MelvinBragg

You wonder if Livingston benefited from being used to playing on that type of surface. Although I do know there is a variance in how those pitches play...

Booooooooooooo! RESIGN KETTLEWELL!!!

So you'll drop Spittal, one of our best performers in the last two matches (I'd argue over 180 minutes, he's been the best)? I like McKinstry and I was puzzled when Hammell was refusing to start him in a 433. But to suggest starting him ahead of Spittal right now is a headscratcher...

I disagree. We won at St Mirren first day but didn't play well at all. We then showed our glass jaw against St Johnstone. Then followed Pitoddrie, one of two good wins under Hammell. We huffed and puffed to a win against Livi before again showing weakness against Killie. We didn't look good under Hammell initially. He got two good wins, at Pitoddrie and Dingwall. Whether Kettlewell is the answer, I don't know. But can people stop making out that Hammell was getting a tune out of us due to some new manager bounce...

If he's already shouting and organising then he doesn't need that wee bit of cloth round his bicep. A more interesting question regards Butcher is what we do once we have more centre halfs fit. He was signed to be a midfield shield for the defence but he looks at home in the back three. So do we keep him there or play him in midfield..?

I think that's just a modern football thing rather than an indication of instability at a club. Before Alex Miller in 1983, St Mirren had 8 managers, including him they've since had 18 or 19. I'm guessing a few other clubs would be similar...

Kettlewell wouldn't be my first pick. But if it comes down to him or Holloway (if McCann decides it's not for him), it has to be him. Holloway has disaster written all over it... If we're down to that, I tend to agree with Dave. Have another look at the list of candidates. At least avoid the impression (right or wrong) that whoever has got the job has got it simply because every other person on the shortlist dropped out...

Assuming Spittal played under Kettlewell at Ross County. So you'd hope he might know how best to use him...

I don't disagree that he didn't chase any balls down or win a header. On the first issue, not really his strength, no point having a slow striker pressing. On the second, Obika is 6ft tall. Gallagher is 6ft5 (I think) and Taylor is 6ft2. As soon as we starting playing the ball to his chest, he was holding them off and laying it off to Johnston, the midfield and Van Veen. Was he fantastic? No, but he wasn't dreadful either...

I'm sorry, big man, but you are having a laugh. I was really unimpressed to see Obika in the lineup, for me he's offered nothing any time he's played so far but tonight I thought he and Van Veen linked well (particularly in the second half).I think the key is to give him the ball to his chest. Number of times he took it and held off a defender before giving it to a Motherwell player... And as for Spittal? He set up the first goal and had another couple of good balls cut out by defenders. Did he misplace a pass or two? Aye, find me a player who didn't... I know we all see the game differently but come on...

Probably best ignore rumours in the papers. How often have they got it right in the past..? How many people lost money to the bookies when Baraclough was appointed..?

Of the names mentioned here, I'd be happy with McPake or Bullen. Both have shown the ability to turn around team and a club drifting in the wrong direction. Goodwin and Ross best work has been at clubs where the club is generally on the up. Well, that's my perception anyway...

If a team gets an extra sub due to a concussion, the opposition automatically get the extra sub as well..

I just noticed that myself...

Against an Aberdeen team that must be low on confidence, one shot in the first 45 minutes? After the St Johnstone game where against a team that had lost seven in a row, we had one shot on target in the full game. Not good enough...

Dundee United winning...

I reckon it's 352 hence no wingers. There's no way he watched that game on Wednesday and thought Crankshaw was one of the problems..

352 with McGinn and O'Donnell in the back three is my guess... Hence the lack of wingers...

I'm assuming there are no defensive midfielders in the League of Ireland...

If we're going down (and we are), I'd rather we went down swinging with players that look like they give a damn. As such team for Saturday should look something like Oxborough Johnston McGinn Lamie Furlong Miller Cornelius Crankshaw Tierney/Danzaki McKinstry Aitchison Defence I've left as I don't know the younger options there.. If Blaney is fit, temptation is to play him alongside McGinn. If nothing else, tthis would give us a chance to see who might cut it in a promotion push next season. Certainly the players listed are more likely to get tore in about the opposition. Which would be a start...

I have a funny feeling that we'll be looking for free agents tomorrow morning...

I know we probably never get our 'number one' target but a concern for me is the number of players we've 'just missed out on' in this window (as indicated by Hammell today). For such a huge window, you would have hoped that the club would have pushed the boat out just a wee bit more...

Given we need a left back, a defensive midfielder and probably now a centre back, is two enough?

Surely not..

Or maybe that was always the level he was destined to play at..?