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Our record at home to United (like Partick away) is absolutely catastrophic. However we did win at NDP on Saturday so maybe now is the time to win on our own patch against United. I reckon we are three wins from guaranteed safety, (might only need two) so if we could win this one, and it is winnable, that would be a big, big step. As others have said a win also puts us Top Six, regardless of other matches in midweek, so if we can get into the top half that puts a wee bit pressure on the teams below us with games in hand, as we'll have the points in the bag.

One of Craigan's first games for us was a midweek match against Rangers. All our experienced centre backs were injured and he played alongside another youngster, Denham I think. The feeling was a mauling was on the cards but the game finished 0-0. I remember that one cos I skipped work to go to that game.

Will it be a day time kick off? 27th is mid week I think.

It's Sunday afternoon, when better for some spurious stats! I took each teams form since Jan 1st and projected it over the remaining games. If you did that, this is how the league would finish. Celtic-------------85 pts Aberdeen-------82 pts Hearts-----------74 pts Dundee---------52 pts Ross County---49 pts Partick Thistle--48 pts -------------------------------- Motherwell------45 pts Inverness-------44 pts St.Johnstone---42 pts Kilmarnock------37 pts ---------------------------------- Hamilton---------37 pts ---------------------------------- Dundee United-33 pts Goal difference would put Accies in the play off spot.

Now effectively 8 points clear of second bottom but only 1 point off Top Six. I hope we start looking up now instead of down. And I knew we'd win because I wasn't there for the first time in years!

Not sure Craigan ever played alongside Martin. Our centre backs at that time were McCart, Krivokapic, Philliben, van der Gaag. For any of the kids out there Kevin Christie was some player. The lanky white Tony Straker of his day. 90% of the time when the ball came to him it was akin to throwing a ping pong ball at a frightened kitten but occasionally he pull off a sort of Brazil 1970 skill that would take your breath away. Also remember that Kevin Christie co-existed with Stevie Woods and Eddie May. Some back line. Aye, the football in those days put hair on your chest.

We need some old school tactics for this one. Minute 1, put the boot into Imrie and Crawford. No messing about and take the booking like a man. If Psycho is still hanging around give him a start. Otherwise we are looking at you Louis Laing, Stephen McManus. McManus especially since one of the great embarrassments in my Motherwell supporting history was the bullying Imrie gave him in the 0-5 match.

I made my prediction on P&B last night. Accies to beat Hibs again in the Play Off final.

At least we know where all the Well Bois were on Saturday - in hiding!

With goal difference we basically have a 5 point lead and a game in hand against Kilmarnock. Could do with Aberdeen, Celtic and St. Johnstone all winning tonight though!

Don't think 35/36 points will do it this season. 40 points keeps you safe three quarters of the time but doesn't guarentee it. Think we should be looking to put another 10 points on the board, minimum. The highest points total for 11th is 43 points I think and that was the only time it's been above 41 points. It will be interesting to see if Dundee Utd can keep up their revival, if they do they could take valuable points away from the other bottom 6 teams.

This season Louis Moult scored in the 90th minute to get us a draw against Ross County. Also scored in the 87th minute away to Kilmarnock for the win and Scott McDonald scored in the 90th minute to take the League Cup match against Morton to Extra Time. Also another couple of late goals this season that weren't as crucial so it's not just late goals in the against column.

I don't think there is room for "massive improvement". We can be better than we have been but we've come through a period where the bigger city clubs were in disarray and that period looks like it's over now and everything is returning to 'normal'. Aberdeen and Hearts look miles ahead of any provincial club this season and certainly Rangers and perhaps Hibs will be in the top league again next season and you'd have to imagine they will be Top 6 sides. Right now we are 4 points behind the best of the provincial clubs and I don't really think there is much chance of us competing beyond that level, ie, with any city clubs in the near future with the exception of Dundee United. I grew up in the 80's and back then Motherwell finishing higher than 8th was eye popping. The year we won the cup we finished 6th in the league which was an amazing achievement in itself in an era of football when Aberdeen, Rangers, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee Utd, Hearts and Hibs basically had a hegemony in the top half of the league. I reckon we are going back to the days when gate money basically determines where you finish in the league - with the odd anomoly.

Won't be there and I think this will be the first match there that I've missed since the last time we won. So I'm confident.

It's going to be an interesting week. Full card on midweek, except for us, so the potential for a lot of gained or dropped points. Partick Thistle have three games in 6 days. Away matches against St. Johnstone and Hearts and then a home match against Aberdeen. Then we play Accies with the chance to open up a 5 point gap there.

Accies haven't won at NDP for 10 games. Guess who it was they beat on the 19th September 2015!

With just over 3,000 supporters even turning out for games these days the Well Society doesn't seem like it's on to a winner so people need to start asking themselves what happens next. There is a lot of money to be made in the business world from taking over failing businesses where the value of the assets of the company are more than the worth of the company itself. Hutchinson may be benevolent or predatory, I don't know, but there has to be some kind of Plan B as a contingency against the Well Society being unable to raise the money and as far as I know there isn't one except a "see you later, now pay up" from Hutchinson.

Without doubt.

Probably disappointed that we were winning and he had nothing else to complain about. Thought Louis Laing was a bit 'clunky' at right back today, better than Gary Miller though who had a shocker. In any case I think right back is one area where we should be shopping for come next season. Ben Hall has done well for me, Cadden is a bit rough round the edges (he reminds me a bit of Darren Smith) but I think it's definitely worth giving him game time to see how he progresses.

This. Since McGhee took over Scott McDonald has been superb. Was at the centre of everything today, including defending when we had our ropey spell. Immense.

Deserved the win. First half we were the better team and were chapping at the goal but just couldn't get the final touch. Definite penalty, only our 3rd of the season. Great pass from McDonald for the second and I thought Partick's heads went down and they looked well beaten at that point. Moult might have got the goals but I thought McDonald was immense today. Looked all very comfortable until Ripley threw in one and then we were on the back foot for a bit, but in truth Ripley didn't have much to do today, perhaps just as well!

If we won today, we'd only be 4 points short of last seasons final points tally with 10 matches to play. So that to me says we have definitely improved this season, regardless of league position.

Partick have been pretty tough to beat away from home. Two 0-0 draws away to Aberdeen and Inverness and a 0-1 defeat to Celtic. Before that they beat Dundee Utd and Kilmarnock, got a draw at Dundee and beat St. Johnstone. Pretty good record, of course if they get a result against us it will be because we are the worst team in the world. Actually I think Alan Archibald has done a tremendous job at Patrick as he's had to completely rebuild the team twice and kept them competitive.

See above.

Here's another one since you like them so much. Since Mark McGhee took over we have taken 19 points from 16 matches, while Hamilton have taken 14 points from 17 matches.