MJC

I don’t think his bottle crashed today, it just didn’t happen for him. Unfortunately he’s not a 20+ goal a season striker and he often needs at least three scoring chances before he takes one. As someone further up the thread said, if he was more clinical then chances are he would be playing at a higher level than us.

We are yes, slowly but surely. At least you can see that the manager has some kind of plan as opposed to Graham Alexander being happy to basically shitfest through games and hope we scrape points together.

My pick as well. Solid and comfortable throughout.

Obviously very frustrating not to have won that game given our overall dominance and the chances we created but there are lots of positives to take from that. Firstly, we didn’t get beat which you felt was a possibility having seen that ‘movie’ many times before. And our forward line apart we played really well today, indeed a lot better than we did a fortnight ago against Livingston or last week at Rugby Park. Young Tierney put in an excellent shift though you can see he has still got a bit to go in terms of his physicality at this level, but that will come. Spittal and Goss put in good performances as well and our backline were comfortable throughout, something we haven’t been able to say in a long while. Up front van Veen just had a bad day, it happens. He is still our main goal threat and on another day he takes at least one of his chances today. The penalty was poor, a good height for the keeper and he looked as though he tried too hard to burst the net with his effort that hit the bar. As for Efford, he just won’t do I’m afraid. All in all a good performance but hugely annoying not have won especially with a tough run of fixtures coming up.

Totally toothless up front, that is our downfall today. Otherwise it’s been a pretty decent performance.

Efford’s crossing is embarrassing.

Well that first half was easily our best performance in a long time. By far the better side and creating chances. We really should be 3-0 up. However we’re not and it’s hugely frustrating to still be level at this stage. One off the line, a missed penalty and hit the bar does give you that nagging doubt that it’s going to be one of these days. Hopefully we start the second half with the same intensity and get that goal we deserve.

Not going to be our day you feel.

Liam Kelly wearing what would be a beautiful Motherwell FC home kit in goals today.

Why are we wearing our away kit at home ffs? As much as I dislike this years home kit we should be wearing that in our home matches.

Certainly was. Great to see a player joining with a big smile on his face. And from that video it appears he will be wearing No.21 this season.

Fair enough it’s a risk but to describe it as a ‘disaster’? Bit of a stretch imo.

Seriously? I get that he is injury prone but I don’t see how anyone can can describe this as a disaster, on paper or otherwise.

It’s a gamble but it’s definitely a gamble worth taking. We badly needed another striker and we know that Moult is a proven goalscorer at our level. This is a good piece of business.

What squad number is he likely to get? I think that 12, 14, 21 are available although he might follow Chris Long’s lead from two years ago and take 99.

Delighted to have him back. Welcome home Louis Moult

I am just throwing out a kneejerk reaction to journo talk. But that said it just seems a fair bit of a pullava to try and sign a 30 y/o injury prone striker on a loan deal.

“Move up in the air” What a shambles.

The Moult talk seems to be rumours at the moment, or even wishful thinking. It’s similar to when McFadden first returned in 2013. Saying that knowing us we’re waiting to 1pm to announce that Faddy has sensationally agreed to come out of retirement and sign a deal with us until the end of the season with BBC Sportscene paying half of his wages.

I take it Snodgrass hasn’t signed on anywhere else? I said the other week the link with us appeared to be his agent trying to drum up interest.

We’re not signing him, if it was going to happen then it would have happened two weeks ago.

Phil O’Donnell took about six months to get his fitness back up to the required level. He made his second debut in January 2004 but it wasn’t until the following season that he actually started making a proper impact on the team. I personally would take the gamble on Moult right now if it was atall possible, but I think we’d need to be patient with him as we were with PO’D.

He would be on a hiding to nothing at either of the Edinburgh clubs, especially with his injury record. The same goes for Aberdeen should they come in for him. He’s 31 now, has hardly played in the last two years and is more than likely going to take time to hit the ground running wherever he goes. As I type, David Devine has joined Alloa on a season long loan.

He never looked fit, especially from January onwards. He was constantly outpaced and just looked out of his depth. No bad feelings towards him, we move on and so does he.

Agreed but results like StJ at home and Kilmarnock are going to happen. Both of those games exposed our weaknesses at both ends of the park and that is what cost us in both but at the same time there was cause for optimism in both games.