Dirty Sanchez

Double figures here we come. Bring on the dancing girls!

You keep waiting for the turning point, despite all the evidence pointing towards it being one of those epically bad seasons that doesn't have a turning point. At least we mixed it up a bit and found a new way to lose.

Innes was retaliating to being banjoed himself. I always felt it should have been a red card each and free kick to us.

If we're going old school with these, we had 16 year old Danny Diver scoring a late winner against a pretty handy QPR side, who finished in the top 5 in England that year. They were managed by Terry Venables, and had the likes of Clive Allen and Simon Stainrod.

He seems to have spent a fair amount of time injured lately too.

We're not the first. It's another one from the disastrous SPL era where too many had delusions about how big Scottish football is/can be. Force clubs to install a heating system. Sit back and observe how many of them can't afford to switch it on, never mind maintain it.

That would be 20th October last year. Oh, and for 38 of the previous 40 years. Just a generation, or two.

To add to that, most of the points that we do have were won via unlikely late equalisers.

I remember in the Tom Hendrie title winning year, when Clydebank had an epic car crash of a season. It was comically bad. One of the worst seasons ever for any team, but we are actually only a point better off than they were at this stage of the season.

The Sandy Clark stuff was going on throughout the second half, long before the end. The guy is an abhorrent wanker, and has been since his Rangers days, and beyond. He's one of my least favourite footballers of all time. Right up there with Kevin Thomson, etc.

I can only assume someone connected with the club sold their soul to the devil during the 2013 League Cup run. We could release our own football bloopers DVD this Christmas.

Similarly, I feel as if I should be more bothered than I actually am. It's probably damning about this side that I'm now able to brush these continuing performances off with such ease, when a Saints loss used to ruin my weekend. Losing the record is academic as well. One win in seventeen years is only marginally less grim than zero.

There also can't be a season where there have been so many players sent off against us. I think it was 13 in the end, which helps.

Cunts.

I didn't feel cheated out of the admission money today, so that's a start.

If anyone fancies this, the 'draw no bet' option is also an attractive 2/1, and covers your arse a bit. Not the worst addition to an accumulator, if you haven't got the stomach to put a wedge on the single.

That Peter Houston really makes my flesh creep.

I think I just saw Farrell in Morrisons. I even Google imaged him while I was in the shop to confirm if it was him. And there's the point. My interest level has gone from years of travel everywhere, and never miss a game, to struggling to identify one of the management team when I'm standing a few feet away from him. If he hadn't been wearing Saints gear I wouldn't have known him from Adam.

I was swaying about whether go or not, but I'm glad I did. Great entertainment and value for money. However, that's enough about Kunt and the Gang at the Edinburgh Fringe. Thank f*ck I gave Ayr a miss. That's the first fixture I've missed at Ayr since the 1982/83 League Cup game. I was 100% certain to attend when the fixtures were announced, and that was still sitting at about 70/30 before last week's game, but zero entertainment yet again changed things. Life's too short to waste it watching this pish every week.

Just to re-iterate what actually happened. Much of the area around the stadium has single yellows with restriction signs that are never populated with dates/times, and therefore not enforced. On Saturday, only at the Greenhill Road end of Murray Street, these signs were populated with times when the restrictions were in place(i.e.12p-6pm). Hence, the drivers who parked there were ticketed. Everywhere else with single yellows, the signs were still blank, and drivers were therefore not ticketed. The issue is that it's pretty sneaky to suddenly apply the restriction, then not have a grace period where people who have no interest in parking illegally can be informed of the change without being harshly fined.

There are no double yellows in that area. It is single yellows with restriction signs, the same as it is throughout most of the area. I'm uncomfortable with well meaning people being fined their hard earned for assuming that they could park in the same place that they always park, without checking restriction signs that have been perennially blank. To fine people on the first day smacks of profiteering. Even the notorious Glasgow bus lane camera racket had a grace period before they started fining people.

It looked to me that cars were being ticketed for parking in places where cars have always parked since the stadium was opened. Also, elsewhere, the restrictions signs with the blank date (which I don't ever recall seeing in use at any time) were still blank today, with cars parked alongside as usual, and not being ticketed. We're really going to need a definitive statement of where you can and can't park if they're going to be enforcing it randomly. Keeping the junctions clear of parked cars is fair enough because it can be a bit cosy turning that corner, but shite for the people affected today. The rest of the area is a shitehole wasteland and they're having a laugh if try to shut any more of it off to parking. While we're at it, they want to do something about that f**king puddle under the bridge as well.

I see that a bunch of cars at the Greenhill Road end of Murray Street have been given parking tickets for parking in spots that have been used since day one at the stadium. It's news to me if the rules have changed, and an expensive day out for some.

Very true. It was actually Broddle who scored early on to give us the lead against St.Johstone the day they came back to horse us 5-1 at Love Street, resulting in an angry mob assembling outside the Main Stand to try to get rid of Davie Day.

If I remember right, his debut was at Pittodrie and his first contribution was a meaty tackle. Within five minutes he was already being likened to Aber.