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I'm quite confident he'll get another10 years added on.

He doesn't have a shoulder injury - he has a cracked collar bone. It's touch and go if that heals in time.

The bigots in the stand haven't changed, though - or the in the media.

No point in blaming a guy we play for 15 minutes every 5 weeks for not being match fit or match sharp. Especially if the expectation was he'd be another hard running, hard tackling headless chicken up front. It's like expecting an out and out left winger to play as a wingback.

The only time I have ever seen us win a Cup, we won 7 of our last 9 league games (including a 2 -1 win at Celtic Park and scudding Rangers 3 - 0 at Fir Park). It's fair to say, that for me, that seems a healthier way to approach it.

If you're embarrassed, it's not meaningless after all.

We'll not finish 7th if we lose our remaining "meaningless games".

A tightrope they're quite happy to charge punters full price to watch, though.

This resting players and saving ourselves for the cup final seems like a great idea.

Not really worth a topic of it's own, so I'll mention it here. Dougie Imrie's penalty miss - pleasing.

If he's putting up with the sectarian bigoted nonsense for purely financial reasons, that makes it worse. I can't imagine he's struggling to make ends meet these days.

Chat from Robinson this morning was that Scott was expected to be out for 10 days, so might make the final.

For everyone that wants to rest players - it seems we do them more damage in training than we do playing competitive games.

I said at the time of the initial transfer/loan situation I'd be amazed if Murphy was still there next season - based purely on my expectation there would be a new manager with their own ideas about personnel (and no money to spend on Murphy). Then again, I thought there would be no way Gerrard would be stupid enough to believe the stories he'll be spun about transfer kitties and war chests, but it looks like I'll be wrong there too. I already saw the first reports about the Board begging for more investment so they could by more players. (I'm wrong so often, I should be a professional pundit).

I remember the clause about the season ticket money, but I thought it was more of an option than a requirement. Knowing Rangers, however, even if it was a requiurement, they wouldn't hesitate to break it.

Unless the new gaffer doesn't want Murphy and/or they can't afford to buy him.

I'm really an Accies fan.

Big Gunnar has won a cup and a couple of league titles since leaving us. I've never worked out if he was bad, or just bad with us.

I hope you're right. I'm still amazed nobody wanted to buy Randolph, though.

That's a good point. I'm sure there a lot of long distance fans who invested their travel budget in the League Cup final. If I travelled to both finals it would have cost me close to $3000.

{Every ticket thread on here} "We're in the Final" -- "Brilliant - how many tickets have we sold?" "I don't know - we're in the final" --"Great - but why has 'Flow not insisted on more tickets?" "We're in the Final" --"Aye, Brilliant - can we stop calling it he Celtic end?" "It's our second final of the season" --"I know, but the tickets - how many? "It's the FINAL" --"Aye, but the tickets need to go to real 'Well fans, not day trippers" "2nd FINAL" --"Only half the tickets sold? That's poor" "IT'S THE FINAL" --"Do I need to sit in my allocated seat?"

We've got what these days? 4,000 regulars? Even if there are double that in occasional/long distance attendees, that still only takes us up to 12,000. I suspect if it wasn't one of the OF we were up against, there may have been a few more occasional fans that made an effort to come along.

Don't forget George Long.

They're limited by parking. I think, like the semi, the club has run all the buses that Hampden will accommodate.

So it seems like we managed to keep all those pesky "day trippers" away then? That was a close call.