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There was 550 odd through at Kilmarnock today. Are those the only ones getting in on Saturday?

Liam Grimshaw is by far the worst player in the squad. Quite an achievement.

Pretty much. If you want to improve a squad you sign players that will displace guaranteed first team starters the previous season. What we've done is replace second string dross with second string dross. Since our actual first team is actually weaker than at the start of last season that policy seems even more bizarre. We have something like 30 first team squad players (if you included Maguire, Turnbull, Scott etc) and you'd be lucky if you could find 10 that are either good enough or tested at this level. As a result there is no competition in the squad, something only compounded by the managers aversion to promoting U20s players into the first team. Robinson has painted himself into a corner with his loyalty to a side that, cup runs aside, was pretty poor in the first place and is poorer now. We brought in Donnelly, Grimshaw and Taylor-Sinclair from the fringes today. You'd think these guys would want to impress during a rare start but alas they did absolutely nothing.

Carson for keeping the score down.

Finished 1-3 but might well have been 4, 5, 6. Carson has made a couple of smart saves and Tait cleared a certain goal off the line. In the end we were well beaten by probably the best team I've seen this season and that fact is what I'm taking away from this match. I keep seeing wee team mentality all over this board, that we can't expect much from a club our size and that the city teams are unchallengeable. Why then are our closest cousins, in terms of size of club, history, support, so far ahead of us? Kilmarnock have beaten Celtic and Aberdeen and are as good as any team in the country. At Motherwell we've let our standards fall drastically. That's a problem that is pre-Robinson but it's only been compounded during Robinson term in charge with atrocious outdated tactics, embarrassing style of football and the complete neglect of our youth system. Things have to change. Kilmarnock showed us today what could be.

Idiotic challenge for the penalty.

Football's a funny old game. We could be 2-0 up or 3-1 down based on a couple of incidents. Been critical of Main's shooting this season but it was an excellent finish. His penalty was very poor though. Feel we've battled away in the match but for me Killie are technical far superior to us and once they equalized the second goal was always going to come. Not too sure about Carson at the first goal, seemed a bit Samsonesque. Second goal Carson was tearing strips off Bigi. With only one goal in it we can still get back into the match but Killie finished strongly and you feel we might have let our initial momentum slip.

Kilmarnock have scored twice in 4 out of 6 league matches and kept clean sheets in 3. We've failed to score in 4 out of 6 and kept no clean sheets. Looks like a 2-0 win to Kilmarnock then. Going but not expecting anything out of this match. As most have said you'd take a point right now. For me the really big match is going to be in two weeks when we play Livingston. A lot of people will probably expect us to beat them and it's guaranteed 3 points. It's not. We are going to have to play well to get anything out of that game too because Livingston are a decent team. They have strengthened their team since we narrowly beat them in a pretty even match in the League Cup, have a new and better manager, and have some momentum going in the league.

We've lost twice to Accies as I remember one at home, one away. Also lost to Hibs at Fir Park. Wasn't at the Cappielow match, I had school and wasn't allowed to go, so I can't think of us actually winning one. I think I can vaguely remember a penalty shoot out in a Lanarkshire Cup final.....but can't remember who won......I might be making that up though!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Cadden has gone backwards at a rate of knots and played all his best football under McGhee. Robinson doesn't know what to do with him and the player is being ruined. For me he is never a wide player in a million years. He doesn't have the technical ability or the ball skill to perform that role. Frear, a very average wide player, is streets ahead of him in those regards. His attributes, strength, decent pace, energy, point him towards being a box to box midfielder but while I don't think he's being utilised properly Cadden has to take on his own self development. His goal return is pathetic, his final ball has been really poor, and recently he's looked lost and disinterested. While player performance doesn't always boil down to stats Cadden has something like 0 goals and 6 assists from his last 43 league matches and that's just not good enough. At the end of the day you can't put that on the manager and it's down to the player to give himself a shake. Being played out of position is no reason to not be able to cross a ball. If Cadden comes back into the team Rose should be being dropped and Tait should be playing on the right hand side. That way you have a runner (Cadden), a ball winner (Campbell) and a ball player (Bigi) in the midfield three and that seems much more balanced that of recent times. The left hand side position is a problem but you don't sort a problem by causing bigger problems elsewhere so Robinson needs to get thinking instead of sticking with something that's not working. At least he tried something different on Saturday even if it didn't work but we have something like 50 professional players on our books so I'm sure one of them can play at left wing back.

I agree we haven't signed good strikers - even Main and Bowman, while they have their merits are not prolific goalscorers - but we've also been crying out for a genuine attacking midfielder for ages and it has never been addressed. Playing Cadden on the right and Tait on the left has not helped either because we are poor in wide areas and delivery into the box is not good enough. And I also do not believe the team is well coached in terms of attacking play. Watch a team like Hibs and see how the team attacks as a team with 4 or 5 players all running into pre-coached positions. We do not attack in a co-ordinated way. We are coached as a defensive team who scores off set pieces.

Worth noting that McGhee played 1 set of Top 6 fixtures in this 30 matches, while Barraclough played 1 set of Bottom 6 fixtures and Robinson has played 1 set of Bottom 6 fixtures.

It's not headers won in the centre circle. It's win, draws and losses. Will you be putting in a complaint to the league for using those same stats to determine league placings?

I don't think anyone would be overly concerned about a 0-1 defeat away to Aberdeen as an individual result. However you are bringing up 'perspective' when have now failed to win in 26 of our last 34 league matches. Our win ratio over that time is now below 25% and Robinson has taken fewer points over those last 34 matches than Mark McGhee did in his last 34 matches. Or is that the 'wrong' type of perspective?

Not watching the match so can't comment too much, well at all, on how we are performing but.... We've only scored in 8 out of our last 18 league matches. We've only won two matches in the last 33 where the opposition has scored, and only once over the same period when the opposition scored first.

For me Aberdeen don't have a lot of cutting edge, a bit like us in that regard. As long as we don't make any major errors like last weekend I think we can get something out of the game, after all Aberdeen have only score more than once in a match one time in eight this season. Result will likely be a 1-0, 1-1, 0-0 if form is anything to go by but as they say football's a funny old game.....

I'm much happier with McHugh at the back than in midfield but the last two games he's cost us two very poor goals. That's why he's been 'highlighted'.

We took the lead twice against Rangers. Sometimes I think coaches make such a big deal these days about the first goal being so important that it has a psychological effect on players. The way our heads went down yesterday after losing that goal you'd have thought it was 3-0.

Ditto. In fact I'd say Ikpeazu was hardly effective at all. He was reduced to going to ground every time trying to pick up fouls. It's not like he was steamrolling through our defence. If not for a terrible individual error yesterday we would have kept a clean sheet. The problems were at the other end.

Difficult one. Aldred and Tait gave their usual steady eddie performances. Gillespie came in a made a couple of decent stops. Bigi looked decent at times. I'll go for Aldred.

Today was a performance that slowly unraveled before our eyes, Started well and dominated the opening exchanges creating 3 or 4 decent chances. But whatever had charged our initial impetus started to fade after the 15 - 20 minute mark and instead of keeping Hearts on the back foot we started making poor decisions on the ball so that Hearts got more and more comfortable. We weren't being outplayed but Heart's looked fairly secure after a shaky opening. Then we had the catastrophic McHugh back pass and the game slowly but surely started to slip away. Poor passing, poor decision making, poor touch, lots of little mistakes, dallying, a lack of quickness of thought, players not making good position off the ball, all these conspired to give Hearts what turned out to be a fairly easy win for them. You might argue that we didn't deserve to lose the match but we've lost at home without really creating a chance for over 60 minutes or so with the opposition never getting out of 2nd gear. Two points. Curtis Main does a decent job outside the box but 2 goals in his last 19 league matches is not a good return. We need more goal threat and Main is not providing it. Secondly, Chris Cadden, 43 league matches without a goal and only 6 assists over that time isn't good enough either. When we are struggling to create and score I think we have to have a look at these two players.

Started well and dominated the first 15 minutes or so but afterwards we started to get a bit sloppy in the final third. That was survivable but being sloppy in our own defensive areas has completely transformed this match. McHugh's pass back is an absolute disaster giving away a goal and leading to Carson's injury. Since then our confidence looks badly affected and Hearts have looked comfortable. We've not been outplayed and don't deserve to be one down but these foolish individual mistakes can cost you points. Second half we need to get back to how we started, make better decisions in attacking areas and cut out the poor final ball. For me Cadden has been stinking again, I'd whip him off. We've competed and we are only 1-0 down so let's go for this second half.

The Djoum tackle was an absolute shocker as well. Red everyday of the week And the red that never was. The Djoum tackle was an absolute shocker and the most blatant red you will ever see. Of course it only got a yellow!

It was Barry Cook who I don't think has refereed Premiership matches off the top of my head but mainly does second tier and cup matches. When Thomson retires Cook is a possible replacement!

Not strictly speaking Motherwell related but if you've not seen the refereeing debacle for this weekends Partick Thistle game it's well worth looking out for. Partick Thistle take a corner from the right hand side, score, referee disallows goal and gives a throw in on the left hand touchline to Morton. Unbelievable. https://twitter.com/PartickThistle/status/1036025973798588417 https://twitter.com/PartickThistle/status/1036025973798588417