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Will go to the two home games and probably the derby - certainly not going to be travelling to Paisley at a time Ibrox will be emptying from an OF game. I doubt I'll bother with Falkirk either.

Being honest I like Clarkson as he always gives 100% and yesterday was no exception but I thought he was duff yesterday (touch, positioning, passing) so to see him getting votes here is a bit strange. Nobody really stood out for me but I don't think McLean did a lot wrong until we were really chasing at the end so would probably go for him.

I think if McGhee had had this season last year and last season this year nobody would have had any complaints at all. We have dropped too many points to the bottom teams - 4/9 v Falkirk and ST MIrren and 1/9 v Killie isn't good enough for top 6. Our good records v ICT, United and to an extent the Edinburgh teams is what has kept us in it and I think for the most part our play has merited better results than we have achieved. Even in that run before Christmas when we played Killie and Hamilton we were the better team but defensive rubbish and inability to finish cost us. The frustration about yesterday is that we have nothing to play for at all this season (I happen to think we would have had nothing to play for in top six either) and we lost without much of a fight or urgency. Should McGhee resign? No - he has done well with us on the whole and he is right that the run in November and December where we lost to three of the bottom six and Hibs without much about us at all which is where the season went tits up. He recovered them well from that and managed to build as good a run as I can remember for many years. The faults are as has been said an unwillingness to drop the 'key' men and while I think the five defenders we played yesterday are maybe all better players than Fitzpatrick none of them are better midfielders than him and he should be playing him (or Lasley) in the middle. You also never feel confident he will make a substitution that will positively impact the game and when other managers make these substitutions there is a failure to react. Also the start of a 2nd half has become an achilles heel (especially at home). Since the turn of the year United, Falkirk, Aberdeen and St Mirren have been outplayed in the first half and then had a good spell at the start of the second (usually related by the inability to react to a change).

Well they had to play someone and they are hardly close to anyone. One of the last games will be on telly - daresay they'll wait and see the lie of the land.

Looks like McGhee is doing the team talk for Motherwell and Hibs this weekend

I think you are thinking of Scottish Cup game with St Johnstone in the Malpas season. Because I remember shouting that I hate McCurry more than rabies when he turned it down in that game.

Except he was cunningly disguised as Iain Brines.

Happy with all that. My questions as a fan would be 1) When do Season Tickets go on sale? and 2) Will PATG prices rise next season to pay for this? (the recession must be biting Motherwell somewhere too and we all know we have to pay for the pitch in the summer).

Being honest I'm quite pleased with that appointment, we've had him twice this season and both times I thought he was good. He'll let the game flow and that should suit us.

Being honest I now think that no matter what half we and Hibs are in we are there to make up the numbers and therefore the job is there to be done so we get bigger crowds and more TV coverage and the SPL advance - if the club think they can make the difference back from that we should go for a reduction of some sort. Thing is with St Mirren there is a sense of deja vu.

End of the day Hibs and us have proven to be midtable teams this season, we fail to beat St Mirren who are 2nd bottom at home - we frankly don't deserve it. If we do that and they beat Rangers who are 2nd they do deserve it. Whatever happens from here no complaints. On the pen, never got a clear shot on the feed I had but looked softer than the one Rangers had on Saturday (which I thought was a dive at the time and having now seen on telly would think was a pen) as to me the difference was Mendes although not touched hard to my mind has no obligation to change his path to avoid a leg that has missed the ball whereas there he just tumbled and the leg was not in his path as far as I could see but my screen was poor so reserve the right to change my mind. Hamilton and Dargo were rank rotten at finishing tonight and it was clear that all that was good about St Mirren came from Murray and Dorman, keep they two quiet and we'll not lose. Get Hughes to impose himself on the game as well and we'll win. I'd play Fizzy to counter Murray.

Don't know about Scotland but Celtic are top, we're 2nd and the Mirren 3rd.

Will be there - first trip I've made to Glasgow this season.

The problem is not the neutrality of the BBC or the editor its the fact that the highlights of every Scottish game (and I include the OF in this) are far too short.

think we have every chance of making top six but more you think about Europe the more its not going to happen. If we make top six we need to go to United and Aberdeen. We rarely win at either. That coupled with the start due to us not winning they are now going to have on us if we are in top six we aren't good enough to make up the difference v Hearts and the OF. It is the run of losses that will cost us but we deserved to lose them - the games with Hibs, Falkirk, Killie and Aberdeen we should all have won and didn't - thats why they are the galling ones.

Should have won - no excuses. Both with St Mirren and Rangers to play. I think Hibs will get one maybe two points, I think we'll beat St Mirren here.

Not seen anything on here that I disagree with but: Reynolds turned again for the goal Sutton with a great chance sclaffs it McGhee totally unwilling to change it though it is clear McGarry is done McGhee totally unwilling to react to Calderwood's changes which allowed Aberdeen to play along. All in we played well though and were unlucky. The save by Langfield at the end was top notch. Thought the referee was weak again (like when we had him v Falkirk). More intent in picking up petty fouls and letting bad, cynical ones going unchecked. And then he did decide to send Considine off which was barely a foul. THough I doubt he actually had any impact in the outcome of the game to be fair.

St Mirren game you get the other shoulder.....

Rangers should beat us both. St Mirren is tougher to call as we at home they away and both of us tend to struggle against them. I can see us getting three points and Hibs only one or maybe two. Hibs win next week and we have to chase goals v St Mirren and I'll be concerned.

Like against United I suspect our slightly greater need might spur us on. Klimpl will be a huge miss mind. Think Fizzy must play, the other three midfielders Hughes, O'Brien and Lasley for me. Would play Quinn at RB, Hammell at LB and Craigan and Reynolds in the middle. Up front would be inclined to go DC and Sheridan.

It is me. Think this is the third or fourth time its been used. I have asked 'Flow for royalties but was rejected. Ho hum.

When we beat Celtic 1-0 last season. He sent off Bob (rightly).

The second one would never happen as you always play one of the OF twice at home before the split and the other one twice away. Granted its not perfect but I think 12 is the right size for our league and I think the best way of getting a managable number of fixtures is the split.

I like the split as it means that all the teams who are competing for something at the end of the season will be playing against each other. It was a great end last season when we knew that Dundee Utd and Hibs could feasibly lose to someone good and at the bottom everyone has a chance of winning as they are playing someone mediocre at best. Unfortunately this season the natural split in the league is 7/5 and whoever comes 7th is going to have a wretched boring end to the season - hard lines to whoever it is but the goalposts were set years ago and if you fail to make it you can only blame yourself.

I don't believe extending the size of the league is the answer. To me that is going to create a middle order in the top division who will plod on with no chance of going down and limited opportunties of Europe. In England there is enough strength and depth to cope with it as can be seen at the moment everyone is playing for Europe or survival and its only in the enxt two or three weeks that some teams will be winding down to a nothing end of the season - as soon as we start bringing teams like QoS or whatever into the SPL then this season that would mean Killie, Hamilton, St Mirren and co would already be playing for nothing. That can only see attendances dropping in my view.