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Are you definitely certain? No dout whatsoever?

Agree with the first two and certainly Clarke is a real personality. Not so sure about the third. A good bit nearer home would be My choice

ah hae ma doots * * see what one afternoon in Petercoulter can do to you.

I see it another way. A typical lower division club is likely to have a good few senior pros who have to ensure their runs etc are productive and with reduced pace & stamina they'll rely almost entirely on experience. Bannigan for instance must have learned from Roberts last season. I suppose tailoring the right lower division club for the individual youngster is all important. Totally guessing that while Burns will be picking up much needed game time he'll be benefiting from the sink or swim situation he'll find himself in at Clydebank. The lad had bulked up a good bit since he made his first team debut for us. Looks tho' that he's lost a good bit of pace, no doubt down to his injury lay off. Maybe that'll return but at least he'll be learning how to battle for the ball in the Juniors.

Valid point. I'm surprised tho' nobody has brought up comments McNamara made a couple of months ago about our senior youths not being the finished article. He was generalising of course but the main gist was that the players we've got that should be ready to step into the first team lack the necessary guile and rely too much on instinct (he definitely used that word). By that he was meaning positioning, running angles etc and other text book stuff left a bit to be desired. He certainly values the youth policy and the potential of a lot of our youngsters. He believes tho' that they just need more time on the technical side instead of relying on flying by the seats of their pants. I know that with Shaun there was an additional fitness issue and maybe attitude problem but perhaps some folk are making too much of that. Young Fraser will no doubt have needed the training in positioning and the other things Jackie's looking for and thus his visit to Stenny will not have been in vain. Stenny as we know is packed with experienced pros. McNamara's remarks about our home produced players can be backed up when you see the likes of young guys like Hutton & O'Donnell who know how to make space for themselves etc, the latter signed along with Lindsay as first team ready. So when one or two posters on here suggest that McNamara doesn't rate our youths I feel it's more than slightly off the mark.

Very sad to hear THIS

An early contender for this week's turn a positive into a negative award When he first arrived I thought he had all the makings of a future Jags captain. I think Cairney now he's back on track could well be Archie's successor. Not having pace probably means Paul won't attract much interest from clubs above our league. His consistency more or less means he'll play every week. What he lacks in pace he makes up for in stamina so he'll be on the park for 90 mins. He takes the penalties and other deadballs (corners still need to improve, tho') so he's an all round importance to the team. Cairney's future probably lies back playing central mid but it looks to me that he's enjoying the wider role at the moment.

Tom on the updates says 10 secs and I heard mention 11 secs on the BBC. Obviously we'll get it more accurate from the video. Anyway all I can find is THIS (scroll down a bit). John Hewitt 9.6 secs (for Aberdeen at Fir Pk '82) So we might just have witnessed the second quickest ever recorded Scottish Cup goal. I'd argue because we were playing into a very strong headwind once adjustments are made to reflect that then yesterday's was the fastest ever.

This hospitality business may be a Junior thingy but it can't have any tradition within the Scottish Cup. Up until not that long ago cup ties weren't played to a finish on the first replay. It wasn't uncommon to have ties go to three or four games. I can't really see clubs putting on post match hospitality after every drawn game.

More than a bit I would suggest. If the conditions had been like that up at Culter we might not have even made the replay. Btw unrelated but I thought the pitch held up really well. Was anticipating a quagmire coming so quick after the rugger.

Much the same really. Paton & Archie played well behind the full backs and Robertson as centrally defensive in midfield as you can get.

If the conditions weren't so bad we'd probably have added a couple more goals. Kinda with the above post but on the other hand having watched the whole 180 mins I think we're lucky no player has picked up a serious injury. At the time quite a few of us thought Erskine had in fact suffered a bad one in the first half up at Culter and today some what would pass for a timed tackle in Junior football was woefully late at our level. Kinda a long way round of saying I'd rather we won 4-0 than 10-0 with a couple of our lads out for the rest of the season. Btw I thought the almost bunnetesque in eccentricity line up today worked very well. It may have possibly contributed to the relative shortage of goals but in a safety first set up it was faultless. With that in mind McNamara will be very pleased with Robertson. Can't really imagine an occasion when we'll line up like that again. I don't know how others saw it but I thought it looked as if it was a 2-3-1-2-2 with width .

Confession time. When the final whistle went I stormed off down the road to catch a bus back to Aberdeen so as I could get a pint before the train. I realise now it was an action of a person that showed both disrespect to our hosts and a complete disregard for Junior protocol. I'd like to take this belated opportunity to apologise to Culter FC, the North of Scotland Junior Association, the SFA, PTFC, the BBC and the Press and Journal. I feel that in not being present at either the clapping off the pitch or the screaming bile ceremonies I have let an awful lot of people badly down.

Gale force winds & driving rain forecast plus a playing surface that's been ruggerfukated as recently as last night. I'm not so sure you should have posted that.

I guess one of the other reasons would simply be down to cost. After all there's no such thing as a free launch.

So who'll be our five designated penalty takers?

Up there with Conrad Balatoni's I Fall to Pieces and Sixteen Tons By Fulton & Slavin.

I for one wouldn't disagree if the Club was to broaden this offer to allow free entry for little_miss_jag's three cats.

As likely as not to be a youngster trialist . Good to see MacBeth get 90 minutes.

I've never seen any confirmation but I believe you can't differentiate with pay at the gate offers. In any case and I realise Livinghell are a poor example but if away fans heard of an offer that excluded them then I can imagine many could take the huff and stay away. So whether it's the rules or not it's just as well to offer this to away fans.

Looks like a good initiative from the Club. btw Dark Passenger is quite right in what he says tho' it's really a minor matter. It's not much more than a rule of thumb but you shouldn't sell on the back of a negative (think only the car trade and newspaper sales are exceptions). Anyway it's certainly not something the Club are usually at fault with and hardly worthy of re-hashing.

An excellent example of a player I really wished could have made the step up. Never hid even when it was obvious he was struggling.

Seems to get earlier every year To misquote Henry Ford I know only 10% of our players are any good but I don't know which 10%.

The least the Club should be doing is giving everyone who attended at Culter a voucher for a free pie. And most certainly not our usual poor fare either. As a way of penance Mr Balatoni should dispatched to the Richmond Arms, Petercoulter with an order for 350 of those real tasty pies.

£12 and I think £6 concessions