Ya Bezzer!

He's been in and out but I bet he gets an appearance on Saturday.

Ya Bezzer is an accepted ethnic variant. It's also the skillful wordsmith melding of the late eighties/very early nineties sporting and cultural zeitgeist with nods to Stevie Kirk and The Happy Mondays.

Forget Imrie, I'm worried about Stuart Elliott coming back to his old haunt! It will be a tight match, don't see lots of goals as Accies rarely concede more than one, in fact excluding the thrashing at Hibs you have to go way back to November to find Accies conceding twice in a league match. They have been struggling to score recently though, so with our defence in decent form you'd hope for perhaps a 1-0 win. Certainly we need to win these types of matches if we are going to be Top Six. You wonder what influence the pitch will have though, especially this being the second match on it in a week.

Bravo. Agree with every word.

Sigh. Don't you get it? McDonald only had one of the best scoring records of any Motherwell striker in modern times, scored season after season after season consistently with no real lean period, was capped at international level while with the club, literally saved Motherwell FC from relegation with his last couple of goals, provided us with one of the iconic moments of being a Motherwell fan on Helicopter Sunday and left for one of the biggest fees the club has ever taken in when we got him for nothing. He then went on to a hugely successful Celtic side where he was the main striker and goalscorer and bagged goals in the Champions League against the likes of AC Milan and Manchester United. Obviously he was crap and over rated!

Just said on the radio Aberdeen will not make a bid for O'Brien.

We definitely need the white shorts back but I'd like to see a return to black socks as well. Would be something different (never had them in my time). I think it would look pretty good if you kept to a traditional design.

Jim Leighton gives his MotM to Stephen Craigan.

BBC Scotland "Motherwell MILES ahead today"

Get Broon signed up till he's 80!

COME ON YEEEEEE WELLLLLLLLL!!!!!

Hard to say what's going to happen at the weekend. Aberdeen have won 4 out of 5 this year but perhaps they are a better team away from home; they have lost 3 on the road and 4 at home. Our recent record up there is pretty good, unless I missed one you have to go all the way back to November 2006 for the last time we came back from Pittodrie with nothing. A defeat isn't the end of the world, I would be happy with a point, a win would be excellent.

You can't have the entire stadium in lock down you have to put some trust in these prisoners. These guys were given a chance to prove they were reformed and they fucked it up. Back to prison, enjoy the food and sodomy. Give another couple of guys a chance in their place but only if there is a realistic chance they will play it straight - we're not here to give scumbags a day out.

Yeah, great analysis. Maybe Lasley got better because since he started the last three league matches we've won two and drawn the other after a long dismal run; he's also been one of the best players on the park during that period (not my opinion, check the MotM polls). I've nothing particularly against Jennings but he's fourth choice right now for a reason - he's not played as well or done as much Coke, Hateley or Lasley. When he got a 4 match run we lost every game, perhaps not entirely his fault but its doesn't great reading if you are trying to force your way into a team. He'll probably get a chance again now that Coke is out, it's up to him to grab it. If he doesn't well that's football, when you get a chance you've got to take it.

Both good players but if you want to win games you need to score goals and I'd rather have an average goalkeeper and a good forward than a good goalkeeper and an average forward. Out of the two I'd take Jutkiewicz. Aside from that reckoning goal scorers have better sell on value. How much money have we brought in from goalkeepers? And how much from forward players?

Would have taken a point after Coke got sent off so a reasonable result, we don't have a very good record over with 11 men never mind 10. Also another clean sheet.

I knew someone who put a bet on John Philliben to score every week. You could usually depend on Philliben to score 1 or 2 a season but his odds for any particular match would be quite high 20-1 or 25-1. Not sure if it worked out over a season but at least a couple of weeks per season he'd make a nice wee earner off a small stake.

I'm a bit worried we've had too much good news today!

I think the kind of players that get signed at this time of year are guys that don't have clubs or are not wanted at the club they are at, basically guys in the footballing wilderness. Most of them will just be happy to get a games, a wage and a club. I'd also be surprised if we bring in anyone on more than a 6 month contract unless we can find a 'golden oldie' with a year or two left in the legs. So I don't really think your point will come into play at this stage; in the next transfer window when we do or main wheeling and dealing we will need managerial stability but right now I don't think it's going to be a big factor.

You've obviously never bent a bank card in your jeans pocket!

The Inverness pitch is next to a body of water at sea level. Motherwell is inland and 250 feet above sea level. Under the same conditions that can mean a difference of 1 or 2 degrees. More than likely our pitch was subject to worse weather than the one at Inverness. In fact I think I'm right in saying Fir Park is the second highest stadium in Scotland after Broadwood.

Sounds like Falkirk are taking a humping right now from Dundee Utd. Has to be good for us as Falkirk looked like they were turning the corner.

The problem is with crowds of 3,000 even these modest aims will be difficult.

Even without TV coverage crowds go down during a recession. Look at the crowds in the early eighties. It was even worse than now. We had a 3,300 against Kilmarnock last season and a 2,800 against Inverness, so this was by no means the lowest league attendence at Fir Park in recent times.

Difficult to pick between Murphy and Lasley but I went for Lasley since he played the full match.