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Different management, same player/manager recruitment strategy.

I would certainly hope so, given he's an academy product who's arguably the best Scottish player in the league right now.

The Tynecastle design.

Light seats will look worn and dirty much sooner than dark seats.

Maybe for some. But I enjoyed our last 2nd place finish as much as I enjoyed winning the cup. The one before that was ultimately a little frustrating as we had a legitimate shot at the title. Pinning your hopes of success in competitions where you need a slice of luck to win is rarely going to make you happy (as you are proving with your frustration).

Of course Gary Player is also well documented cheat. (Google it, if you're not old enough to remember. Even Tom Watson accused him of it). Penalty shoot outs, especially in the Scottish Cup, are rare to say the least. A more interesting question would be "how many penalty shoot outs have we had against a top flight side"? It's a bit unfair to discount other "wee" teams - especially when we've knocked in all 5 on various occasions. That's also a bit unfair. "Apart from the season when we got to two finals and beat multiple top flight teams along the way - including a classic battle against Rangers - we haven't done anything in the cup or beat good teams since 2011!" Also, since 2011 we have finished second in the league once, third in the league 3 times and fourth in the league once. So it hasn't exactly been dark times during that period.

Disappointing they put seats back on the steps.

Which make it all the more amazing to me that Aberdeen are sitting 9 points clear in fourth - because any time I have seen them this season, including this weekend, they have been honking.

Killie's relegation play-off game is shaping up to be a classic.

Any kind of win will do.

If there's no fans in Hampden, it doesn't count as a Cup win. Harsh, I know, but I don't make the rules.

His 9 wins out of 38 with the Atlanta 2 in the USL is particularly unimpressive. I have no problems with teams taking a chance on up and coming managers, but he doesn't seem to be more than a below average reserve team coach who happened to have played for Aberdeen. You have to imagine he was the cheap option.

Pity we didn't get drawn against Aberdeen. They have been beyond woeful today. Nothing up front and defensively awful.

It grinds my gears too, because pretty much every fan in Scotland outside of the OF goes through what we go through. Ditto for every other league in the world. The expectations may be different depending on the size of the club, but the vagaries of the game are what keep us coming back. You just need to watch a handful of games across the leagues on any given weekend to see that.

I'd prefer to win this one, then maybe change up the first team in the last couple.

I agree, but I can't remember the last time we signed a creative midfielder that didn't take pelters from a large portion of our support for not tackling like Wee Al. Turnbull would likely have received similar treatment if he hadn't been an academy product.

Cole was in the paper this week saying he'd be happy to stay and it's up to the club to make him an offer. I'm sure he's not the only one who's in that situation.

I'd like to beat Killie first, and then give the youngsters a run out.

Telt ye.

You mean compared to all the other top class performers in claret and amber?

We've got them just where we want them.

ESPN+ is usually top quality for me. Even if the team isn't.

My warm up match before our Cup game has Lukas Jutkiewicz so far scoring a double to keep Wayne Rooney's Derby in relegation trouble.

Cardiff and Swansea play in England and Wales.

Then it would be time for us to form a breakaway. The European Smashing Wee League or something.