Kat

GOALL ROBERTS

2-0

1-0 Rangers

Early warning. Morelos shot off the bar.

In fairness to the guy in the three games he has started we have won them all, one being against Annan of course and the others being league wins over Dundee and Livi. I might be wrong but most of his sub appearances seem to come late in games when he has little or no time to make an impact. He certainly helped turn the tide in the Morton cup tie. I'm sure he'll be away come the summer.

Derek Adams is reappointed the Morecambe manager after Robinsons departure.

TBF that's generally always the case when the Old Firm come calling, all the other clubs generally need a degree of luck to get over the line. I thought United were well worthy of the 1-0 HT lead on Sunday but as you say it was one way traffic in the second half and they were fortunate with the penalty incidents, its not like Mr Madden to miss them considering what he has given against us in recent times. Obviously it would be no surprise to come away empty handed as per, they're however playing three fixtures in the space of 6 days so you'll imagine they will rotate a bit.

Rangers easily dispatched Hearts and Hibs at Ibrox recently, Dundee United defended well against them on Sunday with the second half in particular being one way traffic. Frustratingly its seldom they slip up twice domestically these days to teams out with Celtic, I'm hoping their European tie goes the full distance on Thursday night in hope that they might be knackered come Sunday. I would be delighted if we can get anything from this game, we done well enough at Ibrox earlier in the season. Has anything been mentioned about Van Veen's injury? Also Solholm and Efford were struggling a bit at the weekend before being taken off.

Stephen Robinson confirmed as manager of St Mirren.

Yeah you can include the St Mirren game as well as that was a late pitch inspection. Funnily enough I'm sure Stephen Glass said pre match last week that his side wouldn't be able to pass the ball on the deck as they would like too due to the pitch and that was before the monsoon hit.

Yeah agree regarding Hayes tackle, horrible challenge, he also put in a naughty one last week as well in the first half. He done Walsh a peach pretending he was seriously injured and getting the stretcher on only to reappear fine in the second half. Thankfully we won last week but they have enjoyed the rub of the green decision wise in the last week or so against us and St Johnstone.

Great free kick by Van Veen at the end, that and the Lewis clearance you kinda start to feel its not going to be your day as we aren't getting that wee break.

The games on BBC Alba at 6pm later incase anyone's not at the game.

Aberdeen fans ensconced in the top tier today, Craig Broon style tactics. I see we have reinforced the barrier at the away section. Great to see we're starting the same 11 today, hopefully they can replicate the performance from last week.

Apparently they're down to one fit centre back, but I totally agree with what your saying. Going back to when they knocked us out of the cup in 2012 the next week we had to field a defensive pairing of Page and Cummins and beat them easily. If we could replicate last weeks performance I would be confident on taking home the three points, apparently Goodwin is taking charge of the side today opposed to just watching from the stands so it would be a bonus to pile on some early misery for him.

Game on

He has been given a two match touchline ban for his red against Hibernian with one suspended until the end of the season.

That's McGhee confirmed as manager.

Gordon Strachan going all out to get his best buddy a job. I'm surprised they turfed out McPake at this juncture, apparently the directors had a meeting just over a week or so ago to discuss his future but nothing obviously came of that. Since the January deadline day he has got the club into the Quarter Finals of the cup, beat Hearts at Tynecastle and drew with Dundee United, they conceded late against Ross County but they do have a game in hand as well over St Johnstone. According to reports the new manager will be named today.

Derek Adams sacked as manager of Bradford City. He had done well getting Morecambe promoted last season from League Two, perhaps surprising he stayed in the same league to take the Bradford gig but he probably felt he could have achieved more at Valley Parade.

Hibs at home

That cup game still annoys me whenever it is mentioned. I think we had been on a run where we hadn't won in 15 games and struggled to score but we had won the previous Tuesday versus Falkirk via an own goal to stop the rot. Transfer rules were stricter back then with signings for the cup having to be made and registered two weeks in advance, we had brought in Willie Falconer who would miss out as he was registered a few days to short but as luck would have it our game was selected for TV and moved from Saturday to Tuesday which meant 15 days had elapsed, but bizarrely the SFA stepped in and said they must stick to the original game date and Falconer couldn't play. Typically we were pumped out. Those fixtures were sandwiched between a game versus Rangers at Ibrox, thankfully the Aberdeen league game win was the catalyst for an unbeaten run that seen us avoid relegation. It would be absolutely tremendous if we could get a win on Saturday and make it four from four, if we can replicate the cup performance then I have no doubt we'll do it.

I thoroughly enjoyed that cup tie, obviously great that we went onto win the tie but that offside call was ludicrous, I was right inline with it and at the time I thought the two centre backs were keeping Efford well onside which proved to be the case. Seconds later Scott Broon got a free kick when he just dropped to the ground then a short time later they were a goal up, the ball seemed to hang in the air forever from that cross. When we weathered the monsoon we took control and played really well, at half time I felt if we matched that first half performance we would have won by a larger margin. I thought Efford was unfortunate at one point as his threaded through ball got caught in the mud otherwise Shields would have been one on one with the keeper. Tremendous save by Liam Kelly at the end, the striker seemed to have all the time in the world to pick his spot. Inconsequential really but I wonder why Aberdeen switched sides before KO, I assumed weather related as surely shooting towards your fans is massive encouragement esph if chasing a goal late on. In saying that I know we done it for quite a few games towards the end of the 18/19 season and we blew the likes of Livingston and Hamilton away in the first half while shooting towards the Cooper.

Most likely.

I literally just spotted that, I take it he had been turfed oot of Hibs lately. Just a shame he isn't starting as any shot on target would likely be a goal.