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Absolutely agree. Malice or incompetence in the single-owner model can be equally disastrous, though, which is why I am more comfortable with the current setup, even with all its challenges.

The "earn the right" phrase is typically used by managers who believe you aren't allowed to pass the ball for the first half hour. Only punts and hard tackles. As we have shown many times this season, it's also a legitimate tactic to come out of the blocks playing the game you want to play and imposing that on the opposition from the first minute.

Forget the sheep, tame or wild. John Boyle nearly finished us off, and he was on our side.

I fear they are, at best, heading into administration, and at worst, liquidating. It's been obvious for years now there has been some dodgy financial dealings going on there and, as always, it's the fans that get screwed over.

Back in July I took a few pelters when I said that, given we were never going to win the league, what I hoped for was to be entertained by the team. Turns out there were a few more that wanted the same as me.

v1.01 seems to have resolved a number of the visibility issues I was having. Still thinks I have no active subscription to the Society. Like others mentioned, I think it would have been easier to keep everything linked if you logged in with your membership number.

Given the change in lineup and then the way we played, the whole world could see the tactics after the first 10 minutes.

In context, I don't think JBA was in any way having a go at Hanley. He was just trying to explain his approach during a live interview, while grasping for a few exact words using his second language. If you listen to any of his interviews, including his pre-match against Hibs, he never has anything but praise and respect for all our opponents. What I took from this interview, was that our tactic was to target the defenders with pace and a high press, and close down their usual outlets. Meaning Hanley (and the other defenders) were having to bring it out rather than being able to pass it to their regular ball carriers like Cadden. The fabricated fuss is a bit ironic given the experts in the media make a living telling everyone how terrible certain players and mangers are on a weekly basis. And they have English as their native language (allegedly).

Or play better.

I'm sure it's Welsh's ability to play from the back that annoys old school defenders like Craigan into criticizing our style of play.

Well, it would be easier and cheaper (and better) just to scrap VAR, but with a few more cameras and some AI, we could get rid of the officials making the offiside decisions, and tweak the rule.

As always, it will be interesting to see how the newly promoted clubs fare in the second round of fixtures after managers have sussed them out. Some will continue to progress and make a claim for staying up. Others will get found out and slide back towards the bottom end of the table. We're in a strange position at the moment. On one hand, I genuinely don't fear playing any team right now, home or away. On the other hand, I know we aren't good enough yet at killing teams off, so games can be very tight. I was listening to the BBC Scotland Football Podcast during the week, and one of the presenters was saying a Falkirk player told him the first half against us at Fir Park was the most difficult he had ever played in - couldn't get near the ball or the players. More of the same, but for two halves, will do nicely. As plastic goes, it's probably the best of the bunch and the home team needs it to be slick for their style of play - so hopefully they won't be trying to make it slow and sticky for this one. Still want it kicked out of the game, though, On a side note, I read about Norwegian Women's player that failed a drug test, and they figured out it the banned substance had transferred to them from the breakdown of rubber crumb on a plastic pitch. Even worse, the substance is banned in Norway and the EU, but is believed to exist in many of the pitches used in the UK.

Based on the number of available cameras, the available camera angles, the inability of the video to capture the exact point in time the ball left the passers foot, the resolution of the video, the ability of the VAR officials to draw the appropriate lines of a consistent width and the ability of the officials to correctly determine the part of the arm that was offside is a part if the arm that can't play the ball - I agree, totally objective. As I have said before, the spirit of the original offside law was to prevent strikers hanging around the penalty box for 90 minutes. It has evolved over the years, but it was never the spirit of the law to rule out goals because of the width of the leather wrapped around a player's big toe. I think the rule needs adjusted to catch up with the technology.

After 2 password resets, I was finally able to log in. I use a password manager with some pretty long and complex values, so I'm guessing that maybe my initial efforts silently failed because they were too long (or too complex). When I shortened it on my 3rd attempt I was successful. Haven't played around with it yet, but will dig into it over the next few days.

We often struggle in December, but looking forward to it this year.

I'd be happy (but surprised) if we can keep Welsh until the end of the season. It's a double edged sword taking good players on loan. We benefit in the short term, but if they do well, they often get re-called by their parent club in the first window.

It really was a brilliant save. I don't remember who hit it, but it was heading for the postage stamp until Clark finger tipped it over the bar.

The last one I remember was against Aberdeen. Bobby Clark made a brilliant save for them and Martin Buchan played a blinder - so you can work out how long ago that was!

7 points from the last 3 games, with two clean sheets against Hibs and Hearts is a decent return. Could have won it today, though. Not quite ready for a title push yet.

Inevitable 0 - 0. Take your pick...

Login screen unreadable when using the Dark theme on my phone (black text on black background). Doesn't recognize my login credentials even after I reset the password. Says email address is invalid, despite having used the same email address for the Society since day 1. Was there any beta testing on it? It feels like there wasn't. I appreciate the effort, btw. It just seems it was released too soon.

I just hope that after the big build up it doesn't end up a nil-nil borefest.

I'll be delighted to watch us go 3 - 0 up and enjoy every last second.

It was very entertaining watching Iredale have a complete meltdown. Quite a few closeups on the MFC stream where he looked angry, frustrated, confused and helpless all at the same time.

I thought you had to throw them a few million quid every 6 months before they let you join the Board there.