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Elliott used his strength to good effect, taking the ball through challenges - something many of our rather lightweight players find very difficult. He also weaved his way through a few of the opposition with the ball at his feet. It looks as if he's been putting in time developing skills in addition to the team training.

It must be a hindrance to referees' performances when they get together to decide before a season begins which players to target and which to let off. On a football pitch, where the referee is practically judge, jury and prosecutor, it is inapproprate for prejudice of this kind to be displayed, let alone encouraged. It may not only explain why certain fairly innocuous players seem to be carded (Doolan? ) and others can get away with, say, handball in the penalty box for two games in a row. It's a systematic undermining of the basic approach to justice, and any professional lawyer could explain in great detail why. Any judge (at any level) in the law courts would shudder to hear that this happens.

Or, for the more classically-inclined, post meridiem = after midday and ante meridiem = after midday. Whichever it is, 12.00 pm and 12.00 am are both midnight (although conventionally only 12.00 pm is used). The other 12 o'clock is 12.00 noon.

This. (Run out of likes.)

Poor decision-making in the team cost us 2 points: we continue to get Taylor and/or Doolan get caught up in wing play, so that there's no striker to put the ball into the net. The huge number of corners with no scoring to show for it tells its own story. Oh, and the referee seemed to have discovered a rule that players aren't allowed to jump to head the ball. This team is going to have to be careful about all these yellow cards, even if there hardly seems much reason for most of them.

The understanding between Erskine and Doolan could count in picking a team.

Annan must be an awful lot further away from Glasgow than I realised, if the Under-14s have to gather at 9.00 am at Firhill to reach there at 12 midnight.

We've been here before and bounced back.

I know it's not this team's style, but sometimes I feel a bit of anger might be helpful, even from within the team. Where's the heart of the team?

Why? The seat sales at Parkhead are only nominal, as any fule kno, and don't bear any relation to numbers of paying fans. Many Glasgow-based Celtic fans can't even afford a one-off ticket to Firhill, which is why quite a number were gathered outside the fence round the ground, at the Basin. Economists would tell you that effective demand is the result of a combination of willingness to pay with the ability to pay, and they don't have the latter.

A good summary, but I felt that Buaben should have been brought on earlier to stiffen up the midfield, where we were being pushed around in the second half, and Taylor was repeatedly caught offside, as well as being penalised all too frequently for clashes with defenders. Even if that's down to the referee, it's still a liability. My Caley Thistle-supporting cousin thought there wasn't much between the two teams, but was surprised by and very complimentary about the large, voluble support by comparison with that of St Johnstone, for example.

He seems to have stopped his habit from earlier in the season of taking speculative shots from very far out, in favour of taking the ball closer to goal - and it's yielding results.

Somehow, Higginbotham needs to be persuaded that from time to time it's worth emulating Doolan's example and dummying or passing to get the easier option for the team rather than choosing the more difficult option for KH. As Willjag says, at that first option, Taylor would almost certainly have had the ball in the net. A great performance overall from Kallum, though - even if his parents opted to use the letter K in a Gaelic name.

The problem of what to do with Doolan has come up in another thread. IMHO his reading of the game is wasted on a striker, and he's only getting to play a bit part there anyway. I'd prefer to see him as an attacking midfielder, because he has shown that not only can he score goals but he can provide others with opportunities too. If he's not given starts, he'll consider moving, and we'll be losing one of our most able players.

Every setback offers an opportunity. This won't happen, but it would solve a few problems at one stroke. Doolan should be asked to fill in at centre back for the U20s. He can be told he's bringing his maturity, commitment and willingness to learn new skills as an example to younger players, which would all be true. At the same time, he'd be viewing the game from a different position, developing his existing skills at reading a game. By the time he's battering down Archie's door to be let back into the first team (3 weeks at the most, I'd say), he'd be willing to take any position in the first team, and then could be slotted in perfectly, with his newly-acquired defensive outlook, as an attacking midfielder. Last season he created opportunities for others to score, as well as scoring himself. In that position, his football brain would be as useful as his scoring ability, and would give him a place in the first team every week as the creative focus in midfield, instead of as the second-string striker coming off the bench every week. As I say, it won't happen: instead, I imagine that Doolan will soon be looking for a move somewhere where he'll get a place as a first-choice striker. Sadly, Scottish football doesn't really nurture the kind of player that offers something between his ears as well as at his feet.

You need to get down wiv the yoof more: "Dragback: A person you picked up at a bar and brought back to your house or hotel room for a one night stand."

It was a Cruyff Turn. The highlight of the game, IMHO - but not deemed worthy of inclusion in the "highlights" on TV. Some of the media staff really need to start taking an interest in what they're editing.

I think, to be fair, if you were neutral and lived in or around Inverness or Dingwall, you would probably opt for the local game regardless: so travelling support from both sides might be diminished, and not simply because of distances.

Good summary, but as well as a suspect central defence, we've seen Erskine holding down the right side of defence against two Aberdeen players. What on earth was McMillan doing? Good to see SOD brought on as a sub, to shore up this weakness, but for next season we'll need to sort out these defensive problems. As things stand, the midfielders and even striker have to track back to support the defence, so that any clearance concedes possession, keeping the team under pressure.

Not to mention: "Partick Thistle hanging on" - shortly before full-time, with a two-goal lead.

Glühwein (mulled wine).

Good team performance, but the defence (ATS excepted) was woeful. Fortunately, that was made up for by Gallacher's magnificent performance today and the team getting to grips with attacking in force.

Of the four-man back line, only ATS managed to pull his weight: fortunately, Gallacher made up for them magnificently today, ATS contributed to the attack and Conrad, surprisingly, got on the scoresheet.

As a practical point, it's best to stick to one question and phrase it simply. It's very difficult to avoid answering that, although it's easier if it's addressed to a corporate entity, group of people or something similar. The barrage suggested by pt won't work: it says, "I'm a troublemaker, and I'm looking to drop you in it, whoever you are and whatever the reason - even if it's nothing to do with me." Any bureaucrat worth his/her salt knows how to fob this off.

Post 10, 15, 18 and 23 all look at best snide and at worst outright abusive to me. What is bizarre is that the victim seems to have been scapegoated for the club's failings.