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Kelly Johnston & Furlong at FB, Casey with one of Lamie, Blaney or McGinn at CH depending on who is fit. Butcher & Cornelius in the middle of midfield with Crankshaw & McKinstry wide midfield. KVV playing off Obika Dont want to see any off the following starting O’Donnell, Goss, Slattery, Danzaki or Tierney And I still think calls to drop Kelly are crazy, despite his mistake/s on Sat.

Daily Record reporting Lambert is out of the running, no great surprise given the wages he’ll have been on previously. No great lose either I don’t think. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/paul-lambert-wont-next-motherwell-29199789

I seem to remember you get an extra sub each if someone goes off with concussion. Maybe Jonny Hayes.

Killie getting hammered and Utd now down to ten men at Tynecastle. I’d take a boring 0-0 draw right now.

Been backing Hammell all week but that line up is a million miles from I would have picked. 4 full backs?

All about opinions but Kelly and Lamie are the last 2 players in the team I’d drop right now! I actually thought Lamie played ok on Wed night. Kelly not been as good as last season but he’s hardly making blunders, and we’ve no idea how good/bad Oxborough is.

Exactly what we’ve been crying out for! Defensive midfielder who breaks the play up and isn’t afraid of a hard tackle or two. Pity he can’t play today but thats certainly cheered me up 🙂

Agree both have been very poor lately, but unless we play our new centre half and move McGinn into midfield I just don’t think we have the options available to take both of them out. We have Cornelius (who himself hasn’t been great when he’s come in) but who else would you play in there?

Kelly, Johnson, McGinn, Lamie, Furlong, Cornelius, Slattery, McKinstry, Crankshaw, Van Veen, Obika. It’s attacking but I don’t want to see Goss, and the other midfield options are all attacking also. Would have considered McGinn into holding role in midfield but with 4 defenders injured and O’Donnell I don’t think that’s an option. I’d only give KVV 45 mins with someone up close to him to see if his attitude/work rate improves and if not get him off for Aitchison/Tierney/Danzaki.

My thoughts exactly. Was raging leaving Love Street on Saturday, tonight I’m just completely deflated.

Really not sure where to start with that, it’s been awful in recent weeks but tonight was even worse than anything we’ve seen so far this season. I’ve been firmly in the Hammell camp but I’m now having my doubts that he can turn this around. There’s now so much wrong I don’t know where we start, utterly depressing.

Good to see Danzaki and Aitchison in there, should hopefully bring some freshness. A little surprised McKinstry is on the bench but I suppose Crankshaw came on and did well on Sat. Hopefully Aitchison gets a bit closer to Van Veen than others have this season. Would give Van Veen until half time and if he looks as disinterested as he has in recent weeks get him off an Obeka on.

My thoughts exactly. With Penny and Sol gone, I think we need a left back, centre half and battling midfielder by the end of the night or we're in big trouble! You can add a striker to that as well if Mandron is out for any length of time.

Finally plucked up the courage to watch the highlights. A few observations: McGinn and Goss horrific for the goal and Kelly not to clever either. What is the point of having a VAR that doesn’t give that foul on Lamie, it’s so bloody obviously a penalty. We just can’t start on Wednesday night with a midfield of Slattery, Goss and Spittal, something HAS to change in there. Wish I shared Faddys confidence that we’ll be ok. Although the bookies share his view, remarkably we’re 12/1 to finish bottom, really not sure what they’re seeing that I’m not!!

What a frustrating afternoon (again). We were really poor (again), but we passed the ball better than them and to be honest, remarkably created more chances, despite how poor we were. Not sure who was at fault for the goal but a few on the left side of our defence seemed to switch off A few things need to happen (not happen) after today. McGinn should not play left back, did well last week but was very poor today. Shields shouldn’t be seen again as he’s just not good enough, despite the effort he puts in. The midfield 3 of Slattery, Goss and Spittal just does not work in this league! Finally Van Veen needs a rocket up his arse, no doubt when he’s on his game he’s our best player, but my god watching him would make you want to put your fist through a wall!!

Played very well, particularly impressive given he was playing right sided centre half.

Poor game on a poor pitch, but we were professional and got the job done. Kelly very little to do, whilst we scored twice, had one (rightly) disallowed and forced their keeper into a couple of saves. Good to get a win and to see Mandron get off the mark, should do his/our confidence a world of good. Avoid defeat in Paisley and beat the other Saints at home and we’ll be back on track…..(even I don’t believe that) Taking over 2k to Arbroath in the middle of Jan when we’re on such a bad run is mightily impressive. Was great to be on the terraces again!

McGinn, and he played pretty well.

Must signal the end for O’Donnell, unless he’s injured.

McGinn in midfield or three centre half’s? Look light on midfielders….very surprised Cornelius isn’t starting when Slattery is suspended.

Not in this lifetime!

Must win today and as long as we get enough support to KVV I think we will. Thankfully County don’t have a striker anywhere near the level of Nisbet! Expecting to see Cornelius & Shields out, McKinstry and Crankshaw in, with Spital playing in midfield.

Tough one to take. Really poor for the first 20 mins, gave away another soft goal, then managed to get on top for most of the rest of the game but just didn’t take our chances until the subs came on. Nisbet the difference between the teams, looked really sharp and took pretty well every chance he got, although defending from us looked terrible for all 3. No doubt Hammell’s struggling but the biggest issue we have is that we just don’t have the personal. Van Veen terrible again today, looks uninterested but he knows he’ll start next week anyway as there’s no competition for places. As a few others have said we need to stick by Hammell and back him in the transfer window.

Yeh agree with that! Avoid defeat today and then hopefully get at least 4 points from the next 2 home games and we’ll be heading back in the right direction!

Both appeals were unsuccessful, so both Pittman and Holt are out. Every little helps at this stage!