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We have that damning trait of thinking we're a good team, while those around us are scrapping for everything. The accies game is huge, and as shite as they are they they know how to kick, scratch and cheat to a result when they need to, while we're still under the illusion we have quality. We could end up in a playoff with ICT in he last game just to avoid automatic relegation.

I get that we were shite and lost, but we scored 2, so I wouldn't say their defense coasted it.

A whole bunch of our players are out of contract in the summer, many of whom are high earners, and moult is likely to be sold. The rebuild is inevitable. I assume that if we go down we'll keep on the older players who are probably done if we stay up.

Other than the obvious nepotism, John Davies was one of the "did well against us so let's sign him, even though he only looked good because we were shite" brigade, along with kampmann and Neil Tarrant.

Was moult scouted by our current head of recruitment or the last one? We're terrible, and every bottom six team probably has us down as 3 points in the bag right now.

From what I saw on periscope, we're god awful. How Partick don't have 3+ I don't know, they were walking right through us.

We're going to concede, so might as well go Kevin Keegan on them and start ainsworth, Frear, skippy, Moult, and bowman, with cadden and Pearson in the middle. Maybe this way we can score 2.

Lionel is the only attacking option on the bench, so I reckon Blyth will get another 15 mins unless we choose to bring on lasley and play with 2 up top.

Motherwell: Samson, Hammell, Heneghan, McHugh, Bowman, Cadden, Frear, Blyth, Clay, McDonald, Pearson #MFCvHAFC Time for the killer b's to show us what they've got

We have a relatively favorable run in, but we still need to put in the work to get the results, and the other teams will see us as a chance to pick up points. I'll take a last minute controversial penalty scored on the third rebound tomorrow as long as we get the win.

Jim O'Brien sent off for county, for diving.

Competition is always good, maybe we'll make more from the sell on than we did from the initial fee the way English clubs throw money at each other.

Do you mean it's not some sort of Russian fake news conspiracy as suggested by some social media rants? The chief exec posted on twitter that he's reading Rudy guilliani's biography, so I just thought we'd got rid of Kennedy because he knew too much.

Signed for Fylde apparently

If ainsworth had anything to offer, it would have been nice if he offered it in the last year or so. I'm sure we can get an attacking bench warmer for cheaper.

Is there a way to have frear and Thomas in the team? Or is Thomas on the outs too?

This doesn't really fit in the other threads, but I'm interested in figuring out what kind of squad we could have come the end of the season, and what holes we will need to fill, and how we may approach that if we go down. As far as I'm aware the following are all out of contract, not including the u20s: Lasley, Kennedy, Moore, Ainsworth, Pearson, Faddy, Lucas, Samson, McDonald, sub goalie, Jules, chalmers - Would we bring any of these back? 1 more year - clay? Blyth? bowman, Moult, Hammel, McManus? Thomas - any extension possibilities? Don't know - cadden, frear, heneghan, mchugh, tait With the likelihood that our front two won't see next season at fir park, it looks like we will have bowman and someone. Will Mackin be an option? In midfield we have mchugh and clay, with maybe cadden if he isn't sold, then add Campbell, hastie and Mclean from the u20s. Defense looks worst though, with Hammel still under contract and as injury prone as he is now, we need a viable lb option. My assumption is that if we go down we will push the u20s into the team, but maybe we should do that anyway?

We play each of the teams we need to finish above twice, right? Our biggest concern right now is what the other teams do the week we play rangers. If we can get anything from that game, or the other shite teams also lose, we have control of our destiny. Any ideas as to how the post split fixtures are likely to shape up for home and away?

First sub - McMillan for hammell at half time.

Motherwell: Samson, Hammell, McHugh, Moult, Cadden, Frear, Clay, Jules, Ferguson, McDonald, Pearson #MFCvSJFC

Ok, how are we going to shape up with our injury woes? I think we'll probably see McDonald and Jules as the line was that their injuries just need rest, so we'll risk them with the break coming up. I assume the following will all be in the lineup due to previous selections, but I'm at a loss as to who we will play on the flanks. Samson Ferguson McHugh Jules (Someone) Cadden Pearson Clay (chalmers/frear/Hammel) Moult Skippy I'd be surprised if we see McMillan or chalmers based on recent u20 performances, but we may have to use both.

These leaks could also be total bollocks. They sound bollocks, so I'll go with that. Also, we rationalized that coyle would be shite pages ago.

The first guy we did this with was sold for a reasonable fee, has a sell on clause, and is being chased by championship clubs. The second guy we paid for is sure to go in the summer, for money, so can't really say it has failed. As with all clubs, we will never be 100% with our signings, but at least the shite ones have been free.

That's what will be interesting, all of the senior players are out of contract in the summer, other than McManus. We're losing: Samson, Hammell, lasley, Lucas, Pearson, ainsworth, skippy, faddy, Jules Realistically the only one who can still do a job is McDonald, but he seems to want to go back to Australia. Then there's the chance that we'll lose moult and cadden. So we're trusting Robinson to do a full rebuild, after keeping us up, so he'll be tested.

Interesting reactions. just looking back at our previous appointments (in my time), I'd be interested in knowing what ones were deemed positive at the time? Maybe McGhee first time around? Mclean was already there when I started going, what was he reception to him? Who was the last appointment we were generally excited about? Mclean - had been a manager for about a year before joining us. How manager times would he have been sacked in the current climate? McLeish - no experience, didn't do well when it came to building his team. Kampmann - did well in Finland, not so well here. Davies - no experience, wasn't terrible but a more experienced manager would surely have made more out of the money available at that time. Black - no experience, not that good Butcher - was terrible in previous jobs, was great for us Malpas - good assistant, but...... McGhee - lots of experience and did a great job Gannon - decent experience, was ultimately shite Brown - quick appointment, did ok McCall - not the best with Bradford, but experienced and was great for us. Seem to remember folk being underwhelmed when he joined. Bara - won trophies, was shite. McGhee - never go back