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Looks like McLennan through the middle in a 5-3-2.

Hopefully that rather than the 5-2-3 I suspect it is. I'm assuming Considine is injured?

An absolute classic retort. Guy just stood there speechless. Delighted Avi's gone and loved the toe curling cringe factor Tim gave when he called out his patronising tone in the board room. Also, some episodes no amount of editing is saving; we all knew exactly how much they'd sold!

This 100%. Not a massive astro fan but absolutely scunnered watching games on this pitch. Dreadful game. Saints so unbelievablely predicable in there style and patterns. At least we can play the second half "more like an away game".

Well, that too.

Think Hallberg is been a big reason why Motherwell have struggled to play out. If you play this formation, you need a midfield like this. Phillips has been fantastic again. 5 year deal.

Philips excellent again today. Hope we get him tied down for longer.

Ignoring an obvious second yellow there.....

Odd Sinclair not on the bench for today?

Unbelievable

Farcical.

Another nonsense handball decision. Once it takes the deflection, what can he do?

Maybe close browser, clear cookies and history, may sure VPN is connected then retry.

Puree money

Even by our standards in Glasgow, expect a low turnout today. Unless you have a record you're trying to keep, I can't see anything appetising about going to this especially at the price point and time of year. Surely we stick to 4-4-2 for this given it contained Rangers pretty well last time? Matthews Brown Mitchell Considine Montgomery Wright Philips Hallberg Wotherspoon May Clark Imagine it will be Gordon over Mitchell and MacPherson over one of the midfielders. Horrible feeling a drubbing will see either the 4-4-2 binned or see someone like Philips hung out to dry. Think we'll see Bair get some game time today too.

And partly because season ticket holders already have this game included as well I imagine. Not a word from the club about the changes though. No explanation. Communications is a total shambles at the moment. Incredibly unprofessional.

So, what were you all doing a year ago?

Is Hallberg playing centre forward??

No apology. "Assurances" that some aspects of seating/pricing were wrong and won't happen again but absolutely no information as to what part. Also, please buy tickets for Saturday.

Yeah, my thoughts too. 2.8-3k season tickets holders isn't there? Once you account to hospitality too you'd not have much (any?) room for PAYG tickets. For me, that's been the most frustrating part of this. It was a very different decision back pre-COVID when we had much less season ticket holders. I'm sure that retaining the east stand for old firm games was even mentioned as a positive after the increase by the club? The post-double cup growth and the frankly astonishing fact that crowds have if anything risen since (up 23% year on year I saw on twitter) should be something to be celebrated and encouraged. Instead they've doused it the first opportunity they've got. The chance here to really push a cup game under the lights, maybe push the fact they've put faith that fans will come, has been totally missed. It's such incredibly short term thinking. And I can't even begin to address the (non)reaction from the club since the decision and subsequent fallout. Far too angry.

There's a lot I'm angry about in that statement but finding out I can watch the game on Saints International TV after splashing out £15 on viaplay is right up there.

Assuming a 400-500 POTG and Livingston fans that means a fair few that had already paid for the game didn't bother. Courier reporting less than 300 sold for Saturday

Definitely the wrong firing in terms in who actually lost that task. Good business plan unveiled already? That said how the boys got away with that mess of a presentation is a miracle. Enjoyed the immature chuckling at "supporting Bradley's meat" though.

Nicest you can say is that's still 0-0. Murphy and Carey barely in the game and May totally isolated. Both them off and Spoony and Clark on please.

Trying to put a positive spin on it at least we have a LWB and two actual midfielders as the sitting two (though I'd probably have Phillips over McPherson) so at least the shape shouldn't be the mess it was the last couple of games. Cannot see the logic in the return to the 5-2-3 from an attacking POV though. May's been much better alongside a partner and struggled on his own and as others of stated Murphy and Carey haven't shown an awful lot recently to pick themselves over the plethora of options in those positions either. Need both, and particularly Murphy, to provide a lot more effort when we don't have the ball either.