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Sorry about that, I somehow managed to get the original post and my reply conflated. Must be age.

I don't go much on the modern-day obsession with changing team strips every year, but then.... As long as the shirt is more or less 'traditional', I'm happy. That said, the Ivory Coast template looks fine. I'd like to go really traditional and hope for white shorts, but I guess that would be too much to hope for.

As someone once said at Firhill: " Ma heid's buzzled!" I now know what he meant.

We'd all like to know that! On the other hand, all the speculation about coaches may have its origin in newspapermen trying to boost sales of their own particular publications. I tend to think that this is the case - anyway, the latest rumour suggests that Maxwell is bound for Livingston, which could clarify the matter if only slightly!

Woof! Not Archie again, please!

Apart from Seaman? All keepers make mistakes - you get away with them outfield but betwee the sticks you are totally exposed and there is no way to overcome the situation. I am heart sorry for Green tonight, and hope he can put it behind him. A blinder in his next game would help.

Because he'll come cheaper than any alternative?

I don't know who you have been talking to, but Alan Hansen was one of the very few truly classy players we've had in my time Wish we could unearth another. He made Gary Harkins look a real second-rater. None who were there will forget his stunning winner against Bolton Wanderers in the Anglo Scottish Cup, or his double in a 4-3 win over Rangers at Firhill - including the winning goal from the penalty spot. I think those we try to put him down all the time as a pundit are doing so because he doesn't share their own absurd 'anti everything English' agenda. My memories of his contrinution on the field for Jags are happy ones. Sure, he and Miller made a real hash in that game against USSR, but Miller was equally to blame in not giving him a shout, and has not had to cope with the mockery that he has.He also played extremely well for his country, and fully deserved his caps, won in a much better Scottish team than that which we have today.

Described by our management team of the time of his signing as 'a real ball-winner.' A transfer fee (it was quoted as £5,000) was unbelievable. Took only half a dozen games to find him out - well only one to be honest. Whatever happened to Paxton? He surely didn't continue as a pro. footballer.

Steve Fulton - no contest!! Without question the worst player I've seen in a Jags shirt, and my memory goes back a long way. We have in the past often been seen as a sort of retirement home for ex-OF players put out to grass at the end of their careers, but Fulton really took the biscuit in my eyes. Disgracefully unfit. Didn't try. Didn't care - and, it is alleged,ready to lead younger players astray. What were our management team thinking of?

Crowd that day well over 9000. Makes you think.

Nearly 60 years of following the Jags through thick and mainly thin has shown me that it's when all the pundits are prophesying doom and destruction before a ball is kicked that the players surprise us all. I could quote several examples - most recently 2002 when we came from Division 2 written off but still won the championship with something to spare,. Keep the faith!

I've only seen him in action a couple of times, but MacBeth loked really impressive. I suspect that he will figure regularly in the first team in the coming season, then move on to better things, hopefully for a large fee. For the first time for many seasons we have promising young players coming through. This hasn't happened since 1970 when, following relegation, Dave McParland built a fine side from home-grown talent : Glavin, MsQuade, Rough, the Hansens,Lawrie, Bone, Gibson,and of course Jackie Campbell The future is not really all that gloomy on the playing side - it's the financial state of the club which gives cause for concern. But we're not alone in that, or even the worst affected.

I have no problems about England winning, although I'd probably prefer to see a team with real flair lift the trophy. I agree with your points. there are however two positives also - they have great team spirit, and in Capello a manager who is capable of getting the very best out of the material he has.

And by the same token, Glasgow should have two?

it was all about Scottish football today. The SFA for once did us proud - the children with the flags, the parading of the cup with Golac and Billy Ferries ( who says there's no sentiment in football?); the playing of the club songs; the pipe band, just everything. A packed stadium, passion, heartbreak - and not an Ulster flag or Republic flag in sight; no mention of Derry's Walls or the Soldiers Song; no chants about King Billy or the Pope. And the sycophsntic Glasgow press tell us that we can't do without the OF ! You bet we can !!!

So will I. Ross County were my boyhood team. My dad would take me to the "big" matches - Caley, Elgin, the occasional Scottish Cup -tie. We never dreamt that we would enter the League, never mind reach the final of the Scottish Cup! A wee man from Albion Rovers (!) regularly used to ridicule the idea of Highland clubs in the Scottish League and irritate my dad greatly. Well I have the satisfaction of seeing ONE of my favourites in a Final. It's 80 years since my beloved Jags got there, bur now we know that anything is possible!

Absolutely spot on . I'm not a lib Dem supporter and have voted labour, but have to admit that he is showing himself to be a very shrewd operator. The really important thing is to secure a little stability and avoid having them all having to go to the country again in the very near future. Therefore a Tory/Lib Dem coalition or arrangement seems to me the best that can be hoped for at this time. Labour will live to fight again. Incidentally, despite allthe ludicrous bad mouthing from the Daily Mail and other extreme right wing organs I think Brown has acted very honourably throughout and does not deserve all the vitriol being trhrown at him.

A better link - did Johnny Mackenzie not spend a season with Fulham after leaving Firhill?

I've never got into this kilt thing - and 'feathers', I ask you! Surely the kilt is Highland dress and nothing to do with the great majority of Scots who are Lowlanders (or even of Irish background).. It's adoption by the more aggressive elements in the "Tartan Army" is an embarassment really. Personally I hope England do well in SA If they play to their potential they should do so - but like Scotland usually are incapable of coping with the big occasion. Some English fans are honest enough to admit this. Many Scottish fans, unhappily, are so consumed by bitter envy that they make fools of themselves.