wellsince75

good time to replace Woolery with VanVeen

power puff finish - you'd expect him to have a bit if power.

delighted to get a goal from a short corner but FFS mix it up a bit

Would like to see VV on and take off either Justin or Woolery. Also get back to what worked in the first 20 mins with Carrol/Grimmy pushing further up the park,

for me the basics are missing - we allow poor teams to have c60% possession -end up sitting with 5 men in defence without ever getting tight. For their goal - we didn't get close to Forrest.

good first 20 mins when we kept to the 3-4-3. Seem to very quickly drop to a 5-2-3 and getting over run in midfield and sitting very deep. Inviting Livy to come at us.

very soft goal - forrest it causing all the danger and no one tight to him. Thought Mugabi got sold a very easy dummy there.

neither have been missed today. Team are all playing well.

good to see Carrol and Grimmie have been pushed into midfield. We are much stronger in midfield than of late.

Even worse it can become a 5-2-3 - which happened in the cup game It's essential that we push Grimmie and Carrol forward enough and that we keep Watt central or just behind the front 2. In short make it work in midfield

suspect he's on his way out. I liked Kelly's update the other day but wondered why it was him and not S'OD - it was an updated you'd expect from a captain.

selection puzzles me most weeks - looks like only 2 midfielders unless we're playing Grimmie in right midfield. Personally not seen enough from either Woolery or Amaluzor to convince me to play them ahead of VV or Shields. Hopefully they start shining today.

We need victories to build confidence - the sooner we get a win on the board the better - particularly against teams like Livi. today is great opportunity for get max points.

I was thinking the same thing. £12 to watch on a stream is plenty. Appreciate they want encourage punters into the games but living in Yorkshire makes it difficult.

Had a scour on the net and can't find anything back to the 90s. Early 2000's we averaged 7500 fans (2005 season). We've definitely dropped off since but perhaps 10k per week is remembering through claret coated lenses. Either way I'd love to see FP back rocking and no better time than now. (well next week)

We really need the points. I'd be tempted to put in a 4 man midfield - O'Hara being one of them and go grind out an ugly win.

I get that - Edinburgh has always been bigger than Motherwell. It's more a comparison how we've fallen in crowd size. Hibs/Motherwell for a long period of time had very similar crowd size, over the last 20 years they've maintained v's we've halved in crowd size. I don't know how they've managed to maintain v's why we declined - but it does frustrate. Ideally I'd like to see us improve and get stronger as a club - v's the survive another year and aim for 9-6th spot.

My frustration was not too many years ago we had very similar crowds - Hibs have maintained and added more punters. We have reduced by more than 50%.

frustrates me that a team like Hibs who not so long ago were relegated are able to snap up some of our previous decent players. Shows the impact of being able to maintain 10k crowds each week.

think I preferred the fake news. On a serious note at least we're looking at midfielders - what happened to the boy from Leeds - that was more promising.

important to get 3 points on the board. Don't really care how - but we need a few points in the bag in these easier early games.

agree with all of this. Which begs the question - what happens at training to improve this turgid crap

Personal view - Slattery looks to be a decent player - he can pass - which is something the rest of our midfield struggle to do. Ojala - you're right, purely on reputation. I didn't see him yesterday so difficult to say for sure.

I agree with this - we could easily have switched to a 3-5-2 yesterday or god forbid go to a 4-4-2. Our persistence to play the same system and have the same issues doesn't enhance my confidence we know what we're doing. Also to have dropped Watt who was the one bright spot from the previous game was a joke. (albeit I want to see him played deeper)

Yorky - forgot about Shields tbh - completely agree - needs time and see what he can do. He's on paper the right kind of signing and I hope it works well. I've no beef with any of the new players. As long as we aim for quality and obvious first team picks.