Hopeless Unbeliever

You were talking in your opening post about the end of the season. For Celtic to consider McNamara after 1 season of football if they've sacked another rookie manager, I think Jackie would have to win the league by about 20 points and have very good runs in the cups for him to catch Celtic's eye ahead of other more experienced managers. It's good tongue in cheek speculation, but it has no basis in reality at this point, nor will it have at the end of the season.

Not now.

They were both truly memorable but that was 05/06 (I think?), we've already lost 2 out of 7 league games this season to last minute goals. Most teams' fans are going to think they get the short straw in terms of last minute goals but I think we've got more of a case than most.

Fox Paton Balatoni Archibald Sinclair Campbell Cairney Rowson Flannigan(/Erskine) Doolan Stewart Subs: Scully Robertson/Lindsay Elliot Bannigan Erskine(/Flannigan)

It's worth saying in their defence that they were up against the best defence in the league today.

When are you getting the job?

I think Robertson is just slow, but he did ok with it today, never going to do much with the ball but closed down well and was a physical presence. Think Riley might have been offside for the goal, came from Sinclair taking a touch too many but it was a terrible terrible decision. Have to agree with Fearchar's assessment of the game although I think both the Dundee centre backs are actually relatively decent with the ball at feet.

It looks like a template app which they would make for all teams, and would only give you links to Evening Times articles and results and other stuff you could just as easily find on here or the official site, wouldn't bother.

Pretty sure it was Dooooolan.

Done. Ian Flannigan's top from last season is sitting proudly at the bottom of my drawer.

Any news?

McNamara did mention on the OS that the team would be full of trialists and fringe players. I appreciate not everyone reads that but there was always a good chance given it's five days until our first competitive game, it was certainly why I never bothered heading along.

Can I just get this straight, people are refusing to buy the new strip because of this photo? Can anyone explain the rationale behind this because I'm genuinely perplexed.

You can contact the photographer through Getty's who the picture was taken for, it's only available from their website for "editorial" use, but it gives you the option to contact them to try and sort out alternative uses, so if anyone from the club is reading, here you go.

Martin Hardie?

Someone at the club needs to get a copy of that photo blown up and put in the Aitken Suite, brilliant picture.

Yeah I'm getting pretty tyred of it all.

You really had me going there that John Robertson had been snapped up by St Mirren or St Johnstone.

I always thought he was by far the best of the many young talents coming through at Hibs alongside O'Connor, Brown and others. Has never fulfilled his obvious potential but is still arguably the most talented player in the SPL outside the Old Firm (perhaps including them). Problem as others have said has always been his attitude, a move to Houston and away from Glasgow/Edinburgh could re-invigorate him and from my admittedly limited knowledge of the MLS he could be an excellent player over there.

What's the tune for that?

The last time I travelled on the North West bus (ever) was a Tuesday night game at Dingwall in 2007. The movies of choice were Borat (reasonable start), The Queen and The Devil Wears Prada. That night single handedly ruined away game travel forever for me.

Would have been good to see a bit of the applause at the end of the game, good highlights though. All goals taken very well.

Admin by my reckoning (and double checking my paypal history) I made 6 entries, one of which was on behalf of Steven H, so I should have 5 entries. Could you double check this please. I can't make it for the photo on Saturday so will make arrangements on the off chance I win.

Correct. 300 fans per game every game over the season? Absolutely not. Total nonsense, although it's probably preferable to snide digs at people who do anything they can to help out around the club.

Or maybe, just maybe, they think that taking the rugby income, being guaranteed, is a teeny, tiny bit more financially prudent than hoping against hope that a slightly improved pitch will turn average players into good ones and in turn bring back lapsed fans who have only given up because the standard of football just isn't good enough. It's not about what income is more important, of course if we were guaranteed to recoup our money from supporters by dropping the rugby and letting the pitch improve we would, but we're not, and it's utterly ridiculous to suggest that it's more 'important,' I honestly can't fathom what you mean with that nonsense. Other than that, your thoughts have been ably answered by lmj.