Ya Bezzer!

Well he's listed as wearing 4 in the official league records and there is no mention of squad numbers until the season after McMillan left, ie, 2001/02. For the record his squad number is 16 for 2001/02.

Decent enough away point. A win next week and its not a bad start to the season.

Would bite your hand off for a point right now. [Edit] As I say that Ross County go down to 10 men. [Edit 2] Iain Vigurs might just have fucked my coupon.

MOULTY!!!!

Two injuries.... Moult coming on though so that's something.

Looking back at the line ups I don't think the numbers are any guide. In McMillan's last season Hammell mostly wore the number 4 shirt. Looks like McMillan was mainly playing midfield latterly as the back four then would have been - Corrigan, Kemble, Strong, Hammell - with Ouefio filling in at right back or centre back. Hammell was more or less a fixture by that stage, played in 34 out of 38 matches. Typical XI would have been - Goram - Corrigan, Kemble, Strong, Hammell - Brannan, Leitch, McMillan - Spencer, McCulloch, Elliott. You could rearrange the shape to a 4-4-2 with, Spencer in attacking midfield or McMillan playing inside and Elliott wide.

Did he commit a professional foul and get sent off?

Fraser Kerr is at Stenhousemuir. Scored a 87th minute equaliser in the last league match and still managed to get sent off. Johnny Page is at East Fife and scores a decent number of goals for them. Ross Stewart, deputy to Darren Randolph for a while, is first choice at Albion Rovers, rather confusingly their main centre forward is also called Ross Stewart. Another former reserve goalie, Max Currie, is 1st choice at Stranraer. Jamie Ewing was at Dumbarton but has lost his place and I'm not entirely sure if he's still there or back up. Amazingly Darren Lee Smith isn't even 30 yet, regular scorer for Stirling Albion. Airdrie have a little ex Motherwell club going - Fitzpatrick, Iain Russell and now Jack Leitch. Can't remember if Morgyn Neil ever played a first team match for us, I think probably not, but he's been at Livingston for a couple of seasons.

Cadden and Chalmers start, pumped 4-0! Close. Thread.

Stevie Hammell displaced Stevie McMillan at left back and McMillan had a short and unconvincing spell at centre back before moving on to Wigan. It was way back at the very beginning of my time as a supporter and I was just a kid but I seem to remember Tom Boyd started as a midfielder and him scoring a couple of goals in a high scoring win over Hibs...and in those days any kind of win was big, never mind a high scoring one. Having said that I might have just invented that memory to see me through those seasons!

Apparently Oldham were dreadful today, lost against a crap team and lost the previous home game shipping 5 goals at home. Two points off the relegation zone. The Barraclough Effect.

I only saw the second half but I didn't think we were that bad. Lacking a wee bit quality with the final touch maybe but we could have easily have won the match as lost it. Referee has chopped off a perfectly good goal, one has come off the post when the keeper had no idea where it was and the boy Ryan Fraser, who I thought looked decent otherwise should have done better with a really good chance. Can't remember Kelly having a save to make. Cummings was poor though and that's where we really struggled. We don't have any quality strikers coming through at all. Cummings is it.

Scored and was sent off at the weekend.

Moult and McDonald have both played in wide-ish positions in the past. In fact one of our big problems recently is that because our wide players weren't doing their job McDonald has been forced wide to pick up ball and then there is no one in the box. You could possible accommodate Moult, McDonald and Bowman into a 4-3-2-1 formation and playing a bit narrower than we have done with Johnson and Ainsworth. Cadden has been our most effective player recently getting into those wide positions from midfield so it's not like the 'wingers' have been really contributing anyway.

He was a pretty good goal record over a few clubs. We'll see of course but generally that's a good sign. Although perhaps McDonald will leave for Australia now.....

I'd throw my blue and white striped night cap across the room in disgust and then refuse to drink the rest of my cocoa.

Or we could just use Twitter. Or announce it to the media.

Banks still use them to get things signed off. Perhaps that's why football clubs still use them.

Some times. Like Johnson, a bit up and down but he'd be an adequate replacement. He's started a few matches for Aberdeen this season though so I'm a bit surprised, Aberdeen don't have the biggest squad although they have brought in a loan signing I think.

Not really. If you bought a house at £30,000, made minimal improvements to it, then sold it again at 10 x the price 18 months later, you'd be doing cartwheels. People need to get this into their heads, Marvin Johnson is not that good. OK, here's a hypothetical situation. If some old lady died and left £1,000,000 to be spent on transfers to Motherwell FC, would you be happy with us spending £500,000 or even the whole lot on Marvin Johnson having seen him play 60+ times? I'll say it again, he's just not that good.

£350,000 + adds ons, apparently.

Imagine demanding to leave and putting in a transfer request to go to Oxford United! Last match I described Marvin as a jobber after an abysmal performance when he barely worked up a sweat or had one decent touch or even looked at all interested. There's your evidence right there.

Be fair, there was never any chance of him going for some of the sums being banded about, it was pure cuckoo cuckoo land stuff.

If we got £500,000 for Johnson, we should take the money and run. Does he have potential - yes. Well, actually, maybe not. He's coming up on 26 years old, no kid. While he's clearly got a bit more than the average footballer at this level, his inconsistency is his most consistent trait. He's hardly had two good games back to back in his time here. Probably his most exciting period of form included Annan, East Stirlingshire and Kilmarnock and came to a clattering halt against the first half decent opposition we came up against. Maybe tells you something. 6 goals in 56 league matches tells you something as well. A goal every 10 matches for an attacking midfielder/forward is hardly gold dust. Think of some of the wide players that have left Fir Park in recent times - McCormack, Murphy, O'Brien, even Humphrey - all better than Johnson. I was no great fan of Humphrey in the beginning but eventually he won me over and left a far better player than we signed. If Johnson leaves, can he say the same? I don't think so, and if he has its marginal. I'm strangely unmoved about the whole thing. I neither want to hound him out the club nor would lose a wink of sleep if we sold him.

Cadden.