MJC

Yes the name is amusing in the Crawford Baptie mould…

Oliver, Olly, Ollie. Fair enough lol. I know nothing about him but hopefully he can make a difference.

We’ve signed Olly Crankshaw on loan from Stockport according to Twitter. He’s a winger. For some reason I find his name quite amusing, though hopefully he can make a serious contribution for us. Welcome to Fir Park.

Falconer was a superb signing and he almost single handedly saved us from relegation that year. We actually paid a transfer fee to Celtic to get him, changed times. In his debut he missed a penalty against Kilmarnock and we looked doomed then as we were in a run of about 7 straight games without scoring. But he came good.

Re: van Veen, he is our best forward player by some distance. Not that that would be difficult but he is probably as good a ‘No.9’ as we could hope to have given our budget. The problem is he is surrounded by too many players who don’t/can’t support him properly. If he played in a Motherwell side with Ainsworth, Ojamaa, Humphrey or Turnbull then he would be scoring alot more and we would struggle to keep hold of him, in my opinion. He was labelled as ‘the budget Bergkamp’ when he signed. Dennis Bergkamp himself would probably struggle in our forward line right now.

Another week, another ‘must win game’. We won’t win this one either. 1-1

He looks like a beaten man from that interview. On a ‘plus’ note Dundee Utd are 0-2 down so they wouldn’t go above us tonight as long as that stays the same.

This team doesn’t have it in them to go on a winning or even just unbeaten run of three/four or so matches. We will get draws here and there and we may even managed to win sometime but we will lose more than we win because we are shite. What is even more worrying imo is that the heads look as though they are starting to drop and frustration is ramping up by the week. The longer we go without a win after all the points we have chucked away of late then the confidence in tue dressing room will evaporate very quickly.

I think we’ll avoid straight relegation as I too think we will finish about Ross County but we’ll be in a battle with Killie to avoid the playoffs. Killie who we haven’t beaten yet this season and have an experienced manager in McInnes. It’s looking grim.

One win in eleven and only one home league win all season. That is unacceptable I’m afraid.

We’d be lucky to finish top six in the Championship with this shower of shite squad. Arbroath must fancy their chances of beating us in a couple of weeks time.

And there you go. 1-3

We’ve got the momentum now, which usually doesn’t end well for us.

Shambolic yet again. Another bad, bad day at home.

We learn absolutely nothing from one week to the next. The same basic errors leading to goals all the time.

Ffs

Unchanged starting lineup by the looks of it. Max Johnston and Blaney on the bench.

That’s the fine margins that make the difference when you’re in a relegation battle. Going by our form so far this season it is unlikely, but it’s do-able and it’s something that we really need to happen.

Livingston 1-0 up at Ross County. Good news for us.

That penalty miss against Rangers still annoys me 👊

We’re definitely in trouble but we’re certainly not “favourites for the drop”. The next set of results may or may not change that but it’s very much in our hands just now and with two very winnable home games back to back then we can make things a lot easier for ourselves by winning both. Obviously that’s easier said than done given the team we have but we have a great chance of easing some of the pressure.

Exactly, it will be very difficult for us to attract players in this window, it always is in January but with a rookie manager? Even more difficult. That is why Hammell needs help from those above him at the club, both in scouting and financially. If that means pushing the boat out further than the club’s comfort zone* then I’m all for it if it is the difference between relegation and survival this season. *And by that I am not suggesting that we spend £1M + or anywhere near it before any of the “punching waaaaaaay above our weight” brigade drench their knickers.

Without doubt, I’ve long said that our recruitment is absolutely diabolical and needs to improve drastically. However signings are attributed to the manager and those two signings reflect poorly on Stevie Hammell.

Signing two injury prone players on loan and both of them end up having their loans cut short due to, surprise surprise, injuries and making little impact certainly doesn’t look for Hammell, rookie manager or not. He absolutely has to get any signings he makes this month absolutely spot on, which is a tall order.

I don’t want a 6-6 and a “great spectacle for the neutral” and an “entertaining match”. I would take an absolutely awful game as long as we win. 1-0 with a KvV penalty or an own goal will do me.