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Spot on. And when you look closely at the posters who are Robinson's biggest critics you realise that they have very odd ideas. The teams suggested for the Livi cup tie by our so called experts were enlightening. One had Maguire at left back with Turnbull in left mid field. Good luck with that Another two had back three selections that excluded McHugh who most would agree has been our best centre half this season and instead one had this new untried guy from Millwall in. There are some very good sensible posters on here whose opinions I respect but there are some roasters.

Call me stupid and all but I'm just hoping he has another couple of goals to his name by the time we play Hearts. Sent from my Wileyfox Swift using Tapatalk

Hearts are a worse team than the OF, Aberdeen and Hibs. Obviously not ideal going to Tynecastle but hard to complain given who we've avoided.

I was referring to the midfield Andy. Yes, we were far more creative and tried to play football which was encouraging and delighted those around me. So that was a clear positive. We created far more chances than of late and our ball retention was vastly better than it has been. Up to about the 60 minute mark they also supported the strikers very well. On the debit side we lacked a bit of muscle and defensive capability and lost a few more 50/50s than I was comfortable with. Also defensively the midfield as a unit gave Livingston far too much room; didn't work hard enough off the ball and left the back 3 exposed. Fortunately, Livingston were pretty toothless up front and Hartley and co. were in fine form. In the second half Bigi and Gorrin disappeared a bit as they unsurprisingly ran out of steam. When Allan Campbell came on he brought with him fresh legs and a much needed competitve edge. I doubt very much if the manager would have played that midfield combination had he had fewer injuries. Unlikely that he'd play Gorrin and Bigi together. To be fair to both lads they didn't look fully fit or match fit but they'll come on and they both have far more to give. Overall the midfield was what it was - creative and effective on the ball but lightweight and defensively suspect. I think Bigi and Gorrin showed they have what it takes to retain one starting place between them and I look forward to them both being fully fit. I haven't mentioned Andy Rose much but there was a lot resting on his shoulders yesterday and he had a reasonable game doing a lot of dirty spade work.

I worried in advance that the combination of Bigi and Gorrin may be a little lightweight but they actually did well against to be fair a pretty limited side, Cadden is certainly not as creative but pretty much a shoe in when fit. We played a lot more football on the ground yesterday because of that combination but I can see Gorrin being dropped again next game up.

Trolling again

Aye, we got in a couple of minutes to 3, just after KO, took about 15-20 minutes, Queue was still same length as when we had joined at that point. Wonder if they had more than 4 turnstiles open for the 200 home fans?

Johnson was rightly taken off as he was knackered.

That's why he was giving his opinion. Did you not get that?

If we had Tanner, Cadden, Dunne, Grimshaw and Bowman out last season - and then lost Hartley during the game - we'd have struggled to win this one; never mind be able to give Campbell a rest. We can argue the toss about the new signings, but today showed we at least have a depth we didn't have at key points last season. I'm sure Robinson knows Johnson looks like a starter, but it sounds like he doesn't have 90 minutes in him yet.