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Considering the rain we have had for the Dundee United, Hibs and Aberdeen games the pitch is in great nick.

Yeah you can include the St Mirren game as well as that was a late pitch inspection. Funnily enough I'm sure Stephen Glass said pre match last week that his side wouldn't be able to pass the ball on the deck as they would like too due to the pitch and that was before the monsoon hit.

I couldn't agree more, when he starts he's always too narrow, and today he got much more joy by hogging the touchline. His best weapon is his pace, and if he can pick up the ball in space he can utilise that really well.

Mark O’Hara got my vote. I thought the energy he brought to last weeks game was excellent but thought he was even better today. Special mention for Woolery - he was very impressive when he came on. Hopefully he starts next week at Ibrox.

Interesting comments re the Hayes tackle. It looked a good old fashioned 50/50 on the stream. Will need to see it again.

Also saw Allan "the hitman" Campbell was on the scoresheet again today with another belter from outside the box - followed by a yellow card shortly after for a "bad foul".

What a pass from Lamie, and a one armed KVV able to ragdoll that cunt Gallagher. Fucking superb. Let's get a fucking winner here!

I just can't see what Shields offers other than being very fast.

Would absolutely fucking love to beat this mob on consecutive weekends.

Sun is out in Cleland. Circle that one on the calendar...

Another good example of coaching and game time improving a player. Patience, eh? It will never catch on.

I think this is our main issue as supporters when we criticise our current left back incumbents. When you look at Carroll and Mcginley they are just not in the same ballpark as we’ve been used to in the past and we have been spoiled and expect a higher level of player. Joe wark, Tom Boyd, Rab McKinnon, Stevie McMillan, Stevie Hammell. we really had a run of tremendous left backs and the current crop are just not anywhere near it.

They did exactly the same with Jimmy Calderwood. He had them consistently finishing in the top six and challenging for Europe, even achieving some great results in the then UEFA Cup. Yet they hounded him out and replaced him with Mark McGhee who, in his very first press conference with them basically said that getting that job was a second choice to the Celtic job. He then went on to have one of the worst win % of any manager they’d ever had before. If ever a club and a manager deserved each other it was Aberdeen with McGhee.

Two other points which occurred to me to take forward into the next game: The Sheep have managed to find a worse goalkeeper than Joe ("I'm a blancmange at Fir Park) Lewis and something needs to be done about them stealing about ten yards at every throw-in (or shy as I insist on calling it). Referee Aitken and his linesman let them get away with murder yesterday. I don't normally hope a team gets relegated but their supporters are so obnoxious that maybe a spell in the lower league might restore a sense of proportion. I don't think they've ever being relegated, although they were saved by league reconstruction relatively recently. We certainly can't complain about that because we dodged a bullet there a couple of times (not counting Falkirk's ground problems in our The Untouchables shirt season).