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If St Mirren lose tonight then I think they'd just send them to Firhill again as their season would be all but over. The major question is the play off place between us and Ross County and I don't think they'll give one team the advantage of more home games than the other. But this is the SPFL!

We've only ever fallen victim once. We have never been 'rewarded'. We had only 18 home games once and that saw us swap a home game against Celtic ( and all the hospitality and income that came with it). Honestly, if we end up getting shafted then someone needs to be threatening legal action. The obvious choice is to leave Kilmarnock unbalanced. Rangers and Celtic have never ever had an unbalanced league season. Hmm, I wonder why that is?

i don't think there's a hard and fast rule on it but I know Killie and Inverness in the past disprove your theory. I don't think they'd want to court controversy by leaving us with less home games than our nearest rivals. They're saving all the controversy for the push to get The Rangers into the top division. Given our away form if we only get two home games we are definitely doomed.

We shouldn't do. The SPFL would be leaving themselves open to accusations if they don't keep teams near the bottom playing 19 home and away. Looking back it tends to be teams whose season is effectively over who get shafted. The only major exception to that was last year when Aberdeen only had 18 home games, but had previously had three seasons with 20 home games. I think Killie will end up short on home games this time.

Get McDonald on a deal. Now.

Lets Killie play on for 30 seconds then pulls up play with Coyne going clear!

Indeed it was, one of Andrew Waddell's many bizarre decisions that day. Mind you, we were owed that one after Louis Thow.

Must take something, preferably all three points. Don't care how.

Man City have just paid a potential half a million for a 14-year-old. World's gone mad

Let's get a whip round organised!

Re the second clip, the penalties that the Old Firm have been given down the years border on criminal.

Also watched highlights and agree completely about the red card. Might still be a tricky one to appeal though.

I'm old enough to remember a bit more. Ally had returned from Argentina with his tail between his legs. Even that baggage was enough to see him a better choice than the outgoing Roger Hynd though. Jose Mourinho couldn't have kept us up in 78-79. I remember the headline splashed on the back pages when Ally put something like ten first team players up for sale and brought in youngsters. The only win we got in our last 16 league games was a 2-0 win at home to Rangers. 79-80 we had a poor start with no wins in our first seven games. Ally brought in Brian McLaughlin from Ayr and things improved but we still ended up 8 behind second placed Airdrie. We came closer the next year, just three behind 2nd placed Dundee but we had another slow start. For some reason I went into 81-82 full of confidence. We had ended the last year with only one defeat in 16 games. But again we had a slow start taking just one point from a tough league cup group that included two Premier teams and that was enough to see Ally out, Davie Hay in and we know the rest. Davie brought in Alfie Conn and, later in the season, Tommy O'Hara and we strolled the league. Would Ally's team have won the league? Possibly but maybe not so convincingly. Ally had spent a few years building that team and maybe deserved the chance to see the job through.

Although apparently Nicky Law moved on to a bigger club

Ask if you can take a kettle drum or, better still a Japanese O'Daiko.

My hatred for JPR has never waned. So glad he got done for accepting bribes. Also done was his assistant Rollo Kyle who was the only ref ever to use the four step rule, or so it seemed, and it cost us a Cup semi final. One other abomination was Dougie McDonald who, in his career managed to send off THIRTEEN Motherwell players but only three of our opponents. If I recall rightly something like one in every six red cards he ever issued was to a Motherwell player.

I'm still convinced he got a second yellow for handball!

Ah. my mistake, used to be five in the Cup. Reeks of arrogance that we played a weakened starting eleven and didn't even fill the bench for the possibility of defeat then.

We had five players as subs because in the Scottish Cup there are only five permitted.

I thought that was only meant to happen for one season! I'm so gullible I'm going to have to start reading the Daily Record.

He was only about 5' 7" to start with. Coat please.

I think Rangers RIP may have clinched their 77/78 title against us at Ibrox.

Starting or on the bench?

Hghlights on BBC Scottish Cup pages.