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Of course we are, but every time a youngster leaves we hear "we didn't do enough to keep him" trotted out. Now, when we're telling them how good they are we're getting "touting him already" trotted out. We just need "why didn't we get him to sign a new contract" for the full set.

Alternate take: we are showing him how valued he is and encouraging him to stay with us.

Doesn't need to be fancy. In the US at least you can get something the like the Square Reader which lets you read chip and pin, and if necessary, even magnetic stripes. I'm sure if this isn't available in the UK there will be an equivalent.

SK talking this week about still needing to move some out to get some in, so I suppose it all depends on who we can offload.

At least he's typically useless for both sides.

Of course it will be a tough cup tie, but we've nothing to fear here. We have a much better record than St Mirren since SK took over. In fact, despite the media praise being heaped on them, after we beat them under SK in Feb last year they only won 3 more games that season. Robinson will no doubt have them amped up for this, but I think we can edge this one.

If they start calling that a foul we might as well stop playing the game.

Leverage. not so much. A useful pay-off, sometimes. You typically only lose a manager when he's doing really well or doing really badly. So the best we can hope for is the former.

Or as Gary Lineker used to say about goal scoring - "it's not about being in the right place at the right time, it's about being in the right place all the time".

After a late Mandron equaliser and a controversial O'Hara pen with Robinson getting SK sent off after a fight on the touchline before all the trains get cancelled and unexpected roadworks means everyone is stuck in Paisley before Fir Park collapses down a sinkhole and we have to groundshare with Airdire. Or 2 - 0 to us.

I was discussing exactly that yesterday. From what I've seen so far, Wilkinson looks like a finisher. He got into two great positions yesterday, messed one up and slotted away the other very nicely. To use a well worn cliché, it's about taking risks in the box.

Mika - the Danish Crawford Baptie.

Picking up 4 points, including the important first league win, while still having plenty of room for improvement isn't the worst situation to be in.

While not MOTM, Wilkinson's finish was very good too. He took one touch too many for an earlier miss, but didn't mess about with his goal.

I don't think it's any coincidence that since SK took charge a lot of our opponents have looked poor. We've found a shape that restricts most teams we've encountered.

While Wenger is no longer in charge at Arsenal, Biereth is very much in his mould of big, athletic players that he developed over the years.

I'm expecting at least 3 journos to nick it.

Sunshine on Biereth Take your pick...

Mandron had injury problems too, so no guarantees there either.

I think it's more to do with the multiple clangers he dropped last season including in our win at Easter Road. Or, more recently, the goal he gave away against the Andorrans in the first leg.

I'm not seeing a lot of "fun" in the guessing about how our new signings will do.

If we'd gone 2 up against Dundee at Fir Park and were hanging on for a 2 - 1, you'd be on here posting how poor we were and how pathetic it was to be hanging on for a win against the newly promoted team.

I'm not getting carried away one way or the other with Hibs home win against the team sitting 7th (after 3 games) in the Swiss league. They looked good in spells after a sticky start and have impressive movement going forward. They were caught out multiple times with balls behind the full backs and could easily have conceded a couple more. The battle for the midfield is going to be key and it was quite entertaining last night when things started getting a bit tasty. I usually enjoy our games against Hibs and looking forward to see how SK will set up for this latest installment. One thing I do have confidence in predicting is that there will be more than one dive in our penalty box.

Did he shank it?

If we want to throw stats around about past performances, we have a 100% record against Hibs under SK.