves one place for us, St.Johnstone, Caley and possible Aberdeen and Hibs. I think we have as good a chance as any of them as they are no great shakes. We'll have to win against Utd and Aberdeen and probably take something from Inverness

Saunders, Jones, Craigan all out, Lasley and Jennings probably out, if not probably not fit. Don't look good does it? Still I'm getting out my sick bed for it, hope springs eternal! Team? What I would pick from our very limited options - Randolph Page, Hutchinson, Hammell Murphy, Hateley, Forbes, Meechan, Gunning Sutton, Jeffers

Last nights performance was trash but you are cherry picking your negativity a little I think. They didn't look motivated last night but against Rangers in the semi final? Against Aberdeen coming back from 1-0? Against Kilmarnock when they did everything but score? Even against Hamilton when we played them off the park for the first half, admittedly easing off later but with a lead. I only go to home matches and cup games but generally over McCall's tenure I don't think lack of motivation is something that has screamed out at me.

Fair enough analysis. I've been wondering how many extra points we would have picked up this season if we'd conceeded exactly the same goals but scored once in every match - I bet we would be clear in 4th if we had. Our failings are creative, not defensive. It's true to say everything goes down the wings but it would be truer to say everything goes down the left wing. Hammell is the only player we have that has anything like a good delivery. Humphrey is useless because of his final ball. A winger that can't cross is worthless. Then in midfield we have Lasley, Jennings, Hateley none of which are really a goal threat. I think they have bagged 2 each in the last two seasons. We need a creative player but where do you find one for the wages we can pay?

Based on what we have seen we tonight we badly need Jones back.

Referee didn't help, looked to me like we had a good penalty claim in the first half, how Goodwin stayed on the pitch I don't know and general two different sets of rules for the two teams. That said it was a dire match and one where we got what we deserved. Not that St. Mirren where any good, they were as bad as we were but as the home team supposedly challenging for a top six place you have to expect A LOT more than we showed tonight. Alarm bells were ringing from the very start, we just didn't look motivated at all and that is something I think is inexcusable for a professional football team to come out on to the field looking lackadaisical and uninterested just isn't good enough. Created virtually nothing, too many backwards and side way passes, no invention, flair, attack mindedness, nothing. McCall doesn't have a lot to work with now but I'm not letting him off the hook either tonight. First of all we win two games with the same line up and he changes it tonight and we lose. The same team should have played tonight. Secondly his substitutions were a bit mind boggling. Hammell at right back trying to get on to his left foot to cross a ball when Hateley is on the pitch (admittedly doing not a lot)? Why not put on Forbes as a straight switch for Lasley (looks like Las is going to be out for a while just to make things worse). And I'm sorry, Humphrey is only good for running at players in the last 10 or 15 minutes, get him back on the bench. I'm trying to think of a recent home performance that was worse than tonight and I'm struggling. Gannon's last game against St. Johnstone? The Falkirk defeat?

John Boyle has done a great job and we will miss him greatly when he is not there. I think he's had a look at the proposed SPL reforms and the general state of the game, the prospect of positive change and thought he was fighting a losing battle. If people didn't appreciate what John Boyle did for our club then I think it won't be long in the future until they do because tough, tough times are looming.

I caught Danny Lennon being interviewed after the match on Saturday and he sounded very frustrated and said something like "I've tried everything with these players and they haven't responded". It immediately stuck out as the sort of thing a manager probably shouldn't say publicly and doesn't exactly suggest high morale and a happy camp. Wee bit of tension behind the scenes? Have the players stopped playing for him? 9 points out of 9 for us would be huge for us if we want to finish Top 6 and if we keep up our recent performances (excluding Ibrox) I'm hopeful we can get the win, however I don't think it will be a cake walk. Would be surprised if it wasn't 1-0, 0-0, 1-1 or 0-1.

To early to judge McCall or his players, you can only really do it on a game by game basis. The end of the season will bring a clearer picture of everyone's worth. It's nice to see something positive posted for a change but really I think a lot of people need a more detached view instead of everything either being brilliant or awful.

Las was the stand out for me.

From what I could make out Accies had an extra man in midfield and we struggled a bit in the opening period but after that we got into a groove and felt we played some excellent passing football and could have scored 1 or 2 more in the first half. Second half we switched off a bit but seemed comfortable until the game became stretched in the final 10 minutes or so. A narrow victory but a deserved one. A couple things niggle at me, once again we seemed to sit back in the closing stages something that has happened a few times under McCall and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with us playing that deep. Secondly, we required a penalty to get a goal. But other than that the last four times I've seen us play we've been the better side so I'm relatively happy at the moment.