DUNDEE v HAMILTON

Dundee have changed their formation several times this season.

There isn’t a senior player who hasn’t been given a chance in the top team.

January signings were made and there has even been a youngster thrown into the deep end in the last couple of weeks.

And nobody is waiting in the wings to return from injury.

You couldn’t accuse Paul Hartley of inaction

As he put it, though: “How do we change it?

“It’s hard because we’ve done everything we can – in terms of systems, players, different shapes, personnel.” So what’s left? Hope, basically. Hope that enough of his team come good to ensure there is another dramatic lurch of form, as has been the case with Dundee throughout this season.

Hope that Motherwell will bring back good memories and snap them out of their horrible downward momentum.

Hope that Inverness don’t suddenly kick into gear and make things a whole lot worse.

Hope that, if things continue as they are, the weighting in favour of the Premiership side for the play-offs proves to be significant as it has in previous years.

Hope that if it is to be an end-of-season home and away shoot-out for the Dark Blues, confidence isn’t completely shot by then.

And hope that, as bad as they look just now in Premiership terms, they’ll still be better than Falkirk, Morton or, yes, Dundee United.

Paul Hartley: cannot be accused of inaction.