Ya Bezzer!

Well that was really a summation of our season. Terrible away form, lack of urgency, no confidence, not doing the basics, rotten defending, lack of creativity, inability to hold a lead, missed chances, calamity goalkeeping, tactical ineptitude, shocking player discipline, wrong starting XI and so forth. Wasn't really that surprised with the display, it was pretty much typical of pretty much every away match I've seen this season with the exception of the 2nd half of the Kilmarnock game. Baraclough has two play offs matches to save our season and his job.

Aberdeen have released Declan McManus. Might be interesting to see what level of football he is playing next season.

What's he claiming then because it must be a hell of a number mangle to get us to third with our terrible away record.

This is how the league table would look if it had been reset to zero when Baraclough took over. 1-Celtic 50 2-Aberdeen 43 3-Ross County 31 4-Inverness 30 5-St.Johnstone 30 6-Partick 26 7-Dundee 24 8-MOTHERWELL 24 9-Dundee Utd 22 10-Hamilton 20 11-St Mirren 19 12-Kilmarnock 17 Don't know GD so Inverness-St.Johnston, Dundee-Motherwell is alphabetical.

Not listened to the full interview yet but I think our dear leader has got a little bit confused. Our home record since he came in is pretty good though so perhaps he means if we'd replicated our home form away from home for something like that. At a glance, I'd say Aberdeen and Celtic have better home records, Partick and Ross County broadly similar. Other than that I don't know what he's talking about frankly.

Lawson has started 8 league matches out of 76. Hardly a surprise.

The Brazilian boy they brought in is 6'4. I'm guessing it might be him!

Better goalkeepers out of contract this summer - Jamie MacDonald for instance. I've also been pretty impressed by Derek Gaston at Morton whenever I've seen him. Think Thomas Cerny only signed up to the end of the season for Hibs but might be wrong about that.

The funny thing is St.Mirren have been reasonably good away from home, it's there home form that's got them relegated. I think it was 6 out of 7 wins are away from home. Of course our away form is abysmal, so something has to give.

Chic said on the radio Bolton Wanderers were at the game last night as well.

Kilmarnock have conceded 14 goals in the last 4 matches. Partick have handed out a few thumpings at Firhill this season (4-0 Ross County, 4-0 Inverness, 5-0 Accies). St.Mirren have been conceding goals lately as well (0-5, 0-3, 0-3). You never know what might happen.

Said on the radio their wages have been slashed due to a relegation clause. Doubt there will be much gay abandon!

Craig Moore and Craig Reid are both contracted next season but what happens with the latter remains to be seen.

At the Partick game a few weeks ago I was sitting next to a couple of German scouts. Don't know what club it was though.

Agree. A Fitzpatrick/Fagan level player.

St. Mirren have been so dreadful this season they are 11 points behind us! They are relegated, on a downer and have nothing to play for. They've already released a bunch of experienced players before the end of the season, have the worst home record in the league and the poorest form in the league outside Kilmarnock. We also beat them on their ground last time out. If we can't be positive about this one.... Of course it's a must win but we've got to go there confident of victory and goals.

I was at Partick first time round this season and we didn't really have much of a support and we got a bigger humping that a few weeks ago when 1,500 turned up, so I think it's just our away form in general rather than the number of eyeballs watching. Anyway I have a 100% win record at whatever that stadium is called so I should go and I'll let you know.

Yeah. It can only go to goal difference if we win 1 and Killie lost 2, or if we win 1 and draw 1 and Killie draw 1 and lose 1. I think. I only got 3 hours sleep last night. Still possible though.

I don't think you can be wrong about comparing one player to another. It's an opinion. BTW Magennis got his 7th of the season tonight so maybe you are right, Erwin isn't that prolific.....

Erwin for me. Involved in the first goal and scored the second. McDonald was also very good and Hammell has made a huge difference. Worth noting that although Erwin took his goal really well it came from a great tackle by Hammell with Killie attacking and then a good ball played up the field by the aforementioned. Good stuff.

We've missed what looked like two sitters in the second half. Not sure who the first one was - Grant or Pearson maybe? Then McDonald. We put those away the goal difference is -22/-19 instead of -24/-17. Let's hope we don't rue those misses! A 6 goal turn over is still possible though, especially if we win 2 and they lose 2.

Listen, Erwin was excellent tonight, he'll get my MotM award but he's had 19 starts and had 5 games like tonight. His goal tally is way off the mark for someone playing right up top and he's missed chance after chance all season. I've never said he doesn't have potential but we are in a very tricky position right now and have been for a long time. If Erwin played like he did tonight I wouldn't hear a word against him but the last time he did was a month ago against St. Mirren.

Kinda of a weird game. Didn't really enjoy the first half at all. Maybe it was nerves but although I thought we were the better team and went in 2-0 up I just didn't think we clicked, some good individual performances but the team performance wasn't good enough and I thought we looked nervous at times, unmotivated at others, then we'd have a wee spell but overall I thought it was two poor teams and Killie could have scored about 4 in the first twenty minutes or so without really playing very well. Second half we looked nervous again and conceded within 7 or 8 minutes. A very poor goal to lose and fingers have to be pointed at George Long. After that though the crowd who had been fairly subdued got more animated and the team started to show a bit more desire. Second half I quite enjoyed although it wasn't the highest standard but all that mattered was the points. Probably could have scored more than 3 and that might count against us at the end of the season, lets hope not. Hopefully we can take a good crowd to Paisley and we can take this to the last day and slip through the net. See you at St. Mirren!

So who was it that started that thread? Baraclough or Law?

Not giving Dom Thomas a contract was not really a possibility though given his performances at both U20 and first team level this season.