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Seems pretty popular here. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/jack-ross.1464490/

Naw Jansen. Van Hanagem didnae play for Ajax.

Naw. He played for them though.

Blimey that's a bit harsh. I would probably have just castigated him.

Don’t think it’s really a weakness of ours as such Mattman. Think it’s just our place in the foodchain. Young players who know they are good, are unlikely to tie themselves down for any length of time, particularly when they get to about 20. Even on occasions when we have managed to tie players down we’ve tended to get pretty derisory sums for them as other clubs know they only have to pay clubs like us buttons. I’m honestly not sure there’s much the club can do about that. It’s just a fact of life.

Depending on when we play Dundee at Dens Park, I’d like to think we’ll have more in bag than one more win or two draws. Even if the Dens game is the first after the split, we’ve got 5 more games before then!

That’s my point though. We had a wee purple patch recently with Mallan, Magennis and Morgan, but not having anyone in the squads is probably our more common default position. It’s hardly unusual. Doesn’t mean we’re giving up on youth, or even that we don’t have any decent youth players. It just means that currently the powers that be deem that other teams have better youth players than us.

Well ah suppose it wasnae a big fight in comparison to the one at the biscuit factory the night before. 2 bandits hit a penguin ower the heid wi a club and them made a breakaway in a taxi.

There was a big fight in there last week. Pretty bad apparently. Some guy ended up in a korma.

Sorry, I must’ve missed us signing the “divine right” agreement to have players in the Scotland U21 squad.

Absolutely nothing more than pure speculation at the moment, but a few sources saying that Brendan Rogers is going to go after John McGinn in the summer. Are we entitled to any more sell on there i.e. if Hibs make more money through any sell on they agreed with Villa, are we entitled to a third of that as well?

Have to agree HSS, the noise was deafening. Like Party Polotics said, I too found myself looking to the linesman and as soon as I realised the goal definitely stood it was bonkers time. My poor wee nephew got launched about 10 feet in the air! . Looking across at the lads in W7 was superb. Absolute scenes.

Dani, I don’t know if you were at the game today, but if you weren’t, don’t listen to the 3 or 4 nuggets on here who said we played badly. We didn’t.

Shite. That is all.

Wank Wank Good Guy Wank I am of course referring to Northstbuddie, Top Cat, Me and Herman Munster. What f**kin game were you clowns watching today? Did you only watch the first 20 minutes and then leave? Livi appeared to adapt to the conditions a little better than us to begin with and we were under the cosh a little, albeit at times the conditions seemed to be as much of a hindrance to them as a help. For the rest of the first half we were comfortably the better team. Second half again we controlled the game as much as any team could in those horrendous conditions. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll confess that I didn’t think the goal was coming, but we definitely deserved it. Some folk are never satisfied. PS - If I can add a negative point of my own, Stephen McGinn was absolutely honkin today.

Methinks someone may have taken the ale this evening.

Not sure where Chili is but it sounds hot.

On the contrary I thought Sunderland was the perfect move for him. Working with JR again and I thought he’d really shine at that level. I now beginning to think that Lewis maybe isn’t as good as we all thought he was. Maybe just a very good Championship player.

I love it when folk deem a differing opinion as a denial of their own. Anyway, I’m not stating an opinion I’m stating a fact based on the rules. Your guess is as good as mine as to why there is even a case to answer here. You’re usually a decent poster on here. Get off your moral high horse Other teams benefit from these rules all the time. Why should we be the moral guardians of what is a red and what isn’t. Oh, and on reflection my previous post may have been a tad outbursty.

FFS. Whether you think it was a red or not is immaterial. IT WAS A YELLOW. For once the stupid f**kin SFA rules might have worked in our favour and you want us to bend over and take a 2 match ban right up the arse. The rule is the ref saw it and punished it as a yellow. End of case. If they issue a ban now it will make a mockery of the rules. f**k this high moral ground shite just because you think he “deserved” a red.

Oakley’s goal was indeed Van Bastenesque.

Mon tae f**k Aberdeen!!

Obviously a daw wouldn’t be a disaster from the pure maths points of view, but I think that ignores the rest of my post. A draw for me will create a mindset of “well if we cannae beat Livi at home (a game where we HAVE to be realistically targeting 3 points), then what chance to we really have of getting out of this mess. Like I say, taking ALL factors other than the pure maths into consideration, I believe this is a must win game. Just my opinion.

The term “must win game” is used a lot in football. Clearly it’s not meant in a literal sense otherwise it would be reserved only for a game where anything other than victory would see the team relegated. In the context it’s used it’s more a combination of factors. Points difference, time left in the season and mindset of our team and the teams around us. In that context, I think this is our first must win game. Assuming both Hamilton and Dundee lose on Wednesday, a win for us on Saturday will not only close the points difference, it will be a massive confidence boost (especially off the back of our last two results) and will be a crushing blow to the other two. On the flip side, lose and it will be a massive shot in the arm for our rivals as it’s a game where they’ll be thinking we’ve got a good chance of closing the gap and a significant psychological blow for us. If we win on Saturday I will be very confident we can escape this. Lose and I’ll have very little hope. So for me, this is a must win game.