C&A not the shop

In fairness to McIvor he's been out for a long time and its a hard game to come back in to after not kicking a ball in anger for so long. I'm not saying he's going to kick on but its unfair to write him off after today.

Good point that. Mugabe was excellent, you can see the idea with standing off the full backs as Gallacher and Mugabe won everything, problem came when it wasn't just our 2 centre backs against their strikers, with a delivery from a more central area.

I suppose he wants pace as part of the front three, Hastie isn't available and Lawless is just in the door. Need some big performances today, let's see what happens.

Big difference between this season and last season is there isn't a deal with a new broadcaster (Sky) starting next season. Last year there was a major concern that if the season didn't kick off we'd lose out on the sky deal. That's not a threat this year so the league has more flexibility and can pause for 1 or 2 months while things improve. Its not ideal by a long way but there's options this year that weren't available last year.

I'm saying Rooney is a player of pedigree and experience, but still folk aren't happy. Played a decent number of championship games, and loads of SPL experience. At 32 he shouldn't have fallen off a cliff from where he was 2 years ago and that was doing a good job for Aberdeen. Much like Lawless, he's not exciting but he's proven he can do the business in this league.

I thought we were desperate for a player that scored goals? We needed players with pedigree and experience? If we can get him on a 6 month or 18 month contract then I'd say its good business

If we don't lose any one I'd say a centre back to partner Gallacher would be the priority. Any word on when Donnelly is due back? I'm looking at him to add some bite in midfield. If he's back soon, he can go in the middle and put O'Hara in with Gallacher.

Well at least we've heard of him. He did really well at Livi and showed more than what I thought he was capable of based in his time here. We're lacking wide options if we're going to play with wingers so if that's an option Alexander wants then it makes sense.

Not if we count Weeyin talking about Lafferty as a rumour.

I like to toy with the idea of a current and former players team, but not based on what they've done in the past but on what they would do on the coming Saturday. So you'd pick an 11 from anyone thats ever played a game for motherwell but that 11 is playing this Saturday in their current state. So no point having McFadden, McAllister etc. Might be worth a thread on its own or just a distraction in here. So playing a 3-5-2 Randolph Kipre, Hutchinson, Gallacher O'Donnell Turnbull OHara Campbell Johnson Jutkiewicz Blackman I'm really struggling for another option in midfield hence the OHara pick....

Relying on footballers to follow the rules is surely the big issue there. More games pushed back to the tail end of the season, I've no idea when we'll get spaces to fit in the Killie and St Mirren games if the appeal succeeds. Id take an end to the season now on points per game, that should keep us up....

Every pandemic has a silver lining.

Typical the time we get a fun away draw we can't get fans in.

This is giving me the fear of being a repeat of the Dundee United game. Also Tony Watt reminds me of Tommy Coyne if Tommy Coyne wasn't a fantastic finisher.

I'm clearly trying to read too much in to them.

I'm thinking Wright but that's from trying to decipher posts from On The Fringes. And I'm not good at it.

If that's a cryptic clue to who's getting the job then I'm not clever enough to work it out.

I think John Hughes is going to be a big part in us avoiding relegation.

I like the paradox amongst some on here that we shouldn't take punts on English lower league players and should bring in players with established pedigrees but with managers the opposite applies.

I'd assume the source close to Gallacher is his agent, and he's just sounding out other clubs/trying to get things moving by citing this clause. If his agent can get him a move to Celtic off the back of his performances this season then he deserves every penny of that commission.

I really don't think St Johnstone pay more than us. If rumours are to be believed we beat them to Gallacher and Polworth, I don't think it was the weather that made the difference...

See Hearts are willing to let Zlamal go, could be an option to get us through Carson injury. Not quite getting Gillespie back but I could see it happening.

After Saturday I really can't see how you can offer Lasley the job. I'm a fan of his and would love to see him as a successful Motherwell manager but I don't see how anyone can make a case this is the right time. Of the other three id be happy enough with any of them. Graysons recent work a lot less accomplished than his early work but no one could have been expected to do anything with Sunderland at that point. Whoever it is will have to wheel and deal, good luck to them. Can only hope a lot of clubs are in worse financial positions than us so there's more talent than usual available at our budget for January.

If we call the league on points per game now and only 12th goes down like last season we can stay up. It's only fair after what happened last year. Precedent has been set.

In balance we have gave season ticket holders the best deal of any club through the pandemic. Refunds offered for last seasons cancellations, streaming matches and this season offering free entry next season to any game they couldn't attend (looking like as far as the split at least). We couldn't afford to do that if we were spending big money on wages or hadn't received the transfer income we did.