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Confident as ever I see. Your invincible favourites (Hearts) won at Fir Park earlier this year in a game even their fud of a manager said they were lucky to win, and beat us courtesy of a late penalty at Tynecastle. Both games against a Motherwell team that was really struggling. You may be right that we will lose, but I hope to F@#k that the players don't share your opinion of the jambos. If we get the effort and commitment we saw last night, we can hopefully get up their noses and take something from this one.

I went with the much maligned Blair Spittal, nice to have a few options for a change.

Alan Sneddon playing for Linlithgow tonight, must be a fair age now.

I know what you mean, but it is Aberdeen, managed by Jim Goodwin, I'm going to snigger for a while.

For what it is worth: Kelly: Nothing much to do, caught a 20 yarder which was straight at him and was fouled (possibly) at a cross which he dropped. Johnston: Composed under pressure, made some good forward runs and linked well with the the forward players. Caught out of position a couple of times, but all in all a good solid performance. Blaney: My MOM, won a lot in the air, comfortable with the ball at his feet and seems like a good communicator. Early days and against lower league opponents, but an impressive start. Lamie: A man totally devoid of confidence. McGinn: Got forward very when the opportunity arose and was generally solid playing on the wrong side. Was tending to drift inside towards his natural position as the game wore on though. Slattery: Made himself available to the defence, but didn't do much when he got the ball, should do better. Goss: One of his poorer performances. Spittal: Worked hard and at least tries to play head up football. Unfortunately his main failings are pace and stamina but at least he doesn't hide. Mandron: Took a short time to adjust to the pace of the game and the pitch. Did well enough though, some nice touches and linked up well. Plus two goals, the first one was virtually unmissable but he was in the right position. Seems a good addition so far. Crankshaw: Looked ok on the right, but fell out of the game when he switched wings. Judgement reserved. McKinstry: Looking better every week. Very unselfish at the opener and should have got on the score sheet in the second half. Subs: KVV: Nice back heel in the build up to the second goal, stupid booking. He is what he is. Cornelius: Did what he does, works hard and tries to get forward. Deserving of more game time IMHO. Shields: Not on long enough to contribute. All in all, better than I expected but we could have made it more comfortable if we had taken at least one of the chances earlier in the second half. Arbroath never really threatened but a clean sheet will hopefully give us some confidence. Goss

Just back from a decent day out. Blaney for me, an impressive debut. Mandron did well in parts as did McKinstry and McGinn.

That's exactly my position, the constant negativity from certain posters just wear you down. I'm more apathetic about our fans than I am about the team. Oh, and I'm going to Arbroath and this is my first post in this thread.

Is he not suspended?

You and I are obviously of a similar vintage. I would add T.C. (M'Lord) to your list of players I have seen personally. Cooper, Coyne & Graham all came to the club as established players, and without discounting their abilities, we didn't see the best of them at Fir Park. McFadden moved on before we saw the best of him but 48 caps and 16 goals in a pretty poor Scotland set up (with managers like Levein ) puts him right up there. Willie P also moved on, watching him in a Heart's strip was heart-breaking. So for me it would be Joe Wark, it still annoys me that he didn't get the international recognition he deserved. That all said, I can't offer an opinion on those I didn't see personally thus making this an impossible debate, an interesting one though.

Tough call, no great failures and no real stand outs. Went with Slattery for pushing Shields out the road to get to the ball for his goal.

No twitter links at the bottom, that will put Elon Musk in his place. 😁

I remember him scoring the only goal in a 1-0 at Parkhead at new year circa 1978, my brother and I hadn't been at Parkhead before and ended up at the wrong end in amongst several thousand drunk twats, not easy trying not to laugh too hard for a full hour. Also featured prominently in a 5-4 win over Killie at Fir Park, one of my favourite all time 'Well games. Great wee player, RIP Jim.

I agree wholeheartedly, I don't see it ever happening unfortunately. If it did though, the one proviso I would have is that they go completely, they would probably want their B-teams to play in Scotland as a safety net and our organising authorities (and probably the club boards) would bend over to accommodate them.

The Dryburgh cup I think. I quite liked it, the whole, offside an inch inside your opponent's half has always annoyed me. Or in the case of a Hamilton v Partick game a year or so ago, about six feet inside your own half.

Personally, I don't give a f@@k about Rangers, Celtic or European football. We have been going backwards for years and the TV money is only part of the equation. The biggest problem Scottish football have is that the SFA and League management only care about two clubs and whilst that situation remains, we will never be competitive in any way shape or form.

Or when the keeper keeps a clean sheet and it isn't worthy of mention.

A huge relief for all his family and friends, great news.

It was between Penney and Goss for me, went for Goss in the end as everything good generally goes through him.

A choice between the full backs for me, Lamie would have been considered except for those two passes into the stands. Went for Penney in the end.

Big handsome John Sutton. I can't believe I'm getting involved in this nonsense.

The English window closes today. I don't know whether a Scottish club can sign someone who was in contract when the Scottish window shut or not but it is a possibility.

I suspect KVV will get it for the hat-trick, but Tierney for me, lots of good close control and vision.

I agree, for the first yellow that could be the case, the second yellow, I thought, was just a bit mistimed and probably only warranted a quiet word. Yes, just a typical Scottish refereeing performance in fact.

Difficult choice this week as there was no great standout, for me it came down to a choice between McGinn and Sol. Went with McGinn as Sol still has a few loose touches in him, we got away with it this week but probably won't against better quality opposition. McGinn looks a very sensible bit of business now.

Not a great performance today, but on balance we probably deserved the points (just). Nick Walsh's guessing game performance combined with Livi's determination to avoid playing football dragged the game down to somewhere about meh! The Livi defender completely obscured my view of the penalty decision but it did seem a bit harsh. Likewise, the two yellow cards probably merited one between them. I think Livi might be a bit peeved to say the least. That said, Livi offered pretty much nothing so stuff them.