Ya Bezzer!

Accies have two wins from their last 20 league matches.

Stats just seem to confirm that our greatest asset at the moment is a front two of Moult and McDonald. The team we play should be set up to suit this front two.

Geographically Motherwell is better placed than somewhere like Kilmarnock in terms of getting to other grounds. It's also close to the motorway and is a major rail hub.

We have a bunch of games coming up that are very winnable in my opinion. If we can win two out of four I think that will put us in a relatively comfortable position after 30 matches. The play off place will probably go to the wire this season but I think as long as we can keep the psychological advantage of having 2 or 3 teams below us in those positions we should be OK in the long run.

Everyone knows that the general principle for staff and players is "the more you do for Motherwell FC, the less you are respected by the support". He should consider the opprobrium a sort of badge of honour.

Aberdeen have quite a small squad and Hearts are probably being run with strict financial overview by Ann Budge. Example - they brought in Souttar and Cowie in the transfer window and Billy King and Gomis went straight out on loan. Dundee Utd have brought in 'name' players like Kawashima, Riski, Sinama-Pongolle, Demel who will all be on decent money and they have one of the bigger squads in the first place.

Catching them at a good time, no wins in 7 and St. Johnstone have gone from looking like dead certs for a top four place to potentially being dragged into the relegation zone. St. Johnstone have had a very, very good home record over the past couple of seasons but they've not had a win at McDiarmid since early November.

I have him on 98 league appearances.

40 does it most years. 9 out of 15 seasons. Record tally for third bottom is 44 points, the only time a team has got more than 42 points. I'm guessing though that due to the compact nature of the league this season this years points total to escape the bottom two spots will be one of the higher ones, perhaps even a record total.

Maybe it's not a coincidence that we don't do it at home.

From the opposition view - this result surely relegates Dundee United. 13 points behind with the worst goal difference. Pretty much snuffs out any hope they had.

Aren't two of them against St. Johnstone. We are now only 3 points behind them and they are in terrible form.

Would take a point tonight, no problem.

There is 7 points between 11th and 4th. And 36 points to play for.

Criticising his managerial ability is fair game but there are an awful lot of people who aren't really interested in his managerial ability and are simply using the first available bad spell to air old grievances. It helps no and in fact hinders any potential recovery when the club is in a very difficult position, on and off the field. Instead of supporting, far too many people have the knives out. Don't tell me what's happened at Fir Park in recent weeks didn't have any effect on the players on Saturday.

McGhee is called arrogant but check out comments like this.

What McGhee needs to do is a video telling us about his favourite dinosaurs and that should get the fans back on side. Also wonder if it's the same old yins that booed 'arrogrant' Tommy McLean season after season until of course he won the cup. If the managers position becomes some kind of personality contest, as it seems to be at the moment, then we are well and truly fucked.

138. How many more supporters there were at New Douglas Park than there were at Fir Park.

McDonald has something like 8 goals in 23 matches this season. He is also joint top on assists, 7. He runs himself into the ground and on days like yesterday is one of the few players that looks up for it. I find some of the views in this place truly baffling these days.

Johnston has pace and decent feet but I think you get very little end product out of him. He's got 2 goals in 35 league appearances, you need more than a goal every 18 games out of a forward player like that. His assist rate isn't good enough either, he has 3 assists this season from 20 starts, while Ainsworth has 7 assists from 12 starts. McDonald also has 7, Moult and Pearson 4. So he's our poorest performer out of all the forward going players by some distance yet seems to start week in, week out. I think he really needs to up his game when it comes to the final third. I would be inclined towards a midfield four of Pearson, Lasley, Gomis and Cadden at the moment.

I don't disagree with what you are saying but there are degrees. Fans are entitled to vocally display their displeasure but today we had supporters screaming personal abuse at players 7 minutes into the game. Last week we had the support singing "You don't know what you're doing" and mocking the manager minutes after we had equalized in a cup match. There is being passionate about the team and there is being a disruptive and negative influence on our results. Right now the poisonous negativity coming from our support is helping no one.

I don't want to get into the whole 'uber fan' debate either but that quote above, to me, totally misunderstands the whole concept of being a supporter. It's kinda ironic that these very people would probably be the first ones to wave banners about football supporters being seen as 'customers' when they behave like customers themselves.

I'd be inclined to simply match up against Dundee Utd and get each player told to win the battles. The players need to step up.

Maybe the fact that you can't recognise McGhee's factual record is telling of a lot of the opinion on here recently. Baraclough lost 4 league matches in August out of 5. McGhee has lost 4 league matches between now and November the 21st.

Ripley.