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Dan Twardzik. I still think Gardner was worse, probably because he played more.

According to the BBC (I know, I know), they can own no more than 29.9% of another club.

John Gardner is the worst keeper in Motherwell history. IMHO.

I'll see your Jock Wallace and raise you Roger Hynd. Tough call right enough.

A very decent first half performance. We were by far the better team and 3-1 flattered them hugely. We retained possession well and moved the ball forward quickly when the chance arose. For some reason, we started the second have very flatly and found it difficult to get any sort of control. Understandably, given the shocking run we have been on, the longer the game went, the more nervous we looked. That said, Livingstone didn't offer much threat at all. No great failures today, Davor, Spencer, Gent and McGinn all played well but Bair had, arguably, his best game for us.

Theo Bair, two goals and an assist, plus what a finish for the third goal. McGinn, Spittal, Gent and Davor all worthy of honourable mentions.

Davor played well and makes me wonder why he hasn't featured more. But Georgie Gent gets my vote.

If we do change the manager, looks like St. Brendan may be available soon. 😱

Bevis for me.

Yup, wholehearted agreement from me.

That's the most frustrated I've felt leaving Fir Park in a long time. The players left everything on the park so no criticism is deserved, yes we could have defended the ball into the box better, yes we should have taken a few more chances and yes we could have made substitutions earlier, but at least we are competitive against the clubs with superior budgets now, we just need to (somehow) start winning against them on a regular basis. As for Willie Collum, why is he allowed to referee football games?

Loads of good candidates today, I've gone with Paton.

Scott Crabbe..... Wayne Foster..... too many to chose from.

Only if Levein and MacPherson are the new Hearts central defence.

I would guess 50/50, depending on whether Celtic's champions league game is on the Tuesday or the Wednesday. 12.30 on the Saturday may also be an option. (same reason)

It's only Groningenboy that is saying that.

I wouldn't normally consider a half time substitute, but Paton gets my vote, he added a different component in the middle of the park with his energy and willingness to carry the ball forward. Casey ran him a close second, partly for giving it tight to Armstrong when he equalised. McGinn & Slattery played well too and a decent debut from Spencer.

I read about this incident recently, quite shocking. I'll certainly join in the applause.

My exact words as we left after the game today. As for the game, considering we had three starters, and two subs, who weren't at the club last season, add in that Bevis, O'Donnell & Miller were nowhere near our starting XI, we are very much a work in progress still. All that considered, I was more than happy with the 90 minutes I watched today. Our back three plus Kelly were mostly untroubled and Bevis won just about everything in the air (which was all Hibs offered). The mid-field three were all good, although Miller will need a rest soon to let the bruising heal, especially if the referees are going to continue offering no protection. The wing backs did ok defensively but Souare, in particularly, seemed to lack a bit of confidence a couple of times when we broke forward, he continually looked backwards for someone else to take responsibility. The front two were ok (but no more than that), Biereth changed the game with his energy, he had no right to win the ball in the first place for the opener and then fooled Stevenson by refusing to fall down when he fouled him. He showed great strength and composure for his goal too. So far, so good. As for Hibs...................

Mika would be the obvious choice because of his impact but I thought our central three were all very good today. I went with Spittal, his work rate on and off the ball is very important to our system.

So the Boys in Blue, were FU@k3d 5-2? That has a nice ring to it.

I think we will finish somewhere between 6th and 10th. We'll go far enough in one cup to get us starting to dream. In other news, we'll have to put up with several posters irrationally blaming Spittal / Slattery /SO'D / Bair / *A N Other, for all our poor results, one of us will even blame Alan Burrows and / or Nicola Sturgeon. At least one poster will claim during the first round of fixtures that "If we lose this next game we are certainties for relegation" Is that specific enough?

He meant a portion of the Norwich keeper's wage, not Carson's.

A point I made to several of my fellow fans as we left yesterday. At that point we were one goal behind Ayr and out of the seeded positions. Injury time goals in two other matches have affected the standings, Ross County were winning 3-2 at 90 minutes and lost an equaliser in the 93rd minute (good for us as we got their seeded place), and Hamilton equalised in the 96th minute which meant, despite loosing the shoot out, they finished second in the group instead of Cove Rangers, potentially preventing Cove from progressing to the knockout stages.. There was an interview with an English (I think) refereeing supervisor at the end of last season when he was asked about the amount of added time due to VAR and his answer was pretty much that, you don't know how a goal may affect other teams in a league scenario. Bottom line is Clancy just isn't very good.

I voted for Miller, early days, but so far he looks like the real deal. Spittal, Slattery, Souare & Paton all played well too.