wellsince75

Completely with you Weeyin. Losing games sucks, we all hate it, particularly when we have a run of bad games. Confidence goes down and all of a sudden our euro hopefuls are all a waste of space. SK brought stability and has talked for me complete sense , never sugar coating our issue and open to his own mistakes. We need to stop this merry go round of looking to offload managers every year or so. 2 months ago people were talking about the need to sign him for longer, now there's chatter of not making the grade. Need to look long term and beyond a few bad results.

Kelly had a poor game. Perhaps he should be dropped, that said most of yesterdays starting 11 could/should be dropped. At their best our players work hard , have great shape and win majority of 2nd balls, with Mika up front we have a glimmer of something exciting. At worst we perform as we have in last couple of games. Kelly, S'OD, Mugabi, Miller, Spittal, Slattery, Wilkinson could easily be dropped but we're fairly limited with who would replace them. I'd personally drop several akin to how wee Tommy approached poor performances back in the day. For Saturday I'd start Butcher, McGinn , Casey, Paton. Mika coming on for part of the 2nd half. Other than that it's all up for debate.

Above all else I want to see a reaction to last nights performance. Takes me back to games under McLean, there were plenty of very poor performances but never 2 in a row. The team would get a roasting and come out fighting. Want to see that type of reaction on Saturday. My base expectation is we come out as a well drilled team and do the basics well, eg fight and win the 2nd ball. A few players need to be dropped as they need a kick up the backside. Plenty could be dropped , 6-7 who started last night could well drop out of contention , including our captain.

Casey, Spencer, Paton, Bireth all very good signings. Davor - no idea but would like to see him given a run of games. The rest have been poor signings but that's par for the course. As long as we move people on asap then I'll accept a mixed bag.

Sadly the steady decline of performance continues and all confidence the team had has eroded . at our best we’re a well organised crew , who are well drilled and win our fair share of 2nd balls . Sadly we’re well off that at the moment . need to get back to basics , become hard to beat. can see us pivot to a 4-4-2 once Mika is fit enough to play a full game . for sat it will be 5-4-1 with Bair up front.

Wilkinson sets a very low bar for any striker to follow . Bair works hard but as they said on commentary he hasn’t got a strikers instinct and you can’t really coach Mika is the one bright spark up front

Men against boys stuff tonight . Back to drawing board please . Back to having shape and winning 2nd balls This is a shit show

65 mins - have we even had a shot on goal ? I can’t recall any . the lack of width (amongst many other issues ) doesn’t help us . Neither Spencer or SOD give the width we need

Must say it’s always a pleasure to listen to Craggs. he sees the issues and calls out the simple things we should be doing

Hoping for game abandoned . who cares if VAR is broken - just crack on . We do t need var to show how shite we’re playing

Ha - there’s on only ref though we have 5-6 who’ve been dreadful I’d put butcher on for 2nd half - any position will do

What a complete joke of a half . calamity in defence , powderpuff midfield and offer nothing in attack expect to see subs at half time . this is dross

Agree with this assessment . All the good energy , chasing, moving the ball well has gone out the window . SK being found out a little

Shocking defending - don’t agree that SOD was the issue . we have 3 central defenders and not one them was anywhere close . bring back butcher asap equally we’ve offered very little moving forward . Spittal , slattery and Wilkinson need to offer something , other than good options to be subbed

Butcher must be close to being ready . big bevis gives me the fear .

I'm a fan of our 4 man midfield - the 3 man midfield was too lightweight. 3 points please Motherwell, don't really care how we get them but 3 points are needed to inject a bit of confidence.

I don't believe there to be significant one (outside the top 4). A fit Moult would do just fine in the SPL. For the record if faced with do I sign Moult (again) or Obika (again) who's also been injured for the last xx years I would have signed Moult in a heartbeat.

If Grim and Bleak can play left back or centre forward we should sign them.

I agree with the comments that Bair & Shaw aren't good enough.Also the comments that better players should play in their natural position eg Spencer. With our current crop of fit players I'm less than convinced that the 5-3-2 works. Defensively Having Butcher, Casey, McGinn and Spencer all make sense. Not sold on S'OD as he's not pushing forward enough. Midfield Paton, Miller, Spittall & Slattery generally does work - with 2 pushing forward and 2 holding. Upfront Mika if fit works- and that's your lot. So in conclusion any formation that has 3 in midfield with our current crop of players isn't a great idea. In essence the 5-4-1 or even 4-4-2 type formation suits our current team.

Agree about Wilkinson - he's slow and doesn't have a great first touch, but more likely than Bair, Shaw to get goals.

Shaw looks devoid of all confidence . Suspect he’s more talented than we’ve witnessed . be interesting to see what Wilkinson and Mika can do together - equally I’m ok with one up front as long as it’s Mika - likes of spittal and slattery pushing up would give decent assistance

Paton and spencer both performed well . without Mika we wouldn’t have gotten a point - he nudges it for me

Assessment There's been a steady decline in performance over the last 5 games. Confidence has ebbed away and several players who were at the top of their form have gone off the boil. A few weeks ago Mubagi , Spittal , Slattery, Bair offered a lot more than they did today. There's 2 - 3 players who are simply never going to be good enough and one of them has played 100 games for us ! On the positives I look around at other teams and see a similar lack of quality . Adding Butcher, Miller, Mika to that team today will improve us and expect be good enough against most teams.

The ridiculously frustrating thing is we knew that we'd be dire until we brought Mika on. The team performance was poor - Spencer for first 60 mins was the only outlet for moving forward. Mika made a huge difference. There's a few players who simply shouldn't be back in the first team. Hopefully with Mika + Butcher coming back we can add a bit of quality that's needed.

Sadly we’re regressing on a weekly basis as an offensive unit . have we had a shot on target yet ?