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Maybe he's trying to emulate Jacob Blyth's success. (Or maybe all the rumours are just bollocks and we never offered him anything anyway.)

I'm sure the majority of us will take it every day of the week for a while. But after that while, either that 5th needs to start getting higher or the quality of entertainment needs to improve, at least if they want me to keep shelling out for my MFC TV subscription.

To be fair (not that he particularly deserves it), he doesn't technically need to see it land. Assuming he could see Carroll steaming into the challenge at all, and he thought that was reckless, he's entitled to dish out a red card regardless of what ended up connecting with what. As others have said, give him a decision to make and you're always going to run the risk.

Hit it straight at Billy Thomson tbf. Think he just let it in for a laugh.

We should have been, but it was a bit of a no-win situation anyway. Even the correct decision of an uncontested drop ball would have handed most of the advantage back to Livi, as they would then just have packed the box with the defenders who were nowhere near the original incident. Doesn't excuse the cop-out/error, but I think that's why I'm finding it hard to be too annoyed about it. (Well, that and the fact we won, of course.)

And just like that, we leapfrog Rangers into 5th. Might as well start looking out the passports now.

Oh, I don't doubt that at all... it's just unfortunate* that in silhouette, it looked like a ship * Or actually quite fitting, I suppose.

It still looks like a battleship steamer to me, to be honest, just a more detailed one. Even has a proper bow at the front, now...

I don't know what the definition of a handball is these days either, but the punishment for goalkeepers outside the box is the same as for an outfield player: yellow for stopping a "promising attack", red for denying a "clear goalscoring opportunity".

Wasn't their decision to make, though. All they can do is make a case to their local authority and hope for the best.

The club also mentioned at the time that they'd had a favourable insurance payout for the interruption to their business, however, so hopefully that will mitigate things to some extent. (Apparently we were one of only 6 clubs that had insurance covering an outbreak of contagious or infectious disease.)

Didn't even get the first word right

To be fair, we've had very few strikers over the years that you'd back to score more often than not in a one-on-one -- Mr Woolery didn't exactly excel himself at the weekend either. (And Curtis will always have some credit in the bank for the one he did score at Hampden.)

I'm sure we'd all like it to matter, but the reality is that it doesn't, as Rangers and others have shown repeatedly over the years. Being well-run helps to even out your performance peaks and troughs over time, but it doesn't entitle you to achieve anything... just means you're more likely to keep coming back for another go every year.

“Deserve to”? No, the only position a football club deserves to finish is the one it earns through results on the pitch. How well run they are will inevitably affect that over a period of time, but any other definition of who deserves to win what is getting into delusional ugly sister territory.

Obviously pretty much impossible to predict until our business is done and our preferred starting 11 becomes apparent. But I wouldn't be surprised to see us finish one place either side of the split, and would be pretty happy with that given the major rebuild we've had to do.

14 years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_cups/6234049.stm

There's even a CGI version these days, grandad. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/thunderbirds-review-new-thunderbirds-are-go-series-2015

Possibly, but sound like they're only looking to loan him out, so he's not likely to be going anywhere better, especially if he'd prefer to come back north.

I'm not even that bothered about how we do in the League Cup group, it's just some extra pre-season games these days, though of course we wouldn't want to be papped out at that stage. Serious business starts on day 1 of the league.

Hang on, I thought folk loved last year's, and the year's before that...?

I agree it's not the only fair way, but (as a non-ST holder but probably on the more generous end of the Well Society donation scale) I find it hard to be overly-critical here. They've never had to do this before, the situation is still changing almost daily, and regardless, it seems like a fairly well-established principle now that being a season ticket holder is no longer *just* about which gate you go in on a Saturday, but occasionally offers other advantages too.

I thought you were meant to be a day ahead in Oz, not two days behind :-P

Would guess it'll cost us in wages and potential sell-ons instead, but yes... certainly a refreshing change of approach, let's hope it works out for all concerned.

Everyone keeps saying that, but I've given up waiting for it all to collapse, just like I gave up waiting for Rangers going into administration again. There are plenty of rich mugs willing to keep pumping the money in to keep the whole charade going.