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Hartley had plenty of time to take care of the situation. He was the man in position to make the tackle. He failed miserably.

Nah, Harltey gave it away and he should have been punished for giving it away again when we were 2 - 1 up. He put in the same kind of performance today as he did when we lost to Accies in December.

Hartley as in the Cup Final squad for the same reason Psycho was in the cup winning squad. He was in light training before the end of last season and there is no way anybody who can't run for 6 months is going to be magically fit with 4 or 5 weeks training. And that's not counting match fitness. Skippy was the master at that - took him until October most seasons to get match fit.

Time for Bigi to save the game with a wee bit of football.

With the pitch playing about 25 on the stimpmeter, I think it's going to be easier playing into the wind. Hartley shouldn't be playing though. He was out for 7 months and not close to match fit. The dry 3G and high bounce mean the long ball approach won't work. We might need to be radical and play some short passes on the deck.

I think our ethos at this stage is "win the group with the fittest players we have" Plus, let's not forget, with guys like Campbell (21), Cadden (22), Gorrin (24), Donnelly (22), Kipré (21), Grimshaw (23) - we're not exactly packing the first team with old pros. And we have some good youngsters out on loan where they are getting first team starts most weeks. If it continues into the league, I might get concerned, but I'd be more concerned if we lost out on winning our group because we wanted to give half a dozen 18 year olds a game 2 weeks into the season.

This link still seems good: http://www.time4tv.live/2017/04/bt-sport-2.php As always, make sure your ad blockers, script blockers and virus scanners are up to date.

No point in having youngsters on the bench today. If we are putting on a Stranraer performance we need the strongest options available as replacements.

They redeveloped it, though, didn't they? Which is when Clyde were kicked out. Or does it still look like this:

A game we should win - and then I remember being put to the sword at Fir Park by a 17 or 18 year old Pat Nevin. Shawfield was a strange ground to watch football in, but a shame that is another one that fell to the developers' bulldozers. Always enjoyed my trips there.

And McGuire did a decent shift there last season too.

So do I, but there's a difference between playing left back and playing the left side of a back 3.

Taylor-Sinclair can supposedly play on the left, so this will be the first test of the depth we have added to the squad this season.

Getting ahead of myself as I know these streams come and go, but as the game is on BT Sport 2, this link seems to work well. http://www.time4tv.live/2017/04/bt-sport-2.php (If it's on a different channel, there is a full list here: http://www.time4tv.live/categories/index.php) Note: My browsers are loaded up with ad-blockers, script blockers and pop-up blockers so I can't guarantee how safe and clean these are. If you do load up with blockers, you can play around with this site now to get the best settings in advance of the game.

Will do. If you have an Android phone/tablet you can view on the Mobdro app, but I'll check for streams too.

Nothing listed on the US channels that typically show football - and as far as I know there is no deal in place again this year. Will be an internet stream for me.

Sammon is a different option in as much as he's most effective when the ball's played to his feet. You watch his goals on youtube and 99% of the time he's taking a man on or being passed into a shooting chance. If we plan to use him as another big target man for long, high balls, we won't get the best out of him.

I think that was the highlight for the boys on the Mixlr commentary too.

Steven Gerrard was at the game tonight. Robinson was just trying to make Kipré look bad to avoid any dodgy bids.

I think 5 seniors was the limit then. Now you can fill the team with them. Not necessarily a bad thing for the boys learning their craft to come up against - if we take advantage of it.

I'm not too surprised we are falling away a bit in the second half at this stage of pre-season. We won't quite have 90 mins of high tempo in the legs yet. As long as it doesn't continue into the league.

Aye the seeding was a bit strange. Alternating them in the draw so one was home, next seed away etc. and didn't do us many favours.

Aye, sadly for Tanner, he got a lot of practice on Mixlr last season, but he's usually good value.

Aye, a win would put us on 7pts and leave QotS (having played all their games) on 9.

I was thinking more of the 2 goal, Fir Park debut of legend Crawford Baptie...