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I think if we were to get a statue of Jock McDonald most people that know nothing about Caley would mistake it for a statue of Winston Churchill.

Shinnie will need recovery time and i doubt Gillet will get thrown straight in against Celtic. here goes... Esson Duff, Tokely, Hogg, Munro Hayes, Duncan, Cox, Doran Foran, Rooney Subs: Tuffey, Gillet, Ross, Sutherland, MacDonald

Fantastic turn around from Tuesday night and great too see Shane get off the mark, such a great strike too, hopefully thats one of many. And Alex McDonald getting his 1st goal too. Thought Butch got the tactics spot on today with Hogg and Tokely playing centre half, back four seemed much more solid and Duncan covered so much in midfield today and imo justified his cause for a starting place. Richie Foran, take a bow, played out of his skin today and by the looks of it was back to his best today. Motherwell for me looked sluggish, even when they were dominating in the 1st half, was very suprised to see Humphrey not starting, given Munro was at left back. By the time he was on it was all but over really was also funny watching the not so inspiring Francis Jeffers get bustled about by our backline, he never looked like scoring. Great to see us get back to winning ways and very pleasing to see us end a difficult week on a high.

Forgot Proctor is under contract for next season too.

Which is whats been said for the last month or so...so i can understand why the OP is scratching his head wondering why he isn't playing.

Yet again we have several players out of contract at the end of the season. Hayes, Foran, Esson, Tuffey, Cox, Ross, Sutherland, Morrison and Shinnie are the only players we have secured for next season. Players i'd keep are Munro, Duncan, Duff, Hogg, *Gillet, Rooney, *Sanchez, and Tokely. *Gillet will regain his place and stay i think and Sanchez for me was really impressive before he got injured and deserves a chance. I think we should at least try to retain Rooney but if he dosen't stay then oh well. Innes and Gil ain't cutting it for me and Roy and Gollie are past it. Odhiambo's future is debatable. Just want to know what other folks think...

Dougal sparking more controversy i see. Last night was a terrible display for all, no question of that but from looking at the team last i thought one problem was the fact that most players seemed to be running on empty. Hayes looked done after about half an hour, which is no suprise given that he was supposed to still be out, Ross looked fatigued when he came on, Doran only lasted about 20 minutes before hobbling off and Foran looked in desprate need of a break. Several months on and 3 more signings added and we still can't seem to get ahead in terms of using a full team, in fact we haven't been able to name a full team all season i think. Not using it as an excuse but we are a small squad at the best of times and difficult games in quick succession can't be easy for us just now. We put so much in to the beginning of the season and i think unfortunately the energy levels have dropped simply becuase the same players have had to be used constantly. We are not the greatest side in the league and we've clearly set ourselves in good stead to survive which was the priority at the start of the season, just now teams like Hibs, Midden, etc are in desprate need of the points to pull away from the dropzone, something we don't have to worry about (just now anyway). All im saying is we are a bottom 6 club and i think we just have to accept that for this season. Who knows we may get a shot next season again.

We have blown our best chance so far for a top 6 place and we have no one to blame but ourselves. We got bowled over like a band of skittles tonight by some of the most inept displays of football i've seen from us in years. Sure, we started well and almost sneaked ahead but slowly but surely we let United back into the game and were punished for doing so. Everytime we got into a good position we either screwed up with a combination of things. We either gave it away, played it out or fell over. We lacked any first touch and shooting chances turned into wasted crosses. Quite frankly i'm glad we won't be finishing in the top 6 as it is clear we're losing our bottle. I understand that we were patched together again in terms of a team but tonight we were meant to have enough craft to carve out a result. Simply didn't happen.

Esson Duff, Hogg, Tokely, Munro Ross, Cox, Duncan, Doran Rooney, Foran Subs: Tuffey, *Gillet, Innes, Morrison, *Hayes, Sutherland, MacDonald * if fit, if not then Odhiambo and Golabek.

I heard somewhere he has Scottish blood in him. Get him in the squad!

Esson Tokely, Hogg, Munro, Gillet Hayes, Duncan, Duff, Doran Rooney, Foran. Subs: Tuffey, Shinnie, Innes, Cox, Ross, Sanchez, Sutherland.

Sounds like their goals were a bit flukey so i guess we could feel a bit hard done by. Seems that Hibs had the better chances though. Need more players back and we need to stop using Odhiambo. He is such a burden on the team.

Provided Hayes is fit id go with Esson Tokely, Hogg, Munro, Duff Hayes, Cox, Duncan, Doran Foran, Rooney. Subs: Tuffey, Innes, Gillet, Ross, Odhiambo, Sutherland, MacDonald.

Got the rub of the green this week in terms of other results. Hopefully we use it as an incentive to beat the Hibees come Saturday.

Are the rave media reviews coming from his agent??

A player with a very bright future ahead of him.

He offered the height and strength yesterday but that was it. Tbh i think it was the right call as i doubt Eric woulda done much better on the wing but he was knackered by about an hour in.

I would switch Proctor and Duff around. Proctor only lasted about 20 minutes as a makeshift left back so i doubt he will be there again.

Great appointment for County, has his work cut out but he is the sort of manager they were in need of.

I dread to think what team we will be forced to field on Saturday. We still have till Saturday morning for more players to get injured or struck down by illness.

Green dot for the quality facts.

No Munro, no Tokely, Jonny limped of after just a few minutes, no left back fit too play and only 5 subs. I'd say we did fairly well.

Great servant to the club and once a great player. Good luck too him whatever he pursues.

Lovin it!

Oh dear.