Ya Bezzer!

Have said it before but I'd play Cole over Long in this set up. Long is a two up front guy.

Hard to imagine a more comprehensive pumping. Match analysis will be pretty simple. Aberdeen defended better, were better in midfield and more dangerous going forward. Our manager didn't react quickly enough tactically to obvious deficiencies and the first couple of substitutions were pointless. Overall it could and should have been more than 0-3. A total failure from top to bottom.

Would love to win this one but as a long term fan I know that these are exactly the kind of games we get nervous about. I'm assuming Aberdeen will have McKenna and Devlin playing together for the first time in a while so you'd imagine that they will be stronger defensively. Cosgrove isn't much more than a big rough boy hopefully we can match him physically. Shay Logan has usually been a decent player at this level but recently he's been absolutely stinking. Would suggest that might be an area we look at.

The thing with managers in recent day Scottish football is that you don't have to be any good to have 'relative' success. If you have 10 dopes taking a maths exam one of them will still be top of the class. The jump up to English football level is colossal.

Went for Hartley.

See Jason Krones has started the last couple of matches for Albion Rovers.

First half performance was good. St. Mirren had 9 or 10 players behind the ball most of the time but we manage to keep possession, spray some passes around and create a few chances. Great finish from Scott and I thought we missed him when he went off early in the second half. Second half you could see echoes of the Ross County match. Started to look a bit nervous and weren't putting in the defensive work, either preventative or clearing our lines. Too slack and allowed St. Mirren to come back into the match and at a 1-0 the game was still up in the air. Was glad to see Maguire fitted right in. Like Scott I think he's got the potential to be an excellent player for us.

As others have said St Mirren have been pretty stuffy this season. Only conceded more than 1 goal in 2 out of 7 league matches and one of them was late in injury time. Rangers, who put 5 past Aberdeen and 6 past Hibs only managed 1 against St Mirren. Might well be a tight and frustrating match today, maybe it's going to be down to one defensive mistake.

I'd pretty much agree with everything up until your comments on Cole. I thought Cole showed today he links up far better than Long does. He had some really nice touches and lay offs around the 18 - 20 yard area. Having said that Long has a couple of goals without really looking like a player whereas Cole doesn't really look a goal threat. I'd rather play Cole right now, have some joined up play and hope he can contribute goals at some stage. The problem today was we were sloppy in midfield and there were too many over hit forward passes but I thought Cole showed a hint of something.

I thought James Scott was our best attacking option.

I'd agree about the sending off but Robinson says it was never a yellow and to be fair he was a lot closer to it.

Strange game. Almost like a pre-season. Slow, players looked rusty, oh and sunshine. Lots of chances created by both teams but the goalkeepers had very little to do. Before we scored I felt like Ross County created more and better chances, really too many for a visiting side of Ross County's calibre. Well taken move and goal looked like it was going to give us the three points but then we missed a great chance to make it 2-0. Echoes of the Celtic match in that we couldn't hold a lead for very long and crumbled a bit under pressure. We've conceded 10 goals in the last 5 and a lot of them have been really cheap goals.

Need to keep an eye on Ross Stewart today. Seen him a few times over the last year or so and he always impressed me.

I want to formally apologize to everyone as I put Motherwell on my coupon this morning.

Donnelly keeps his run going - 5 league matches, 5 bookings!

Apparently we should have pumped them. Looks like the score flattered Hearts a bit. Anyway. Tee hee at Hearts and Levein. Fucking hate them.

OH GOD!!!!

OK, happy again

I've been supporting Motherwell for more than 9 games.

Not a two goal one.

WHY CAN'T WE HOLD A LEAD!!!!!

Looking forward to seeing this one.

Actually might have been worth going just to watch Levein squirm on the touchline to the chorus of booing.

Didn't go today. High ticket price, I was in Edinburgh last weekend, the eye wateringly bad match at Tynecastle last season. Sounds like I made a good decision if the howitzer exchange they are talking about on the radio is anything to go by.

I'm not a referee but surely if the foul starts outside the box it's not a penalty. I will agree though that the referee didn't get the decision right.