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Still can't get my head round why player redundancies weren't implemented at an earlier stage. By that I mean high earners out of contract this season.

None too pleased myself. Some over officious steward confiscated my big can of worms.

06 was of course the year I meant. Does anyone else notice your keyboard gets smaller and blurry on a Saturday night?

Iirc I was on the train heading up to the ICT cup tie (86?) when we got word the an ugly sister had been knocked out the Cup in an early ko game and that made us the only Glasgow side left in the tournament..

I too thought Cairney was poor but it's hard to be part of a three man midfield in a winning side and not contribute so maybe he was better than we thought. Certainly Rowson & Erskine were outstanding and had to be. Thing I liked best today was the quality of both goals. If I have to point out a failing, and I can't avoid using a cliché, and that's we're not very good at winning. By that I mean once we score and go ahead we lack composure and get a bit panicky.

Once the back three got their line sorted I thought Robertson was the player who best came onto a game. I don't know how others saw it but I felt his booking was disgraceful. Looked like he won the ball in a fair tackle. I've seen every game Robertson has played and think he's done fine with the ball in front of him. I just don't believe he offers anything in midfield.. He wouldn't have been my MotM today simply because he was one of three centre backs, which made his job that bit easier but he did play well.

Maybe even without his goals we might still have made 4th place?. That season was just mental. I'm far from sure that had we scored another point and made 3rd place we'd have got promoted (Morton might well have beaten us over two legs). So maybe just as well Santala didn't score any more goals. .

What's the SFL ruling on this? If Deuchar is unfit to play can you field a locum?

We really need someone from the Trust to come on and tell us about last night. I want to hear it straight from the duck's mouth.

I've seen him wearing a Liverpool top. Oh, hing on, that was in a film .

There's something dodgy about all this. As I remember in all other football administrations in Scotland redundancies were put into effect within days. We're told tonight about the £1m a month requirement to stay afloat. In my admittedly rather simplistic view by deferring cost cutting the administrators are making that £1m a month target considerably more difficult to reach. In doing so they are surely making liquidation more likely. Whyte I recall was most eager to have his nominated administrators appointed to the extent of a mad dash to put Rangers in administration ahead of HMRC. I've never understood the significance of this believing that administrators had hard and fast strictures and regulations to adhere to. I'd have thought that in a non manufacturing business immediately reducing the wage bill would be almost the first step.

Yeh, but then a glazier would say every cloud has a silver lining. I realise what you're getting at and I suppose I agree but at the same time I find it also gets very tedious to be getting constantly reminded of our deficiencies. Sometimes we need to be a tad hypocritical to comment on other clubs' misfortunes.

Not really aimed at above poster in isolation but why is it every time someone posts about other clubs' real or rumoured misfortunes we have to be told to look at our own selves? I suggest that the vast majority of Jags fans are well aware of our league position, our current form and have a reasonable understanding of our own financial predicament. It is possible to fall off you're bike and still have a laugh when someone else falls of theirs.

Hang on. It was only last week we were getting lectured by some (not Jaggernaut) for talking up our win against Ayr. Now with the top of the league side only beating this poor team narrowly it stands to reason Ross Co must be in decline if not free fall. Truth is Ayr aren't that bad and County, who have a bit more strength in depth than others, will probably hold out and win the league. I can't see SPL clubs being thrilled with another two trips to the heilans especially with late call offs at both Inverness & Dingwall being a none too irregular occurrence. Think that sort of inconvenience is minor in comparison to other likely developments within the SPL. Entry into next season's SPL, with all the additional expenditure re squad and, in the case of County, the ground, might well turn out to be one of those poisoned slack alices, .

You really couldn't make it up!http://www.dafc.co.u...211796_2153578?

Against Berwick

2nd this season. In both matches it's likely he's cost us the game. Also been critical of the petty yellow cards he picks up tho' not so bad these days as a couple of seasons ago.

Back on topic there's light at the end of the Clyde tunnel http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/16839851

Maybe next time I'm standing in yon interminable pie queue I'll burst into Waiting in Vain

Losing/being owed £80K is bound to be affecting their cashflow.

I suppose we're fairly close to agreement in as much as neither moving Paton back to full back nor playing him in his current role is ideal.

But wasn't that one the biggest criticisms of Paton (apart from the onefootedness)? Paton next to never takes a man on and rarely reaches the bye line. His default ball is a lob from just inside the opponent's half. I happen to think Paton has an awareness about him, which makes him a reasonable defender, wherever he's deployed and, when he doesn't resort to doing a "Jimmy Gibson", he's one of the few with a bit of determination. I'm guessing McNamara is persevering with Paton in the holding role not because he's doing that well more likely as there's little alternative. Robertson was very poor in midfield and I'm not so sure Rowson is any longer suited to playing there.

Dreaded vote of confidence? http://www.theglaswe...2692-23769392/?

I can thoroughly recommend the Waterworld Show at Universal Studios, L.A. Really quite a strange correlation of a rather spectacular theme park attraction and an attempted blockbuster that failed spectacularly. I sense the absence of Mr Costner from the former may go someway to explain this. Tonight I'm mostly thinking Paul Paton and Splash Zone, And throw in A Day in the Park with Propco

Not sure on the accuracy of this, and seeing's believing, but I've heard told that a re-incarnation of a fifties game show panelist is a regular at Firhill.