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Has to be Ripley. Of the others, only Johnson, Skippy, Cadden and Thomas approached pass marks.

So nobody should take responsibility for a terrible appointment?

In terms of finances, momentum and leadership, the club is in bother. Has been for a couple of years now.

The prospect of McGhee returning to the club should never have entered the minds of the clowns that recommended him to Les. As a club we were well versed in his flaws and should have stayed well clear. We are in real bother now as we are left in the lurch with a manager that few people like, a manager that is tactically inferior to Lee McCulloch and a manager that has visibly drained the confidence out of some of our players. I can't see us winning for the foreseeable future yet I suspect it will be some time until we part company with McGhee. When he does go however, he shouldn't be the only one.

Whoever recommended McGhee to the owner should be getting the bullet. This was never going to work.

Like the look of the team today, just need to get the right shape.

I enjoyed that McManus interview.

Boy that set up the Peterborough goal then missed the pen is a relation of Zaine's.

Would love to see Simo get a chance in Scottish football but like us, it would be helluva risk for Killie to take him on in their current predicament.

If it were to happen it would be on the say-so of Les. Not going to happen given how much he cares about the local community.

Two players that the majority of us were delighted to sign-on in the summer. They haven't had a fair crack under McGhee,

It's nothing to do with sensitivity. Good managers rarely criticise their own players in public unless it's to produce a reaction. Criticising the likes of Laing and Ainsworth, two of our better players, and then freezing them out is of no benefit to Motherwell.

Its not took McGhee long to lose the plot this time around. How many of our players has he now criticised publicly? Kennedy, Laing, Ainsworth and Moult? As for the Higdon chat then if we have pondered this for more than 2 seconds, then it is sheer incompetence on behalf of the club. More worryingly, McGhee seems to want a big striker to suit his long ball tactics.

I might be in the minority here but the 1st leg at Ibrox for me was the highlight. When Ainsworths 3rd hit the net, oof. Folk just hugging each other and laughing at half time in the toilets

I'm assuming no recall option would have been allowed on the Gomis loan? Hearts seem to have a bit of an injury/suspension crisis.

Been fairly pissed off with Motherwell the last few days but this fair cheers me up. They're all still hurting.

There is no question we are a better team than the Baraclough days but the Tynecastle result and performance appears to have spooked McGhee and possibly the players. At the time I thought we would respond to the 6-0 result quite strongly but instead our confidence has been thread-bare. We've went from a team that went toe to toe at Pittodrie and Parkhead to a team that tries to almost contain/nullify mediocre opposition. Indeed at one point last year McGhee said he spent little time on the training ground coaching defending because he wants to play attacking football and make the most of his squad. So it is time for him to return to his original ethos because with Pearson, Skippy, Johnson, Ainsworth and Moult at our disposal in addition to young Cadden breaking through, we should be blowing teams away in this league. To be fair to McGhee, he could argue that this isn't his team and he possibly didn't get the backing he was promised in January. However, for us to persevere with a man of his ego in the long run, I think we need a positive run that sees us well clear of relegation bother by the time we hit the split.

Watched the first half at Ibrox today and thought Kilmarnock were half decent. With a new manager likely to have arrived, who knows what that will add to their game. With Pearson being suspended for the trip to Tannadice it's vital we win here. I'm sure we will though given our extended preparations.

There would be a lot more folk 'in the know' aware of the situation if Administration was a distinct and imminent possibility. However, should Admin ever comes to pass under the current regime then a few die-hard 'well fans should be ran out of town.

Post match is on YouTube. Seemingly we aren't good enough to go with two strikers against Inverness. Killie game was always the priority.

Poisonous is admittedly the wrong word but there is a sense of something untoward in recent years. Reckless spending, numerous off-field appointments that have failed, poor preparation of squad for Starjnan season, the questionable transfer of ownership, the farce that is the Well Society and failure of the team to turn up for cup games time after time after time.

Should never in a million years been considered for a return to Fir Park. From the outside the club appears to be poisoned, sadly it pre-dates the arrival of McGhee.

As I've said I had to resort to the radio today and I was slightly taken aback by the noises coming from the ground. However I suspect that his approach to the game compounded the bitter taste stemming from the treatment of Lionel on Tuesday. Out of interest, where does your belief in McGhee come from? Barring an exceptional 6 months at Motherwell where he had exceptional players at his disposal, he has been an absolute failure for over a decade. There is no doubt he is a talented coach but time after time his arrogance and stubbornness undermine his ability. A very poor mans Gordon Strachan in my opinion. When he returned he said our position last season was 'embarrassing'. That may well come back to haunt him.

Listening to the radio, it sounded like the crowd were turning on McGhee today. the decision to bring him back to the club continues to baffle me as his entrenched flaws get highlighted week after week. The fans will probably get blamed post-match for wanting Moult on. Good luck to Inverness in the next round.

Exactly the two I was thinking of. Maybe not the worst thing that I'm missing this today. On the plus side we have a strong bench to turn the game.