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Aye, seeing what Newcastle did last night with 2 goals in the last minute of time added on, I won't be comfortable unless we go 3 up.

Part of it's due to the fact we are often ahead at half time, so the opposition has to come out all guns blazing.

I think Lewis blocked it but not a great angle on the stream to say for sure,

Get in. Illic with a decent effort a couple of minutes ago. Donnelly gets the job done from a well taken free kick.

Commentators spot on saying we are cancelling each other out. Not much going on of any quality. Lots of scrapping in the midfield.

Still down to 10 men as O'Hara gets a head wound patched up.

Illic coming on - presumably to go wide and put Scott down the middle. EDIT: GazzyB beat me to it.

Long takes a nasty one (to his ankle, I think) and looks like he's done.

You do, but it costs money now.

Half chance for Aberdeen there, but Gillespie saves with his feet.

Players from both sides struggling to keep their feet.

One of the better commentaries, though. Usually pretty even handed - unlike the Fir Park mob.

Appeared a wee bit late for me, but running now.

Looks like we're going 4-4-2 with Grimshaw in for Tait, Donnelly starting with O'Hara, Polworth and Campbell and Long/Scott up top.

As long as Hartley keeps passing short to Donnelly he should be OK. We'll need his physical presence in defence.

Tragic.

Utd will be paying him 2 or 3 times what we could offer. They are piling cash into that team in a desperate effort to get promotion (which is starting to work).

We need to put in a better performance that our effort at Fir Park, which was one of our poorest showings of the season. Hoping for a win by the odd goal, but suspect this will end up a low scoring draw (0 - 0 or 1 - 1).

Scotsman reporting that Celtic are interested in Donnelly and "could make a move" before the end of the transfer window.

Turnbull will make 40 appearances when he picks up the Scottish Cup in his last game for us.

I could imagine multiple factors played a part. I'm sure our short term offer was pretty low and I can imagine not playing, but having to be around Fir Park most days, can make you want to move nearer to family and friends again. Plus he would have fallen down the pecking order again and likely thought a fresh start as a first team regular would be better than a bit-part player with the media and fans scrutinising every performance to see if he had regained his prior levels. Turnbull's interview at the weekend gave an insight into how tough psychologically a long term injury can be - and he's a local with a full local support network.

If we had a "misspelled players of the decade" Hutchinson would be top of every poll.

Aye, that's *exactly* what he meant (although, Cooper cost us £50k in 1989 so no way we could afford that in today's prices).

Like Robinson said in his podcast, the first thing he looks for in a new signing is pace - because you can coach the other parts of the game, but you can't coach speed. He might not improve, but he was certainly worth the punt we took. If nothing else, his pace gives the opposition something to think about even when he's not doing anything. He certainly hasn't improved the way Hylton has, but Hylton had 150+ first team games under his belt before he joined so was less of a gamble.

I think Donnelly has been Hartley's outball recently, which is why he might have struggled a bit yesterday.