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I played this as a Game of the Week on FIFA 14 last night. Lasley had a stinker - could barely find a man with his passing - and Faddy was non-existant. However, Vigurs scored a peach from 25 yards and 'Well ran out 1 - 0 winners. So obviously I expect the actual match to be a repeat.

The only manager in recent memory who might have been able to rebuild the squad better was Gannon. And even he may have struggled to replace as many first team regulars as we lost given the fact we had a smaller budget this season than last (and much smaller than when Gannon was boss).

See from Official Twitter that Lee Erwin requires surgery and likely out for the remainder of the season.

Ross McCormack (I know, he falls into the 5 years and a few months category)

Now is not the time to replacing a manager. Only at Fir Park would that patter surface when we are sitting 3rd in the league at the start of a rebuilding process after the core of our team was ripped out. If any manager (including McCall) can work under the constraints of this season and get us a top 6 finish, they should get a medal. Where are all the punters that were mouthing off about "I don't care if we field a team of boys that gets hammered every week, as long as Sevco aren't allowed back into the SPL?" Well, guess what? While we aren't penniless, we are working with a smaller budget again this year partly due to the Sevco affair, and this is the result. The team isn't near as good as last year yet, but last years' team took 4 seasons to build. And even then we had a crap home record at the same stage of our previous campaign. I doubt McCall needs telling that some players need a rocket or the elbow, but the way the transfer windows work there days, you have to bide your time. It might end up that this is McCall's last season, or he might turn things around and have the supporters clamouring for more. However, I think he has at least earned some breathing space given his overall performance in the last couple of seasons. Of course he has made mistakes; some he has learned from a few he hasn't. But that's the best we can hope for at our level - and give me a McCall over a John Hughes or Pat Fenlon any day of the week.

I'm obviously missing the point here, but what actions? We haven't played any more games since. If your talking about previous times we have hit a slump under McCall, we have turned it around to finish, for example, 3rd and 2nd in the league. To be honest, I'm not necessarily expecting a quick fix from this group of players with their lack of guile in the midfield and obvious lack of confidence. Unless Faddy suddenly sparks some magic, we don't have an obvious game changer right now, so all we can hope for in the next few games is effort and focus.

Apart from "I quit", what do you want the club captain to say that he didn't in that article.

Nothing on MFC TV from the game apart from the 'highlights'.

You do realize you just made that up? I don't think budget means what you think it means or realize that a budget isn't a static pot of cash. Like every club/business/household it can be modified as circumstances change.

That's it. Looked great under the floodlights on a wet Wednesday night.

Aye, I always liked our white away strips - except they were home strips because the home team changed in those days. We had another good one that was white with vertical claret and amber pinstripe band.

With some Dutch courage last night I looked up the details of the Queens Park defeat. It was 1979 and they gubbed us 4 - 1 at home in the first leg of a league cup tie. I remember the score, just couldn't remember the exact year. We never looked like overcoming it in the second leg at Hampden, although we did at least win that game. That was my first real taste of feeble cup exits. As for the most recent Ibrox debacle, it was a sore one, but the 5 - 1 capitulation in the CIS Final was worse for me.

I think the sash kit has more meaning to me because of the guys that played in it rather than the strip itself. It's iconic, definitely, but not one of my favourites.

Having a sense of perspective doesn't make you a Happy Clappy - although it does tend to make you happier. We're having a relatively poor season; some of it undetstandable, some of it not. But you know what? When you look at helicopters crashing in Glasgow and trains crashing in New York, maybe trying to sign a couple of new players in January isn't worth losing too much sleep over. No doubt things will be shaken up, but be careful what you wish for or we could end up doing a Hibs for a few seasons.

The worst cup defeat that sticks in my mind was getting gubbed by amateurs from Queens Park.

I meant that I hoped he wasn't injured so badly today that he was out for a while again - I wasn't implying he was always injured. From twitter, it sounded like a nasty one.

You certainly develop a perspective when you have been following any team for a long time. Undoubtedly we are on a downer, but it's not something that spoils my weekend any more. We lost the core of a team that took 4 years to build - I wasn't expecting much out of this season, and so far that's exactly what has been delivered. Not that I'm happy about overall performance, and we definitely need to continue the rebuild in the next window. I know there is some good money associated with difference in a league position or two, but if nothing else, we have a little bit more leeway to play the Moores, Leitches, Erwins (if he's not crocked again) into the first team.

It's not the worst result in my memory, never mind our history. It's a stinker, no doubt, but I have endured worse.

Aye, but at least we haven't heard "punching above our weight" recently. Been a problem that I have talked about since day one this season. Our strikers are the only ones that are scoring. The midfield is lacking in creativity and, more importantly, chipping in with goals. Without looking it up, Sutton must have just about scored more than Lawson, Lasley, Ainsworth, Vigurs, McFadden + ZFA cobined.

This is why we get pennies for our players while our rivals get the pounds - they talk them up, we put ours down.

It's up there, but it's no Queens Park. Financially, it's possibly worse. Loss in revenue could cost us a wage or two.

November seems like a reasonable time to offer a contract - especially as it seems the club was expecting to move him on last summer.

Put a white collar on it, and I agree.

Great to see our strikers scoring again today. We really need our midfield to be chipping in with a few more to help them out. Good day at the office.

Nooooo. I do like this effort, but the last Adidas is still one of my favourite strips of all time (despite the lack of hoop and the slightly off colours). Probably because it coincides with some of the best times I had following the team up and down the length of the country.