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He’s defended well but had little chance to break forward . Poor ball retention by others doesn’t give him much scope to push forward

Midfield need to do more . As soon as any of them get the ball the first instinct is simply boot it up the park . Paton , slattery , goss and spittall all need to do better defence have all played well

men against boys . No pun inteded

When we bring in signings from other SPL clubs they often end up getting a lot more critique. Many fans never warmed to Spittal, S'OD, O'Hara, even mistake mistake jumped on. Personally believe we'd be in a worse position without Spittal. He's chipped in with several goals and assists.

Favourite ever 'Well win in Glasgow against Celtic. The class of '91.

I think the opposite would happen. We're already seen as bit of a joke outside Scotland. The OF drive a lot of positive attention , hence they have so much of the Vito rights in what happens. European positions would reduce in numbers and our players wouldn't go to any grounds bigger than c10k. At least playing the OF gives real time experience of playing much bigger clubs. The Scottish game has been a slow dying death for decades. OF leaving would be a final nail , suspect many clubs would go into oblivion. That's my cheerful view of it all

It certainly feels like a formation issue but equally I don't see McKinstry as winger. He's a bit like Tierney in as much as he's a good forward player who can come through the middle and cause problems. Therefore the role that Spittal has been occupying seems the most obvious role. Arguably McKinstry and any others could be a partner for KVV , Mandron doesn't look to be a long term answer.

To be fair agreed. -until it’s mathematically impossible it’s still at the back of my mind .

It would take incredible twists of fate for us to end up back in the poop. last 7-8 games saved our season

For clubs of our size and stature today pretty much typifies why we’re at the level we are . been on a run of form , picked up lots of points through being hungry and positive edge . it always proves impossible to maintain. Possibly down to the lack of quality and how long average players can keep peaking . Like others said no need to panic but it is a shame . things are pretty tasty for the bottom three . Glad we have a gap and really want to get another 3 pts on the board asap to ensure we don’t get sucked into it .

a draw would be a decent result, the longer we continue picking up points the better.

Neilson has a personality ? You're bang on form as always with the jokes @grizzlyg

Football is bonkers. Nielson has been an outstanding manager over a sustained period of time. Whether they finished 3rd of 4th - who cares. They should be happy with that. In terms of Robinson , he's found his level at St.Mirren and suspect like at Motherwell he'll struggle next season. In terms of Kettlewell - he's in a honeymoon period. Can't imagine Hearts would entertain it at this stage. I suspect hearts will go for a much bigger name and quite frankly they'll have to if they want someone better than Nielson.

Replacing KVV would be difficult. A million quid would soften the blow but we’d be a far worse off without him . None of the current crop of gizillion attackers on our books are anywhere near the threat that KVV offers

Very good result today. Delighted with the positive momentum and winning habit that SK has created with the team. Much stronger defensively and scoring plenty of goals. League is very tight at the bottom and relieved that we have created a fair amount of distance between ourselves and others.

When SK outlined the roles he took care of at Ross County - it was incredible he had any team to coach the first team. He seems comfortable pulling the strings rather than having his string pulled. Re Dawes I'm supportive of having a head of recruitment/talent. What I didn't like is it came across that he doesn't base himself at the club and therefore is more of a scout. If' he's not based at the club regularly ,watching both existing squad players its a challenge to. understand how he'd know what he's seeing elsewhere is better than what we have.

can only assume it's their equally horrid supporters. Suspect it's much more about psychology and habit. Get used to winning (or losing) in certain locations or against certain teams and you start believing in it. Hence good run/poor run of form. Confidence and belief have a lot to do with it. In addition small margins split teams, the overall quality/difference of majority of teams is minimal outside the old firm.

nice to see some players coming back from injury. Suspect we'll see a bit of chopping and changing over the coming weeks to figure out who should stay and who should move on.

That's a really good point . It's relative buttons to many of the clubs down south with their financial reach. Still hope the bubble bursts but that's 2+ decades now.

Thanks for clarifying @Onthefringes. Apologies for the misunderstanding. You make a solid point, all players need to look after themselves first and foremost. Nothing wrong with that. re Max Johnstone suspect he picked Motherwell due to our reputation of giving players the opportunity rather than a deep desire to one day play for the mighty well. He's also been wise enough to keep his options open to get a bigger move now he's in the spotlight. He may be the next big thing but too early to say. The system isn't geared up to clubs being able to hold on to the talent that they develop but I do believe it's good for us to continue to help develop and grow talent. The ugly sisters won't and therefore we have a solid catchment area to help young talent develop. Some we'll win financially with, many we wont but if we can help local youngsters better themselves that's a good thing to be associated with and for our broader social impact of wellbeing.

apologies if I'm taking this out of context. After injury DT resigned for us on a 2.5 year contract which took him back to the same position as when Celtic first agreed to sign him. He could easily have not done this , which ultimately earned us our highest ever transfer. Appreciate all players need to look out for themselves hence Max Jonhstone who's only played at handful of games is causing a stir. DT did us a turn, a very decent guy who ensured the club he followed and played for over his early years were well looked after. Not too many would or have done this.

I personally think we played our cards well with max but the system doesn’t allow us to retain or really get much of a fee By the age of 17/18 we had come through the youth system and we loaned him out twice to give him the 1st team experience he needed to get into the first team. Have since played him in the first team bigger and better teams are interested - nice while it lasted and would have been nicer to last for longer . I genuinely believe we do as well as we can in these situations . sounds like dean may resign - that would be good for us

Theres an offer on the table , that said reports are several offers on several tables. Be difficult to retain him albeit can be argued that getting game time is the best possible outcome for him at this stage of his career.

agree - onwards and upwards please. We have some positive momentum and to be fair would love to see us peg Livi back. Id like to think we're a better team than them.

fair to say SH lost his way and could have left earlier. The change of formation has made a difference, it was clear we needed to protect the defence and also have more in midfield - likes of Goss needs more around him. Equally I think Cassey, Butcher, Furlong have all added value. So a mix of some very decent pro's + SK's tactical + new approach has really got us out the preverbial. Still got a lot of players who need to be offloaded, hopefully that will happen at the end of the season.