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Best performance of the season today for me. Although we struggled for 20 minutes after we let them back into the game, on the whole we were always in control of the game and played entertaining football to back it up. Humphrey looks a lot more confident than what he has been and played well, there was a few occasions though that he didn't show the belief to get past his man. Law looked the part again and continues to impress in every outing. Good to see Higdon on the scoresheet again, managed to stay onside a lot more than usual. Shocking ball from Lasley that led to their 2nd goal leaving us 4 on 3 at the back which made the last few minutes a bit nervier than what they should of been. Top of the league we'll do what we want!

Strolled it last night against poor opposition, once we got the first goal we were always going to push on and score a few. Law was the best player on the park when he was on and took his goal well. Lawless looked decent in patches but was very quiet in the second half apart from his goal. The criticism of Humphrey seems to be a bit baffling. He did well and looked a lot more confident than in previous games. Had a couple of decent crosses, beat a few men and was unfortunate not score with his left peg.

It was a relatively poor performance yesterday but we won and that's all that matterss at the end of the day. We created enough chances to win the match comfortably but Samson had a great match until he made an arse of the free kick. The pick of the players for us would be Forbes who put in a really good shift, a lot more effort than what we've seen before. The back 4 again did well with St Mirren never really threatening apart from a couple of close calls from corners in the first half. Humphrey was shocking again and should be dropped for Lasley next week as he is a waste of a jersey when he performs like he has done in the last few matches. Murphy was poor as well, needs to be more consistent if he's going to get move to a big team. Great to score in the last minute and the celebrations showed how much it meant to the players and fans. Hopefully we can keep the momentum going next week and remain top of the league. Mon the Well!!!!

If Hutchinson is back i would probably shift Saunders to right back with Hateley into midfield, if not would start Carswell ahead of Forbes as he never did much wrong in the games he featured in towards the back end of last season.

Excellent result, got a bit nervy in the final few minutes after we squandered a number of decent openings when we were ahead that should of killed the game off. First half was pretty quiet from both teams with Randolph pulling off a fantastic save from Drivers chip to keep it level at half time. Black been ordered off definitely swung the game for us as it gave us a lot more time on the ball and more space to exploit. Great play by Law for the goal and equally from Murphy who remained composed to finish it off. Humphrey was frustating again, got himself into some really good positions but just lacked that killer ball or finish. Thought Craigan was outstanding at the back, seems a totally different player from last season and Hateley played a blinder as well. Mon the Well!!!!!

Decent point yesterday. Killie started the better of the 2 teams and it should of been a penalty when Dayton was brought down early on. Defensively we looked pretty solid apart from a couple of poor passes from Hutchinson which could of been costly, but he made a couple of excellent blocks to his credit. Humphrey was woeful with no end product/skill at all. Best chance was with Law which really should of been squared to McHugh instead of a weak attempted chip. Credit to the Well boys again kept the singing going throughout.

Murphy would struggle to make an impact on the Premiership at the moment as he doesn't have the physical build that is needed down there. Better staying with us for another season where hopefully he can get a bit of consistency into his game and sustain a high level of performance throughout the season instead of 1 good game in every half dozen matches.

Agreed read the article about how St Mirren are planning to do the same by raising £2,000,000. They've just about got the funding in place and 700 fans on board paying an annual fee of £120 along with local businesses who are stumping up a lot more. Looking at it, it seems that Motherwell don't have a clear path of how they are going to achieve their strategy. It's all a bit vague and fans should of been consulted, first you would of thought, before going to the papers branding figures that may turn out to be not enough.

Anybody know if this is taking place again this year?

I hope he's effective for Hearts as he was in the Cup Final. Would of wished him well if he went to another league but disappointed to see him go to one of our rivals, can't blame him though if his wages have trebled.

Extremely disappointing 90 minutes yesterday, thought we matched them well until the goal but we never looked like we were going to score. McCall got it wrong big time, too much chopping and changing in the last 5 games of the season. We played at Tannadice with a 4-5-1 the other week and it did not work with no support for Sutton. Baffling why he chose to play Hammell in midfield. Humphrey hid for the full game and proved why he'll never make it at a bigger level. Ref was shocking both teams should have had players sent off. Saw the display on the tv earlier looked absolutely tremendous. Well done to all involved in making it happen. Was a great day out apart from the game just hope we don't need to wait another 20 years to be there again. Mon the Well!

St Mirren got to the Quarter Finals of the cup so they must have played a few more than 41. One last big performance on Saturday please.

Yaaassss!!! Delighted he's out. Starting to feel confident we can do them in the final.

------------------------------Randolph-------------------------- Ross-----------Hutchinson-----Gunning---------Hammell ----------------------Lasley---------Hateley-------------------- Jones---------------------------------------------------Murphy ----------------------Sutton---------Jeffers------------------------ I feel we've got an excellent chance on Saturday if can continue our fine finish to Saturdays game v Hearts. Big bonus that Weiss ain't playing for them anymore as he's ripped us apart everytime this season. I thought the Ross/Jones combination worked really well down the right hand side at the weekend and would like to see them given the chance again. Jeffers will have a point to prove against his former club and hopefully the team will be right up for revenge from Februarys demolishment. 2-0 to us another Sutton double. Mon the Well!!!!!

At half time yesterday i was regretting my decision to go to Tynecastle but that comeback was immense and showed that the team now have a fighting spirit that we were severely lacking in January/February. Credit to McCall he's turned things round big time and we're playing some decent fitba. The big turning point yesterday was Webster going off at half time and we looked like we could score every time in the second half going forward. The referee was horrendous, booking Murphy for the handball was a shocking decision. Ross coming on to replace Saunders was key to the comeback as well as he showed composure and experience where Saunders was lacking in it. Hopefully we'll book our European spot next week by destroying the h**s. Mon the Well!!!

I read somewhere that in the last 4 seasons St Johnstone have been knocked out by the eventual winners of the cup. Could we make it 5 years in a row?

I thought Craigan made a solid start to the season up until the international break in October when he had a nightmare in the Faroes and it seems that ever since then his performances have deteriorated. He has a had few good games inbetween but he is normally a bombscare in defence putting in rash tackles due to lack of pace and his passing is very poor. Our 2 best performances this year, keeping 2 clean sheets in the process, came when Craigan never started albeit the same defensive pairing went on to concede 3 at Inverness. However i feel we are a better team without him and it would be best for him to go in the summer.

Hopefully he'll be off in the summer then.

--------------------------Randolph------------------------ Hateley---------Huthinson------Gunning----Hammell --------------------Jennings------Lasley-------------------- Humphrey---------------------------------------Murphy ---------------------Sutton---------Jeffers------------------ As poor as St Johnstone's recent record of scoring has been they don't concede many goals either so i don't see there being much between the 2 teams on Saturday. It is important to get the ball out to Humphrey/Murphy to run at their full backs early on and hopefully draw tackles that will result in yellow cards which could be a big advantage to us. We've been playing reasonably well for the last 4 games and that form would suggest we should reach the final, but i'm not taking anything for granted as we could perform the way we did against St Mirren 6 weeks ago and be dumped out. I'll predict a 2-0 victory for us, Murphy and Sutton to score. Mon the Well!!!!!

Decent performance and result today. We were unlucky not to take all 3 points towards the end with Suttons chance but a draw was a fair result. McCall did the right thing in resting the players who were carrying knocks and it was a good opportunity for Carswell and Casagolda to show what hey can do. Was quite impressed with Carswell thought he competed well in midfield and used the ball well. Casagolda was poor, maybe a bit isolated, every time the ball came near him it just bounced off him. Top marks to Randolph and Hutchinson, who was again excellent at the back. Mon the Well!!!

It was the 5 minutes additional time that pissed me right off. Where the fuck did that come from? Complete arrogant wanker of a referee.

Superb performance, was fearing the worst going into last night but was delighted with the way we played. Every single player put in a shift for us which makes a huge difference. If we can play like that against St Johnstone in the semi final then we should be winning comfortably but you just can't predict what Motherwell will turn up these days. Hopefully the players will still be buzzing going into Saturday and destroy that Auld prick Broon. Mon the Well!!!

It might come down to Motherwell having to request Dundee Utd to rearrange it. It wouldn't surprise me if they were to turn it down though, if they see their chances of getting through a lot better with us missing Craigan and Randolph. Hutchinson and Gunning might also get called up for their nations U21s games which would make it a lot more difficult.

Hammell shades it for me with his 2 assists.

Happy with the result. I thought we played really well today and were slightly unfortunate not to have won the game. Hammell, Gunning, Lasley and Sutton all had great games, Hammell especially i thought he adapted very well to playing at left mid. Bad defending at both goals but there was a lot of plus points today. Cracking atmosphere and game. Hopefully more of the same for the replay with us reaching the semi final. Mon the Well!