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Thank you very much flappy the Falkirk goalie your ineptitude got us a point I think it's fair to say we were lucky tonight but I'll try and be positive and look at it as a point gained. For the first 30 minutes the players didn't have a clue what they were meant to be doing! The 4-5-1 formation didn't work. Wood was left high and dry with no support. We had the usual nonsense of Cowie on the left & Imrie on the right. Vigurs was the holding midfielder (!!) with Duncan & Black either side. Every time Black pushed forward Brewster was shouting at him to drop back. Complete shambles. We did switch to 4-4-2 for the last 15 minutes with Imrie moving up front. The double switch at half-time did have an impact but considering we were so rubbish in the first half it would be hard not to improve. & Wilson looked lively when he came on but we only knicked the point thanks to another dodgy Falkirk keeper. Not many get pass marks tonight. Tokely was probably our most creative player!! Black came onto a bit of a game in the second half. Rooney hustled, bustled & scrapped and Wilson whipped in a few decent balls. The rest ranged from average to woeful. Hastings & Proctor were especially dodgy tonight. All in all much a great relief not to lose but that was more down to luck than anything I'm afraid. Must do better on Saturday

I thought this was a joke at first but then I read on!!! Why are we even contemplating trying to sign Byrne? :thumb04: Even if he did join he'd be unlikely to ever play. The minute he put pen to paper on a contract his hamstring would go again

You might argue he is slightly biased being an ex-ITC manager & Hearts legend Fantastic result today and 3 much needed points. :thumb04:

The latest P&J online article Fraser and Proctor search for redemption at Easter Road It starts off saying that Fraser & Proctor will keep there places for Saturday's game before then going on to quote Brewster saying he hasn't decided whether he is going to rest Fraser yet ot not!! Very odd.

Esson Tokely Duff Munro Hastings Cowie Black Duncan Vigurs Imrie Rooney

I assume the above are SPL fixtures only as we've played 33 games in 2008? The cup games don't really change the stats much anyway 2 wins & 2 defeats

I'm surprised he hasn't been subbed yet - I mean surely he'll give vigurs 3 mins at the end to try and change the game

Probably as Rangers have taken there foot off the gas and will be treating the second half as a practice match

So far so good - no more goals conceded! Maybe Rangers are tired after celebrating the previous 5??

Will someone make those bigger boys stop scoring goals I wonder if anyone predicted this scoreline at half-time? :thumb04: I seem to have gone past anger and reached a zen-like state of D'oh

AWESOME display so far Most people would have expected a defeat but this is turning into a massacre!! Our goal difrerence is going to take a real pummeling as well

I think the most annoying/frustrating thing about today was that on the whole we were the better team. 4-4-2 suits us at home and everyone started in there preferred position for once. It's not as if anyone played particularly badly either and yet we come away with nothing - again!! Unfortunately for us the Motherwells managers substitutions were just better than ours although like I said earlier he can be forgiven for the Black - McBain swop as Ian was injured

Well done to all who attended on such a horrible day but Oh dear!! I think it's safe to say that the double substitution McGhee made changed the whole game so I hope Brewster was taking notes!! We were 1-0 up and the only side in it and he obviously needed to do something as that was the worst Motherwell performance I'd seen up here for a long, long time! Will need to see the hi-lights of how they got the equaliser as Porter seemed to have oceans of space and buried the ball clinically. The free kick from Malcolm was a superb one although it should have never been given in the first place. For those querying the substitution of Black it looks like he hurt his shoulder again so the swop for McBain can be explained. However, I have no idea why we took Rooney off when Wood was the obvious candidate to get hooked and putting Barrowman on with 2 minutes to go was pointless. That's 5 defeats in the last 6 games now. Even the most super-optimistic of our fans must realise we are in a relegation dog fight already! Saying that I think we are better than Hamilton & St Mirren

The wind is going to ruin the game today. Trying to keep the ball on the deck will be essential

"Inverness always do well at home" Therefore it'll be 1-1

We apparently had him watched playing in friendly for Morton against Rangers this week!!

The Inverness Courier is saying he will be out for at least a month with ankle ligament damage

Regardless of who plays we really need 3 points form this game

McBain is consistently the least effective player in our team and shouldn't even be playing

Apparently we are trying to get special permission for him to play for the reserves next week

On the subject of injuries why does the P&J say that Black was at Raigmore having an X-Ray on his anterior cruciate joint after injuring his shoulder on Saturday?? Aren't they in your knee???

We've kept 9 clean sheets in the 48 games since Brewster returned (3 were against Gretna) Of those 48 games we have...... Won 20 Lost 23 Drawn 5 5 of the wins were against Gretna and another 3 were lower league opposition in the cups So in 40 games against SPL side the record reads.... Won 12 Lost 23 Drawn 5 (I'm bored at work and this was just a quick tally so there may well be errors!)

P&J are reporting that discussions are to begin this week with Munro, Fraser & Black P&J LINK

So far in the SPL we've scored more than we've conceded so it isn't really an issue at the moment! However, the next 3 fixtures are just about as tough as it gets and I'm more than a little worried that we'll be bottom of the SPL come the end of play on November 1st

What odds on him predicting we'll lose the next 3 games? Mind you they are pretty much the toughest of the season!