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There is a case to be made for a back four tomorrow, and if that was the case we wouldn't want to lose the fifth player in midfield which would mean one up front, almost certainly Main. That would give a line up along the lines of. Carson Tait Aldred Dunne Hendrie Cadden Campbell McHugh Rose Frear/Tanner Main Not the most exciting line up, but it would possibly smother Kilmarnock for seventy minutes and then we can see what happens (copyright S Robinson's playbook)

Really tough choice today, I could probably make a case for about 9 out the 11 starters and if there had been an "entire team" option I would probably have taken that. In the end I went with Rose.

All in all that was a very satisfying evening, the second half performance was as good as we have seen since the cup final and, I seem to be in the minority here, but I didn't think that the first half performance was as bad as some are suggesting. Kipre, Aldred, Dunne, Campbell, Tait, McHugh, Rose and Main all performed well, Carson did what he had to do, which wasn't a huge amount, Cadden was looking more like his usual self in that he was taking on and beating his man, though his final ball is still a bit suspect. The only guy who was off his game was Ciftci who looked like he was getting frustrated because nothing was coming off. One thing I'll never understand though, how the hell did Murray Davidson make it to half time without getting booked?

It has to be Campbell, but we also had great performances from the back three, Tait, McHugh, Rose and Main.

Possibly the same game as the referee. he didn't have much of a clue about football either.

That was my impression too, and that just reinforced what I thought when I watched it from the cooper. That said, having watched the highlights, I suspect that Doolan was also offside for their goal in exactly the same manner.

In order of precedence, in my opinion: 1. Joe Wark. 2. Joe Wark. 3. Joe Wark 4. Joe Wark. Next question please.

Agreed, they were playing for a point from the get go and contributed virtually nothing to the game in an attacking sense and once they had the lead their time wasting was ridiculous. A special mention for the referee, his performance, especially in the second half, was quite unbelievable.

I went for Dunne Kipre was immense but still prone to the odd brain fart, ie the one that let Thistle in to almost nick it in injury time, Dunne was excellent today defensively, it was his determination that led to the equaliser and even found his man with a couple of passes today.

I sit in the Cooper on the P O'D stand side and I didn't bother celebrating as Ciftci looked well offside before heading across the free kick.

Unexpected point in Edinburgh: Check Hearts' clean sheet record ended: Check Craig Levein pissed off: Check Some of the lunatic fringe on here upset 'cos we didn't lose: Check All in all not too bad a day then.

I don't think that's ever happened before.

I agree that we didn't play much (or possibly any) football tonight, the only thing that mattered was to get three points, which we did. Earlier in the season our tactic was to impose ourselves physically on the opposition before trying to outplay them. Tonight, whether because of the conditions or because of the bad run both teams were on, the match was a shitfest, but ultimately, only one thing mattered, three points.

Very difficult to choose between Main and Aldred, picked Aldred in the end. Carson and Campbell had their moments and Ciftci again showed some nice touches and a great assist.

He has scored literally, physically, metaphorically and actually 4 goals this season

Tough but winnable, when there were three teams left in the hat, and I knew that us and the green uglies were two of them, I was expecting the worst.

We went 2-0 up in the 35th minute, Aldred was injured straight from the kick off and played on for a minute or so before being subbed in the 37th minute, during that two minute window Carson made a decent save from a Bingham header. Are you seriously trying to blame Robinson for Aldred playing on for two minutes to see if he could run off the injury? Wow!

That was an incredibly comfortable afternoon in the end, Carson had two important saves in the first half but had little else to do. The back three (or two and two halfs) were solid, Dunne, in particular, looks to have benefited from the winter break. McHugh and Campbell complemented each other which went along way to helping the keeper and defence have their easy afternoon. Rose, Tait and Main all worked their socks off allowing Tanner and Ciftci to show a little bit of the talent. That all said, we didn't need to get out of second gear today because Accies were truly awful, they seemed resigned to losing after that initial flurry of pressure at the start of the second half. Roll on Wednesday, a result then and hopefully we can start looking up the table again.

Pretty easy pick today, Tanner had that little bit of extra class.

My 1991 scarf is the one I bought when the 'Well shop was in Windmillhill Street, opposite the Rex, in about 19-canteen. It's still being worn but I'm scared to wash it in case it disintegrates. I've bought a few others over the years but I keep going back to that one.

Sorted it for you

I'm 55 and have been watching Motherwell since 1967 so I should know better....... But so have I

So, did we change our system to compensate for them changing their system to compensate for our system? Did we change our system and they didn't change their system? Did we not change our system? Are we better than them? Am I confused?

Hartley, he's the captain of that team whether he wears the armband or not. Bigirimana made a big improvement to the mid-field second half and, apart from the goal, Carson did ok. The rest were below par. It shows how far we have come when we play as poorly as we did and yet could still have taken something from that game.

Yea, but we've papped two of them out the cup so cheer up a bit.