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Dom was there he's bleached his hair. Bowman and Clay present in the video, Blyth I couldn't see either.

From what I've heard there's a good chance of Craig Tanner this week.

Could be a case of it's a done deal. But we can't announce it until the websites back up. Strange but it's Motherwell it wouldn't surprise me.

I honestly think we'll get no in's or out's. Just a statement soon involving Marvin knuckling down and getting on with it until January. Edit - lol or not then.

I think the big problem today was for the first half our midfield was invisible for long periods of time. With a lack of creativity at times this left McDonald very isolated. This is going to go against a lot of people's opinions but I think there's player in Craig Clay. A few times he's looked for the ball and he's been ignored. The few times he got the ball into feet led to the few chances we created in the first half. I think once he finds his feet and gets more involved he'll be the guy who'll be the central playmaker, with Cadden as the box to box mid and Carl McHugh sitting as the Ball winner. I think Lasley gets phased out of the team this season. As for his MOTM award today, I just don't get the thinking behind that. As for Samson, it's a shame he made the mistake, but he seems like someone who struggles under pressure, I think we'll see Brill in goal at one point, a very good keeper to have on the bench.

Cheers folks enjoyed it. Thought I'd made a royal arse of the QF's onwards.

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Ripley Kennedy Hall McManus Chalmers Cadden McDonald Pearson Johnson Moult Ainsworth.

Pete O'Rourke ‏@SportsPeteO 7m7 minutes ago Plymouth face competition from Bristol Rovers and Motherwell for loan star Jamille Matt. #pafc #brfc #motherwell Source - Formerly of Sky Sports I believe. Matt is a striker on loan at Plymouth from Fleetwood.

It's a combination of a lot of things. Being "Jobs for the boi's FC" doesn't help either. If you are going to keep senior players in the team to help young players, they have to be far better than the rest in their prime so they still have some quality when their legs go. Unfortunately most of our senior pro's were bang average in their prime. Lasley was an average SPL player 5 years ago, now he's one of those pro's who should be playing at a lesser level.

I think we'll get 2 signings in on deadline day, when clubs know who's going to be their deadwood. All about being patient. Right player at the right time.

Thought we badly missed Josh Law going forward today. Also Johnson fell out the game, when they started doubling up on him, this is when we should have looked at a plan B. Personally thought Lasley was poor, but people see games differently I guess. Badly need a central midfielder who can pass a ball, so we have a 2nd attacking outlet instead of down the wings everytime.

As previously mentioned rumours seem to be he is Preston bound. So that'll be a 2nd United youngster who's been out on loan, impressed and with 6 months left on his deal been moved on. The other being Ben Pearson who had a good loan spell at Barnsley and got shipped out for 100k yesterday, also to Preston. Be interesting if we're after any other United youngster to replace him.

Just hope this isn't another case of "jobs for the boys"

Grimshaw then Law for me.

Biggest concern for me is the lack of player intelligence. The amount of times they'd make a pass and just stood there and not think to make a move to give another option. Then sometimes when they do make that pass, they panic and its the wrong pass, thus resulting in a broken down attack. The lack of concentration is a worry as well as they lose focus too often and miscontrol the ball or just slice it out of play. Maybe its just the level the Scottish game is at at the moment, decent talents just lacking the mentality. I'd say Johnson and Chalmers are probably the worst for this, I'd say Moult is one of our more intelligent players, I just don't think some of the team are on his wavelength, as he'll always make a few runs a game which go completely unnoticed, which could have possibly been found had we had a creative type midfielder which we don't. Which I think kills us at times, because teams know every time It's going to come down the wings. Seemed a lack of leadership today as well. Also think Pearson's booking for dissent didn't help as it meant he couldn't be his usual combative self.

One of the best things Motherwell have done recently is their youtube channel. Highlights are always up at night and its usually a good 7-10 minutes of the game. Highlights of the all the U20 games is great as well, as it gives you a chance to see how the next generation are developing.

One thing we missed massively yesterday was that playmaker in the middle of the park to ease the transition from defence to attack. Like the Stephen Hughes type from his last reign. When Louis Laing's the one bombing forward trying to thread through passes to your attackers you're going to have a problem. So it might be something in the system that probably won't be rectified until January. So could be a frustrating 2-3 months unless some players adjust.

4-0 Celtic. Not being negative. McGhee will have had 2 sessions with this team, so not a lot of time to get his idea's across. Also I feel Celtic's midfield will have a field day against our ageing midfield. Will judge McGhee from Kilmarnock onwards.

Simo down to 2/1 with McBookie and 6/4 with Skybet.

Can see it being someone completely left field like Neil Redfearn or something. He ticks most of the boxes our board looks at in a manager.

Normally I'd say manager with English contacts, but after Baraclough, I'm not so sure.

At this point I can see McDonald playing even deeper in central midfield.

Moult's off the ball movement in the 2nd half was good, had 3 very good runs which weren't even looked at by our players. Johnson also had a good one, but Laing just played it short. I think Moult will come good, I'd like to see him and Fletcher up top together. What concern's me is lack of creativity in the middle and the lack of intelligence at times in terms of playing the correct pass and even tracking the correct man is worrying.

The english boy looked ok, decent and composed at the back. The number 3 seemed quiet in first half but did have some nice touches, don't think he's a centre half though. Watt and MacLean looked decent, the latter probably should have scored at the end. Ainsworth skint his man a few times, but final ball wasn't quite there.