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I'm surprised in this day and age of the "mental game" and sports psychologists, that these kind of mind games work. But there's no doubt about it, that all this talk of being physical is affecting some opposition players and managers. It helps take the focus away from some of the other positive aspects of our game - and that's to our advantage.

I'm pretty sure the gaffer wheeled him out to say things like that. He wants everybody to think the physical side of the game is the only tactic we have.

One of our best pieces of business. Heneghan out for a tidy sum - and a better player in.

I'm just glad not to be reading any "Celtic are a great team, so we'll have to play our best and hope to catch them on an off day" patter.

Celtic away is the banker.

My 1991 scarf is the one I bought in 1975 for the Airdrie semi-final. So its results are mixed.

The fact that we haven't lined up against Celtic this season just makes the tactical battle even more interesting.

Even if we don't get a sell-on, he's been one of the best signings we made in a long time. All thanks to the fact we changed our business model to allowing small transfer fees to be paid.

Plummer plays centre of defence and left back, so maybe just there to provide cover for both positions.

Aye, credit to the gaffer. Aberdeen won at Fir Park by adjusting to our tactics from the cup game - so well done for addressing that in this game.

Realistically, if you'd told me we'd take 3 points from our next 3 league games while winning a trophy, I'd have said that is acceptable.

Not just a great result, but sounds like a great performance.

I hope Hastie's not a former player. He looked like one that might make the step up.

Because he brings something to the team the manager thinks we need - and as manager, he knows more about the game than most fans.

The result at Ross County seemed to hinge mostly on horrific defending. I agree, however, that teams will set out to nullify us. That's what I meant a few weeks ago when I said that we need to switch it up a bit, particularly in the use of Frear, Bigi, Tanner etc. who can add a bit more variation and guile to our play. .

1978 wasn't great, but it was still better than not qualifying. And we'll always have those few minutes after Archie's goal where we thought we might just do it.

That's right. Then when he became a ref he quickly moved up the ranks to SFA Development Officer and then Head of Refereeing at FIFA. Used to enjoy giving fans of the OF serious stick (plus the odd dig at Accies) in his classroom.

My old geography teacher (George Cumming).

Maybe we should just not bother playing the game then. Alternatively, maybe just play how we want to play and not worry about the ref.

I don't remember any cheating when he refereed our play-off game against the Rangers Franchisees.

The terrible idea was what clubs had to do to continue to receive funding, and the way it excluded others. It's not a terrible idea to develop youngsters as much as possible - which is what we're doing here. Screwing over a key component to our survival as a club would not have made sense at any level. We can still keep pushing for change.

As a part owner of the club, I want Hampden to be be full. I'd prefer Motherwell fans, but if Motherwell fans can't fill our allocation, then I'm not fussed if it's Celtic fans or neutrals that make up the numbers. I don't get the hate for people "there for the occasion". It would be one thing if they were taking tickets away from the hard core support, but it looks like there will be enough to accommodate all parties concerned.

Guys like Bigi, Frear, Tanner (and I'm assuming Petravičius) can certainly play it on the deck. I think we'd have more success with that than a hapless long ball game. I don't think there's a defence in the SPFL that can't handle aimless punts into the box. There's no defence that likes guys with the ball at their feet and running at them. Not to say they should all be in the starting line up. We need be using our high pressing game from the get-go. But if all we do with our possession is pump it high and long, we might as well not bother showing up.

If we played Bowman up top we'll just resort to pumping long balls up to him. I don't think that's the way to take on this Celtic team.

So what made Gahagan a great? And what made Gary McAllister not a great?