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Campbell by a mile.

We started terrible, we'd already made a couple of bad mistakes before Ross County scored in 2 minutes. And we looked shapeless until we got a break with the ball falling to O'Hara for the equaliser. After that you could see the team fill with confidence and Campbell and O'Hara were excellent and dominated the midfield. Campbell in particular was fantastic, tonight must be up there as one of his best performances. Tonight showed who we should be building the team around. Watt did well when he came on as well.

If your boss is screaming at you ever day it effects you. If your boss wants you to do something and you have a different idea it effects you. If things aren't going well and you don't feel your manager is supporting you properly it effects you. There loads of different things that can effect you in a working relationship. I'm not claiming to know anything, but my instinct is that something is going on behind the scenes. Too many players have gone to shit at the same time over a sustained period for this just to be inconsistency or lack of confidence. Players just don't look interested and as others have said don't even look match fit.

Disagree on formation. In terms of goalscorers Rangers have 17 league goalscorers and Aberdeen have 13 league goalscorers, the same number we do. Agree on Robinson's forward signings. Looking right down the league there are loads of strikers I'd take, the likes of Ogboe, Templeton, Obika and Boyce are better than we have. It's a fundamental failing on the managers part that virtually every club in the league has better striking options than we do.

You could have Dunne at left back. I'm not a fan of Dunne but I'd prefer him in the side and 4 at the back than 3 at the back. At right back you have a choice of Tait, Grimshaw and Donnelly. At centre back you have Gallagher and one of Hartley, Mugabi and Donnelly. I'd have Maguire in because I think he is a good player and deserves a chance and have him play with Campbell in the middle and have O'Hara on the right and Aarons on the left. Then I'd have Watt and Long playing up front as traditional strikers. To me that's as solid as we get right now.

Mentioned that previously and you could also throw Aberdeen in there too who play 4-3-3 sometimes. I think the problems are bigger than one thing so its not a case of changing formation and everything will be fine again, last night proved that, but I do think if you play the same formation week in, week out against teams 3, 4, 5 times a season you are going to get found out and that highlights one of Robinson's biggest flaws - his lack of a plan B. You can see it in us as regards formation and you can see it in the players he's brought to the club. He doesn't have the foresight or vision to see that we might need to change things until we are deep in a hole. His changes have come from desperation not from cool judgement. I do think the players have to have a look at themselves. Tait saying after the match "They wanted it more" really irked me. Robinson also mentioned that he'd screamed at the players plenty times but would have to start trying to build confidence. I just don't think it's a happy camp right now and that our plunge in form, the word 'drop' doesn't cover it, since Robinson's arrest went public can't just be dismissed as a coincidence.

Just had a look. In our last 39 league matches were we started with 3 centre halves we've only won 9 of them. That's a 23% win ratio. What ever the answer is to our current problems we need to ditch 3 at the back pronto.

When we play 3 at the back we mostly stink as tonight proved.

We are still in the race for 3rd because every one else is as bad as we are. Look at Aberdeen's form if you don't believe me. We need to arrest this run very soon though.

Aarons won the penalty and looked like the only guy trying.

The really worrying thing is 1 goal in open play in the last 6 league matches. Never looked like scoring tonight if it hadn't been for the penalty.

Dismal performance that was worse than the Cup match. We were the 'better' team and 'dominated' the first half but I've put commas round those words because while they are true it's also misleading. Our domination was more down to St Mirren being completely pish and being unable to clear their lines. We must have had about 10 corners and got nothing off any of them and if it hadn't been for the penalty this would have been another game we failed to score in. I don't remember Hladky having a serious save to make in the whole match while at the other end St Mirren looked dangerous on the odd occasion they got forward due to the huge amounts of space down our side, especially on Tait's flank. Second half started as it meant to go on, giving away a stupidly bad goal. We looked absolutely bereft in every area of the field. Defence was terrible, midfield hopeless and up front there was absolutely nothing. Aaron was far from perfect tonight but he looked like the only player that has even a hint of the ability you should need to be playing at this level. Overall, I'm watching that performance and those players and it's very hard to see when the next goal is coming, never mind the next win.

6 minutes to go and Fir Park is empty.

Just stuck £20 on us on the basis that we won't go 6 home games without a win.....

Today's stat. LEAGUE GOALS SINCE WINTER BREAK Motherwell - 2 Aaron Taylor-Sinclair - 3 St Mirren have a lot of injuries in defence and have brought in McCarthy and Famewo in at centre back and their good defensive record has disappeared. Might be a coincidence but I don't think it is. We should be going out and trying to get some goals tomorrow.

I booked a long weekend on the basis that we weren't at home that weekend. So the Ross County fans can get their merry little asses down here on Wednesday.

Cathedral City please.

FT Aberdeen 1-2 Ross County

Everyone knows you don't kick the ball away. Stupid regardless of any refereeing inconsistencies.

However bad Motherwell are I think it's worth saying that it's still better than going to a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon.

It falls on Robinson, sure, but Robinson would have probably taken a better penalty than most of our guys last night which was what it came down to. The standard of performance in the first half last night was down to individuals. The manager can't account for 11 players going into a cup replay and putting in a performance that would shame amateurs. Ultimately Robinson can take blame for formation, team selection and transfers but our defeat last night was due to stinking performances not managerial decisions. The changes made by the manager at half time worked. That should be a tick for Robinson but you can't blame him for 4 goals conceded in the first half or the penalty shoot out, they are both out with the managers control. Robinson is going to come under scrutiny after last night because it's now obvious that we need to make tactical and selection changes and the 4-3-3 has run it's course, at least as a default with the players currently available, but let's not pretend that anyone would have picked a radically different side from the available players last night or that a HT scoreline of 1-4 was entirely predictable. I think Robinson has been poor at times over his reign, mainly due too his tactical inflexibility and a loyalty to jobbers but we've only really had two real failures this season, the League Cup exit to Hearts and the Scottish Cup exit last night. The reaction after the League Cup was good. I can't tell you how we react to the latest set back but that's what Robinson should be judged on and I'll state it again. If all we do this season is finish Top 6, that will be a good effort with the players available.

Probably Stevie Woods best attribute was saving penalties.

Our penalty shoot out record is absolutely fucking abysmal. Just off the top of my head we've lost to St. Mirren, Stranraer, Ross County, Hamilton, Hibs, Alloa Athletic.... The only one I actually remember us winning was when we won the cup. So I make 1-6 unless I've forgotten some.

To be honest today's performance kind of summed up that he's a defender rather than a midfielder.

After tonight we better be getting in Jim McLean to sort out Declan Gallagher's contract.