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Teams should start with ten men against us.

Efford posted yesterday that he'd be back soon.

Joe Efford is the American Shivute, so very apt. Excellent initiative by the club at a difficult time of year for many. The patch with the charity numbers is a great idea.

This is a good resource for player info https://www.motherwellnet.com/database/player-archive/

Hammel has said they're all working tirelessly to indentify targets and get things moving. So he'll mend him if they're shite :-)

I like Cornelius, and I would love for him to push on as a regular. However, he's no faster than the current midfield, and he's being made into something's he is not by some of our support due to not playing. I always thought he'd thrive in that pressing role in front of the midfield, with Goss and Slattery as the 2 behind, but that probably means losing a forward. I think that us being close in every game has left Hammel reluctant to make big changes, and I can understand that. If KVV and shields converted one of their clear chances in the last few weeks, or SOL keeps his hands to himself, we could be in a completely different mood.

Surely the point of having a head of recruitment is that we don't need to rely on the manager's contacts? I'm yet to be convinced by Daws, but finding and acquiring players is his job. Agree on the windows, if we keep going into January requiring major surgery we're going to have a bad time.

Some kind of defensive midfielder, a center half, and at least one striker who has some pace. All we really have coming back from injury is Efford and Mcginn, who are decent, but aren't going to move the needle to get us out of the bottom half shit fest.

Grimshaw, fuck sake.

Clubs will be playing plenty of closed doors/bounce games, which happen during the season too, and there's nothing to suggest we aren't doing the same.

Everyone worked hard, and outside of Slattery no one was particularly bad. I picked Spittal, as he scored the goal and was probably the least mistake prone of the midfielders. The center backs were decent, but they were hardly facing a barrage.

Not many were arguing to keep him at the time, and maybe he wanted to go.

Neither team had the cutting edge needed to win, and we could have nicked it with a better final ball after getting into some good positions. Anyone saying St Johnstone we're better than us is just looking for something to piss their pants about. I thought we worked hard and defended well. I can only think of slattery's brain fart as a legit chance after they scored. We learned our lesson from previous games and made sure we broke up play when needed. It was funny hearing StJ fans of all people complaining about our robust play. Most of the team were dead on their feet during injury time, and the break couldn't come soon enough. That was moults first 90 mins in a long time, and he was chasing lost causes to the end and worked his arse off, and he and KVV almost forced something from that. He was also pretty good on the ball when he had it. However, like Van Veen, he was being dragged deep to get on the ball too often. God do we need some pace though.

KVV is getting involved too deep, and McKinstry has been very quiet. Wouldn't be surprised to see the latter come off early into the second half since he had a fitness issue. Slattery has been very poor. He has had some sparks of attacking stuff, and played a great ball into spittal, but he's a liability defensively, Stevie May let him off the hook after that dumb header. Moults movement is good, and he's fine when on the ball, but we're not finding him enough. Im hoping he can last the 90 just so that we know he can. Spittal's slowness really bothers me, but he's solid enough with the ball, and works hard. By no means our worst player. Decent goal and assist return for a midfielder too.

Just checked the video, the goal went in, and counts just the same as a 30 yard piledriver, and the extra bonus is now we have the same number of goals as St Johnstone. Hopefully we can score another one and win the game.

Hate var. Having to wait so long after two perfectly legitimate goals is a pain in the arse. We should have 1 booking max, the ref is being a dick.

Could be an interesting lineup, but my guess is it will be Shields in for Mckinstry, and KVV will be thrown out there to hobble around. St Johnstone games are boring, especially away. I'll take a tannadice style shitfest 1-0 win. Wouldn't greet at a draw though.

Our lack of a final ball is a real problem, we aren't testing teams at all from set pieces and crosses.

Booking meetings so I don't get tempted to watch this.

Some movement in front of Goss would be nice.

Goss was onside, but since it was called on the field, nothing that happens after that counts. That's why linesmen have been waiting to make the call until the play has played out. I didn't think about that at the time. I hate that they do that, but wish they did it this time :-) The sibbick handball would have been very soft, point blank and his hand was in his bodyline. KVVs offisde was way closer than I thought when I watched it back, still off though.

Although I think he should have been booked, I don't think the rule is that the card is automatic. And again, there is absolutely nothing to suggest we didn't ask the question or protest. Of all of our failings today, putting Gordon's non-sending off on the manager is a weird one.

Unlike some, I'm not going to sit here and let an open goal go begging. Grizzly needs to stop being complacent.

My maw has more baws than some of this team, boom boom!

Maybe he was? Maybe other players were? The ref knew he had a decision to make, and he made it. I think he was wrong, but I doubt players and managers shouting at him would have made any difference.