Ya Bezzer!

He was rubbish.

I didn't get a good view of the 2nd goal and apparently he should have done better there but I went for Ben Heneghan. But he was probably the only player in our team that looked competitive in the personal battles and one to ones. Ainsworth came on a did reasonable well also but he was only on for 45 minutes.

All away from home. At home they have beaten Inverness 5-1, Hamilton 3-1, Dundee 2-0 and us 3-0.

Yeah but we'll have played Hearts and Celtic twice in those 8. The Top 4 teams this season are a different level from the rest, table doesn't lie and your kidding yourself if you think different. Our important results will be against the other sides in 'the pack'. We've lost 2 out of 9 against those teams.

Hearts dominated from first to last. They were just bigger, faster, stronger, better all over the pitch. We were lucky to get into half time just 0-1 down. Losing the goal 4 minutes into the 2nd ended as a contest, not that it was much of a contest any way. Lost all the individual battles all day. Hearts are a different level from us right now.

As others have said Hearts form is not great right now and they have conceded 10 goals in the last 4 matches. Jack Hamilton didn't look too clever to me for a couple of the goals against Accies. You shouldn't be losing goals at your front post and he also came out and did some juggling 15 yards out that ended up being cleared off the line. It should be noted though that only Celtic, with a late goal, have beaten Hearts at Tynecastle in the league, and I always think teams are more dangerous when they have goals all over the park which Hearts have, especially in Walker and Paterson.

Paterson for me isn't even a right back. He started off as a striker and I think he should be playing much further up the field.

Bardsley and Hutton have ruled themselves out of playing for Scotland again as far as I know. Tait has done well in my opinion although I wouldn't be considering him for international level at this point.

No surprise to see you complaining about Lasley. If he saved a child from a house fire you'd say you were disappointed he didn't get the goldfish out too. Actually Lasley was excellent yesterday, especially in the first half when we dominated the game. He ran out of gas a bit, as a 37 year old is likely to do, but there was a reason McGhee keep him on and that's because we needed his experience and battling qualities when Partick had has pressed back for periods in the 2nd half. He proved yesterday he still has a lot to offer. Yesterday was probably our best defensive performance of the season. Samson had very little of a serious nature to do yesterday despite Partick having more or less half the possession.

Most of the team did well today, Moult, Cadden, Lasley and Tait especially, but it will be a long time before we see another player as good as McDonald in a Motherwell shirt. Very good goal today too.

Before the match we had 3 pages of moaning and doom mongering, after a match we could have scored 7 or 8 goals we get about one page worth of grudging approval but even then mainly due to the opponents being so poor. No wonder 95% of the Motherwell support doesn't post here.

The Drearies will have to wait until next week to complain relentlessly because this week we played well, scored a great goal and went Top 6. I gave my opinion of the first half earlier but in summary it was an excellent performance where we could easily scored 3, 4, 5 goals. Second half was a little bit strange, Partick threw everything at us to try and get back into the game and we defended deeper and as a result the game became very stretched, it was like the last 10 minutes of the 90 from 45 minutes in. We had a couple of good chances earlier in the second half and Tait and Cadden were both unlucky not to put the points in the bag. McDonald, who was absolutely immense today, should have been greedier rather than trying to pass to Cadden and he'd probably have scored as well. Otherwise though it was about seeing out the lead. Thought we defended well throughout and I think McMillan acquitted himself well again. Ferguson had a couple of hairy moments when he got turned but overall stood up to Azeez quit well in the physical battle.

Did you get a free feather boa as well?

Only half time but an excellent and convincing performance so far - could easily be 4 5 6 up. Partick have been a shambles at the back but we've defended well up till now and pressed the ball high up the park. Might be of interest to a few pre match doom merchants that Lasley has be excellent today and the team shape has worked well. Only half time though an other 45 minutes of hard work required.

Won't Ferguson play left back, McMillan move up and Cadden play on the right? Samson Tait Heneghan McManus Ferguson Cadden Clay Lasley McMillan Moult McDonald No wonder the traffic is down on the site, the resident Drearies out already making even looking at this site an utterly depressing experience. *** WE COULD GO TOP 6 TODAY **

According to Skybet Motherwell 2.90 Partick 2.40 Don't normally beat on us but I'm tempted.....

Laing wasn't worth a place in the team at a time when we are letting goals in left, right and centre. If that's not a failure I don't know what is. Truth is Heneghan, Kennedy and Hall all showed much more than Laing who was on the end of quite a few public humiliations. Therefore I say "See you later chump."

It's poor. It's not an "absolute disaster" when a win could put us Top 6. Get some perspective. As for 'performances that went before' we've beaten Ross County 4-1 and Accies 4-2, in our last 4 home matches. Cheer the fuck up.

Dom Thomas should have been getting an extended run in the team years ago, instead he's been left to wither on the vine. If you add up the 31 fragments of game time he's had it doesn't amount too much and he's not been exposed early enough or long enough to first team football. Does he have a future? I don't know but I'll say this. Probably the best young player we've developed in recent times was Jamie Murphy. Jamie Murphy took probably about three seasons to settle into first team football, in the beginning it wasn't even certain what his position would be - midfielder? winger? striker? What Jamie Murphy got though was a chance starting with sub appearances that gradually transitioned into starts over an extended period until a time when he became an automatic pick. However, we had to develop him into a player, he didn't hit the ground running, like say, Chris Cadden has. For me Dom Thomas has not been given that same opportunity to develop at first team level over an extended period. For a few years we seemed to completely lose focus on youth development. McGhee, who brought through the last batch of really good players (Reynolds, Hutchison, Murphy), seems to be doing something similar again. Unfortunately for Dom Thomas his crucial development years might have come a bit too early.

Jack McMillan has impressed me since he came in. He'll make mistakes of course but I think he looks a promising player. It was a bit unfair I felt to put the other two on at that stage in the game. Dundee were on the top of their game and throwing on two young players weakened us and put them in a difficult position. So I don't think it's really fair to judge either player on yesterday's performance but Dom Thomas was looking to get into the game, certainly didn't hide but I don't think he had one good touch in the match. Very frustrating day for him. MacLean was similar to the other matches in which I've seen him. He didn't really get involved in the play and it seemed to pass him by. But the main thing was that we completely lost our team shape with those two substitutions and until it went to 2-0 we were a bit of a shambles over all. At 2-0 Dundee probably took their foot off the gas a bit and we came more into it again but I felt it was a poor choice in substitutions. Lasley was perhaps not fit and had to be replaced but I felt although Ainsworth didn't have a good game he could have stayed on.

Outplayed and outfought after the thin margins had gone against us. If you were at the game yesterday you should know we were actually doing pretty well, playing decent football and looked like we were good for a least a point if not three. The fact that our goal was a cross is completely irrelevant. It should have been 1-0 Motherwell and if that had been the case the way the teams were playing it looked more likely we would have gone on and scored again. Players didn't go in the huff, we had several good chances just after that incident. What happened yesterday is the better team in the first half had a good goal disallowed and then conceded from an individual error right on half time. Those are game changers. Dundee should be 1-0 down they go in at half time 1-0 up. Their tails are up, ours are down. As for playing Hammell and Lasley being a disaster, it obviously wasn't as we were well on top in the game. Hammell obviously wasn't considered to be half fit or he wouldn't have played and with Lasley there was no one else to play with Lucas and McHugh out injured. In fact we were much worse when McGhee put the young lads on and took Lasley off, the team completely lost its shape.

As the league table shows there is very little between any of the teams operating in the same wage bracket. Right now we are as many points from the Top 6 as we are bottom place. We were well on top yesterday when Beaton didn't give that goal, if it had been given I'm sure we would have gone on and probably won the match. Games will be decided on very thin margins and yesterday one of those margins was outside our control.

Have a few Morton fan friends and they are raving about Forbes. He was also miles ahead of anyone in our team when they gubbed us last season. Although to be fair the midfield we put out that night was Thomas, Taylor, Leitch, Grimshaw.

Samson pulled off three or four good saves.

Today we could easily won today if we didn't have absolute whallopers as officials. We were much the better team in the first half and we lost a goal at the worst possible time right before HT. Second half wasn't good enough but most teams, not just us fold at 1-0. It's almost coached into players these days because of the emphasise put on getting the first goal.