Kmcalpin

FC is 100% right. At the end there was a melee of bodies all rushing and bumping into/falling over each other. It was reported as fact that Wallace had been deliberately kicked but he didn't actually see anything and there was never proof.

Great idea. It'll be a fine occasion on which to celebrate with no pressure as the job's done. Hope the club and the young lads plan something special.

Tempting though it may be to hold a pitch invasion I'd far rather spend the cash on players than paying a fine to the authorities or in increased policing bills next season. Its a no brainer.

Presumably contract negotiations will resume now that we have got other minor distractions out of the way!

OK Jay, you have my permission to start on Saturday

We've done it. Time to celebrate and its going to be quite a party a week on Sunday. Well done to all the club.

Yes, he has more than earned a new deal. A bit hot headed at times but he has come in and done a great job.

X 2. He certainly played his part tonight - a very difficult opponent to play against.

A great perfomance from the team tonight and a fanstic atmosphere. A good all round team performance and it was significant that Randy hardly had a save to make. Higgy's rapport with the crowd near the end was something to behold. He deserved it after his well taken goal. Have to disagree with a few posters about Brian Winter - whilst he got no major decisions wrong he got quite a few minor ones wrong. Two absurd fouls on Chris Humphrey went unpunished and a few Hearts players were guilty of diving. Mr Winter's control of free kicks was laughable - Hearts took them wherever they fancied. Still it was a great night and ahuge result but we have achieved nothing yet. The champagne is on ice.

A great support and atmosphere tonight.

You might well be right, I don't know. However, if these guys are established first team players or even fringe players then serious questions need to be asked of those who run the first division clubs in question, or their judgement questioned.

Many Hibs players are earning between £3k and £5k basic which is way above our level - I'm not 100% sure what it is but am confident its well below £2.5k.

It does indeed. They can offer at least double what we could table. In short they could take their pick of our out of contract players unless an English lower division club is sniffing about.

A great result today and the actual scoreline did not go down well in Dundee. Still there's a long way to go and it'll be a huge ask to pick up a point at Tynecastle. A big game for us and I've decided to go there for the first time a few years. The lads will need every little bit of support we can muster.

Happy to oblige ...sorry Jamie. I must make the same kind of comment before the Hearts game! Jamie did look back to his old self and he was at his best when cutting in from the left wing. I still say that Higgy would benefit from another out and out striker playing beside him though. Humphrey and Law were the pick of the bunch and the former in particular. I've little sympathy for Steve Lomas ... he really does need to get his charges under stricter control. It was a cast iron penalty and rather than gripe at the referee he should be taking players like Liam Craig to task for acting like a thug - he will have seen exactly what he tried to do near the dugouts just before the penalty. Too many trailing boots and late challenges for my liking. According to Stuart McCall said we had a few knocks today and certainly Jenno looked less than 100% today as did Keith Lasley. It was good to see some clinical finishing and it could have been something like 7 or 8 - 1. Saints threatened to score just before they did and it came as no surprise when they hit the net although the manner of it was calamitous. Onwards and upwards.

I certainly hope not. Jamie is too lightweight to play up front. His strength is cutting in from the left. Higgy needs someone to play beside him.

Tomorrow's game will be very hard. Saints are a big physical side and in January probably gave us the hardest battering we've had all season. They'll put up with no nonsense from the likes of Nicky Law and Henrik Ojamaa. I hope we can attract a decent crowd to create an atmosphere befitting the importance of this game. We must get on the ref's back early on to show him the fans won't let Saints off with anything. Of late referees have given us little and we can't allow that to continue tomorrow. We're third for a reason and they're fourth for a reason.

Well Society membership also brings with it a 5% discount which always helps too. I'll be renewing again.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments behind this - I would be mightily disillusioned myself if a newco was to be allowed back into the SPL its just that I think our depth of feeling could be directed better in some way to the SPL/SFA. The current online fans petition is being given little attention by the media and that worries me. I'm just not sure how the individual clubs and these two august bodies are viewing this groundswell of opinion. Are they treating it as an empty threat or worried sick about it? Perhaps if fans turned up to games but protested outside in their thousands? Say for example 12,000 Dons fans turned up for a match at Pittodrie but refused to go in and protested outside. If that was mirrored at every other non OF ground including those of SFL clubs then we'd make a very big impact indeed. The SFL clubs and their fans have a huge role to play here but have remained largely silent so far. I suppose what it boils down to is whether fans want to act or react? Apologies if thread is going off on a tangent.

OK Al - assuming everyone who is threatening a boycott/will become uninterested in Scottish football etc etc takes this course of action IF a Rangers newco was formed and IF it was voted back into the SPL then the voting position of MFC is pretty much irrelevant its the actual outcome that folk are focused on? That I can understand. Thanks for clarifying.

The clubs are in a no win situation here. Fortunately some, like Hearts, have already sold quite a few season tickets and so any boycott won't hurt them to the same extent. I'm still confused though about this threatened boycott of season tickets. Who exactly is it aimed at? Under what circumstances would it take effect? IF the situation of a newco arose and a vote was taken in secret with a majority of clubs/members in favour of allowing a Rangers newco back into the SPL would you boycott our STs without knowing what way we voted? Likewise if MFC voted against allowing a newco back in automatically but the vote went against us would you still refuse to buy a season ticket? The way I see it if a boycott took place only Rangers and SFL clubs would benefit as all other clubs would see a drop in ST sales. By default if most SPL clubs were hit hard financially then SFL clubs would gain in strength on the basis that they weren't involved in any vote - a bit hit or miss. Still confused.com

Don't know about that. All clubs have gripes with refereeing decisions. We were knocked out fo the CIS Cup due to a perfectly good goal being chalked off. On our last visit to Tannadice we were denied a stonewall penalty late on. Had that been awarded and IF we'd scored we'd now be some 2 points better off and United 1 point worse off. If anything United been very fortunate in the last month or two.

Agreed. I don't know why the club did it but it worked. The south end of the POD was far more civilised. Perhaps there was lack of demand - the South Stand din't look full to me and the attendance figures would seem to bear that out.

Fear not - thats something that Mr Lennon has banged on about in the past when the title has gone to the wire. He reminded all SPL managers that they had a duty to play their strongest side at all times in the interest of fairness.

Michael Higdon for me. He did everything that was asked of him - winning balls in the air, knock downs, but we can't blame him if his collegaues wouldn't support him. Its limited what a lone striker will achieve when heavily outnumbered. Jenno had a decent first half but disappeared in the second. Looked a bit rusty. Chris Humphrey has had worse games and posed what little threat we had although he shaded in the second half. His finishing was good but not great and a decent striker would have scored two goals with his shots on target. The others had games they'll want to forget.