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Another chance to gain on those around us if we can win. Hibs v Hearts tomorrow night amd then Rangers v Hearts at the weekend when we play Aberdeen at Fir Park.

Well if Stephen Welsh runs across the goal line to slap a certain goal bound ball away with the palm of his hand, let's hope John Beaton makes the same honest mistake he made at Ibrox against Livingston. These things swing in roundabouts after all. 😉

It’s easy to see why Craigan was part of the team that had our worst run against Rangers with that attitude. “We used to go to Ibrox scared”? Come on to f@@k. Whatever happens on Wednesday night there is no way that JBA will allow any of the players to go into the game with that nonsensical attitude.

Not for me , for the simple reason we tumbled to Gardiner after 3 seasons and 78 games. Calamity Woods was with us for 9 years and double the amount of games and most certainly double the amount of fuck ups.

Or mind games for when we start with a false 9 again.

He loves to have a bit of fun with them for sure! I guess they must enjoy it too though. Better than the same old scripted tropes you normally get from managers at these things. Jens is a class act.

Agree. Still a great achievement -- but as we're so close this game is huge. Hopefully the lads play their best and we really serve it up to them.

Fact there is talk about us possibly in a title race sums up the incredible transformation to a year ago and the end of SK reign. No idea how this season will end but would be awesome if we could be in a title chase and win the cup but realistically if we finish 4th its still a great achievement

Think maybe move this chat to former players thread

We have. But the length of time Woods was here sways it for me. Nine years, never first choice, kept turning up like a bad penny and making the same errors time and again. An example of much worse would be Jordan Archer. But he made only a handful of appearances with the last being an absolutely horrific display against Accies. After which he left and was never seen or heard of again. With Woods he would pop up again and again after the first choice goalkeeper left or was out injured and would remind the support just how much of a bombscare he truly was. Had he established himself as our undisputed first choice goalkeeper and been solid and reliable for the remainder of his time with us then the howler against Rangers in 1998 would have been largely overlooked as one of those unfortunate isolated moments, similar to the aforementioned Tommy Coyne miss. But that’s now how it panned out with us and Stevie Woods. What I would say for him though is that he found his ‘calling’ or his ‘forte’ when he moved into coaching. Some things are just meant to work out a certain way and for Stevie Woods it was clearly coaching as he has shown for many years now that that is what he is clearly best at. He’s worked with and coached top goalkeepers like Craig Gordon, Fraser Forster, Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel. And they all speak highly of him as a coach.

He was shite...but we've had much, much worse

Aye, none of this "we need to be our best and hope to catch them on a off day" nonsense. There's no doubt he has everyone in that team believing they can win on Wednesday.

Aye , but higdon and moult didn't have the advantage of using their hands or not for stevie woods. Only goalie ive ever seen that played with his hands in his pockets. Useless prick.

Listened to JBA press conference. Guy is absolutely brilliant, fears no one and gives the press no ammo. Would be immense if we could win on Wednesday then let's just take it one game at a time

One advantage of our high possession stats is the lack of opportunity for VAR involvement. Obviously kicks in when there is a goal scored, but otherwise it helps keep the incompetents at arm's length.

Aye. An uncharacteristic miss from The Cobra. Gordons save from Moult in the 2017 League Cup Final is up there. Not really a miss as such, as it was good hit/save, but if it had gone in, it could well have changed the dynamic of that game.

Coyne away in Dortmund is the sorest striker miss that immediately comes to mind.

For someone who predicts that we will get beat most weeks, I find this kind of positivity quite refreshing! 😍😍😍

In the first half Dundee played very similar to the way we do playing out from the back and they nulified Celtic. For some strange reason with 20 mins to go their keeper kept booting it long and not once did it result in Dundee having possession so Celtic just kept coming at them wave after wave.

100 times this. In my list of worst ever goalies there is a huge gap between Gardiner and number 2.

Hopefully they still play "Into the Valley" before kick off.

66% passing accuracy, according to BBC. He'll have to up that if he wants to come back.

Aye i would be ok with that as well 😂

I’m hoping we have this mindset. I’d like for us all to say goodbye to the “punching above our weight” chat. Or what Craigan said today about “we used to go to ibrox scared” p1sh. Statements hidden behind the banner of “being realistic”….. fk realism weve been in the top league for over 40yrs, we should have the attitude that we should be doing better and we should be winning cups. We are good enough to beat everyone else in this league this season…. Go in with the right attitude and we can win any game.

That’s nice to know dear. But I care. Okay? Artichoke. Cholmondeley. Pedigree CHUM. I care.