Dirty Sanchez

Has Stevie Mallan got a bit of history with Raith? Their mutants seemed to have in for him from the outset for some reason. Really put him off his game.

Right, I've seen it now. I've been faraway myself this week and missed out on that one.

What's this, an in-joke that I'm not party to? I don't read the ping-pong threads.

I see that a treble on our ideal set of results from tomorrow's games will pay about 11/1. That means 11 times out of 12 it won't happen.

That banner across the bottom of the page is a pain in the hole as well. I also got 'page could not be displayed' at checkout. Do you or don't you refresh? The page then loaded by itself after a delay. They're asking for comments and suggestions about the site.....via a comments form that hasn't been added to the site yet.

Overall, Stelios is the best full back at the club, and is also better than most full backs who have left the club over the years. If he remains third choice, and we stay up, then that'll be fantastic, but we'll be staying up in spite of not starting our best full back, not because of it. Some nice theories about him being a shit defender and an impact sub. He's a proven impact starter and game changer. Hibs couldn't lay a glove on him. The crucial third goal that took the game out of Ayr's reach wasn't happening with any other full back coming down that flank, etc. However, Eckersley is a mate of Jack's, and Stelios is effortlessly cooler than the normally comparatively debonair Jack.

I did that a couple of weeks ago for my own amusement. The image shows the points gap between us and the four other teams who have been involved, with the maximum gap highlighted.

I remember saying at half time that it was a bit of a pisser because we would never hear the end of it from them after they inevitably beat our young guys in the second half. Then the youths went out and beat them!

That wasn't even the Renfrewshire Cup, it was a pre season friendly in 2002. This game. I wish the link was still available to the Morton website's match report of the game, which was a hilarious insight into the mind of a downtrodden loser, and was roundly pointed and laughed at back in the day. E.g. The report's delusions ended with: 'The St Mirren support filed silently out of the stadium, while the *insert exagerrated number* Morton fans stayed behind to cheer their side from the park after outsinging the home fans all day. AND THAT SAID IT ALL.' Hmmm. Whatever they thought it said, I would suggest it was because one side was having a big day out, and the other was playing a pre season friendly in a lop sided rivalry. Seeking a positive spin after our our youths beat thier first team! Losers.

The vintage picture above reminded me of Brian Hamilton. I hit Google Images to confirm, only to be confronted by this. I can only see two hands.

He'd be the first full back on my team sheet every week, on either side. No one playing at this level is devoid of flaws and all things considered I'll take the marauding, goalscoring fullback who can beat his man consistently. The bottom line is that, over the decades, I've seen a lot of players come and go from this club who couldn't influence a game to save themselves, so it pains me when we've got someone on the payroll who very much can influence a game, but he's not on the field. I don't want to this guy turning out for Ross County or someone next season. I'd rather he was here.

And if he hadn't been playing against Hibs, who are better than Falkirk, David Gray would have had a much easier night and we might have got a 0-0. I think the eagerness to paint Stelios as a bombscre defensively is turning Adam Eckersley into Paulo Maldini.

In eight weeks, I see we've gone from being the league's lowest scorers to now having only scored fewer than the top two teams.

Absolutely astonishing stuff today. The stadium toilets had fully functioning hot running water!!

Kind of looks like Dunfermline in their 3rd tier days under Leishman.

That's the thing, it barely had a roof on it at Love Street. The stand had no back or sides on it meaning that you had to pray that the rain would come down completely vertically or you were getting soaked anyway!

When Jack Ross was a player he revealed on a Radio Scotland show that we did no work whatsoever on set pieces during training. That came as a surprise to no one who had seen how shite we were from set pieces, and even throw ins. Just goes to show what can happen when you put a bit of thought into it, and also practice. Since the season started (i.e. February) I think we've now had four tap in goals off the back of well worked set pieces, which is better than none.

This stand that's rusting away to nothing because it's been left outside. Didn't it spend more time outside when it was at Love Street?

I've just come across this guy on Google; John Love. Seemingly a Saints fan who emigrated to the States, and was subsequently killed in the war in Vietnam in 1969. Pictured here at the Love Street end turnstiles in the late 1950s. That actual turnstile was only knocked down recently. You can still see it on Google Street View. There's a page on John Love here: http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/31334/JOHN-LOVE-JR

I had a look at that earlier. In actual fact, if you go back to the pre-match comments on the same thread, there are a couple of characters with a really startlingly ingrained hatred of us. It seems that extreme hatred also clouds your rationale and brings on delusions. It's the sort of stuff that normally requires politics, religion, war, etc to be in the history of a rivalry to bring on that level of hate. All we've ever done to these guys is dominate them at football for decades. I like to see England losing at the big tournaments, but I always tone it down when talking about it for fear of sounding like a cringeworthy twisted loser like these guys, especially when England only mock us rather than have the decency to hate us back. Seethe vs Cringe.

Queue all the way down to The Norseman ten minutes before kick off. Had to laugh at them singing 'What a shitey away support' just after the game had started. No wonder, we're all still outside you f**king wallopers! Then they ran out of change.

I've just had it from a decent source that there's not a chance in hell of this.

30 years to the day since this (which no doubt someone has already posted elsewhere, and will remind me that the Titanic has sunk, and that the Allies have retaken Rangoon from the Japanese, etc). More of the same tonight, please.

Surely the big American guy who used to come to all the games in and around the Gus MacPherson era is behind all of this? Usual attire was a tweed jacket with sweater and slacks, like he'd come to the game straight from class at Harvard. I always knew that guy would come good for us.