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I'm not against looking anywhere for good youngsters, but our squad has been pretty solid this season. It's just when we need to accommodate senior players we tend to struggle.

Lewis Grabban that scores the equaliser against Preston.

Considering this month is probably the worst it will be for the season, it's in pretty good shape.

Don't know if he's fit or not, but coming on in the 88th minute of games isn't going to help him. I see Connor Ripley's playing against his Dad's old team tonight.

That's still not true, though, for the reasons I posted earlier. Even if exactly the same events occured in every game for every team, as soon as you have a human making decisions you are adding a bias. Unless that human chooses between pen/no pen, goal/no goal etc. exactly 50/50. So until every game for every team contains exactly the same set of events and the ref consistently makes yes/no decisions exactly 50/50, some teams will benefit more than others.

Ciftci has to start just for the wind-up factor alone.

It always has been. Tossing a coin will "even itself out" over the course of a large number of coin flips. Referees making penalty calls, linesmen flagging for offsides, strikers hitting the woodwork etc. are not independent, random events and will never "even themselves out".

If that Accies OG hadn't happened so early, there's no telling how that game would have panned out. A bad result there and our 2018 might have been a lot worse. Pens aside, we need to be scoring in open play rather than relying on opinions of officials. That's how you avoid bad luck.

No doubt Murphy's experiences down south improved him as a player - pity it's Rangers that are seeing the benefit. Even more amazing is an 8 goal game at Accies.

Double figures now.

O.G against Accies and O.G. against Dundee were lucky (and important).

Good post. Will read again.

One day we'll sign a creative midfielder. Until that day, we are always going to struggle against any team that beds in.

Good positive line-up. Hartley on Mixlr. Looking forward to an entertaining match.

2 - 0. Goals for Campbell and Lawson. They beat us 5 - 1 earlier in the season. We finished 10th in the league. I found a print of the stats from the old Rothman's Football Yearbook (in a pdf file) of that entire season here.

That must be a young Henry Hall there in front of Bobby Watson.

Uh huh.

The diving annoyed me far more than the dirty play.

Two teams with a bit of form often ends up in a low scoring stalemate. Hope this isn't one of those.

^^^^ Still hurtin'

He played in the side that beat Spain earlier tonight too.

Hope Dundee get relegated now. They had one job...

Any result that keeps both teams below us is OK with me.

You must have missed my "not that I'm saying we should have signed him" quote. It was more a case of wondering if we are still in the market for a free agent striker.

More than Paul Slane, less than Allan Campbell.