steelboy

That's very good money if you get drawn at home and don't accrue any travel expenses. You would think travel expenses would be cheaper this year anyway.

Apparently we got gubbed 6-1 off Accies in a reserve friendly the other day. I expect it will be the same starting 11 again. Hopefully we see an improvement in our forward play.

When White touches the ball he is offside and moving towards and across the keeper.

If Seedorf had backed away from Hanlon we would have a claim but he went across goal. It was definitely offside. Robinson seemed to get talked into saying it was a bad decision by the interviewer.

We've got 8 forwards though. If they all score five we are laughing.

O'Donnell made a big difference. Settled that whole side of that park. Lamie did what he had to do. Campbell and Turnbull are on good form again. The major problem is we don't have a half decent centre forward in our 30 man first team squad.

That was a good half. Very unlucky not to be ahead. Mugabi and White are problems. Allan Campbell has been everywhere.

Hibs are forcing us to play it to him and then not giving him a simple pass. Same tactics everyone uses against Dunne.

Jordan White is murder. How can Watt possibly be worse?

O'Donnell already making a difference. Imagine we had a left back.

http://www.motherwellnet.com/database/player-archive/f/tom-forsyth/ 206 appearances for us. Football in the 70s sounded properly tough, a lot of earning the right to play. Are minutes silences/applauses out the window until the knee is finished? Thought we may have honoured Willie Hunter somehow.

That has to be a once in season event. No one is that stupid.

Can you imagine Grimmy trying to kick the ball with his left foot?

Grimmy has cost us goals the past two games and it would have been three if Stewart's shot didn't hit the bar. Lamie is pish but can at least do the basics of defending.

Robinson is an idiot.

I agree with all of that but I'd have Lang rather than Seedorf. Seedorf has been better and could be a handy sub on the right wing as we saw at Dingwall.

Have we got any cards left to play? Murphy hasn't had a sniff at Rangers so he may be available again.

On the topic of Long what was Robinson expecting? He scored two good goals apiece against Hearts and Accies and one against St Mirren. The two Accies goals were great finishes after a dribble but any half decent team doesn't allow him to get the shot off. The Hearts goals were both good finishes but it's against the relegated team. The St Mirren goal was a great finish in a game that petered out. Other than that he got the rub of the green from goalie errors against St Johnstone and Livi and scored his hat trick against Dundee who are utter shite. As soon as Cole left he was found out in his inability to lead the line and his attitude was shocking with stupid yellow and red cards which let us down badly. Despite that we put up a billboard for the guy when he reluctantly returned to Fir Park and seemed to have started the season with an expectation that he is a different player from the one who made 31 appearances last season. I read on P&B he is averaging 15 touches of the ball per game and as a comparison Lyndon Dykes had 53 last night. Just like having Grimmy as first choice right back Robinson thinking we can rely on Long to be our main centre forward and make top 6 is utter madness. People are saying what's happened to Long but the likelihood is he'll score against Accies and either St Mirren or St Johnstone in this round of fixtures and he'll have done exactly what he produced last season.

He's Declan Gallagher's mate though!

He was holding his hip a lot tonight. I don't think he is fit.

Yip. Even Foran did the wide attacker who worked back bit effectively as well. Seedorf, Hylton, Long and Hastie don't have it in them. The modern example is Willian. Chelsea fans complained about his goal return but he was always in the team for his work rate.

At least he sees there is a problem. Obviously there are questions about why it takes until 75 minutes to make a sub when we are playing with 7 men but small steps.

Yip I think this is an issue. I don't think we can afford to have a DM, Turnbull and Campbell and two attacking wingers. We needed someone who can play one of the wide attacking roles but also tuck in and help the midfield to give us more balance. The other massive issue is as GazzyB said you can't play any football these days without full backs who can pass and we have two atrocious footballers at fullback. Every opponent knows this and it allows them to crowd our midfield.

We mainly need a 9 who can hold the ball up and bring in Turnbull and the wingers like Main during the Hastie purple patch. White battles away but you can see he's a lower league player and his tricks don't work on Premiership defenders or refs.

Campbell and Mugabi were decent. Seedorf and Turnbull contributed. The rest of them tho....