Ya Bezzer!

Not sure what's worse - the pitch, the police or the players. The referee hasn't covered himself in glory either! Will say more on the policing when I get home as I had a pretty good view.

Poor fare so far, more interest in the stand thanks to Glasgows finest.

Basically playing on an ashie tonight by the looks of it!

Our recent history at Firhill is pretty awful, not an away ground we get much joy at. We are surely due a lucky break though after a month of hard luck stories. Thistle after a good run have hit a little sticky patch, so lets hope we can take advantage of that.

Doubt these players went without being paid off. Would you leave a contract in their circumstances?

First things first, it was never a penalty and you don't need multiple replays to see the glaringly obvious. Secondly, I'm against video replays because they actually solve very little, maybe "was it over the line" goal, or an occasional offside or handball but most controversial decisions will still be controversial decisions whether they were arrived at by video replay or not. All you really do is add another level of controversy - when is video replay deployed? Who has the final decision? etc, etc.

Heavy rain over night but the storm is to blow over by mid afternoon according to the weather forecast. Hopeful this is on because I've not been to an away match since October!

Vaz Te was absolute mince when he was at Hibs.

Very surprised to come home and read the news. Gomis is a good and experienced player who I think will do well with us but he's played 17 out of 23 league matches with Hearts so I'm a bit surprised that he's been allowed to come to us. Obviously thinning the decks a bit at Hearts - Billy King loaned out as well and Kenny Anderson released recently.

They have also played 2 more games thanus. People need to calm down a bit. There are 6 points between 6 teams right now with some teams with games in hand and others with none. Very few teams have shown any kind of consistency. We could be in a better position but I don't think we need to be worried about being isolated at this stage.

It's a point away from home against a team in decent form.....still annoying though.

4 pens conceded in 4 matches. We've only had 2 all season!

The boy Em Sorry totally dominated the first half. Not on the team sheets, must have been a late change.

DEFENCE - OVER TO YOU.

Both defences living up to recent reputations!

Good start, great to see Cadden kick on from last week and get a goal.

With Moult and McDonald you could say the same about us, therefore it should be a few goals in this one, therefore it will end 0-0.

Strange because I thought Aberdeen were closing in on Stuart Bannigan at Partick.

Pssst, don't tell anyone but Paul Paton will join Motherwell from Dundee Utd before the start of next week. Heard from a friend of his that used to play with him at Partick Thistle and now works in my office. Nah, just made this up. Thought we needed a good rumour.

Problem is we will never be able to replace Hammell and Lasley with the same level of quality. That standard of player isn't available to us through any other means than youth development. That's why they have been around for so long, and by the way, are still two of our best players and will be two of the first players on the team sheet ever week if they are fit.

Even at his best you rarely get any more than 60 - 65 minutes out of him. Serious stamina issues with that boy.

McDonald by a distance.

Just one of those games when it wouldn't go in. Thought we started very poorly, in fact the whole place was very flat. Ross County were certainly the better team at that stage and their goal wasn't really a surprise. Neither was the fact that it came from a poorly defended corner. About 25 - 30 minutes in we actually started to play and from that point on we were the dominent team. Not sure how many chances we missed but on another day we could have score 4, 5, 6. Second half I thought we played very well, except for that final touch. County were obviously playing to hit us on the break and to be fair they had a couple of chances before they got the second. Even after we scored we were very unlucky not to get an equalizer, Fox pulled off a great save from Lasley and did well to stop McFadden as well. Overall, I felt the performance was pretty decent but or slow start allowed County to get a hold on the game. Hammell going off injured might be a major problem though, hopefully its nothing serious.

If we play the same back 4 today and win or keep a clean sheet will there be 12 pages of apologies on here? I actually don't think we should play the same back 4 but look at the bigger picture, some of the criticism over this has been way over the top, especially on the back of an unbeaten run and a big improvement in the quality of football and a big increase in goals scored. The thing with McGhee is there are too many people with old agendas simmering on the backburner. For god sake, let it go.

In our entire history we have sold 10 players for north of £400,000.