Goggles & Flippers

From the Morton game it looks like 7 banks of claret seats, no variation or anything into the seating due to seat colour changes. Don't know why unless amber seats cost double

Erm why would the youngsters perform any worse than the duds we've had this year? Think about what you're saying here.

Exactly Gaz, same people who fret about cup final tickets or question business decisions when they don't appreciate the nuances of those decisions. It has only been in the last few weeks that the bottom 6 clubs had any sort of real points spread. Thing is regular posters know the naysayers as their record is long played and wearying. Not that long ago a mere two game winning run could take you from 11th to 5th. All that tells us outside the Glasgow's shame there is nothing separating the teams by and large and certainly not a massive leap to Aberdeen and Hibs despite their much higher budgets. As another poster has conveyed, the exact same criticisms levelled at our team bounce about in other teams fans forums like an echo chamber. All that tells me despite managers and executives buming up our game really isn't anywhere near an entertaining product as it could or should be ...... and we'll ignore the lack of competition outside the cups. Our game is characterised by frantic pace and fear of relegation for 8 out of 12 (Aberdeen and Hibs probably arrogantly think they're safe) I'd go as far to add us too this year after our third and "decent" summer business on the transfer market but I do think many of our fans are more humble due to our resources. What's the best solution on the table .... let the OF colts teams join the league to farm more players up to Grayskull and the Tattiedome and increase their dominance. In a week where the rich clubs looking to increase their coffers and stifle competition caused such outrage how can this be overlooked as in the same vein? I for one am fed up of our domestic product, it is chronic and you can only get away with a nae knickers and a fur coat for so long. All we all we do facilitate the precision and if you're good and play nice you'll get a wee cup run once every 5 years. Like everything in life, money has ruined it, pyramid economics to the Bosman all conspired to benefit those at the top of the tree. We unearth a one in 20 year gem from our academy and we get a season out of him, is that what we're signing up to be the best we can hope for?

Dundee Utd, St Johnstone, Hibs and either St Mirren or Killie. What a chance to be involved and yet another "wee team" gonna get it outside us. Makes Lawless' outstretched leg even more hard to watch. TBF: Same as the league cup Gutted tonight

Three games left, 7th to play for. I see all this “we gotta go with our best team” stuff all the time. Yes £120k from 9th to 7th can’t be grumbled at but these games should keep be used for players signed for us in the long term or youth. Playing journeymen who have no future here or we can’t make anything out of should be bench warming from now on. Unless part of the agreement with their parent club included appearance caveats. Watt, O’Donnell, Bevis, Lamie, Crawford, Lawless etc. should be starting. Cole and Campbell at decent servants got the club and we owe it to let them to shop window themselves and get a move. Dec, as while I’m not thrilled with his behaviour in January we stand to make money on him if selected for the Euro’s. The rest should be contracted fringe players and kids. All with something to prove and hunger which has been missing. What better time to do it than at the tail end of the season against 2 teams worse and one slightly better than us. I don’t see any merit in playing Long or Magliore again unless Alexander wants their signature.

Incident with McGinley a 118mins, after was 4 minutes, Hibs player red carded, another off with a blood injury, ref blows whistle ..... ref shat it. Regardless we should have taken our chances when they were gilt edged. Magliore should keep his head down on the bus home.

Any momentum we had disappeared at 5 mins into ET.

Jesus, are Hibs Hibsing it?

..... wrong thread

Off you trott, don’t let the door his yer arse on the way out. Take your “Rule Britannia”, solidarity with Palestinians and “Tiocfaidh ár lá” pish with you too.

I don't think GA will be leading us into season 2022/23

Fuad the bus

It wasn't OFT's maiden name, but then OTF met a creative midfielder with the world at his feet and joined twitter. From when he was appointed he had 3 weeks to do deals, not a great amount of time, but the scouting network was in place and names would have been floated. Ultimately he didn't live in a vacuum since he left Salford. He would have had the final say .... and some of those signings were questionable. He doesn't bare all the blame, signing a crock in Foley for example. The issue for me is we've won a few, but we've won ugly as hell at times (but maybe no worse than what we experienced on the other side in the first half of the season). We've robbed points from Killie and St Mirren. While I'm happy to win under these circumstances on occasion, it makes tough watching if it's the norm. Yes we are in a cup quarter final, sounds good doesn't it. To get there we humped part timers after receiving a humping of our own in the league and scraped through against a team fighting for Championship survival. As with everything it is all about context. There are a number of malingerers in the squad and they will go. I expect the team will be fitter than ever before come August. However his stock has risen based on his remit, the place the club was in January and that form table. While OFT is often harder to decipher than the DaVinci code at times, he's right much more than he's wrong, even if you don't personally like the code or content. And no .....my first name isn't Liam.

Be a bit tough, she went 16 years ago ...... and cremated ...... and I'm not Thanos

Somebody change this to "Willie Pettigrew Interview"

The only entertaining thing for me in the past 4 months is the league table tonight and Hibs away. The rest has been like paying £1,000 for a lapdance and yer maw comes out

Results going our way for 7th, every league place is worth about £60k in prize money. 9th to 7th is a solid first team player at our level. Hibs will destroy us unless we show up like we did the last time we played Hibs. Evidence on tonight is not hopeful. How long is Roberts out?

6 cops to move on a guy and his Mrs ...... they're not having a good week are they?

Not think there's an element of it you put him in a squad of higher quality players he will flourish in the same way Andy Robertson does in Red but not in Dark Blue? Bit sad to see some writing him off after being one of our stand out performers over the past 3 seasons. Granted few have covered themselves in glory this season but the only one's on that list are probably only Kelly, Watt, Roberts and at times Cole (2 of which are on loan and one who's contract ends). He's got dedication, drive and a work ethic that if a few others in the team had we'd no be in the mire we've been in this year. He does the unglamorous job in the middle, often not given credit when he's there but massively missed when he's not.

Does that extend to Ricey, Melloni & Wrighty too?

Here was me thinking all we had to do was outperform them by 3 points in the last 4 games.

'Flow likes to keep stuff on the lowdown. Why do you think O'Donnell re-signed? Lure of the Bernabau for Scotland's premier right back. Will make the Euro's interesting if players at the 12 announced are pied. England will probably field something like: Pope (Burnley) Trippier (Althetico Madrid) - Stones (Man City) - Maguire (Man Utd) - Chilwell (Chelsea) Mount (Chelsea) - Rice (West Ham) - Foden (Man City) - Grealish (Aston Villa) Kane (Spurs) - Sterling (Man City) Subs: Rashford (Man Utd) Henderson (Liverpool) Shaw (Manchester Utd) Alexander Arnold (Liverpool) A keeper and two midfielders left if they're banned .... delightful. Of course we'd lose Tierney, McTominay and Robertson. McGinley is in with a shout

Looking forward to the cash handout when we're invited to the European Super League .....

With this whole affair I think there are a few things everyone can agree on: There was a trigger clause in his contract, brought to public attention in a newspaper article (more about that below), known about in private before and confirmed by AB by what he didn't say at the AGM. The trigger clause was a win win for both player and club, here is some extra money .... play well and you'll earn a move in Jan and we get a wee kickback. If not you get that extra money for 2 years, stability and we retain your services to next summer and get a larger sum or see out your contract till 2022 and retain an International defender in the squad. He's not played as well as he did last season. Most rational supporters will have no issue with a player looking to move to better themselves at a higher level, make more money or for family/geographic reasons. It is no more than you'd hope for yourself in your own career. Most rational supporters will have no issue if a player conducts themselves with a degree of decorum and respect for their employer, especially if they are captain. However, most rational supporters will have issue if a player looks too much like a mercenary and does their talking in a tabloid opposed to on the pitch. The timing of his injury was unfortunate for fuelling conspiracy theorists and for retaining his Scotland starting position. He will be boo'd by a significant amount of the home support upon his return in anything other than C&A, (if Reynolds is despite leaving under the best of terms then Dec has no chance). I do have an issue with the club captain either under his own volition or at the direction of a representative to use a friendly hack to remind those of his availability and that in a few weeks time there would be a transfer fee required because he would then have 18 months left of his deal. "Roll up! Roll up! this offer won't be here for much longer".

IF we progress ...... Hibs will tear us a new arsehole