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Craigan leaving us now. Wonder if he's looking to stay in the game or spend more time on telly. Certainly did a great job with the youngsters.

3, with 2 suspended. And was it not for getting sent to the stands? Problem is he has previous, so every time this happens it will get more severe.

Rotating the squad like we did tonight is the kind cold, hard professionialism that we lacked last December - and paid the price with a miserable run of results.

Exactly this. Guys like McHugh and Moore (and Thomas) did well on loan in the lower leagues, but couldn't make the step up. Signs are good Hastie won't suffer the same fate, but until we give him some game time we won't know for sure.

I don't usually subscribe to the idea of writing off any game, and I'm normally a fan of "in about them" away to the OF. Given our efforts last December, and the importance of the next couple of games, however, I can understand the logic behind this one. Of course, if we don't win on Saturday, then the knives will be (further) out.

I didn't even bother firing up the MFC TV stream. I have Arsenal v Spurs on in the background.

Guess who the ref was the last time we won there.

Boyle - 209,900 (down from 280,400 the prior year) Les - 994,181 (down from 1,468,800 the prior year) {Les wrote off 193,979 as part of the double-your-money offer, and the club anticipates the current double-your-money offer will clear about another 200k this year}. So the debt was reduced by 545,119. The loans in the first 3 years are paid off solely from % of transfer revenue. After that there is a fixed payment schedule. As they are all interest free, there's little point in tying up working capital to pay them off early.

Depends on the player. Skippy still put in a shift for us after he signed for Celtic.

He's been getting first team football (and an international debut) that he might not have got sitting on the bench at a league 1 team or whatever. So while I agree he needs to kick on, he's done not bad for a 22 year old.

That's what I was wondering. Not that I ever sit in that stand, but never been a fan of fences, nets etc. to peer through.

We can't make players sign contracts. If Turnbull has someone whispering in his ear with promises about bigger and better things, there's not much we can do about it apart from point to all the others who moved on too soon. Kipré is about the only youngster in recent times that has been able to secure a first team spot at a higher level. The rest tend to sit in the reserves (or end up in Iran). As always, there's a balance to be found on length of contracts for the youngsters. There's also lot to be said for first team football at this point in a player's career.

Agreed. Priority this week is first choice players being fit and ready for the St Mirren game.

I have no doubt if we sign a wide player it will be a wing back. I just wish we had the option of a wide player whose main job was to take on defenders and hit the bye-line.

Which is why I worry he wants to try and find another winger to convert to a wing back. I'd much rather we had an option that was an out and out winger.

Aye, they turned over Killie after we took a point off them. Think they'll be firing on all cylinders against us. Time to play our fringe players and just park the bus?

I just hope he isn't looking to try and convert a good winger into an average wing-back.

Good to see Dunne back in the team, although his concession of the penalty was the act of a guy that hasn't played first team football for a while. Along with Mbulu, he brings the added pace we have been lacking in recent weeks.

Wille Miller said we deserved the win, so I'll assume we did.

You can see why Robinson says he brought in him as a Number One (in anticipation of Carson leaving). Thought we'd do well to get a point today, so delighted to pick up all 3 in a place we have struggled to find any recent form.

Just call me Nostradamus. (Still not convinced with the new tactic of giving away pens to motivate the team with a Gillespie save).

Actual salaries were £3,557,247 compared to £2,849,993 the previous year. With social security and pensions costs included, £3,931,798 compared to £3,137,508 the prior year. The most interesting part of the accounts are the gate receipts which more than doubled compared to the prior year. Just shows how important a good cup run or two means to the bottom line.

The Well Society should consider providing oxycodone before every match.

The accounts state that costs increased by £1.35 million, the "majority" of which were Staff costs, (but that includes the extra staff needed to meet Project Brave criteria), and increased costs for staff, stewards, power light and heating from the extra games played at Fir Park. If you look at the reported figures, the actual staff costs in 2018 were about £794k more than 2017. Which still means the "majority" of the cost increase went to staff. It doesn't mean we spaffed a million-plus on players, though.

It's difficult to be 100% sure as I don't have access to those accounts. But given JB and a couple of ex-directors admissions about how they lost money by overpaying players (especially when it came to bonuses), I think it's a fair bet our salary budget is less now. At least in real terms.