Dirty Sanchez

Hopefully they did it playing 'the Celtic way'. Although, I'm not sure what other style of football you're supposed to adopt when the majority of games in your history have been against teams with vastly inferior resources.

The Colin Jackson penalty incident is, of course, nothing short of outrageous, and whatever pish John Greig wants to come out with, they weren't coming back from 4-2 down. It's funny listening to Greig, the archetypal we are the people f**kwit trying to portray Ibrox as some sort of fortress when they were completely mediocre throughout his time as manager. They changed his name from 'Greig' to 'Greig Must Go' not long after that. They used to protest behind the Main Stand after games to get him the sack. However, unless I'm missing something, the offside goal is actually offside for the same reason that Dundee United's was in the 1987 final. When Bone takes his second shot there's only one player between Richardson and the goal line.

So there you are. Another two bit bunch of nobodies who were gleefully kicking us when we were down. F*ck them. Cheerio.

Where's the counter video reel showing all his dodgy defending?

I wouldn't blame him, though.

The goal has actually got shades of Sir Thommo's late equaliser at Ibrox, with both moves starting with Samson/Stelios in almost the same spot near our own goal line, moving diagonally across the park and ending in the same corner of the net 100 yards later. If Question of Sport did a 'What happened next?' when Stelios intercepted the ball on the penalty spot, facing his own goal, you wouldn't anticipate the ball being in the net, at the other end, seconds later.

Looks like a bit of a dive by Morgan 4:00 into the video.

To be fair, I think that's just Webster's personality you're seeing there. He doesn't seem to get too up down about anything. In the Ayr game, when El Alagui was in a huff and had been putting it about, Webster came off the bench, kicked him up in the air and then proceeded troll the f*ck out of him with verbals, off the ball, for the remainder of the game. And it was all done with that exact same facial expression that you see in the pictures.

Taxi!

Is that your prediction for Raith v Airdrie?

If you can't be arsed with the intricacies of driving/parking in the Easter Road area, Park and Ride on the tram is also an option.Think it's £1.60 each way, which may or may not be cost effective depending on party size. Certainly takes the hassle out of it. Tram goes to York Place, which is a kick on the hole from Leith Walk.

That's what I think too, but I'm not seeing the rotation happening. Maybe it will next season. That would be ideal.

But no specifics? Potential? Was that his man of the match performance against Hibs, in his 4th start, when he was the difference between the sides? I also trust Jack Ross, but like every other human being, it doesn't mean he's always right.

I'm reluctant to prolong this with a big weekend coming up, since we now know the manager's thoughts for sure, and it's more one for the close season. However, I will. The above is only pertinent if you are a believer in the myth that he is a dodgy defender, which seems to have come out of him having flair, ergo he must be dodgy at the back. There's scant evidence that he is any worse at defending than either of the incumbents. There's overwhelming evidence that he's significantly better than both of them at attacking. We need points, and Stelios putting us 1-0 up, unassisted, in two matches has helped us get 6 of them, etc. He was only playing against Morton due to the solid Eckersley getting himself a stupid red card in stoppage time of the previous game. I get the feeling that if Stelios had got a similarly stupid red card it would have been put down to him being a hot head, and a maverick, and all that stuff. Stelios.

9 free kicks 2 penalties 8 outside the box 11 inside the box, including 1 header. 23 in the league 1 in the Scottish Cup 3 in the League Cup 3 in the Challenge Cup 4 v QoS, Raith 3 v Falkirk, Livingston 2 v Hibs, Ross Co, Dunfermline, Morton 1 v Dundee, Motherwell, Dundee Utd, Ayr Utd, Alloa, TNS, Albion Rovers, Spartans.

I was just reading on the Hibs site that you are apparently not allowed to have opposing fans above/below each other, which was news to me. If they split the stand between us and them, it will need to be done vertically. i.e.with us both upstairs and downstairs on one side. Presuming our initial allocation of 900 is the two lower tier blocks closest to the Main Stand, I wonder if the next lot of tickets we get will be for upstairs. If not, they'll be limiting how many Hibs fans they can get into the stand when they inevitably split it due to them selling out the rest of the ground. It will be interesting to see how many we actually take. Precedents from previous years show that, when it's do or die, basically the whole home support travels. With no chance of actually going down on Saturday and no pay at the gate it might not be Motherwell 2007 again numbers wise, but with 800 in Kirkcaldy in midweek when we were 5 points adrift, plus what we've seen since then we should surely be well into four figures easily.

When Hibs are putting together their game plan for Saturday, I'm sure they'll be looking back to the previous game between the sides, and making special arrangements to nullify the threat from that game's man of the match. They'll be wanting to make sure he's not the difference between the sides again this time. Ahem.

Of all the two bit outfits who kicked us when we were down, the one that sticks in my mind was the Ayr United fans, when they took the lead 20 minutes from time in the Diddy Cup tie. They immediately switched on all the 'Going down' type chants. I vividly remember thinking that they were tempting fate, and being a bit a cavalier for a part time side when there was so much football still to be played in the season. I hoped we might be revisiting those chants come May. Apart from anything else, they were out of that cup about 20 minutes later.

I guess that must vary around the stadium then, which ties in with people complaining in the past about not being able to hear the tannoy, when I've never had a moment's bother hearing it in crystal clarity. I've literally been hoarse at the end of half-time from having a conversation. Literally.

In the season where Raith were top of the league for three weeks, in the top five for more than half of the season, loaned a player to a rival who helped keep the rival up at their expense, started a midfielder in goal who then retired shortly afterwards, it's probably fitting that they should lose 5-0 two weeks in a row to finish bottom.

Here's something constructive. During half-time, is it necessary to have the volume at level where you need to shout to have a conversation with someone standing two feet away from you? I noticed at the Falkirk Stadium that they were still playing music, but it was background noise only, and was much better for it. If there's no dance floor, there's no need for that volume. It's just a pain in the arse.

I just hope he hasn't been scunnered sufficiently that there's still a chance he'll be here next season. I can already picture him singing for one of our opponents and tearing Cafu and Maldini up for arse paper down our flanks.

Andy Dorman.

This generation's Scanlon v Celtic.