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If A is bad and B is much worse, A will win easily. We won, deserved to win but almost all the players were not at the level they need to be. The idea that because you win or even dominate a match means are good enough over a season to compete at a much higher level (we will rarely play a team as poor as Accies were on Saturday) is so simplistic it's, well, par for the course round here.

I thought our midfield was pish on Saturday. Went for Scott. Thought he showed something playing wide. The rest were at best mediocre.

This is a slightly bizarre comment from the manager. It took Hartley to be unavailable for him to realise? I said back in May we needed two centre halves in.

We won, we deserved to win, 3 points on the board, away from home too but like you I thought there were problems out there. For me we didn't play much better than last week and individually right across the park we weren't good enough. We got away with it because it was Accies and a poor Accies at that. Against most teams, most of the time, we aren't going to win playing like that. This is a building block, a launching pad but almost every player is short of where he needs to be.

Been the better team without doing anything special. Scott has been decent wide but there isn't enough movement in forward areas. No runners from deep, no interchanging, pretty static. No surprise our goals were a corner and a penalty. Also think we have been terrible in the full back positions. A better team than Accies would have caused us bigger problems. Perhaps 2nd half they will prioritises balls played behind our full backs.

According to the bookies a Motherwell away win is the second most likely result in the Premiership today, after Hibs beating St Johnstone at Easter Road.

Every one of these Friday night matches has been great. Then you go to the Motherwell game on a Saturday....

Have a bad feeling about this one. Promoting guys like Ross Cunningham, Lewis Smith and Reegan Mimnaugh has given Accies a new lease of life from last season. It's not working for us now but do I expect Robinson to change it? No. I'm open to being pleasantly surprised but not expecting it.

I thought he made a few mistakes at Dundee and I was surprised when Celtic signed him but they must have seen something in him and he did get game time when he first arrived there. And just look at the quality gap between someone like Declan Gallagher brought in from Livingston and our existing central defenders. I doubt he's worse than you know who and probably a step up.

I said at the end of last season we needed two centre backs in. If we want to improve Dunne and Hartley aren't good enough, end of story.

Calm down. Frear wasn't good enough after two and a half seasons. These guys have had three matches.

I thought Tait was poor for long spells in the second half of last season - and that was when the team was doing well. He's a guy that gets a pass from the support for some reason. Maybe he's got far too comfortable playing every week.

As I said if Hylton, Seedorf etc are out of their depth you can play whoever you like in a 4-3-3 and they will be standing up on their own all match. If you want to help Scott, or whoever is up front, you put another striker up front and change the formation, not change the striker and keep the guys that can't hack it on the wings.

Robinson's problem is that he has one tactical formula and doesn't change it. First of all it makes it very easy to counter once other teams are on to it. Secondly when he needs to change it and the chips are down, he doesn't take on the responsibility of a 'good' manager, ie, put himself on the line. He's been pretty harsh in this public statement today on the players but this stood out a mile "Players have a habit of making you look stupid, but that's the level of player we're able to recruit, and we have to educate them. That has to happen sooner rather than later or they won't play in the team." Sooner or later? What about the next match? We need to find something that works at this level and you don't do that without making changes when it doesn't work. If Robinson can't see that Dunne is useless in a 4-3-3, that Donnelly can't do what Gorrin did, that the absence of Turnbull makes the current formation debatable, that you need quality wingers to play this way you'd have to worry big time. And so we go back to the first sentence of this post. Robinson lets himself down with his lack of adaptability, he needs to have more than one tactical idea and he needs to be able to change it when it doesn't work.

Scott doesn't need to go out on loan, he needs the players around him to show up.

We can buy whoever you like but they are doing nothing with the wide players and midfield performing as they are. Playing a 4-3-3 with a striker that is completely isolated is the problem.

Created our only chance of the first half and gets pulled. When guys that did fuck all stay on the pitch. By all means bring on Long but change the formation to 4-4-2. Match could best be summarized as guff beats shite. Hearts are at best bang average and they have come here and put us out the cup, and even though we were terrible they only managed that due to a crazy error from our goalkeeper. A lot like last season when they beat us at Fir Park due to a McHugh error. Where do you start? Trying to play the ball out through Dunne is madness. Not only is he slow as fuck moving the ball, he can't pass and has no vision whatsoever. The midfield isn't fit for purpose. Polworth has a touch but he just doesn't impose himself on the game and Donnelly isn't technically proficient enough to replace Gorrin. The wide players are a big worry because against the three top level teams we've played they have done absolutely fuck all. Hylton looked out his depth tonight. And although Seedorf was a little better he was still fucking miles out. Feel really sorry for Scott who was completely isolated with no one to play off. Play like that against Accies and we'll get nothing again. But, hey, at least we'll have a plastic pitch to blame everything on. I hope to god it doesn't take Robinson 6 months again to realise a rethink is needed.

Hearts are absolutely fucking atrocious. This is a game we should be winning with no excuses. Saw Naismith went off injured with a hamstring pull last weekend, I assume he won't play in this match. Him and Halkett are the only players in the Hearts team I'd worry about.

Gillespie was great last season and deservedly locked down the number 1 place. Don't think he's start this season in great form but at the same time he's not throwing goals in. Think some of the criticism around the Griffiths goal was harsh. For me you don't drop an established goalkeeper for a few poor kick outs in one match, especially when he's kept us in the game previous at Livingston.

Scott is a player. If we aren't going to bring in an established goal scorer we should give Scott a run and let him develop.

Gallagher and Campbell have been the stand outs all season so far and yesterday was no different. Going for Campbell on this occasion.

After the match I have to scoot off into town on a train full of Celtic supporters to meet the Celtic supporting burd for dinner. I need a result today. Someone needs to tell these players failure is not an option today!

We target fans that come in large numbers with additional costs. Standard when running a football club. If you go to away games £25 will not be the most you pay for a ticket.

Livingston had Pittman, Jacobs, Bartley in the midfield. Maybe the reason they won the battle is because it's actually qualitatively better than ours.

Let me put it this way, do you think our players touch, passing, decision making, cohesion as a team, tactical set up and performance of the opposition in countering it was a bigger influence than the pitch? I say it was. The pitch no doubt had an influence but it was maybe 10 - 15% not 60 or 70%. It's a bad pitch, we all know that, but that shouldn't ever be a get of jail card for a pretty poor performance. Was it the pitches fault that we hardly won a header in the first hald? Or that Dunne was repeatedly hitting the same ball to no effect every time? Or getting outpaced down the flank. Was it the pitches fault that our centre forward had to come deep to get on the ball? Let's just call a spade a spade. It was a poor performance, end of story.