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Bought a cheap lower section ticket from Motherwell ticket office but got to Tynecastle and the lower section is closed and have been told by a steward to 'sit anywhere' in the top section. Result but with possible seat chaos later.

Yeah, that's how football works. An absolutely idiotic statement. Footballers that succeed are developed between the ages of 16 - 19. Releasing a player at 21 with virtually no first team experience and having him slide down the system to lower leagues or juniors is hardly the road to developmental success - and that's the lucky ones. Most footballers drop out of the professional game after being released and it's nothing to do with talent. Every successful country in the world has youth programmes miles ahead of ours but let's just keep on importing English non league players, English academy players and foreign flotsam and jetsom until the standard of the league falls even lower than it is now.

Just watched the highlights. Some finish from Johnson.

Did you hear Kilmarnock went top of the league last night? Or know that our 91 cup winners were on shop assistant money? Obviously Celtic have a bigger budget, they always have, but as I've said on a number of occasions there are levels that top level professionals have to met, regardless of what they are paid, and far too often our players don't meet them. Our ball retention is shocking. I go and watch lower league football when I get the chance and can honestly say part time players pass the ball better than us.

Gillespie. No penalty save, no point. Has also looked pretty solid since coming into the team.

His 3rd ever senior appearance, his first of this term and his first for two seasons. Picked up a booking early and was always going to be under pressure from then on but come on, given the performances of some of the senior players tonight singling out Livingstone seems a bit harsh. He's shown over a longer period than part of one game that he deserves a chance.

Let's be honest, Celtic threw that away tonight with a hugely lacklustre, battery saving mode 2nd half performance but at 1-0 all it takes is one goal. We've learned the hard way many times in similar situations that a 1 goal lead is never enough but fortunately it was Celtic that got the lesson tonight. Not the greatest performance of all time, we will have played the OF dozens and dozens of times, performed better and got nothing, but we'll take the point while recognizing that there are still a lot of things that need to be fixed.

Celtic haven't even been that good but we haven't laid a glove on them. Sammon's inclusion remains a mystery, think he's one header all match. Hard to see the penalty or disallowed goal from this end but the referee has been atrocious as well.

This season? We had 2 wins in 15 league matches last season from October through to February although no one seemed to notice what with cup fever in the air. If anything we've improved slightly, bringing through a few young players and winning 3 out of 5. Our overall league win ratio since Moult left is 27%. Our league win ratio this season is 28.5%, a slight improvement, but it's certainly not worse. And Robinson has actually shown some willingness for tactical flexibility, although I'd stop short of saying he's tactically competent. Of course it might be too late for either of those factors to save Robinson, but I think there is a slight glimmer of hope there. It may be extinguished by Christmas with this tough run of games but that remains to be seen. As for the team - this is a team very much moulded in the managers philosophy. If Robinson doesn't survive I don't see many of the players being here next season so it's in their interest to up their game.

Maguire is 20 years old, has been at the club since 2015-16 and has 5 appearances. A player like Stevie Hammell would have had over 100 club appearances at the same age. Maguire is a classic example of how bad we are at developing talent these days through lack of first team exposure.

I agree that we need to move away from the 3-5-2 formation as our standard line up but Celtic nearly always play 5 in midfield away from home so I think it's unlikely we will play 4-4-2 on Wednesday. 4-5-1 or 4-2-3-1 (probably what Celtic will play with) are possibilities. Robinson won't be going anywhere even if we are heavily defeated but Saturdays match and performance negated the Aberdeen result and the pressure is on Robinson again with four very difficult matches coming up. I think Robinson will probably limp into 2019 in much the same way that he limped into 2018, unless we fail to get anything from the St. Mirren and Hamilton matches.

Absolutely. Aberdeen are the tallest team in the league. Wasn't a problem last week. For me there is an attitude out there that winning 1 in 4 is 'good enough'. The attitude of the players was shocking from the start of the match. Just didn't fancy playing on a gloomy day in front of a small crowd on a bad pitch. It's excuses, excuses, excuses with this team. We've got injuries, we can't play on artificial grass, we can't compete against teams with bigger budgets. I'm fucking sick of it. It's £28 for a ticket at Tynecastle next week, if any of the players are reading this can you let me know if you feel like extending yourselves outside of your 'finish 10th' comfort zone?

The midfield was completely non existent today - that was the biggest problem. You could have fired the lot of them off at half time. And I thought Aldred was poor, Tait got a pumping and Main did his headless chicken act. In a nutshell it was our poorest performance of the season.

His goalkeeping was fine but his propensity to absolutely blooter the ball as far down the park as he could started to annoy me as the game went on.

Bigi has probably been our best regular starter this season but you'd have to be one of the great fiction writers to come up with a story to justify him getting on in the 2nd half today. Robinson was quite right to hook him, even if others could consider themselves lucky to not join him in the dressing room for the second 45. The more experienced players should be stepping up to the plate and guiding the younger players but they aren't. It's the younger players that are showing the more experienced players what to do, whether it be Turnbull against Dundee, or Maguire today, and that's unforgivable. Imagine going to your job, absolutely knocking your pan in and then realising that guys that don't bother their backsides are earning way more than you? That's our club right now. Senior players just aren't earning their wages - end of story. We've been pandering lower and lower standards for a few years now and this is the result. Bar needs raised big time and the senior members of the squad need told that pretty forcibly.

Ironic that the best player today was the one player that didn't start last week. Barry Maguire did relatively well, unlucky not to score and had a couple of bits of nice skill on the ball.

Proof football is imponderable. More or less same line up as last week, good performance, good win behind us and yet we came out and looked like we wanted away from the place asap. The most going-thru-the-motions performance you are likely to see. I'm a critic of Robinson of course, but today is on the players, especially the experienced ones. Probably Allan Campbell's worst ever performance, Grimshaw back to stealing a wage again, Tait pumped from minute 1 to 90, I could go through them but I've got a train to catch. Serious questions have to be asked about this teams appetite. Do enough to keep the status quo going and nothing more. If Robinson has any sense a big shake up is required to cure this complacency.

That'll be 4-4-2 then!

Performance befitting of the wintery gloom. Defence looks nervous, midfield is non existent and the forwards completely isolated. Keep giving away possession, don't win any second balls, high balls or tackles and we've reverted to hoofball. First half was as bad as we've been all season and Livingston could be 2 or 3 up.

It's cold, wet, dull and a desolate half hour walk back to the station. Could be one of those games!

Total horse shit that you have to buy tickets for a match played in a three quarter empty stadium. Don't they realise it's an obstruction to going? Do they want people to go to the match? The authorities couldn't give a damn about the actual fans.

Livingston haven't scored in four although Menga hasn't really contributed in terms of goals so it remains to be seen if his suspension will mean that much. On the other hand Livingston have only conceded more than one goal twice - against both halves of the OF. Apparently Livingston played quite well at Ibrox and going by the highlights they created a few chances. In all likely-hood a tight match with possibly one goal winning it.

I thought that Hammell and Lasley were the last of the 2 grand a week players. They both agreed to lower paid contracts on their last player deals.

Lukas Jutkiewicz scores for Birmingham in the derby. Seems to be doing quite well this season after a while in the wilderness.

Johnson was the match winner. Two chances, two goals.