fatnallyjag

Id go Cerny Keown Devine Turnbull Nitriansky Elliot Bannigan Barton Spittal (if fit) Erskine Storey If Spittal not fit then Sammon or Dools in the line up Aberdeen will likely have 2 up top plus wingers so id go with e 3/5 at back and as much as Abdul adds the dig we are often missing, in these types of games he too often gets booked early n is a liability, Storey should get chance against former team. n for a change we would actually have a good few possible game changers on bench

Is the season ticket valid for this or not? St mirren game stated it was free for season ticket holders n no mention of them on the Stranraer preview/admission details

every bloody year the website is a nightmare i cant get into my account n when select forgotten password it asks me to fill out a form that doesnt exist i then managed to log into my dads account to renew his but it only has my mums ticket as available to renew but not his total farce

Thought Barton looked like the only player who could hold the ball and show some class in that game, No criticism of dools as total thankless task. Osman should have been booked before he went off n was doing nothing other than fouls. Booth had a nightmare but understandable against roberts on top form. Amoo didnt play well n gave Christie little or no help but the guy behind me in main stand giving him grief from start to finish was unnecessary

both keepers were our best players on night and could easily have been 10 if not from them

Given that we got Edwards from Reading and then Keown on Loan , im guessing Archie or Paterson or someone at the club has a link to someone there, whether it be first team or academy. If we have a relationship with them then do we want them to win promotion as may mean they want Keown n maybe others to go out n develop? Or if they are in premiership will it suddenly price us out of loan deals etc?

unlike any other season i can remember, when usually we have about 2 players signed, who is actually out of contract?

All the best to Dan, think when he came back into the team around October time it really shored us up and made a big difference, but on other hand don't see him as a major stand out that can't be replaced. From Archie's quote on bbc article it sounds like Dan's made it clear he is off to pastures new and therefore no contract was offered. I would like us to get Freddie and MIller signed up, think he's been really unlucky not to be a regular recently as he has filled in superbly at centre half and much more effective in his natural right back role too, and then get at least one more ideally two new centre halfs through the door

seriously can't understand the pelters folk are giving the board on this thread, crowd on saturday was just shy of 5k and there were more Dons than Jags. If you seriously think the board should be cutting the cloth accordingly to avoid loses then lets look forward to being mid level championship standard next season

I personally think that £25 for my boy's season ticket is more than reasonable but the reason given makes no sense. Myself and my Mum have season tickets near the front centre of the JH and have done for over a decade. My son has had one since last season beside me. I do not want to give up my seat so my choices are either pay the £25 for him to keep his or simply chance my arm on matchdays that there is a spare, the last two seats in my row right at half way line haven't been reserved for years as far as I can work out so shouldn't really be a problem. Also Im not sure if my seat even has a sticker on it and regularly people are sat in them when we arrive. But to say that my son's ticket affects the matchday experience negatively is completely flawed, If he pays at the gate or gets a free unreserved ticket, and then me and my mum both sit away from our reserved seat to be beside him, thus leaving two empty reserved seats. Same goes for JH season ticket holder's sitting in the NS. Only difference is that my seat and NS peeps ones are paid for. So could the club not simply come clean and say they don't want free reserved seats sitting empty rather than baloney about Match day experience.

just hope the Bridge turns up for the whole season, last two its been about half way through before hes established himself in the starting line up and put in some big performances. The nature of his skills, position, talent means there is always going to be some poor games and inconsistancy but after this amount of time at this level it should only be the odd game, and if it is then itl be good times ahead

and worryingly on form itd prob have to be Caldwell and Mulgrew at centre half, both won Player of the year in last few years so must be good to think there were times when we could leave out european cup winners like alan Hansen definitely our weakest position at present, webster wasn't international class at his peak and he is way below that these days

Peter houston reported no call offs so I presume they did, are there actually many of them though, Macgregor obviously and guessing whittacker and wallace but that must be about it

wasnt convinced by him at first, in his defence he maybe just wasn't up to pace of first team football but last couple of months definitely one of top performers, and would be an excellent signing, i like the sound of two year deal rather than one and given Cairney no doubt being away makes it an even better piece of business if it gets signed off

oh and catering was a disgrace!

i think everyone is being rather negative, but for some weak finishing, bad decisions, and some extremely questionable offside decisions, we could have walked that game today by several goals, yes worrying that we made it tough for ourself in the end, but at least we were creating chances, how many times have we laboured through without that, we deserved to win easily today. people criticising bannigan is very harsh, hes a young player and yes he made some bad passes to the opposition but on the whole I thought he played well, for a guy who was playing about his 10th game for us at most in probably the most responsible position in the whole team, I thought he did well, looks a better player than cairney and many previous incumbants of that position. Also erskine didnt play to anything like last weeks level but he wasnt as bad as people are claiming. we won, and it was the first game, we are hardly gona be up to full speed, people need to chil out till the league is a few games old to get a proper perspective. Pretty much every team in the league has sold or realeased first team players and for once we have a fairly settled line up, I don't expect us to storm the league or anything daft like that, but the panic of some after one cup game ( which we won!) is ridiculous

I appreciate that our current financial situation relies alot on gate money but seems to be a distinct lack of realism here. Rangers, Celtic, even Man Utd are suddenly finding themselves with spare season tickets left to sell, people just can't afford it at the moment and that is only likely to get worse over the next year or two, its been far too expensive for far too long. That being said, my ticket was paid for yesterday but I couldn't be there and there may have been others like that too so might not be as bad as the numbers seem. Also, my mate who is a rangers fans bought a season ticket for the jags this year so he goes to the football every week even if his team arent at home, so 3 times this seasoni've been charged with giving it to someone while he is at Ibrox, and to be honest my mates have kinda been of the opinion that even for free they could have had a more entertaining afternoon so that doesnt bode well for tempting people back.

Mcmenemin would score more goals than any of our current forwards, and can guarantee that if he signs for someone else in div 1 then he will score against us, hes like the current generations poor mans owen coyle!

Id be loathed to drop Doolan for Liam, Dools did the work of 2-3 guys on sat, Liam , maybe as u say due to lack of fitness, struggles to cover his own yards spose how it depends how we set up, if we are going for it then maybe the guy banging them in for reserves does then become an option

why have the SFA not acted yet, its a total kick in the teeth for any club who have their affairs in order. In England the FA have been announcing what the punishment will be before the event even happens, typical of the SFA that they still don't know what to do, shambles. there should be a set punishment of a points deduction, can't help but feel they will escape in the same way Motherwell did. If Chisholm knew that was the case in August then surely him, Dodds, and ud like to think theyd have said to the players too, were all well aware and fearful of what was surely coming since then. I have sympathy for the players and fans, but extremely little for the club itself, they have in effect cheated by poaching other teams players with money they didnt have by not paying the tax man, which i believe we all have to do by law, and would suffer heavy penalties if we didnt.

can't argue with a guy that was such a pioneer of total football as a player he seems to forget that football is about winning rather than your back four being good at passing the ball ten yards, maybe thats why they did get relegated despite his claims I work with a Falkirk fan , and he actually think Pressley sets up the team pretty well and they will do well under him if he would just shut up!

i'd never knock payton for his effort, and hes a great tackler but... Up until he scored on saturday I was telling my Celtic supporting mate who had come along how embarressing it was that the guy cant kick the ball with his left foot and when he gets into opponents half, 9 times out of 10 its two touches then boot it diagonally to the left. Its horribly frustrating, I think he could be a really good player if he works on his attacking play and left foot, but sadly see no evidence of that so far, and where i sit he gets a really fair deal in comparison to Boyle who i think gives just as much effort but does seem to be improving more

I think that this is a great post , the balance has to be found, the fans rep should be exactly that in representing the ordinary fans, but at the same time they have to be able to fully participate in board meetings and the business aspect of it to be a valid addition to the board and make the fans views count

hopefully just what he needs to get his confidence up and maybe a couple of reserve games will help him up his fitness and workrate too

Where was Bannigan yesterday, surely the performances he has put in when hes been in the team at least warrant being ahead of hodge in the pecking order?