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Having Bigi's creative influence in the midfield and a striker that looks like he might be a natural goal scorer is definitely a step forward from even the 2nd half of last season. Still have some concerns about our lack of pace at the back, but at least that is only short term until Dunne is fit.

Good to see Collum getting the derby, though. That will leave at least one set of fans fuming - bonus if it's both. As others have said, the "big" teams always get extra benefit from decisions. Just the same as the rich and famous get the benefit of the legal system.

I saw a lot of different highlights over the weekend, so I may be misremembering - but I'm pretty sure the Sportscene highlights showed the incident. And they highlighted (and discussed) the Mackay-Steven incident in the Aberdeen game. And had a pop at Willie Collum for being too quick with his red card. Regardless, what is and isn't shown in a 50 minutes highlight programme doesn't really bother me. If they had discussed the Hartlye incident, I guarantee the reaction would have been "he had it coming".

Bigi's deliveries were excellent. Tavernier's defending, in particular, was dreadful. Let the media worry about their defending and let us worry that Bigi will dropped when Dunne is fit and McHugh gets shifted back into midfield

They said something (although I don't remember exactly what). But as I said, keepers get away with violent conduct every week, so it's zero surprise there was no further action here.

Unless someone else ships out (or suffers a long term injury), I doubt we'll be seeing any new faces.

I'm still not sure that's true, It was shown on the live broadcast and on Sportscene. I don't think anything will happen though, because a keeper would need to beat a striker senseless with a baseball bat before a ref would consider awarding an indirect free kick. For some reason, the rules are never applied the same way to goalies.

Hope nobody left early...

The Accies game in particular, it seemed like we convinced ourselves we'd need to be ready for some massive, physical battle. When, in reality, this season's Accies is a poor shadow of what they were even last season. A bit of football from the kick off and it could have been very different.

I think that's part of it. Crags was the same when he started with BT Sport - although, thankfully, he's moved away from that now. Outside of his media duties, I've never heard McCulloch say a bad word about us or his time with us, so not particularly bothered what he says about a particular game as a pundit.

Delighted Bigi is showing why we brought him in. Even more delighted that Robinson is starting him.

The key to dealing with crossess is don't let your opponent cross the ball. We don't have many players doing that.

Need Dunne back ASAP. Wasn't convinced Hartley and Aldred could play together, and still need convincing now. Aldred was great in place of Hartley, but we lack speed and movement at the back.

Email from the club said they were having internet issues. Of course, it started working for me after we went 3 - 2 down. Back to our usual "give away as many as Rangers need" performances of the past 20 years. Hopefully we'll fix that in the 2nd half.

Got my dubious BT Sport stream running just in time for the 1st goal.

Off to a good start with the live stream not working due to "internet problems at Fir Park".

I think our defence can handle a big centre forward more easily than they can handle a nippy winger running at them (then, inevitably, letting him cut inside to shoot). Plus, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, both times Lafferty scored at Fir Park last season, we won - almost a good luck charm

I don't know if they have better players (although the probably do) - but they seem to be better organized and are showing a bit more commitment all over the park. That alone makes it a tougher proposition tomorrow. Unfortunate how serious Murphy's injury turned out, but not unhappy about his absence tomorrow - he is always capable of doing some damage.

I was concerned he'd throw Rangers a bone in the play-offs, but in fairness, he didn't really put a foot wrong from our perspective. Hope he does the same tomorrow.

"Orange Walks are just about being pro-Protestant." "IRA songs are just about being pro Irish." "UKIP is just about being pro UK." "Confederate flag is just about celebrating our southern history" "KKK is just about being pro-white." Same old language. Same old bigotry. Welcome to the 21st century.

Did they re-issue the 70s or just not sell many? My favourite is the 50s version with the hoop on the sleeves and rugby style collar, but the 60s effort is a close second.

Signed up. I know it's an international service, but was pleasantly surprised my credit card transaction went through first time. 26 games guaranteed seems like a good deal. Hope the club makes some money from it, too.

The most unforgivable part of the whole affair is that it lets Gerrard and Rangers adopt the moral high ground.

Gerrard's from Liverpool. Pretty sure he's up to speed with the whole 'sectarianism' thing and the mentality of the OF and the media.

I imagine it also depends if the service they use checks device location and/or the use of a VPN. Of course there are ways around that too, but just takes a little more effort.