MJC

The comments made at 0-2 and half time were absolutely fair and reasonable going by our first half performance. It looked for all the world like yet another gutless no-show against one of the Old Firm that we’ve seen all to often over the last few years. And it absolutely was in that first half. The second half was a different story. We actually showed a bit of fight, a bit of aggression and we’re rewarded for it. Woolery’s run and assist for the first goal was testament to that and to then go on and get an equaliser showed a huge amount of character from the team. So, if you pardon the cliché, it was a game of two halves.

Kelly by a mile. Some absolutely cracking saves kept us in that otherwise we would have been dead and buried by 30 minutes in.

See when we actually play with a big of aggression and have a go we actually look like a capable side.

I can’t remember the last time I felt so satisfied with a draw. And when did we last play twice at Ibrox in the same season and not lose?

Kelly has been tremendous again for us today. A quality goalkeeper!

Fuck me!!!! 2-2

Get in!!! And what a run and assist from Woolery.

Correct. Our attitude in these games can be summed up in six words. ”Welcome to our great wee club”

Morelos really is a detestable wee arsehole of a player.

Feeble stuff from us so far. So depressing.

No van Veen, not even on the bench. Tierney starts.

St.Mirren losing benefits us so that’s pleasing. Livingston winning doesn’t as it puts them on the same points as us but ahead on GD so it’s us and the both of them on 34 points.

McGhee’s Dundee currently being pumped 3-0 at home by Livingston. Get it right up him

It doesn’t do any harm having an experienced back up goalkeeper on the books. Perhaps at age 34 Fox might have one eye on moving into coaching and maybe the club see it the same way? I do though see your point about having a youngster as back up, and indeed we do have one in PJ Morrison who will be looking to break into the first team sooner or later. I don’t know what this extension for Fox means for young Morrison.

On a side note, it’ll be twenty-five years this May since we last won a league match at Ibrox. Have we ever had such a barren run at any other away ground we’ve visited regularly? For comparison in that same period we have won four times at Celtic Park in League fixtures. That’s one of the many reasons why winning there in the playoff 1st leg was so incredible, because we won what was the biggest game there of the lot since that day in May 97.

I’m sure the link with the NI job was in summer 2020, just six months before he left. He was linked with the Hearts vacancy late Oct/early Nov 2019. But you are correct in saying that he had ran out of ideas by the end, in fact he ran out long before the end. It was obvious just a few weeks into 20/21 that we were going nowhere, home losses to Accies & Utd, a loss at Ross County and Coleraine taking us to penalties in the EL. And there was that ridiculous run of us not scoring a single equalising goal from August until the end of January last year, when Robinson had left.

He stayed with us a year, possibly two years too long imo. I liked Robinson, he was a breath of fresh air in his first season after the awful era that was McGhee’s second spell and the Cup Final season was one of the most enjoyable we’ve had in the last decade. His transfer business in the subsequent windows let him down badly though, albeit he was hamstrung by our scouting policy. Season 18/19 was eyebleedingly bad for the first part with us basically playing hoofball to a front line of Curtis Main and Conor Sammon, before he eventually brought Turnbull and Hastie into the side which ended up being the bright lights of that season. Had he moved on in summer 2019 or to Hearts when linked in the Autumn of that year it would probably have been best for both parties. I know some will point to ‘a 3rd placed’ finish in 2020 but we were poor for the majority of that season and our form from the winter shutdown to the covid abandonment was dismal and it seemed like a case of who was less likely to cut our own throats between ourselves and Aberdeen as to who would get 3rd. As it was the season was stopped hours before we were due to play Aberdeen and we ended ‘finishing 3rd’ by default. The less said about our 2020 transfer business and form until he left, the better. But all in all, Robinson is a good guy and I wish him well.

To be fair his managerial stock was never higher than it was up here with us from 2017 until about 2019. Two Cup Finals in the same season, was in charge when David Turnbull broke into first team football, was linked heavily with the managers jobs at Hearts and Northern Ireland and, regardless of the circumstances, ‘finished 3rd’ and qualified for Europe with us in the curtailed 19/20 season. He’s a good fit for the game up here and vice-versa, I can completely see why he’d be keen to come back to it.

The likelihood is that we’ll lose here, but strangely I feel more optimistic facing them at Ibrox than I would if this was at Fir Park. In our last three visits to Ibrox we have lost 2-1 & 3-1 having led both times then drew 1-1 with them in September with their goal being offside. Hopefully with them coming off of a European game on Thursday night they’ll be leg weary and if we can avoid conceding early on their crowd will get on their backs. Realistically 0-1 Optimistically 1-1

Live on BBC One Scotland too. That is sure to hamper the attendance on the day which is a pity. Still, hopefully a fine Sunday lunchtime affair with us pumping Hibs out then we can relax and enjoy the Semi Final draw the following evening.

If he’s fit we should be playing him! He’s our best forward player and we need to be playing our strongest side when we need points on the board, regardless of opposition.

Yeah I didn’t think the pitch was in bad nick atall. Especially when you take into account the two storms we’ve had over the past week and last Saturday’s deluge then it was as good a nick as we could have hoped for. Time was one day of relatively heavy rain was enough to have Fir Park waterlogged and unplayable.

Actually found that quite enjoyable even though we didn’t get the win. I hate the term “on another day” but really, on another day we would have won that at least 3-1. Hopefully van Veen’s injury isn’t too bad, he’s a key player for us and it was great to see him set up the equaliser. And how Jonny Hayes didn’t even get booked for that assault on O’Hara is ludicrous! With us away at Ibrox next Sunday you start to look towards that Ross County/Dundee home double header as two games we really need to be picking up maximum points from.

Yip slightly unlucky to behind but it’s starting to look like ‘one of those days’. We really need to be much more clinical with chances, that has been a problem all season.

0-1 Uphill struggle now.