Our team is in need of drastic surgery in the January sales and I hope that Maurice Malpas can prove that he is up to the job.
The gorgie band of East European mercenaries were simply too strong for us on Saturday and were quicker to every ball. I don't necessarily think we played that poorly with the players we had available but it did highlight the fact that we have an horrendously thin squad. Some of the players we are relying on this season simply are not good enough, and MM has to find replacements in January.
In my eyes we have four key players this season, who need to be playing in every game for us to be any good. Regrettably all of them have been injured at one point or another, and one of them has just been ruled out for the rest of the season.
1 - Craigan
2 - Corrigan
3 - Lasley
4 - Skippy
Other players could be counted as crucial as well, such as Foran, Kerr and Paterson, but these players seem only to play well when the team plays well but do very little when things are going against us.
MM must find players in January who can join this list. We desperately need a central midfielder, a wide midfielder and a target man up front. We have already lost out on Alan McCormack who would have fitted the bill perfectly but we can only hope that Malpas has other avenues to follow. We have had a few players over from
Its hard to recommend anyone who we can sign but there must be a good few who are either coming to the end of their contracts or are out in the cold at their teams. Alan Gow from
We have to play the next four fixtures with the squad we have, with the next two games in particular vital to our SPL survival. Both are against teams that are around us in the league and both are very winnable matches.
Dundee Utd have had an upturn in fortune since Levein took over but they still can't be classified as a decent team. They are better organised and more motivated but we should still beat them at
The game at
Predictions:
Motherwell 2
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