Probably not. We are a team lacking in confidence and creativity and we fully deserve to be where we currently are in the table. The lack of ideas is seeing smaller gates as each week passes and there isn't likely to be much of an away support tomorrow.
Our record against Motherwell has slipped somewhat in recent years. In our first season up we beat them twice - including that memorable match at Fir Park - and drew twice. But in the three seasons that followed we managed to beat them just once a year - and one of those was in the cup last season. Things haven't improved much this season as we've only managed a point from our two games against them. Quite simply, something needs to change - but it's hardly likely to happen tomorrow.
I have mixed memories of midweek trips to Fir Park. I know we lost there during the week in 2000, but we won there in the League Cup just over a year ago. The pitch seems to be getting back to the way it was last season, so perhaps our hit and hope style of defending may come into its own.
In both our games against Motherwell this season, Gareth Wardlaw has scored. However, the striker won't be able to keep that run going tomorrow night as he's injured. However, he could be fully fit and Motherwell could forget to turn up and he still wouldn't score tomorrow, such are our tactics at the moment. We are set up to try to get a draw and cling on desperately for a point but, as we sit deeper and deeper, it repeatedly fails to work. Quite how everyone apart from the management can't see this is anyone's guess.
Performances like the one on Saturday should see wholesale changes. Someone like Kenny McLean or Aaron Mooy should be coming into the midfield to add a bit of extra creativity. But it'll almost certainly be the same team again, with changes only through injury or tiredness rather than any tactical genius. That means Marc McAusland still at rightback, Jure Travner frustrated at leftback and an incredibly defensive midfield. Craig Dargo's involvement adds some movement up front, but there won't be much of it as he was shattered on Sunday. Paul McQuade and David Barron will join Wardlaw on the sicklist.
Motherwell were flying along before Christmas thanks to the managerial skills of vetern Craig Brown. However, when he left - and took Nick Blackman with him - their form dipped a bit under new boss Stuart McCall, although they have now won their last two matches. Tomorrow night will almost certainly see him make it three wins in as many games.
Brown left behind a damn good squad, despite the fact Mark Reynolds was sold to Sheffield Wednesday during January. I'd love us to sign someone like Chris Humphrey - a winger with some pace - and they have good defenders like Stephen Craigan and Steven Saunders, who was capped for Scotland earlier this season. Darren Randolph is a handy keeper too, even if he does sound more like an RAF pilot than a goalkeeper.
The departure of Blackman, who had been scoring goals for fun in the first half of the season, certainly didn't help them. A bid to sign Mike Grella on loan from Leeds failed, but since the window closed McCall has brought in Francis Jeffers, who has played for Everton, Arsenal and Rangers. Before he arrived, former Saint John Sutton had been enjoying a run in the side. The striker was with us for two years and scored the best part of 30 goals in that time, a phenomenal return. The last two of those came in that game against Motherwell I mentioned earlier, so it's rather ironic he now plays for them - and annoying he seems to enjoy scoring against us! His partnership with Jamie Murphy seems to have been working well lately and they are beginning to fill the hole left by Blackman, with Jeffers adding an extra dimension to the attack.
While the Grella bid failed, McCall did manage to snare a couple of signings during January. Blackburn youngster Gavin Greening should help shore up the defence, while Steve Jones has come in on loan from Walsall. The experienced winger should more than make up for the loss of Alan Gow, who was pretty anonymous during his short spell at Fir Park.
But Motherwell could have a team of Gow's tomorrow and it probably wouldn't matter as, unless we improve dramatically, this is the most stick on home win they'll have all season.
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