MelvinBragg

Well, we all know that isn't likely so as well hoping foran outcome that means problems get addressed rather than another 'unlucky' 1-0 defeat...

Game over. Hopefully Aberdeen rattle in a few goals, maybe force people at the club to have a long hard look at themselves...

Converting Maguire into a defensive midfielder isn't a bad idea if he has the attributes to play there. But given the number of centre midfielders we have at the club (I count six, maybe seven), is there any realistic chance of him getting a game there for the first team? Why re-sign both Rose and Grimshaw if the coaching staff feel that's Maguire's best position? Regards signing the guy from NEC, I don't see the point. Why sign a winger when Robinson's system has no use for them? Like Frear, he'd be picking up a wage with no real place in the team...

On the basis of the season so far, Main being out would not hinder us much...

I'd be tempted to revert to a McGhee style squinty 442 for this game. Gillespie Tait Aldred Hartley Taylor-Sinclair Bigirimana McHugh Campbell Frear Johnson Sammon Cadden needs a rest but Frear isn't a wing back so playing him there doesn't do him or the team any favours. If playing three at the back then Taylor-Sinclair or Livingston should play left wing back. Just feel that Frear started the season well and creates chances more than anyone else in our team so would like him in the team but not at wing back...

Aldred was garbage. Hearts kept allowing him to have the ball knowing they'd get it back soon enough...

Curtis Main for making me believe I could still make it as a professional footballer...

Losing is fine, what is unacceptable is the way the team totally loses its shape when a goal down. In both the Accies game and today, panic set in. It was like boys brigade football with everyone chasing the ball. Amateurish. And don't get me started on Robinson's substitutions...

I was always thinking January for Tanner given he had missed pre season. Dunne had pre season but like Hartley might take a while to get his sharpness back. I wouldn't have too much hope in seeing either of them this side of the winter break...

Don't ask me how or why I stumbled across the information, but it appears that Luke Watt and Robbie Leitch both appear to have signed for the same Croatian third division side. Anyone any idea how that came to pass? Seems a strange one to me...

We seem very wedded to 352 so any winger wouldn't see much game time...

How does my saying that it would be strange if we signed another centre half equate to my believing the story? Almost says the opposite....

As has been pointed out, us signing a centre half would seem strange. Not a massive fan of the combination we have at the moment but given the numbers we have, it would seem like overkill...

Watched the game on TV. Good team performance, hard to pick out a man of the match. Instinctively, wouldn't go for our defenders as we conceded three goals. Bigirimana was probably the pick of the midfielders, Johnson was the best up front. I'd go with Bigirimana as he was a large part of how we controlled the last 20 minutes...

To be fair, there weren't many situations where he could have given them anything. Don't remember any incidents in the game where a ref could have gone for them...

I see your Nadir Ciftci and I raise you a Calum Elliot and a Cillian Sheridan...

Goals this season. Sammon - 3 Main - 2 (one off his head he knew little about, one thrown in by a goalkeeper) Just saying... As it is, my preferred front two would be Bowman and Johnson. I reckon it's underplayed how many of Main's (and Moult's before him) goals were helped by the fact that Bowman is such a willing runner of the channels, dragging defenders with him...

Strikers need an early goal when they get to a club. Takes the pressure off the 'Still hasn't scored yet' burden. Doesn't always work out (I give you Wes Fletcher) but it definitely helps. Had Fisher scored even a couple of goals in the league cup group stages or even scored when he hit the post against Rangers, I reckon his Motherwell career could have been different. The longer he was at our club, the guy looked more like a guy that would never score again. Got to affect your confidence. To be fair, any time he was picked, he gave 100%. Just didn't work out...

If you want to change it up, would you not be better dropping the guys that are off form at the minute rather than McHugh? I can see three in your lineup at least whose form is worse than that of McHugh..

I can see the logic in some of your choices but Main should be nowhere near the first team. If you think we'll send a team out without Andy Rose, yer kidding yerself...

For me, pretty much all our centre midfielders have the same qualities, perhaps with the exception of Cadden if you play him there, or Turnbull. Even Bigirimana is pretty similar to Rose, McHugh and Grimshaw in that he prefers a 20 yard sideways pass. One can argue that the midfield is not that much to blame as our tactics involves bypassing them. All our central defenders have similar qualities. Elliot Frear, offers something different, but where does he fit in our 352 system. Maybe time for us to step away from the 352 in order to try and get the best out of the players we have..?

I don't necessarily think any individual player in the squad isn't good enough. What I would say is that the squad is very one dimensional. Grimshaw, Rose, Gorrin, McHugh, Bigirimana, are these players that are capable at SPL level? Probably. Could you combine them into a serviceable SPL midfield? I'd argue not because none of them offers anything massively different. The same applies to the forward line we started on Saturday. Are both capable at this level? You could make a case that both have shown in the past that they are. As a pair, no. We're pinning our hopes on Johnson or Bowman. At least Bowman drags defenders around the pitch by running the channels better than Sammon and Main. Likewise with Saturday's back three. Obviously the sale of Kipré and Dunne's injury has forced our hand there but short of Mbulu proving a revelation, the limitations of the back three will be there for the first third of the season. Sadly the size of the squad doesn't allow for bringing in any players offering anything different. I suspect that the wage bill might be at breaking point.. For me, if we're pinning our hopes on Bowman, Johnson and a Tanner that hasn't played in six months to try and win us games, we're effectively crossing our fingers and hoping for the best...

I wouldn't be so sure that that team would stay up. Have you seen Curtis Main this season? I think they're great players but I wonder when we'll see the best of Tanner or Dunne? Generally, I like to think I'm not the most negative fan. But I can see nothing to feel optimistic about on the field..

Accies may lack a leader (I actually think that it's the worst Accies team I've seen in years), but at least they were organised. As the game wore on and subs were made, it started to look like no one knew where they were supposed to be playing. Every other team you have listed have at least a point on the board. Livingston got a point at home to Kilmarnock. A great result? Far from it, but a result that we'd struggle to match right now...

If I had £50 to spare, I'd be all over this. Or more likely, checking the bookies' odds.. I can see no one in that squad that will either lead the team or do something special to win us a game, that's why I can't see us getting the ten wins that would see us having a shot of staying up. Transfer window isn't closed but signing a leader or a matchwinner would be difficult and further add to the bloated squad you described...