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VAR keeping up their usual standards. You couldn't trust them to check the time

Celtic now scored.

Hibs down to 10 men after 20 mins a wild challenge by McGrath, their 4th red card in 3 games ffs.

McGrath sent off now for them too. Happy days, down to 10men with 70mins to play.

Think we should be fine for 4th, hibs fans not exactly out in numbers today and players look flat. Bizarre as Falkirk 2pts behind them and home to hibs next week

Could be down to several factors Joe, as you hint. The pitch was certainly one. I think Falkirk are a better all round team than us and have the playing squad to mix things up and vary tactics. We, on the other hand are a better pure footballing side, if that makes sense. We have deficiencies in the squad which have come to the fore of late. For example, no cover for left back and a lack of strikers. I know Thor is still is still realtively untested and injured to boot. With quite a few players leaving in the summer Nicholson, Halliday, Gordon etc. it will allow us to address outstanding lacunas.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. As I’ve said, if you can’t grow or maintain grass, you’ve no business in the top league. That applies to us as well. We’ve had to spend heavily to fix past mistakes, and others should be expected to do the same. It’s not fair that some clubs effectively gain a bigger playing budget because maintaining a plastic pitch is significantly cheaper than grass or hybrid surfaces. And if you underinvest in your grass surface and ignore drainage issues, leaving tattie fields, there should be penalties to discourage it. This is a spectator sport. We wouldn’t accept a pockmarked cinema screen, so why accept substandard pitches? There should be a level playing field in the top flight for all. Pun intended.

Phone the ticket office and buy them on the phone. They will hold them for you at ticket office or post them out. Still plenty time to get there.

I guess the argument against that is the state of Aberdeen & Dundee United's pitches this winter. Im generally in agreement with grass being a requirement. But Id rather play on yesterdays pitch than the Pittodrie tattie field we got in the cup. Even ours wasnt great midwinter, albeit it played ok and there were mitigating factors. Edit: to add, Falkirk played very good football yesterday. But I guess they are used to the speed of the pitch.

Fir Park should be absolutely bouncing for this one . Looking forward to this and here's hoping for a very good performance

These plastic pitches have no place in the top flight. I’ve said it before: if you can’t grow and maintain grass in Scotland, you’ve no business running a professional football club.

Not a great kick off time for many but there's no reason why we shouldn't attract 10,500 fans. Hopefully, the online ticketing problems will be sorted out in time.

Presumably, Falkirk went to great lengths to ensure that the surface was kept madeira cake dry for days beforehand?

Not ideal staying in Prestwick. Hopefully fixed tomorrow.

0-2 defeat.

I got my tickets for both home games at the office when they were released, but I noticed the season ticket holders only message the other day. Online sales have been wonky for a while now, and that's obviously not going to help sales for the Hearts game.

Good on EK

Didn`t think I`d make the Hearts game, but realised last night it was a 2000hrs kick off. Happy days. Went on to the website to buy my ticket but the only button avaliable says ST Holder 25-26 and won`t allow me to log in. Anyone know whats going on?

Slattery for me. The only one consistently trying to get on the ball and make things happen. I wouldnt have taken him off.

Thought we struggled to play our normal game on a sticky pitch. First half was pretty even, albeit Falkirk had the best 2 chances. Second half, I thought we kept at it, but our delivery was poor. After they scored we started to take risks and could have easily conceded more. Not our best day at the office, but if the chance at the end goes in we all go home happy. Still not sure how Hendry missed that. Not sure it was going in, but he did seem to clear it off the line!

Just as Falkirk have our number, some teams are a good match up for us. Hearts seem to be one of them. Im expecting a good performance and at least a point from the game. Be a big noisy away support, so would be good to keep our numbers up and finish with a couple of big attendances and push the points over the line for Europe....

Hendry has been out injured for a lengthy period and his lack of match fitness really showed today. He isnt ready to start a game.......

Is Eli Just preparing for the World Cup?

Yup, not a hendry fan but would stsrt him ahead of Maswanhise who we would be lucky to get £500k for now. Also if Johnny k fit get him in for sparrow