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So, can we put you down as a champion of the Sid for manager campaign, hj?

If that was the ball he got when Rowson broke thru in the second half I think it came off a Dundee boot slightly, just enough to wrong foot Naismith. Like others I'll give him time to settle but haven't seen too much to be confident about. Perhaps if he's played as an out and out left winger or up front in the role that Mssrs Grehan and Stewart have graced us with he could do the biz. Upfront he's got to be better in the air than either of those two.

Derek Adams would be top of my current list. To be fair tho' most managers I've disliked at the time were probably just mouthing off from a point of insecurity or trying to boost the confidence of their own team. Nearly all of them ended up sacked and out of the game. Mark McGhee tho' has such an inflated ego he's almost impossible not to be included. Don't usually comment about current English football as I've only the occasional Match of the Day to go on but I'll make an exception for Neil Warnock who comes across as a total tosspot.

Think I'm right in saying Stewart skied that ball with his poorer right foot. I'm a big critic of one footed players but on that occasion Stewart had so much time he should've used his better foot. I thought when he first played for us he might be a sensible type player if never a natural scorer. I could see the point in playing Stewart if he carried a threat in the air but without that I fail to see what he offers us most of the time.

I thought the fight in the team especially as the game progressed was impressive. Something that justifiably could be questioned lately in recent games. The match itself was obviously seriously spoilt by the weather but for once we seemed to play the conditions reasonably well. As a spectacle it was helped by a Dundee side who were actually looking for a win and won't be happy with a point. Most recent games with Accies, Q o S (twice) and Raith have been against teams that would have settled for a draw. Rowson was a worthwhile choice as MoM but I thought both Robertson and O'Donnell were very good today. Robertson was steady and seems to read the game fine when the ball is in front of him. I think he may be one of the worst central midfielders I've seen us play since the Brady/Jimmy Gibson days but in the back row he's steady if unspectacular. O'Donnell has his faults but for such a young lad he keeps his head up well and was unfortunate not to supply the match winning ball. As for the result probably correct. We didn't create that much but I won't be too critical given the conditions.

I know I won't be alone in getting the "you go to watch Partick Thistle, you must be aff yer heid" treatment. I reckon I must've been told that once a week for the last, well, too many years. We just learn to grin and bear it. I doubt tho' I'll retreat into my customary silence if I know whoever's telling me I'm aff my heid spent a wet January afternoon in forecast 35mph+ gales playing golf.

Anyways I see Archie has heidbutted Imrie all the way to Paisley.

Might be better to have Lindsay on the bench. A bit of left sided cover.

Is that tho' not a bit like being born in 1990 and not knowing anything at all about John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Rice Miller or Jimi Hendrix?

A brahma of a decision

The biggest fear from rangers or even their Embra cousins going into a financial situation that severely threatens their existence could be the plight of smaller clubs could go undetected. Normally the only time a non OF/Embra or Aberdeen club makes headlines is when they go into administration etc. Councillors, politicians and other bigwigs get their say and the community aspect is brought up and the banks appear a wee bit more restrained than they are with other businesses (just look how sudden the bank treated Sangs). With every paper and media outlet devoting every spare column inch or piece of airtime to "Rangers in Crisis" it would be an opportune time to bury some bad news about other clubs.

These days there's no poor teams in world reserve football.

That's wee bit clichéd, DP. Just about any straight sending off (for violent conduct) could be termed as assault outside of a football field. Anyway I can't see enough from that clip to make a judgement one way or other. I know Archie has previous but his red cards are hardly than often an occurrence. Also we've got a ref who's evidently been demoted by being taken off the SPL circle. I assume his 2 red cards and 17 yellows in his last 4 games last season may have had something to do with that. He has now sent off 5 players in his last twelve matches. Even leaving out the obvious handball error in the Raith game his officiating in the two games we've had him of late has been atrocious. And there rests the case for the defence

We should just pick someone at random. Would appeal to my sense of humour if every time some innocuous player went near the ball he was subject to the Alex Rae/Novo treatment. Might even confuse the poor fella that much he has a howler. Btw one for the hate list... Lou Macari and also all those who thought themselves too big to play for the national side.

I suppose we'd lose out on aggregate.

I've been consistently one of Paton's critics but he's been very good in the holding role and appears to read the game excellently.

Just heard this. Hopefully we've been paid upfront but somehow I doubt it.

The season might be over for us but I hope to hell the players don't see it that way. If that's them been been fighting for every ball and bursting a gut of late I'd hate to see what happens if they take the foot of the gas. For the record Ross Co have just played out a 0-0 with QoS. One of their top players (Gardyne) has signed a pre contract elsewhere, which is hardly inspiring. We're 11pts behind and still to play them twice.with almost a half season to go. Losing games to the top three will kill our season but till that happens there's some hope we can still challenge.

Possibly will be but I don't think the Ayr game has been rearranged for before we go to Almondvale.

Mike Tumility is a Category One ****

I'm all for this sort of initiative as long as it's feasible. Gotta question tho' whether there'd be much of an uptake. I would imagine if the Club went with it entry would be at current concession price. Just my opinion but I feel £12 would still be a lot to ask someone out of work to cough up.

from the Scotsman (at Palmerston) from the Scotsman (at Cappielow)

I did find one thing inexplicable about last night and perhaps someone on here could provide an answer. Why when there's not another senior football game been played in the whole of Great Britain did we end up having that imbecile referee Mike Feckin' Tumelty in charge?

Ha, Wee Stevie indeed! Careful, HJ, he's 6ft 8in, 17 stone and only drinks in the Aitken Suite as he's barred out of every pub in Maryhill. Don't agree with McNamara.if he's implying that the strikers were primarily to blame. I'm not that confident that any of them would have scored but I don't recall them receiving any service in the first place. I couldn't really fault either Doolan's or Burns's movement so I feel the major culprits last night were those players who should have been supplying them. More to the Hamilton are a team just asking to be run at from midfield.

It's always seemed to me that over the last good few years we've lost late result changing goals a lot more than we've scored them. Another none too pleasant stat, and I might be slightly wrong, but I make it we've only scored goals in both halves in 3 league matches out of 19. For a side slightly above halfway in the table that seems strange.