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Ibra on for Billy. Go on lad! 

How does this guy still have a job? 

He's got shirt number 13! :D 

2 - 1 

Logan. 

Got to just go for it now. 

Manager of the Month seems to be the kiss of death.

We are down by one goal at half time, this is clearly down to one man and one man alone!

HUGHES OUT! 

A great result  and was watching the BBC Stats in first half 13 shot and only 3 on target a bit worrying and a 60/40 possession then at start of second half possession dropped to 55/45 in our favour and remained like that for a long time. we finished with 17shots so only 4 in the second half with 1 of these on target and possession finished 58/42 in our favour. So looks like we controlled the game and limited Motherwell to 5 shots and 0 zero on target

 

Great start to the season I did not think we would win today so that is a real bonus and ahead of where I thought we would be , but big test comes next week look at Dundee Untd result today.

 

I will be happy next week if we can hold Celtic and not get the drubbings that we have had from them recently

We held them to a draw after going two up last season. Why settle for less? Go hard or go home. 

Could this be a return of the Home and Away scenario. As predicted by maself we have hit top spot with a 7/9 point start. The form of Watkins and the pressure of Doran may bring changes to the system. Next week will be very, very interesting.

No doubt, you always have to play players in form. I think Watkins' performance over the past few games merits a starting place again next week. 

 

I think Danny Williams is going to be an extremely important player this season. Player with huge potential.

At 19, Ryan Christie is a player with huge potential. Danny Williams, on the other hand, is nearly 27. In the short career that is football, I'd say that he's now too 'old' to be described in those terms.

 

There are plenty of late bloomers in football, Didier Drogba being one. 

I,all eat my hat!!!!!!!!!

Interesting. 

 

Possession60%40%32minsMotherwellInverness Caledonian Thistle

Shots

1 9

On target

0 2

Corners

1 3

Fouls

 

I just spotted the stats on BBC, look rather impressive if wasteful in regards to the 10 shots / 2 on target. At least Motherwell look like they are being entirely restricted. 

Great video. This better raise his value! Perhaps we should stop saying ''he scores when he wants'' and change to ''he scores when he can'' though. 

I wasn't aware Hamilton Accies were a mini-Rangers unionist club.  Fans with an Accie-fied Union flag, allegedly selling "Vote No" t-shirts in the club shop and displaying advertising boards for a charity set-up by former-BNP members (which also states a very antagonistic slogan by the way).

Those ******** for having political opinions!

Is it possible that we may have found our equivalent of Paul Scholes in Ryan Christie? The kid has amazing vision. I look forward to watching him progress through this season. 

For goodness sake the first game of the season, we are winning two nil. Do you think you can hold back on the sarcasm just for a wee while ?

Sure. Let's see what the second half brings! 

Win: The team is doing really well! 

Draw: We should of won that one.

Lose: HUGHES' STYLE OF PLAY DOESN'T SUIT OUR TEAM! 

:) 

Doran, Arguably our best player is on the bench and we're playing with 1 winger, great... Hope Hughes proves me wrong

I find he tires himself out too easy. I would not be surprised if it's the plan to take him on at around the 60th minute. 

Realistically: Top 6.

Optimistically: European qualification. 

Our team really has potential. Sure there are some areas we could focus more training on, like creating interesting moves that throw the opposition of and creates a chance. We need to focus a lot on counter attacks, despite being able to hold our shape (from what I saw in the last handful of games of the previous season) and being able to finish a chance. We need competition for BIlly; get a loanee in and play them in the first three matches or so. 

To be honest, if he was to go I could see us getting a pretty good loanee. Given that we send our players down the Scottish leagues, it's likely that English Championship and Premier League clubs will look to loan their young talent to an SPL team. We've seen this happen.

I don't know, sometimes a young loanee striker wanting to prove their metal will fair better than a comfortable Billy Mckay with no competition. Really we could do with keeping him and getting a loanee. 

I did not know this was a thing, but I'm going to win. 

How about the ICT fans continually punching above our weight.

This sentence really struck a chord. A bit more of a community feeling between the fans would really help the atmosphere I'm sure of it. 

I entirely consider our current squad top 6 material. Look at the talent and ability we have signed up long(ish) term now! Shinnie is in crazy form and if Doran can lay off the pies he is just deadly. I have faith in Yogi and Russell at this point. Given a good break and an even better pre-season, I suspect to get off to a flying start again. 

It's time we go back to basics. How does a new club get support? Free tickets and plentiful deals throughout the season. The biggest issue is, the ICT are freaking shocking at advertising, bar a banner on the roundabout and a facebook/twitter update. I'd like to see ads on MFR, local news papers and hand outs in school for kids to take home to the parents. 

What about a match day package? Your ticket, a beverage and a pie for X amount. Are we even able to control ticket prices? I'd see the club take a loss in a season with more fans down at the park. We have 3.5k loyal fans turning up, let's get some of those on the fence over too! 

Couple more of these games and everyone will be begging Hughes not to go back to Hibs after Terry gets sacked. 

 

 

I honestly doubt that we'd be able to sign any players in any position that are better than what we have just now, they just need to be utilised better.

 

I don't believe we need many new players, but we certainly need a few. The squad is growing tired and mistakes are being made, partly due to the influx of games. The squad isn't big enough to handle a league cup final, a Scottish Cup quarter final, game cancellations and be pushed to try enter Europe. It's been a difficult season in truth. The team has shown how much they have improved to handle with that pressure as best they can.

We need a player to both add, and take away pressure from Billy. To make him work for his place (to improve him) and to let him rest. With the current defensive problems, I would be tempted to push Shinnie up the field into midfield and have both Tremarco and Raven on. This means we essentially have both a midfielder and an additional defender. . 

The style of play Yogi is trying to play has to be favoured from the previous style. Sure it worked for us, but teams had sussed us out by now. It's time for change, and I do feel Yogi and Lapaty have an idea of where to take the team. Sometimes you just have to take one step forward and two steps back to really improve. Give them this summer to iron out any bugs, and I'm sure the next season will kick off just fine.