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van Veen.

Make your pick - and pretend we were saving ourselves for Wednesday.

I might be the outlier here, but I'm actually quite happy that we're 4th.

Getting the last 5 minutes to savour the win.

All finished nicely. A free hit for us tomorrow. Any points (however unlikely) a huge bonus. Lose, and we're still 4th.

Noticed Louis Moult gets a start for Burton Albion today.

Was reading through the accounts today and was interested in the revenue for our European games. Income from UEFA was £774,812 for our matches, plus another £210,000 from the UEFA solidarity payments - giving a total of £984,812. Our expenses for competing in the Europa League (travel & hotel costs) were £115,000. So our earnings from our short-lived campaign were £869,812. That's a decent return for the Betfred Cup Group stage alternative.

It's been about 2 months since Celtic beat us 1 - 0 on their own patch. While I'm not expecting points in this game, there is no reason to think we can't compete. The whole "Donnelly is pish" thing is as insightful as the whole "Lamie is pish" thing and the whole "Mugabi is pish" thing. They all do OK if they are played in the right position in the right formation. (And I haven't forgotten when steelboy wrote off Higdon as pish too).

There seems to be quite a few managers and clubs who think they'll be the ones that can sort him out. Queens Park were the early favourites, and then Falkirk. Earlier this week St Johnstone were in the mix and then St Mirren showed an interest after Brophy was injured.

We need to play a high press, high energy one to keep this competitive. The one plus is Celtic won't be as pumped up to play us as they were Rangers. They are still the best team in Scotland right now, however, so I'm not expecting much in the way of points. For anyone living in the US, I see our game is live on CBS Sports at 8:30 EST.

St Johnstone, too, they were reporting this morning.

There's no doubt Griffiths was a top class striker. I'd be amazed, however, if he ever performs at that level again as he just isn't managing what appears to be mental health issues. Sadly, I've seen nothing in the past few years that suggests he's likely to fare any better with any other team. On one hand, playing football probably gives him a level of comfort and stability he needs. On the other hand, walking away from football for a year or two to focus entirely on his health might be exactly what he needs.

Surprisingly (and impressively) good given the environment we were operating in.

Aye, Booo the new young player. Booo. He's not even up to speed yet, and was an enforced sub, but BOOOOOOOO. BOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Not sure what happened with that, but we voted against too. However, the report I read said the 5 subs was going ahead.

Place your vote for Tierney here.

That's been our problem the last few weeks/months. I think we'll do enough to sneak a one goal win tonight.

A bigger mistake if we brought in one that was worse than what we have. And as I've said a few times, it's rare that a Premiership class forward (that we can afford) is available in January. Best case, they come from a lower league and will take 2 months before they are fit enough for 90 minutes.

I'd have been OK with Aaron Ramsey

Make your choice. Could be worse. Some of us have snow to shovel.

If he normally play as a left winger, it's his assists that are his key stat.

Another classic "under the radar" signing from the club.

The key to beating them the last time was keeping the high press for 90 minutes. That needs to be the minimum for this game, but no reason we can't do it again.

Not every player is a great tackler, and not every midfielder needs to be a defender. You need the balance between holding, box to box, and creative. One of our best teams had Bobby Russell and Davie Cooper playing beside each other. I doubt if they made 10 tackles between them in their time at Fir Park.

According to the BBC Stats page, Goss is currently sitting top of our stats with most assists, most passes made (by quite some margin), most passes completed, second most chances created (after van Veen) and most "Chances per 90".