MelvinBragg

As others have stated, we're kind of down to bare bones at the moment so there's not a huge number of options team selection wise. I'd be going 352 Gillespie Gallagher Tait Hartley Grimshaw Campbell O'Hara Polworth Aarons Watt McIver If O'Hara isn't fit, I'd be tempted to play Maguire, Semple or Cornelius in the middle. Risky but no riskier than playing Grimshaw in there and having Mugabi in the back three. McIver is simply a better option than Long in my opinion, an opinion that I know is unpopular. Like I said, that would be my team but I fully expect 433 with Tait at left back...

Where did you see this? I have been looking for information on tickets for this one...

Looking at the season as a whole, of course it's not been terrible. Problem is momentum. If a couple of the wins we had in the first half of the season had come in the last month, it wouldn't feel quite so grim as it does at the minute. Going into March, we haven't won a home league game since the 7th December. In the five home league games since then we've scored two goals, one of them a penalty. The majority of fans don't go to away games, so most of our support have not seen us win in nearly three months and have hardly seen us score a goal. A fair bit of negativity is to be expected. We may well finish in the top six but if our form doesn't pick up, will anyone relish seeing those final five games against the better teams? Financially good for the club, it may be but dispiriting to watch...

He's been taking the back four in the pre-match warm up for a while now.. .

Weirdly in some respects, I thought we played better with 10 than 11. Having two forwards quite central (once Aarons got a bollocking from Watt and got closer to him) seemed to cause them problems. I would say they probably had more chances but we had slightly better chances. Given the situation thought Watt (and McIver, his replacement) did well. Thought Donnelly was OK at right back, given Gallagher was clearly nowhere near fit, Donnelly was probably the pick of the back four. Man of the match though was clearly O'Hara. Seemed always to be the one snuffing out any danger...

I'd bring McIver on for Hartley. Leaving Watt up top himself, the ball is going to keep coming back at us and it'll only be a matter of time...

He's 25 years of age...

Not at all. But the 'get it up ye' to fellow Motherwell fans is a bit much...

All the people crowing seem to think those of us criticising the team will be disappointed. Quite the opposite. But anyone who says that first half performance gave any cause for hope is lying...

Beat me to it. This kind of result has been coming...

Obviously it won't happen and I'm not advocating it but managers have been sacked for less...

It astounds me that there are still those who say Bowman wasn't good enough for us when he's scoring goals at league two level and we're gambling on guys with 20 career goals at the 24 in the lower leagues, from the Belgian lower leagues or Ross County reserves...

Motherwell 0 St Mirren However many goals we give them It depends on how you look at our season. Does Robinson getting us to where we are in the league without a striker/winger worthy of the name deserve credit? Or does he deserve criticism for leaving us with such a lack of options? I tend to give him credit and assume that none of our forwards were his first choice. I have not seen enough of Aarons or Watt but the rest of them are not good enough...

Yes, it happens and if you goalscorers in your team, you can turn the corner. Too often at the minute, we're relying on the opposition goalkeeper throwing one in or spilling one...

That's zero points tonight then.. EDIT That worked...

Ilic played for the reserves the other day. The signing of both Aarons and Watt suggests that Ndjoli isn't living up to expectations...

The fact that it continues to happen and players don't get dropped suggests to me that the manager wants our full backs to tuck in...

What was that for? I assumed an equaliser...?

Who has just scored...

O'Hara in for Campbell. Ndjoli and Watt on the bench. Seedorf and McIver nowhere to be seen...

Failed to score in three of those five games. One good goal against Dundee, one deflection, one GK howler and at Aberdeen a set piece. Where are the goals coming from?

I expect us to lose on Saturday.. Feel as if we're in a rut and can't see where our next win is coming from...

Expect a grim end to the season. Not sure where the goals are going to come from. I would say set pieces but our delivery there has been poor as well recently...

Let's hope he has an Alan McCormack rather than a Ross McCormack (2nd time round) style debut...

Fair enough to go with your own system and not change the way you play too much to suit the opposition. But if the idea of Gallagher and Hartley going man for man with Griffiths and Edouard doesn't give you the fear, you're a braver man than me..