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Motherwell 1 Inverness 0, Jacob Blyth last minute winner.

I miss Dan Twardzik and the way his height decreased every time we lost. Think he was about 5'6 by the time he was dropped.

The only other feasible way to do that is to play 44 games a season, which seems a tad overkill. Unless you are wanting to scrap the 12 team format, which is a whole other can of worms. Personally I like the split tbh.

Announced tomorrow at 11am.

Expanding on this, we've played 8 games without Moult against real teams this season - i.e. not Stranraer or East Stirling- won 1,drew 2 and lost 5.

A Friday night at NDP would be dece.

McDonald saying Moult will hopefully be back. Goes without saying but that would be absolutely massive for us.

Dundee are technically due another 3 at home but that would take them to 20 so it's likely we'll have them at Fir Park again.

I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with a pragmatic style of play especially considering our predicament. I'm not a fan of hoofball but I can understand why Robinson chose it considering we're missing Moult,Tait and McManus, as well as the knock on effects of being forced to take Mchugh out of our already weak midfield which probably increases pressure on our defence, as well as stifling Cadden and Frear's creativity by moving them further back. Would Robinson choose to play this way if he wasn't putting out a makeshift starting eleven every week? I've no idea. It obviously didn't work but to his credit Robinson did change it at half time and I'd be surprised if we play that way against Inverness.

McDonald was miles ahead most of our team but even he had his work cut out when tasked with being our sole creator and finisher. No real horror shows amongst everyone else but a few need to stand up and be counted for.

His assist for Marvin's last minute winner at Inverness to secure top six last season was absolutely sublime, as was his chip against Killie in August.

Aye I'd be starting Ainsworth in this. I suspect he'll be getting released either way but an on form Lionel really can make the difference in games like this. I'm a big fan of Cadden and he's been deservedly our first choice in that position for the last year- but he's somewhat of a one trick pony and it's just not coming off for him right now at right wing. I don't have the stats to hand but Ainsworth has scored 3 times as many goals this season in I'd guess less than half the game time? He's inconsistent,frustrating and probably away in the summer but he's scored and assisted countless absolutely massive goals for us. Now I've said all this he'll probably do nothing and get hooked after 45 minutes. Edit- just realised this isn't the Partick Thistle thread tbh

Lucas could have made a difference imo. He's inconsistent and injury prone but also our most creative midfielder when it comes to picking passes going forward. I assume one of his legs fell off in training though.

Well this midweek round of fixtures has been anti climatic.

My alternative,more grounded, sugggestion is Brian Graham.

I'm just going to delude myself and pretend it's Stevie May.

I'm more one to obsess over the game beforehand. I can spend the whole week daydreaming/panicking about Saturday but I'm over the result about five minutes after the final whistle.

Dundee win for me. Both teams are definitely within our reach but Ross County look more likely to get cut adrift imo.

Where's the fun in that?

For all the talk of our awful NDP record etc, we've actually got a bit of a hold over Accies in recent derbies- unbeaten in 4 games stretching back over a year and a half. You could possibly look at that as them being due a result against us but I think we should be winning this. Accies are a pretty horrendous side and haven't won away all season. Even their recent victories came from a total fluke against Aberdeen and a last minute winner against a self destructing St Johnstone side. Not that we're much better mind but there's no excuses for not picking up 3 points here.

Kieran Kennedy, before and after his release by Motherwell.

Is the new conspiracy theory that Kennedy faked an injury for 8 months to engineer a move to a semi professional 6th tier English side?

It's Blyth time,bitches.

Someone at the game/got a stream, what formation are the h**s lining up with? Genuinely looks like one recognised defender.

On a serious note, I didn't realise we were only 3 points off Dundee and with a game in hand after last night. Apart from the Rangers victory and our utterly shambolic display against them, Dundee have been horrendous all year. Definitely catchable.