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In terms of fit first team players are we saying: Paulsen Connelly Sparrow Moorman Girdwood-Reich Williams Wilson Priestman Fadinger Whyte Ross Said Vogt With injuries to: Mcginn Odonnell Longelo JK Mcghee Cook Eythor Stama Hendry The more I look at that the more concerned I get about tonight! 😞

Apparently Paulsen started life as an outfield player.....

He could probably do a job at right back, to be fair.

Interestingly, Rangers are appealing McInnes' ban. I'd be interested to see how that goes.

It feels like we’re at the stage where it wouldn’t even be a surprise if Matty took his gloves off and played outfield.

Again, I don’t see anything in Del’s comments that were anything different to what any of our fans or indeed anyone outwith Celtic were saying at the time. It was disgusting and there is not a snowballs chance in hell VAR and Beaton give that decision to us up the other end in the final seconds of injury time. That award took away a massive advantage that Hearts would have had going into the final game of the season and handed it directly to Celtic who ended up profiting from it when they won the league. As Hearts boss at the time and hearing of that incident and in the heat of the moment it was perfectly understandable that McInnes was angry, indeed he had every right to be. And that’s before you take into account O’Neill’s wee phone chat with Collum about refereeing at the start of May. Had it been us in Hearts position on the penultimate game of the season and Jens had said exactly what McInnes said then would anyone on here or in our support have a problem with it? Would they hell as like! I get people don’t want to be seen siding with the now Rangers manager, but it’s important not to lose sight of the real issue here. That Celtic were handed the league by a disgraceful decision given against us by an incompetent VAR and a referee who is too scared to give anything against Celtic due to previous grief he’s had from them and their supporters. And yet despite that and the fact that their supporters invaded our park in their hundreds and the game ended with them all on the park on the Wednesday night and they then did the same in their thousands on the Saturday they completely escape punishment for it? Indeed the only ones punished were the ones who called it out including one of our players.

My guess is that we'll see one or two of these players featuring tonight at some stage.

I was hoping Manny, Eythor, JT & Cookie might all be fit for the second leg. Maybe even Johnny K.

More players will need to be players back from injury which I'm not sure is likely. To be eligible to play in the second leg, a player needed to be registered by last night..

Putting the lack of striking power aside for now, as that’s arguably been our hardest position to fill for a while, I agree entirely with your point about the midfield. I’d go as far as saying it’s a complete failure not to have had someone lined up and already in the building to replace at least one of those players. And don’t tell me that’s Willy Vogt. He’s more likely a Maswanhise replacement, but he looks pretty poor regardless.

I looked this up yesterday because Im kinda sad and wonder about these things, but Hanvar is Faroese for Port or Harbour. Boltfelag means football club. So HB Torshaven are actually Port Torshaven FC. Your welcome! 😍😍😍

Same here. We actually have no idea what level Hanvar are at. But we also dont really know what level we are at either. I guess part of the excitement of live sports is the finding out! Hoping Alfred and our young boys can surprise us!

Looking forward to tonight, with a big crowd behind us. I'm apprehensive but optimistic at the same time. My concern is lack of firepower up front but, we'll see. I had hoped to see another midfielder added before tonight as we certainly had enough warning of the likelihood of Slattery, Watt and Just leaving, but thats life.

God, have we ever won a game where the Bois have done a march to the stadium? You’re absolutely allowed to criticise them, I’m not a fan of them myself. I think you can guarantee that there will be flares aplenty tonight because that group clearly care more about their own image than the club itself.

Following on from that table I posted on P&B, if we were to now get €6m for JT and Fadinger, those two sales and the running total, that would raise the question for me to now be "why the fuck are we staying at FP?".

I didnae call it any names

We beat them 7-1 in the 1990's but I doubt it will be that easy this time around. The standard of Scottish football has dropped immeasurably since then. In recent times Scottish clubs have lost ties to teams from Andorra, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Wales, Malta, Liechtenstein etc so you really can't take anything for granted. This is a tie we should be winning but I think it's just about getting through to the next round rather than chalking up a cricket score given the whole context around the match. I agree we will probably be in a better place for the away leg but it's important we don't travel at a disadvantage.

Did you get kicked off for calling it a boat?

Absolutely delighted to see the deal done because the more money we bring in, the stringer OUR Club becomes...just as long as we trust the board to do the right things. Which I do

It was a yacht...but Im back on dry land now

Absolutely. Lets rinse & repeat. Will the next future record transfer fee come on down!

We need to follow the same recruitment strategy as last summer.

1994 was probably one of our best ever sides. We went on to give Dortmund a real scare in the next round. I would hope we can still win the tie. But it might not be pretty tomorrow night. I actually think we are likely to be better in the away leg as we will have an extra weeks fitness under our belt and might have more players to choose from. Id happily take a 1-0 or 2-0 tomorrow with the expectation we wont lose over there.

When we played them back in 1994 we won the home leg 3-0 and the away leg 4-1 to progress on aggregate 7-1. The object of tomorrow’s 1st leg must be to put the tie to bed by scoring at least 3 or 4 goals so that the return leg becomes a formality. If we can’t get past this round then we don’t deserve to be in it.