Ya Bezzer!

Can I remind everyone that we are in a better position than any of the other relegation threatened teams? 4 points and a game in hand on some teams. Kilmarnock are on 8 defeats on the trot, we are on two. The last two matches have been poor but I doubt if the rest of the teams are gonna rack up wins in the next few weeks and we need fewer points to guarantee safety than any of them. All the teams below us would bite your hand off to be in our position. It'll go to the post split fixtures and we are going to have to fight it out but are people throwing the towel after two poor results? Have you watched Motherwell before or know the league? Come on!

I'm known to go and watch lower league football so that aspect of it is fine by me, a game of football is a game of football and actually the quality and entertainment of lower league matches is often higher than the Premiership. The big problem is financial and how that can affect the overall running and decision making at the club. If you look at similar sized clubs as Motherwell, say Dundee, Falkirk, Dunfermline or even Partick Thistle they have gone through some depressingly tough times since being relegated. Simply put it is very difficult to run clubs of that size on lower league incomes without massive cost cutting and reductions and I think Motherwell are particularly vulnerable being fan owned. Perhaps we could sustain current investment levels for a season or two but if you don't get back to the top level in that time frame then I think you are looking at a very different type of Motherwell FC. Even then, think about the quality of player we've been able to attract to the club as an established Premiership side and then imagine taking that drop in level into consideration. That alone would be a big cause for concern although it might re-focus our misfiring transfer policy. So for the question 'would relegation necessarily be a bad thing'? I think it would certainly require supporters to recalibrate their expectations on a medium to long term basis and I think it would be more likely to be an existential threat to the club than the rose tinted glasses view of 'romp it and go straight back up'. That might happen, but I think it's less likely than the other scenarios.

And when he did kick a ball it went out for a throw in 60 yards away.

In the last three years we've hardly won a game where Campbell was missing, never mind everyone else. But let's be honest about it, St Johnstone would probably have beat us anyway. They have been better than us all season.

Par for the course. We've had 1 shot on target 7 times this season and 2 or less 11 times.

Before today I would have had St Johnstone D St Mirren L Hibernian L Livingston W Kilmarnock D Pretty confident about the next two!

I had us getting a point from this fixture with our first team and that was maybe with a bit of claret and amber in the lens. St Johnstone are a better team than us and they are certainly better than our 2nd string. I said it before with the fixtures we have (and the injuries/suspensions) I think 5 points would have been a decent haul from the fixture going up to the break. It's going to the post split fixtures and there is no point getting upset about being beaten by better teams.

The problem is we are playing better sides and mostly away from home in the run up to the split. At least we've shown over the last couple of weeks we can beat comparable teams - Kilmarnock, Dundee Utd, Ross County. Obviously we aren't in a great position but I don't think we should go into melt down if we fail to get anything away to Hibs for instance or even away to St Mirren.

This. Going to be a similar situation as when Robinson took over from McGhee and it went to the bottom six split matches. If we can take 5 points from the games leading up to the split that would leave us looking for 7 points post split. Doable but still a bit nerve wracking. Would be a good time to break the Accies hoodoo though!

My problem with Polworth is he completely disappears rather than him making mistakes. We've took a hard one today but let's not forget we've won nearly as many matches in the last couple of weeks than we have the whole rest of the season. Honestly, with this group of players, I'd be relatively happy if we take a proper doing every 8th game and win 3.

Aggregate score this season is 0-7!

10 men, 3-0 down after half an hour or so against local rivals. Aye, this could be a sore one! Think they'll hear the managers loud voice at HT.

12 penalties conceded and 6 red cards this season. No very good is it?

Normal service is resumed! We really are Accies bitches these days.

There's times when we could have played all night and not scored. Tonight we could have score 5, 6 easy. We've got a goalkeeper, we defended OK, we created and scored goals. We're not going to dominate for 90 minutes most weeks but all the signs are there that we are going forward again. Hopefully we go to Celtic Park now with a St.Mirren/Livingston type attitude.

Glad we've got Kelly in goals tonight rather than Chapman!

Seen this movie before!

Away to get a Magnum out the fridge. Prepare to celebrate boys!

Unfortunately the sweet will fall during HT.

Go to make my dinner and miss two goals!

Always thought this season that St Johnstone were better than their league position and Dundee Utd were much worse. Even though they have been Top 6 most of the season I still think they are 1 of 5 teams that are potential relegation candidates. We need to beat relegation candidates....

Better on the ball than 90% of that squad. He's not a Turnbull type that single handedly turns the whole thing round, he's got a lot to learn and a lot of mistakes to make but by god he's a better player, with more potential than a lot of dross that's been played over him down the years. You don't do anything with non players. That shouldn't be something you even have to say but in Scottish football running about like a div is considered a footballing attribute over, say, passing, control, positioning, crossing, shooting.... I honestly despair at the garbage we give a chance over technically better youngsters. There is something badly wrong with our game but maybe, just maybe SOMEONE gets it now. I hope so.

As Motherwell win for the first time since October....

Lamie on never makes sense.

Radical thought but maybe we could...you know...score a third.