Ya Bezzer!

The major problem today was the midfield. It was woeful and Falkirk completely dominated in that department until they decided to fall back and defend.

Fraser made a few good saves. He gets my vote.

Brown's first serious mistake - giving the players a week off. I'm sure he won't be doing that again!

Forbes didn't play well but I think its very unfair to single a player out today. The whole team was garbage.

Uniformly awful performance probably our worst since the Llanelli match. Almost straight for the kick off it was obvious the players were mentally on holiday. They just weren't switched on and they really need to go away tonight and think about that. Are they happy just to be in the Top Six and now they are going to go through the motions? If that's the case, can they let me know so I don't have to pay quite a lot of money to watch completely unprofessional rubbish. Obviously I was hoping for an equalizer but honestly we didn't deserve it, not by a long way. Our best player today against the bottom team in the league was a sub goalkeeper that only played 45 minutes. Says it all.

Also Inverness.

I dunno, I'd say that strikers that have a 1 goal per 12 games ratio are welcome at Fir Park! Falkirk will be scrapping for their life but their record this season is fairly poor especially defensively. All the indicators point to a Motherwell victory but stranger things have happened....hopefully not tomorrow though! I think we will actually be out to prove a point tomorrow after the Dundee United match. We scored three against a much more defensively robust Hearts side last time so I'd expect us to score at least a couple tomorrow.

First of all we lost £700,000. If what was reported at the time about the deal was true £500,000 of that would be from the Setanta deal and £200,000 from other factors although I don't believe we actually budget for a Top 6 finish and if we do, we shouldn't.

Great news. Doesn't get enough credit as far as I'm concerned and its no coincidence that he's been a first pick with every manager we've had over the last 10+ years. Even Gannon! With any luck, maybe with a couple of Euro runs and a glorious Scottish Cup win, he can add to his already impressive club appearance total!

Aye, about four times.

Poor result let's hope it doesn't get any worse! Anyway, I'm sure Brown will have it sorted out for next week.

Clarky, come back any time you like son!

Top Six in any season is a big achievement. This is off the top of my head but I think in my time as a supporter Tommy McLean only managed it twice, McLeish once, Butcher twice, McGhee once and now this season. So that's only seven times in 25+ years unless I'm forgetting one.

I don't really get this. For a start there was no trophy at stake and secondly at least in that Celtic match we turned up and gave them a game. I was gutted at the Celtic match but at least you could walk away with your head held high - not something you could do at the League Cup Final.

Yep, I have our highest league position as 4th but I only update after all the games per round have been played. We've spent 5 weeks this season in 4th position. It's one of those odd things that our lowest league position this season was into Brown's excellent run. After 2 wins and a draw we dropped to 7th for a week, the only time we've been out of the Top Six this season.

Since 2003/04 (when I started keeping these things) 3 - David Clarkson, Paul Quinn. 1- Stephen Pearson, Gordon Marshall, Stephen Craigan, Abel Thermeus, Jim Paterson, Scott McDonald, Marc Fitzpatrick, Mark Reynolds, Bob Malcolm, Chris Porter, Giles Coke.

You are making him sound like Ross Tokely....

Oh. Oh dear.

Surely in this day and age it would be fairly cheap to produce a DVD and you could sell it at a decent margin. I'd love to have a end of season DVD with all the goals, highlights of the best matches etc. As for demand - surely there would be more demand for a DVD than some of the items you can buy in the shop like a decanter with the club badge on it! It doesn't have to be tremendously professional - just get good picture quality footage of the seasons highlights on a DVD. Bang! There's a tenner.

Come on! We were back in it for a wee while when Partridge scored. To be honest seems a lot longer than five years ago. One of the very few Motherwell matches where I left before the final whistle. I was absolutely raging! Main memory is waiting on the train having changed at Newton with the hundreds of other 'Well fans and not one person saying a word. Argh!

I don't actually think this is a very good idea. This is the first season in ages that I've not had a season ticket but almost everyone in my boat will know someone that does have a season ticket so I'll probably be taking advantage of his and getting in for free when I'd usually be paying at the game. Also 'Season Ticket holders you paid full whack and your pal doesnae'. As we've already seen this is likely to upset some people and to be fair putting aside all the arguments about the reasons people buy season tickets that is a little unfair. Would have been better to either reduce prices to a level that would actual attract a bigger crowd (say £10 or even £5) or give out free tickets at schools. Also one of the major reasons attendances are down in the SPL is that its so expensive most cannot afford to travel to away games. Are we doing anything to encourage away supporters to come to the ground? In my opinion its much easier to introduce initiatives to attract 500 or 1,000 away supporters to come to your ground than it is to attract neutrals. Not only does it improve the atmosphere in the ground (please don't put them in the top tier unless the bottom tier is full!" it also brings in additional revenue to the club.

I'm not sure where I got that previous figure. I actually have 292 but I think I've had that argument with people before!

Yeah those are total appearances not league appearances I think.

I have a post-war list somewhere but I'll need to find it and it will be a little out of date. EDIT. OK, a little out of date but gives you a general idea. League appearances - it's not my list so I can't vouch for the veracity of it! I found it on the internet somewhere. Obviously Stevie Hammell would be much higher up the list and Craigan has 200+ appearances. I think I'm right in saying David Clarkson would also make the 200+ list. EDIT - Started updating it. Corrigan, Craigan, Hammell, Clarkson. Anyone else likely to have gone over the 200 league appearances mark? Joe Wark - 469 Willie Kilmarnock - 452 John Johnston - 323 Charlie Aitken - 313 Archie Shaw - 313 John Philliben - 302 Andy Paton - 301 Stevie Kirk - 301 John Martis - 297 (Stevie Hammell - 291) John Gahagan - 284 Willie McCallum - 277 Chris McCart - 260 Tom Boyd - 256 Dougie Arnott - 240 (I have Arnott on a final total of 253 league appearances) (Stephen Craigan - 251 by my count) Bert McCann - 246 Ian McLeod - 243 Martyn Corrigan - 208 (I have Corrigan on a final total of 242 league appearances) Brian Martin - 237 Willie Hunter - 229 Willie Redpath - 226 (David Clarkson - 220 by my count) Jim Forrest - 215 Andy Weir - 202

We were 7th for one week, ironically after the start of Brown's good run with 2 wins and a draw. However by that stage most of the teams had caught up with us to to the poor run of Gannon's latter days. The stat that matters is that Brown has won 8 out of 12, Gannon won 4 out of 17.