Ya Bezzer!

This. I am absolutely furious with that absolutely ridiculous substitution. It's cost us a point and a defeat. We weren't great today but we looked a lot more solid and although we never really looked like scoring neither did St. Johnstone. Then with a few minutes to go McCall swaps round 50% of a back four that's looked pretty solid all afternoon. It's an absolutely calamitous decision. Shocking. Absolutely fucking shocking. Seriously what the fuck was he even thinking about? An act of fucking sabotage on McCall's part. He has no one but himself to blame for that defeat tonight.

Play him at centre half today!

I think it's based on us blowing out our arse every match this season. I don't know what we did in Portugal but as I've already said constantly giving the ball away and chasing games doesn't help matters.

Pretty much. I think it's unfair to single out individual players when we've hardly have a good performance even on an individual player basis, never mind as a team. The one thing about Sutton I would say is that he needs to stay on his feet. It's extremely frustrating to watch, especially when we aren't doing well.

Your powers of premonition are quite extraordinary. Maybe you think they will be struggling at the wrong end of the table but that remains to be seen. Even when Accies were ACTUALLY struggling at the wrong end of the table we still managed to struggled against them. Factor in things like the artificial turf, our last calamitous visit to Douglas Park and us losing the last cup tie between the teams, then it's a draw with a lot of bad omens. We were a better team than them, right now they are a better team than us and that's unlikely to change before the tie is played.

Terrible draw, almost the worst draw we could get IMO.

St. Johnstone haven't score more than 2 goals. We haven't conceded more than 2 goals in 90 mintues. I'm not that confident about this game but the 5-0 predictions are a bit over the top.

Time is running out to sort the problems otherwise the dye is cast. Not too many people espect us to take any thing off St. Johnstone in the next match. After that we are away to Ross County which, if we don't get anything against St. Johnstone, suddenly becomes a huge match and a potential 6 pointer. Then the next game is away to Celtic which could be a complete roasting and a collapse in morale if we've not got a win by then. To be sitting on, say, 4 points after 7 games wouldn't be knicker wetting. It's not happened yet but the next two matches are really important for us in terms of defining our season. Remember by the time we play Celtic at least 4 teams, excluding Celtic, will have a very good chance of being over the 10 points mark and potential a few others could as well.

St. Johnstone are notoriously well organised and hard to break down. Can't see where a goal is coming from and they will almost certainly score against us. Football is a strange game, maybe we will cuff them on Saturday but looking at the evidence it's difficult to predict an up turn.

I must be missing all these matches were Jack Leitch is a stick on first choice midfielder. I've seen him give one excellent performance against Celtic and the rest where much of a muchness at best. Yesterday he hardly kicked the ball. I'm not saying he won't break into the team eventually or that he has no future at Motherwell but right now I don't see it. It's almost a mark of desperation when we are elevating Jack Leitch to a status that he doesn't actually deserve. For me Lee Erwin has shown a lot more in a couple of games than Jack Leitch has in 15 or however many it is.

If you took those games, took away any goal threat we had and then added further defensive frailty then that's approximately where we are at the moment. v Dundee Utd Shots 3 On Target 0 v Inverness Shots 5 On Target 0 v Kilmarnock Shots 7 On Target 2 Says it all.

He lined up right midfield at the beginning of the match and since we didn't get any substitutions for 80 minutes and no one else was right midfield I assume that's what position he was supposed to be playing. Against Stjarnan he played in a sort of support striker role, St. Mirren he was left midfield, Inverness he was centre midfield, yesterday right midfield. He would have to be some player to be able to perform well in a weaken team in all those positions. On what I've seen his best game was playing just off Sutton up front but I think it's a bit harsh to judge this guy when he's playing a different role every week. When he settles down into a specific role then you can say, but as I said originally I don't see who drops out the team to accomodate Law when we have a first XI to pick from.

To be fair to the guy I've seen us play four competitive matches and Josh Law has played 4 different position in those matches. Personally I don't see him as anything other than a utility player that's going to come to fill up gaps.

Spot on. I mean it's a glaring issue. It's a bit like driving a Grand Prix with no front left wheel.

You should hold the thought until we've played Ross County. St. Mirren have already outplayed us on our own patch and Ross County at least manage to score in most of their games.

Vigurs gets the vote. Only guy in the team with a touch.

I was trying to think about what word to describe the performance today and the word I came up with was 'bloodless'. There was just no spark there, no energy, no confidence, we look like a team that's given up on the season already. We started the match OK and arguably had the better of the opening stages but we always looked open at the back and as soon as Kilmarnock scored you could see the heads go down all over the pitch. Last season we came back from losing the opening goals but today the game was over at 1-0. You knew we weren't going to score and we would probably concede again and after 9 minutes of a match that's a pretty shocking state of affairs. The opening goal had a bit of swerve on it but not so much that it should beat the goalkeeper. Sitting behind the goals it seemed to go straight through him. Twardzik actually made a few saves in the match as was far from the worst performer but we just can't afford to lose goals like that when we are in such a fragile position. The defence in front of Twardzik was an absolute shambles. You could excuse Carswell at left back but not experienced players like McManus who had a shocker. I didn't get a good view of the Kerr sending off, but the Kilmarnock players looked furious about it and there didn't seem to much protest from us so by the looks of it he should have walked. Midfield was completely lacking any width again. Jack Leitch wide left was completely anonymous, Josh Law looks like an unnatural fit at wide right. It seems to be fashionable to slate guys like Lasley at the moment and I'm not for any moment saying he had a great game but him and Vigurs in central midfield were the best performing part of the team today but we need to sort out the wide positions quickly because as it stands we have very little threat up front. Again Vigurs wasn't brilliant but he did have four or five really nice touches and what chances we did have it was usually him that was the creator. Sutton was absolutely dire, he doesn't look interested right now and although he's not had good service he has to show more than he has been doing. He's just not working. We are struggling badly right now and it's just not good enough for a forward to expect to have things laid on a plate for him. Ojamaa ran about a lot but had little impact on the game. He rather luckily won a ball against a Kilmarnock defender and was straight through on goal and he dithered and then mishit the ball with his weak foot so he didn't even get a shot off. Summed it up for him. Overall, we look shambolic at the back, we have no width whatsoever in the team and upfront there is nothing going on at all. Things look bleak unless we can find something pretty soon. No exaggeration to say we are a few more bad performances away from a potential relegation season.

That was a 'strongest XI' line up, not one that I'd play against Kilmarnock, therefore I'd have Ramsden and Hammell in there in the full back positions. I know it's not perfect, as I stated, but I think it would be our team with the maximium attacking threat and creativity. It's a line up with all our best players in their strongest possible positions. For me Vigurs is our 'special' player. He is wasted out wide and, I think he needs to be more central. Lasley can play a more defensive role, than he currently does. That means Ojamaa would have to play wide left, where he played really well combining with Nicky Law last time round, so I think he could play there no problem. He's no worse than Ainsworth, or Vigurs for that matter, is at tracking back.

Perhaps not every match but it would be inexcusable in my opinion if he didn't attend most of them.

There were quite a few managers came and went in that time, most of them from outside Scottish football so obviously they would all want to evaluate the squad themselves and come to their own conclusions. Problem was few of them lasted long enough to build a team. Eric Black and Harri Kampman came and went in quick smart time. He was never a first choice under Billy Davies, mostly wasn't under Alex McLeish and was forced on Butcher by administration and shown the door as soon as was possible under the circumstances. In fact apart from his first season when he came in for Dykstra, he only spent 1 season at the club out of 8 as first choice and that season we finished a dismal second bottom that term, one of the worst seasons to follow Motherwell in my memory. Woods was rather fortuitous. Howie basically walked out on the club opening up a berth. Goram was injury prone. Mikko Kaven came and went with Kampmann. Dubourdeau wasn't very good and Mark Brown was a victim of the administration. During and immediately after administration we had to make do with what we had. After Motherwell he made a further 9 professional career appearances for St. Mirren and never made a first team for Livingston.

Funnily enough the last time Hollis was at a Hearts game they lost 4-1 as well.....Vigurs, Ainsworth, Sutton and McFadden if I remember correctly...

Nothing against Carswell but I think our central midfield two should be Lasley and Vigurs. I'd play Ojamma on the left and play Erwin up front with Sutton. It's not ideal and doesn't accentuate everyone's strong points but in an unbalanced squad I think its the best we can do.

O'Brien has played quite a few games at a high level. He'll go straight into the team when fit, I'd imagine. At the end of the day you put out the best team you possibly can to try and win and you'd have to suspect that O'Brien is better than most of the guys we have. Kerr won't have done himself any harm over the last couple of matches, I think he's undoubtedly moved himself up the pecking order for centre half if there is an injury or suspension.

Kilmarnock have lost 100% of their competitive matches on the astroturf.....albeit it was only 1 match....still didn't stop Aberdeen winning there.

Last time I was down at Rugby Park it was 0-0 where did fuck all but hang on to a clean sheet but I'm planning to head down for this one. It's disappointing if true that none of the injured players will be ready to come back in for this one, for some reason I thought we had a free weekend coming up which we could have done with, but apparently not. We have Celtic coming up at Parkhead soon so I think we really need to start picking up points or we could find ourselves stuck in the bottom six as other teams are likely to go through the 10 point barrier in the next 2 to 3 weeks. We should be looking for at 6 points out the next 9 before we roll up to Celtic Park. If we fail to get a decent points tally together before then it could set the tone for the season.