Lobey_Dosser

Welcome victory, good to see Murphy getting a couple of goals. St Johnstone fans must think he is a world beater. Interested to hear who we played as I feared the worst when I saw that we were sticking by the same midfield.

Still no Carswell.

Butcher was also over celebrating with the Inverness fans at full time, no chance in hell that McCall would have done that. Regardless of what Butcher says to the media, he's a winner and loves nothing more than beating either half of the OF. The same can't be said for McCall.

Don't quite subscribe to no chance of scoring chat. I've seen Motherwell teams that could play all day and not create a chance. Generally speaking we are still creating chances but are guilty of overplaying at the edge of the box. Our problems lie with the gaping hole in midfield that can't protect our shaky defence. Until, this is addressed, we will continue to struggle.

St Johnstone have been one of the more impressive teams I've seen at FP this season and that was before they hit a rich vein of form. If their first choice midfield is fit, they will stroll to victory. 3-1.

For me, shorter deals are not the way to go and it has certainly not worked for Hibs who have had an awful few years due to players not giving a shit about the club. For Motherwell to be successful, we need to pluck out 1 or 2 free agents per year that we see potential in and invest in them with 3 year contracts with a view to keeping them for 2 years max. On top of this, we need to spend more time focusing on the physical, technical and mental attributes of our principle assets to ensure we get the very best out of them with a view of a sell on value. Guys like Murphy and Humphrey have stagnated under McCall for a host of reasons; that shouldn't have been allowed to happen. Meanwhile, one of the brightest prospects of our youth setup, Steven Lawless, barely gets a sniff of first team action when things are going well last season due to Omar Daley getting the odd 15 minutes. Again, this wasn't in the interests of the club.

I'd be willing to see Hateley in midfield if he had Carswell alongside him. They two probably compliment each other better than the current duo. If we are to turn things around we need to become hard to beat. That requires us playing with two midfielders willing to protect our vulnerable defence. I've been saying this since the Panathanikos game though...

Haven't seen it on the tv but if the Ref had it in for us, he could have sent off Higdon.

Good news from this morning. Watt scores for Airdrie today.

Time to start looking far beyond this season. Short-term outlook looks like it could be catching up with us.

Ojamaa. So far ahead of his team mates that he had to be substituted.

McCall will not be here beyond the summer. The sooner we can start building for the future the better. First though, I'd like to see some leadership from the Boardoom as the club lacks direction at the moment.

Left when Ojamma, our best player by a distance, was substituted. Not been so disinterested since McGhee's 2nd season.

Intrigued to see how we cope with Doyle and Griffiths, one of the better strikeforces in the league. Hoping to see Law back out on the left with Lasley and Carswell playing in the middle. Wouldn't be surprised to see Omar on the right. 3-2 Hibs.

Higdon and Ojamma signed up straight away. I'm guessing experienced guys like Lasley and Hammell didn't sign up at the time as they were in the middle of discussing a pay cut.

That totally passed me by, cheers.

Is there a list of candidates available for public consumption?

Anyone know why there are no spl games 1st weekend in Dec?

Me too. I loved that team of ours.

Good point from Jay regards McCall shoe-horning the best 11 into his team. John Hughes syndrome.

Easier said that done. For over 2 years, our game was built on the platform provided by Jennings and Lasley. We now have nothing in midfield.

Lasley is clearly being instructed to play further forward this season. Doesn't make much sense to me. Lost to a better organised team. Cracking goal. Carswell performance was a promising one.

Last time we were at Tynecastle we were solid as fuck. This time, if Sutton plays, I'll be worried everytime the ball comes in the box.

Josh Watt out on loan to Airdrie. Thoughts Noah?

I don't believe that.