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Thought Sparrow had his best game of the season, and if Longelo could find a better final ball, but had to go for Hodge, thought he was excellent!

I think we’ll be too open with Kanga, Said, Maswanhise and PH. Would start with McGhee if Oscar not fit enough.

If he’s got an hour in him I’d start him, leaving us the option of bring on McGhee if we want to shore things up or Kanga/Cook if we need to go for it!

Hoping to see us go with - Paulsen Sparrow, JGR, Moorman, Longelo Fadinger, Preistman, Hodge Maswanhise, Palmer-Houlden, Said A bit more cover in the middle of the park, which should help combat Utd’s biggest strength, given that’s where the best part of their team is.

Though Fadinger was great today, get him an Oscar back in the midfield and we’ll be fine.

Not far off what I’d go with! McGhee at right back is a good shout. I’m still not sure if JKL is a better option than JGR but maybe with more game time he can prove it! Without Lowery and Preistman that front 6 should be a given in my opinion.

And that proves he’s more than capable of scoring goals are our level. I agree his form hasn’t been great, however hes still young, this first professional club and he’s going to come in and out of form. I think we need to support him and look at how we best set the team up to get him in the box more often.

Since his first season in the Scottish Premiership in 2024-25, only Daizen Maeda (30), Lawrence Shankland (27) and Martin Boyle (26) have scored more goals than Motherwell's Tawanda Maswanhise (25)

2-1 win. Alfred IN 😉

I’ve rarely felt this misaligned with what the vocal majority on here are saying. Taking last night in isolation, I thought we played pretty well in spells and can definitely see patterns of play from a team that are coached. I thought the two changes AJ made at half-time worked a treat for the first 20–25 minutes of the second half. We should have put the game to bed in that spell and been 3 or 4-1 up. We never really looked in much trouble until the goal at the end, which was an absolute shitshow defensively. Manny diving in, Hodge & Sparrow not tracking their men, SOD picking the wrong man out of the two he had to cover, and then not attacking the ball, and finally Paulsen not managing to push it out or over. That’s not to say there weren’t things we could have done better, but I’m struggling to see the disaster that others seem to have watched. There were plenty of positives to take from the performance, and I think there’s more evidence of progress than some are willing to acknowledge.

Surely there’s a bit of irony in folk proposing Simo. He struggled badly at first at Saints and actually went down! But they stood by him and he’s come good. Fingers crossed we don't get to that point, but sticking behind AJ might just be what helps turns things around.

I thought today was a big improvement on what we’ve seeing of late, and had we shown a bit more composure in front of goal we’d have taken the 3 points never mind 1. Completely out played Hearts for long periods, particularly in the 2nd half. Yes, I’m worried we could be sliding towards a relegation battle unless we can find someone to consistently hit the back of the net (similar to what Maswanhise did last season), but still far too early to be talking about changing the manager given the injury list we’ve had to deal with, not to mention the personnel changes over the summer. Although I do except the next 2 are huge. Confident we’ll pick up at least 4 points!

What a frustrating afternoon, we saw the good the bad and the ugly (downright shambolic) from this team. I seem to be in the minority now, but I feel for AJ given the crazy individual errors we’re making in nearly every game at the moment. Like a few of us I thought we played reasonably well for most of the 1st half and should have been ahead at the break, despite Paulson madness at the start. 2nd half we take the lead then immediately invite them on to us. O’Donnell horrific for Killies 2nd and 3rd and Sparrow just as bad for the winner. The leagues very tight and we’ve yet to complete the first round of games. I don’t think it’s gone yet, but the next 3 are massive, need 4 points minimum. At least if nothing else O’Donnell will surely take his seat back on the bench for the rest of the season.

Yeh, thought it might be a bit too early for him, back soon hopefully! Results with and without him this seasons are pretty stark (European games apart). I think JKL looks more suited to a full back role than JGR, but I suppose time will tell!

For the weekend I’d go with: Paulsen JKL, JGR, Moorman, Longelo Preistman, Fadinger, Lowery Maswanhise, Palmer-Houlden, Said Hodge for Preistman if he’s not fit enough yet.