Motherwell right-back Richard Tait hopes a frank meeting has helped bring his team-mates together during a difficult build-up to Saturday’s trip to Kilmarnock . The Steelmen head to Rugby Park with Stephen Robinson in caretaker charge after Mark McGhee was sacked on Tuesday morning in the wake of a 5-1 home defeat by Dundee .

Is it any wonder the Motherwell striker was left confused and frustrated at the end of a dismal day for his team. With the match still 0-0 and the two teams separated by a coat of paint, Carl McHugh went in for a tackle on Don Cowie.

The Diary: Hipsters, Rangers being deid and at the same time the most successful club in the world, and remembering Uncle Phil The Diary: Hipsters, Rangers being deid and at the same time the most successful club in the world, and remembering Uncle Phil THE Head of Sport in here was at the Evening Times some 25 years ago, which was just past his 50th birthday incidentally, when a very small, delicate and young female voice came on the phone, asking about a photograph of the then-equally young Motherwell midfielder Phil O’Donnell, and could she have a copy. Unfortunately, given the dreaded red dot on the back , it didn’t belong to the Times, so the answer had to be no.

Mark Reynolds insists the flak Aberdeen took before last Friday night’s win over Motherwell was just a ‘perk’ of being one of Scotland’s top sides. The centre-back is adamant there was no panic as the Dons went through a sticky patch of only one Premiership win – a 5-1 thumping of Kilmarnock – from four games following a dismal defeat to Celtic in the Betfred Cup Final.

The Aussie striker scored a jaw-dropping overhead kick against the Dons but was left frustrated as Mark McGhee’s men succumbed to a 3-1 defeat. Scott McDonald has already filed Friday night’s wonder goal against Aberdeen into the memory bank in order to focus on Inverness tomorrow night.