MelvinBragg

Problem with a back four is unless you have a striker who can play as a lone striker, it means 442 and only playing two in centre midfield you can get outplayed in there. That's what happened to us yesterday. 433 or a 'squinty' 442 with one winger are your other options and until Frear returns we don't have a proper winger. Or a great option for left wing back for that matter. Maybe should be a signing priority..?

Interesting reading. Sounds to me like the club are almost saying "if you want to bid for our players, fine. But we won't be selling anyone on deadline day and leaving ourselves in the same situation we were after we sold Johnson". Like, if you want to bid, get on with it...

Nope. Cadden or Tait for me...

Maybe another attempt to drum up some bids..?

I tend to agree. In flashes Lucas looked like there was genuine technical ability there. Were he ever to actually stay fit for any length of time, pretty sure he could do a good job at the levels you mentioned. Question would be is whether he is always going to be so injury prone..?

Good news is, if there's any truth to it, we can ask for a decent fee for Cadden due to the fact we'd be entitled to a fair whack of compensation should he leave at the end of his contract...

Plummer in for Dunne, Campbell in for McHugh and Griffiths in for Carson, give the armband to the last guy to captain Motherwell to a trophy. No need to worry about appeals. Would like to see a balanced side with threat from both wings. Could Frear be back? If not, Tanner or MacLean have to play...

Seem to be having a lot of possession in games without converting any chances. No striker has scored since the Morton game. Can't go on like that. Be interested to hear what those at the game thought. It sounded like we controlled the game, is that true? Are the goals we're losing down to individual errors or lack of organisation? Are the strikers not scoring because they're missing easy chances or are we not creating good chances? I've missed the last few games due to work so will be interested to hear what those who've been there think...

Lack of discipline? Be interested to see each of the decisions to see if they were justified. Concerned that we're conceding a penalty a game. Not helping ourselves. A lot of talk from those within the club that hard work and commitment are things "you get for free". Concern would be the things we're giving away for free...

You're telling me we're playing Fisher left midfield?

Apparently we're dominating possession according to every source. Would rather pick up points though...

To be fair, against Rangers it was a penalty and a deflected shot. A pen against Ross County. Can't comment on today's goals as I haven't seen them...

Still early but next few games starting to look crucial...

If we could stop conceding early goals, that would be smashing. Two weeks in a row...

Same eleven as the other night with the exception of Bowman and Fisher for Moult and Tanner. So I suspect it's the same formation as Wednesday, whatever that was...

The rules and the interpretation of them change so often these days (do you know you can make a fourth sub in extra time?!?!?) that I've kind of given up trying to work out what's right or wrong in the eyes of the SFA...

No thanks...

Ah, the old McGhee approach of worrying more about the opposition than anything else. Let's hope we don't see a return to that inferiority complex. I know studying your opponents prior to a match is crucial but I'd rather that meant slight tweaks to our set up rather than basing our entire plan on what the opposition are likely to do. I suspect we'll line up 352 anyway...

We received £600k for Johnson? Generous. If we get anything like £300k in addition to that, it'll be a ridiculously good bit of business...

The thing with Cadden, as was pointed out when Hearts made their derisory offer, we would be due a fair amount of compensation were he to leave at the end of his contract so it will have to be a decent fee for us to sell him. I think teams may want to wait to see if he can sustain this form before making an offer so I reckon January is more likely to see offers if he does keep going as he is. Massive loss when he does go. Moult, is he being affected by speculation or is it simply a hangover from being injured and slightly behind the others preseason wise? I know he scored a couple of free kicks in the league cup group stages but it feels similar to Fisher in that he just needs a goal right now to lift him a bit...

A Motherwell team winning an away cup tie in extra time while down to ten men? With three midfielders scoring? Surely some mistake...

Go back a page and read about seven posts...

Could be wrong but pretty sure that a new FIFA rule stated that you could make a fourth sub in extra time...

Bit irritated at us scoring just into extra time as us not winning in normal time cost me £100..

Good. We'll be able to decide if we even want to go through or not...