Ya Bezzer!

And if he was so good he was, apparently, knocking on the first team squad door at Motherwell, he'll get a lower league club easy - that's if he wants to work his way up.

I'd say one of the reason Nancy battered us was as the word 'battered' suggests, they were much bigger, stronger and physically imposing. Very few of their players weren't 6ft plus and build like brick shithouses. In contrast our team was short, skinny and lightweight, even our taller players like Quinn and Porter are built like rakes! Nancy were technically better also but not so much that the major reason for the defeat was that they simply out muscled us. Celtic showed much more technical ability a couple of weeks before than Nancy did at Fir Park. So may the Scottish game isn't primitive enough!

I agree with you on the 'I'll not bother' brigade. What amazing activities have all these guys got lined up on Saturday between 3pm and 5pm? Bungee jumping? Jet backpack testing? High wire balancing over the Grand Canyon? Support your team! I actually quite enjoyed watching Motherwell without all the gut mangling tension that I usually have to endure! I'd keep the split, although its not worked out for us this season, and I'd add a relegation play off, the 2nd bottom side should play the 2nd top side in the First Division.

Fraser was dropped and replaced, rightly so, by RYAN ESSON. Basically he is not first team material and if he starts next season then we could be in a bit of bother. Davie Clarkson did fine the other night, but if virtually your entire midfield doesn't kick a ball there isn't much a forward can do about it. As for his only contribution being setting up a goal, I'm not sure is entirely factual but what would you rather he do? Do 500 keepie uppies on the centre circle? He set up our equaliser and scored two goals at the weekend and he still gets it in the neck from some people. As for Sutton/Clarkson 'not looking like a partnership' well they have scored 24 goals between them this season which isn't a bad return and Sutton has the same number of league goals this season as St. Porter with only a couple more games played (3 to be precise). He might look lumbering and lazy but his goal rate is actually pretty good. The facts are we looked much more dangerous with Sutton/Clarkson up front than with Sheridan/Clarkson. If McGhee hadn't made that substitution we would have lost so again give the players some credit.

Is Darren Smith injured? If not, he's not featured for a while. Maybe he's not in the managers plans....

Not a great performance although I enjoyed the game enough. I voted O'Brien. He showed the most energy but as usual didn't have much in the way of delivery. McLean did well in the first half but I thought the defence was all over the place in the 2nd when Inverness upped their effort a bit. Smith had a couple of decent saves, Clarkson as usual caused problems when he got on the ball but that was about it. Hughes, Murphy and Lasley hardly had a kick at the ball, Sheridan did absolutely nothing.

It never even occurred to me that he was going to mention that incident, I thought it was something in the game (which I wasn't at) that hadn't been in the highlights! To be fair St. Mirren fans are under a lot of stress at the moment and are likely to display that in posts like these - O'Brien clearly twisted his leg. That's not to say some of our players don't go down easy but that was a bad example to pick.

Yeah, shouting at players NOT to put a tackle in, don't play for the jersey, show no commitment and onwards to glory!

£800 per week is considered the low end of the wage scale for SPL players. Most established players will be on much more than that.

I've always rated Dargo, I said we should sign him back in his Kilmarnock days! A good player at our level but at 31 his best days are probably gone, especially with his recent injury problems. Still, if you can keep him fit, you could do a lot worse.

It's just more top quality Scottish journalism. What they meant to say was Hearts. With St.Mirren scrapping for survival you can see them picking up more bookings than us. Hearts are a few more back and again might be more determined.

Willie McLaren will be going down to the 2nd Division with Clyde assuming he is still contracted. Worth a pop? Still only 24, scored a few goals this season, won Scottish League Player of the Month, a couple of months ago and we need options in the wide areas. Just a suggestion.

Captain Sensible, your boys took one hell of a beating!

McGhee more or less said Malcolm would be on his way on the radio on Saturday.

A B squad maybe? I'm pretty sure neither Woods or McCart got called up to a senior squad. Scott Howie did make full squads though.

Ha ha ha I think I ran into it a few times why looking nervously over my shoulder.

Well done and don't get injured!

Here's my stat sheet for the 2006-2007 with most things you could possibly want to know (dates, matches, squad, squad numbers, line ups, goalscorers, results, league positions, bookings, red cards etc, etc) so you re-live the horror of that season in Excel form. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0d21edf...83e1a53a15c55e2

People have selective memories about that season. We put in some great performances sure enough, but by the second half of the season the team had just about given up the ghost. I remember a Sunday afternoon match at Firhill against Partick that is probably the worst Motherwell performance I've ever seen....

....but he's the best player we've got! Clarkson is the best player in our squad right now and actually one of the better players in the league, as his international place and the goal scoring lists show. You take Clarkson and Hammell out of this present day Motherwell side and you could just put "Motherwell 0" on every result.

But actually won fewer games, gained fewer points, played poorer football and never seriously challenged Rangers for the Championship (unlike the previous season when we could and possibly SHOULD have won it). Any grudge I had against McLeish went when he left after that he was someone elses problem but his time at the club was absolutely awful, there's no debate about that. Still, if I remember correctly his last game in charge was a 6-2 victory over Hibs!

I've checked it out. 298 is the correct total. I had league totals of 37+1, 37+1, 37 instead of 37+1, 37, 37 for seasons 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-4 on my spreadsheet. Just a typing error on my part so you can put off buying the cake for another week!

I've been saying this for a long time. That's not to say we shouldn't aim for better or celebrate finishing 8th like its a major achievement. But over all it's hardly a disaster. I've said this before but a lot of 'younger' fans of Motherwell have had an easy ride lately. In the last ten years or so we've got to numerous semi finals and a League Cup final, qualified for Europe, finished 3rd, made the Top Six or just missed out most seasons and we've produced a long line of good and in some cases brilliant young players. Contrast to back when I started supporting Motherwell we were fucking rank! We hadn't made a final in about 40 years! Never qualifed for Europe EVER! You went home happy if we scored a goal never mind all this Europe stuff! I was five seasons of regular attendance before I saw us even finish in the top half (6th from 12) and that was considered amazing! We've had a relatively 'golden' period since administration with only two troublesome seasons but I'm sure a lot of fans will remember when almost every season was a battle against relegation. I guess peoples expectations match their experience as fans. Lately, all things considered, we've had it pretty good.

If we don't pull up their socks we aren't even going to finish 7th. McGhee keeps going on about our great recent form but its five without a win now and three defeats on the trot. I'm happy for McGhee to have a third season in charge but some of his recent decisions, tactics and selections have been baffling.

Great record hopefully he makes 500! Incidentally I have Stevie Hammell on 299 (265 league, 16 league cup, 16 Scottish cup, 2 Euro) appearances in all competitions, so next week should he see his 300th.