Motherwell 3-2 Inverness CT - Report

Well's Porter bags a hat-trick 

With news and rumours of players signing pre-contracts and leaving you'd be forgiven for thinking that even players now considered HMS Sneck a sinking ship...and given the continued poor form then they might just be right!!!

2 Goals from Chris Porter would have left us dead and buried at half-time had it not been for Ross Tokely "using his head" to bring us back into things just before the break.  We didn't lose our trademark early goal in the second half, but Porter secured ownership of the match ball when he completed his hat-trick on 78 minutes.  Caley Thistle were awarded a penalty in the 90th minute, and even though Smith managed to keep out the initial shot Rooney was on hand to nod it home and the game finished 3-2. 

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 Anyone who witnessed that and still thinks ICT are still just "going through a sticky patch" needs sectioned.

Another week, another new formation. This time something approximating a 5-4-1 with Tokely and Hastings (cough) "pushing on", Wood alone up front and Roy McBain playing Ian Black's role as the ball-holding, pass-making central midfielder . I assume Black was injured: surely even Brewster wouldn't be stupid enough to drop our best player from the squad for a must-win game, even if he is going to Hearts...

Anyway, the predictable happened: the 5 defenders couldn't defend, McBain couldn't hold or pass, Wood ran around with great enthusiasm to absolutely no effect, Cowie, the putative saviour of Rangers, strolled around the place like the Duke of Edinburgh visiting a sewage works, the punts were many, long and aimless, and Motherwell murdered us.

The scoreline is probably the worst possible for us. If it had been 4 - or 5-1, as it should have been, then probably our board couldn't put off sacking Brewster any longer. However, as they seem to get all their information about the games by watching Jeff Stelling or reading Ceefax, they'll probably just have looked at the scoreline and thought, as my wife said when I got home, "sounded like a close game". Bullshit. Motherwell tried to play football throughout, and although they looked quite fragile and probably gave the ball away to us needlessly more than any team I've seen this season, they were still miles better.

If we carry on like this, we won't win another game this season. Most of the players tried hard today, but confidence is shot, they're being asked to play in formations and positions that are unfamiliar to them, and they're seeing our most talented players slipping away one by one. Once again: Brewster must go.