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So, played pretty well in parts today and absolutely did not deserve to lose. However, as usual, powder puff in the final third and I tell you what, we are absolutely f**king abysmal from dead ball situations.

Absolutely this.

It really can be quite painful at times supporting us.

Time for the menace I say.

Bastard!! Thought my edit was pretty swift. Anyway....

First half possession was 59/41 in our favour. Dylan having a stormer. Jamie having a stinker.

I almost said last week, don’t keepers watch McGrath’s penalties? He has put every single one bar the second at Tannadice in exactly the same place and they all look very saveable. Kelly obviously did.

Agree Goodie will be the best placed to decide but I wouldn’t play him just because we’re paying his wages. We’ll be paying the wages of lots of players who won’t feature for the rest of the season.

I agree on the no harm no foul, but I would drop him now for the rest of the season. We need to move on without him. Only 5 games (plus cup) to go so no big requirement to play him. He’s not that good that we’d be cutting our nose off to spite our face.

Yes but aren’t the guns because of the bampottery, rather than the bampottery because of the guns?

It’s an interesting question when you think about it. How does one of the largest, wealthiest, most powerful, technologically advanced nations in the world get to have such a disproportionate number of complete bampots?

No that was in Shitty Shitty Bang Bang. Incidentally, Truly Scrumptious was a big ride. FACT. That’s two statements right there for the easily offended mob to get their teeth into.

Neither...

Also a song in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 👍

It SHOULD be a straightforward win, but that 100% depends on how we approach the match and our record in that department is not great. If we go out and take the game to them from the off with a high energy attacking approach, I can see a comfortable 2-0 or 3-0 win. However, if we go out with our “cautious/patient” approach I can easily see a 0-1 banana skin.

Yeah that’s my concern. I’m worried he’ll totally overestimate them. What we need is the same approach as Saturday as opposed to the approach we saw in that run of league games against the bottom sides. Just a respectful, positive, we’re better than you and we’re going to show it.

I don’t disagree really with anything you say here, but I don’t think it changes the simple hard reality that if the away end of your stadium is empty then it’s not good for business. Don’t see how you can dispute that. As for teams in Scotland that would bring a half decent support to our stadium..... Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Dundee Utd, Dundee, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Morton, Patrick Thistle. Throw is St. Johnstone and Raith Rovers and you’ve got quite a few teams right there. When I was talking about the OF not making comments about us being tinpot, I meant specifically in relation to our support affecting their attendance figures.

The reality of course is that you are both right. These teams have held the game back at the top level due to their more than pitiful supports. When it comes to support there are probably 4 levels. Old Firm, Aberdeen & Edinburgh teams, a whole bunch of teams with roughly similar half decent supports, and a whole bunch of teams with next to no support. If teams from the final category (such as Accies, County, Livi, ICT) get into the top league, it would be silly to say it’s not bad for business. However FS is also right that these teams have earned their place in the league and deserve a wee bit of respect. I wouldn’t go along with the “we don’t like it when the OF say that about us” argument though, The OF would never say that about us, because they don’t lose any money due to the size of our support. Our allocations at their grounds are so derisory as to make it negligible from their perspective.

Just because I’m a really kind helpful guy, I fixed your post for you so that some people don’t think your a bit stupid for thinking that the UK and the EU are the same kind of union.

Must admit it crossed my mind during the international break, seeing how shite RoI are that McGrath can’t be too far away from a call up.

I would personally like Cove Rangers in the next round.

Cheap shot! 😄

C’mon!! Repeat after me..... I, Faraway Saint, an erstwhile decent chap of (relatively) sound mind, on 31 March in the year of our lord 2021, did without encouragement or provocation, chat a load of old bollocks on the football forum known as Blackandwhitearmy. I hereby humbly apologise for said pish talk and make an irrevocable pledge never to talk such unadulterated mince again. Then we can put and end to this sorry tale. 😄

That seems to be a very long and unnecessary/unrelated response to a very small point which you seem to have completely and utterly missed. The stats I quoted were intended to make one point and one point only. That being that if he touched the ball 79 times during the match (more times than the other two midfielders) then it’s rather strange that you never noticed he was playing. Absolutely no requirement to be so defensive/argumentative. Oh and by the way, when did “Solid” and “tidy game” represent “Magnificent performance”.

He had 79 touches with an 89% pass accuracy rate and was the third highest rated player behind Tierney and McGinn. You obviously weren’t paying much attention 😆