Ya Bezzer!

3 teams have beaten Rangers this season - Celtic, Aberdeen and Hearts.

What chance McGhee ever being able to bring in a £200,000 forward or a current Greek international with 60+ caps?

Samson needs to be aware he's being obstructed and just blooter that guy on the line right out the way but I'd hardly say it was a howler. In fact I think Samson has been in pretty good form over the last 4 or 5 matches.

Difficult to avoid calls for the managers head. It's hardly a minor detail. Especially when you are at the game and surrounded by slavering numpties screaming a level of abuse at the manager that previous incumbents, who were far worse, never even came close to getting. Since when did stating facts and asking for a sense of perspective become 'point scoring'?

Ciftci is a good player when he feels like it but he's always struck me as being lazy with a poor attitude. McDonald might be a bit on the stroppy side but 9 times out of 10 he knocks his pan in as well as having the extra bit of quality. Pretty relieved we never returned the call to be honest.

The funny thing about all this is since the beginning of December we've only lost 3 out of 8 and those 3 defeats were against Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen. In terms of form the only teams better than us are.....you guessed it.....Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen. I think it's fair to say some people's irrational dislike of McGhee doesn't take much to get it stirred up. Frankly a lot of people should be a bit embarrassed, especially by some of the scenes in the East Stand on Saturday. Doesn't seem to be much calm perspective around these days, football or otherwise.

If you remember McDonald wasn't happy when we turned down his Rangers move but still almost single handedly kept us up that season.

Radio said we were looking dangerous and Hammell was putting a lot of good crosses in. Jim McIntyre said we were the better team.

They've brought in a lot of new players in the window. Could be an positive or a negative. Cathro's not had a good start though.

It'll be two out the three at best I think. McGhee just said he "hopes" McDonald stays in the after match interview.

Just went Top 6. A weeks a long time in politics. In football 3 days will do it.

Excellent away win. Phew! Watching flashscores from 85 minutes was harrowing.

YES!!!!!!

County fans on P&E say he had a bad day against Cads but has been better since then.

Should be... Cadden, McHugh, Pearson, Frear.

No.

Ojamaa signs for Dundee. Hopefully they get Ojamaa Mk II.

All the goals scored in the final 5 minutes of Premiership league matches. Sadly we are joint top with Hearts. Interesting to see two of our rivals are joint least - Kilmarnock and Inverness. Will need to improve on this in the 2nd half of the season. HEARTS : 6 93 Haber (Dundee) v Hearts 92 McFadden (Motherwell) v Hearts 91 Sinclair (Celtic) v Hearts 87 Draper (Inverness) v Hearts 86 Boyce (Ross County) v Hearts 85 Kane (St. Johnstone) v Hearts MOTHERWELL : 6 91 Miller (Rangers) v Motherwell 90 McGinn (Aberdeen) v Motherwell 90 Rogic (Celtic) v Motherwell 90 Tansey (Inverness) v Motherwell 87 Dembele (Celtic) v Motherwell 87 Hyndman (Rangers) v Motherwell ABERDEEN : 4 91 Erskine (Partick) v Aberdeen 90 Rogic (Celtic) v Aberdeen 88 Schalk (Ross County) v Aberdeen 87 Sinclair (Celtic) v Aberdeen HAMILTON : 4 93 Moult (Motherwell) v Hamilton 93 Polworth (Inverness) v Hamilton 93 Nicholson (Hearts) v Hamilton 86 Paterson (Hearts) v Hamilton ST. JOHNSTONE : 4 92 Christie (Celtic) v St. Johnstone 91 Meekings (Inverness) v St. Johnstone 91 Osman (Partick) v St. Johnstone 87 Paterson (Hearts) v St. Johnstone DUNDEE : 3 92 Forrester (Rangers) v Dundee 89 Johnsen (Hearts) v Dundee 88 McLean (Aberdeen) v Dundee PARTICK THISTLE : 3 95 Burke (Ross County) v Partick Thistle 94 Dodoo (Rangers) v Partick Thistle 90 Watt (Hearts) v Partick RANGERS : 3 94 Considine (Aberdeen) v Rangers 92 Armstrong (Celtic) v Rangers 90 Maddison (Aberdeen) v Rangers ROSS COUNTY : 3 93 Dembele (Celtic) v Ross County 91 Sinclair (Celtic) v Ross County 90 Longstaff (Kilmarnock) v Ross County CELTIC : 2 89 Fisher (Inverness) v Celtic 89 MacLean (St. Johnstone) v Celtic KILMARNOCK : 2 86 Doumbouya (Inverness) v Kilmarnock 85 Rogic (Celtic) v Kilmarnock INVERNESS : 2 89 McLean (Aberdeen) v Inverness 87 McDonald (Motherwell) v Inverness

Ross County are highly inconsistent so its difficult to make any predictions about this one except that we will have to keep an eye on Liam Boyce because he scores most of their goals. To highlight their inconsistency they recently beat Aberdeen at home then followed it up with a 3-1 defeat to Partick Thistle. They haven't managed two home wins on the trot all season so perhaps that is a nice wee omen as their most recent home fixture was a 3-2 win vs Inverness. They have 8 draws in 22 league matches so perhaps a point a piece wouldn't be a huge surprise.

From Jan 2015, Rangers won 8 out of 18 Championship matches including dropping points to Livingston, Cowdenbeath and Alloa. They were put out of the Scottish Cup by Raith Rovers and lost a Challenge Cup Semi Final to Alloa having been 2-0 up with 14 minutes to go. They finished 3rd overall in the Championship and scrapped through to the Play Off Finals winning only 2 of the 4 matches against QoS (2-1, 1-1) and Hibernian (2-0, 0-1). Rangers were an absolute shambles when they played us.

It just comes down to players in the end. St. Johnstone can put out Alston, Wotherspoon, Davidson, Swanson, Paton, Liam Craig and Chris Millar in midfield. Pick any 4 out of the 7 and its better than any midfield we can put out. St. Johnstone have also tended to have a different recruitment approach, generally bringing in proven players at this level - Easton, Foster, Alston, Swanson, Shaughnessy etc, they all played in this league before. Sell on potential is probably not that great but overall they tend to get less garbage.

When you are shopping in the 50p barrel you are going to get dross. Poor quality signings aren't just a McGhee problem, they go back to the McCall era when the cash was cut and we went from quite good to rubbish. Lee Hollis, Paul Lawson, Josh Law, Mark O'Brien, Louis Laing, Tony Straker, Nathan Thomas, Joe Chalmers, Wes Fletcher, David Clarkson, Jake Taylor, Theo Robinson etc. All brought in by managers in the last few seasons who's impact has been nought. Let's be honest about this, We've signed 3 good players in the last three seasons and 2 of them came in when Barraclough got a wee bit of a windfall with Les Hutchison coming in - something that latter era McCall or now McGhee have never had. Our transfer deals over a longer period than just McGhee have been poor and we need to improve in that area but at the same time I think you also have to accept that at the level we are at you will be doing really well to even get a 50% hit rate of decent players.

When was the last time we finished a season above St. Johnstone? The conclusion to draw there is they are better than us. You say we have the best front 2 in the league, well Liam Boyce is the top scorer in the league. Ross County have a chairman who's willing to put money into the team, we aren't in that position. Even so there are only a couple of points between both the teams. As for the rest there is barely anything between between them. Again the conclusion to draw is if you are a provincial team in this league then we are roughly equivalent to where we should be. If we won our game in hand we would go Top 6. A lot of our supporters are having their Brexit/Trump ragin' moment of mass stupidity.

Since 19th of November he had 4 matches playing 26, 28, 37 and 57 minutes. So that's the equivalent of 1 and a half matches in over two months.

Samson.