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This is really a question for Brian, but I'm sure that many of us would be interested in the answer: if Cowdenbeath can have standing and no segregation, why can't we? After all, now that Airdrie has gone, there doesn't seem much likelihood of any crowd problems.

Takes top two goalscorers off!

A colleagure of mine was very impressed by the passing in the lead-up to the first goal. He follows some other Glasgow football team which I believe has links to another country, and he was persuaded to go by his brother, who tends to be the same but lives near Firhill and even went to the Greenock game. I have hopes of doing some missionary work with at least one of them. So some of the play is helping, at least - though not against Morton,obviously.

Maxwell wasn't at the discussion after the Jags Trust AGM because he had been training all day: so he'll be in the squad at least, and probably in the team. Ian McCall also said that on current form Bannigan was difficult to leave out and that Doolan and Buchanan did well together against Ayr United, which suggests that Grehan and/or Donnelly will be on the bench.

Your ladyship is, of course, entirely correct.

Scottish football is reaching a new nadir, but then it's run by a strange mixture from two centuries ago - would-be Corinthians with would-be 19th century mill owners. Whoever thinks that small joint-stock companies are an effective way of organising football (or any sports) clubs in the 21st century needs his or her head examined. After all, we have the proof of where it leads us - to minute divisions and leagues; the dominance of two clubs at the highest level; a fractured, divisive administration (SFA, SPL, SFL, SJFA,....); overwhelming indebtedness at all levels; a national squad that can barely compete with the likes of Liechtenstein (that tiny refuge of absolutism and secretive tax evasion); and hopes placed in the likes of Craig Brown as managers and the likes of Kenny Black and Uncle Dick as SFA coaches. Even the media commentators are permitted to deliver an incoherence that would instantly render them unsuitable for any other type of news delivery. If you didn't laugh, you'd have to cry.

Surely there was really just one major managerial error in this game. Substituting Frick instead of keeping him on the park to nick the winner.

Perhaps I can help, since I used to be one. What you suggest is not good enough: you really have to simplify the model as much as possible first, before you can move on to further conclusions. Start with one economist and, ceteris paribus, you still won't get agreement.

I am more than willing to listen, although should that not be "Listen down", since you're down under? All I can do is repeat the comment: you do not see any play (other than, presumably, the odd snippets that are highlights), yet you feel entitled to castigate this team. Is that reasonable?

Oh, I don't know - it was a great excuse to use that fantastic emoticon.

Whether the board wants to make a point of this or not isn't relevant: if you work in a place without a recognised trade union, trade union members are still the last to be laid off. The board, like an employer, is looking to take the path of least resistance. In any case, any board of directors has a duty to represent the interests of all shareholders, including minorities. If the enemy of your enemy is your friend, and the trust decides that the current board is selling out the club, who are the potential allies? It's unlikely that all other current shareholders will agree with the current board: after all, only a complete fool or somebody who's up to very shady practices would expect to profit from a football club, which means that many shareholders are investors for reasons other than money.

If the board has done so, then the Trust has to take action. Even if it's just a gentlemen's agreement rather than a formal written contract, there is more than enough documentary evidence to show that the board accepted the terms as a contract.

Where did you find the Irish folk on Skye?

You are too far away to attend any games, yet you insist that even if you lived closer you wouldn't bother. All the same, you feel entitled and qualified to criticise a team with mixed, generally poor, results - a team that you haven't seen. What possible reason can you have for doing so? Perhaps you really do live further than 10.5 k miles away - on another planet, perhaps?

Sorted that for you.

Shocking - strikers and midfielders that couldn't finish their dinner, as my son said. And yes, they did have several opportunities served up on a plate, but decided to go for the tippy-tappy passing round the box instead - rather like a child that doesn't want to eat playing with the food. I'd rather we played hungry amateurs than players without any smeddum at all. As for defence, it's amazing to watch professionals standing off a loose ball in their own box. For their next trick, they tried allowing an opposing striker to get a free strike when the ball came in from the wing. Surprise, surprise! Two goals conceded. Maxwell doesn't have the pace to get back to defending, if he's sent up the park for another fruitless foray in the opposing box, and Kinniburgh is just a liability, as we all knew - certainly not captain material. It's fine to have a dominant midfield for a change, but when you're sending high balls over their heads anyway, because you're chasing a game, what's the point? Taking a man on seems to be forbidden, according to the current Firhill Manual of Coaching. A bit like shooting, closing down the opposition or providing options for the player with the ball. Perhaps we can get some volunteers from the fans to help out in coaching too: it certainly looks as if they'll be needed.

It's a problem throughout the whole squad, and it doesn't matter who the strikers are or what the formation is - they all suffer from it. The longer this dearth of goals goes on, the more it undermines confidence. McCall should have brought in a sports psychologist towards the end of last season, never mind in this one: like his tactical changes, it seems to take a long time for him to make strategic ones.

To be fair, I think that it was apparent after Donnelly came on that he was orchestrating a revitalised attack. (Yes, I know that ultimately it failed, but it was more vigorous.) It certainly seems that the team has lacked an inspiring captain or similar leading figure for some time, and this problem is affecting our present squad, and it doesn't seem to matter who has the captain's armband. (Generally, the players just seem too nice.) Perhaps as Donnelly and Maxwell take on coaching duties they will grow into being more assertive and influential.

Oh, no! Now you've gone and done it!

The new angles were good, but it does look a bit as if because they were there, they were edited into the highlights. It's usually accepted that one repeat of the same incident from a different angle is enough - three showings of the same incident is overdoing it a bit.

As others have advised, you should give the club office a ring - 0141 579 1971. You might be best going from Blythswood Square to Sauchiehall Street, and walking downhill in the direction of the city centre on Sauchiehall Street. That way, you'll pass Greaves Sports Shop on your left, which has a selection of Jags-related items. Keep that in mind for your return journey, though, and go on to the end of Sauchiehall Street, which is also the top of Buchanan Street (with the big concert hall at the top). Walk down to the Subway station and take the short subway trip (3 stops on the outer circle - inner circle to return) to George Cross, which is a short 5-10 minute walk from Firhill. By retracing your steps, you shouldn't get lost.

Yes, but...... Our finishing is still dreadful, with Liam the main culprit. Before the heavy conditions set in, I think it would be good to give Liam some time on the bench and put Kris Doolan on from the start, in the hope that Liam realises he's going to have to work for his place.

In a word - Fascism. (There's your naughty word.) The Fascists wanted to claim a connection with the earlier game "calcio". That way the Fascists could envelope football in their national myth-making. (Even the Fascists had to give up their idea of replacing football with an Italian alternative.) In another take on myth-making, the Chinese film "Red Cliff", a film based on events in the early 3rd century, portrays football (with no handling, and with two goals) as beginning between teams there - long before anything like that was codified, of course.

The article says he'd like to go in for coaching. Perhaps we could offer.......Er, perhaps not.

That's Patontly a Freudian slip.