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Id like to think we could hold them to ransom considering the time constraints and their injury situation.

His dad would have a stroke

Lots of Ziggy Gordon chat going around.

Scramble in the box and main poked it just over.

Frear on commentary for anyone planning to use mixlr.

The manager said hartley isnt fully fit, and none of the back 3 have done anything to warrant getting dropped, so that one doesnt bother me. It would undermine the whole competition for places thing if you kept 2 clean sheets and then got dropped for someone who isnt fully fit. Tanner is a weird one, hes our best attacking player, and were playing a team thats hard to score against. I think hes overthinking this one.

Im looking forward to the next transfer window to find out who we tried to get this transfer window. Were we not after the striker hearts just released?

Petravicius and Newell were signed with a view to the future (but on one year deals weirdly enough) so although neither have had an impact, not a lot was expected. I think there were some injuries in there too. Plummer was signed to compete for a place in the first team and hasnt done so when there were opportunities to get in the side. Fisher was Robbos first signing, and it was probably on the back of his goals against us, but hasnt looked like any kind of finisher in his half season. He may not have had a run of first team games, but Im sure that if he was showing great promise in training wed persevere. One thing in his favour is that I dont think we expected to still have moult at the start of the season, nor did we expect bowman to find form, so that probably hit his form/confidence and he hasnt recovered. I think most of us were positive when we signed him, and I wouldnt put him on the Paul Keegan/John hendry level of terrible strikers, and seems a nice guy, so good luck to him.

I dont know if it was in this thread or the Hamilton one, but I mentioned that Peter Hartley had a lot of praise for the work that McHugh does in front of the defense, mentioned it in both games he was on commentary for.

The three center backs that show up best in training / better match the opposition will get picked. Should be good competition, but we probably need another left sided option because dunne is all we have there.

Id go with Carson too.

Has dunne missed a game outside of suspension?

Fisher got on on Saturday, but Petravicius got the spot on the bench today, so Id take it as more horses for courses than anything else. I think bowman is the only one likely to knock any of the current front 2 out of the team.

Hartley went into some detail how important McHugh is to the team, so replacing him with a defender who is hardly a ball player isnt going to improve much. Tanner is also benefiting from playing in behind the strikers, so sticking him on the left would limit him. Shoe-horning players into positions is a Craig Brown thing, Id rather we picked the best players for the system we choose.

Theyve been doing these post match videos for a few games now, but I think theyre another nice touch

I particularly enjoyed his suggestion that someone should put one on Ngog to welcome him to Scottish football, and calling hammel satnav

3 points and a clean sheet, exactly what was ordered. And the teams below us all lost.

Hartley confirmed for commentary btw.

There are always going to be players that the manager sees something in but we dont, and for some reason they tend to be midfielders. It will be interesting to see who starts when everyone is fit, but Rose has had enough appearances this season to suggest that the manager wants him in there, as opposed to him playing because hes the only option. What exactly it is the manager likes, Im not sure, but my guess is that hes big and works hard.

Bowman was injured in training on Friday, they said so on commentary. Hartley also said that bowman had raised his game in training since the new guys came in.

He also mentioned that bowman was flying in training, but got injured yesterday. Hope its not a bad one. Great to see Tanner really grabbing his opportunity and become a key player.

Weve had players on commentary before (moult I think) but hartley has really taken to this and hes giving us a lot of insight into the team and is really into it. He doesnt like accies either.

2-0 tanner pen

Rose is right wing Back, Tait on the left FYI.

Accies og, and hartley loved it, 1-0 to the good guys.