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Often critical but I thought Doolan managed the game well today. Reacted quickly to their 2nd goal. Maybe if Adeloye had stayed on we might have scrambled a winner. Big question I ask is once we scored we won just about every first ball on the ground, made countless interceptions in midfield and were picking up more than our share of second balls. But why couldn't we play like that for more of the game? Regardless who you support I reckon you'd feel cheated by yon ref today. He should've booked himself for time wasting. Didn't think his decisions were that controversial. Just the time taken before restarts was ridiculous. Reckon we were cheated out of about 10 minutes of actual play. I hope he's very proud of his new whistle.

The way I look at is, we budgeted for getting beaten by Ross County so by winning that one we are actually better off (yes it would be even more if we had beaten Livi but that was not factored in to the budget). Agree about the importance of good attendances at Firhill for the remaining games - I imagine it will be a good one when Morton come calling (will Spartans let James Craigen come along to do the half time draw).

Undefeated this month! Starting the final 9 games with a 3 point advantage over the 4th place team was something I would have taken at the start of the season although it does feel like we are hanging on rather than making the other teams win just to keep up with us. Not quite a normal quarter to come as we don't play Queens again but will play Raith twice. The good thing, assuming we can keep picking up points, is that the chasing teams will all take points off each other. Hope those in hospitality had a good time and plenty of money was raised for the club.

No wins in how many games now? Not nearly good enough.

I agree that good wing play especially by Fitzy and Lawless is a frequent source of our most promising attacks. However, I think that we often play the ball wide unnecessarily as though we feel we have to do it. If the possibility is there to drive direct towards goal we should not be afraid to do so.. I would also like to see players having more pops at goal from round about the D rather than play the standard wide pass. As McInroy and Bannigan have proved on all too rare occasions, you might just score or at least provoke a ricochet off defender or keeper giving someone else the opportunity to do so.

Young Ceiran upstaged today by Thomas Horn who scored a hat trick as the U18s beat their Ayr counerparts 3-2.

Next week, Big Wull.