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Sounds more like he is taking the cheap option in the hope SK's level is sufficient in League One. Can you imagine if we had been relegated and the first announcement was "Kettlewell Pens Extended Deal"?

I don’t tend to login for home games so I don’t know the answer. However, could it be to mitigate Hearts fans getting home tickets? I suspect more than 4,500 will be planning to head through.

Beat Hearts and beat Celtic in our remaining home games, then having already seen off Rangers, nobody can accuse us of playing favourites.

A draw between Falkirk and Hibs means Falkirk can't catch us and leaves Hibs 5 behind us. I expect us to lose to Hearts so Hibs face Rangers and we face Celtic with Hibs 5 behind us. If as expected we both lose to the OF we are 5 points ahead of Hibs in the head to head with 4th in the bag. I don't want to go to easter road having to get something.

Hearts are making rangers look good. They are playing terrible. I think they are too tense amd nervous.

Ohhhh. MJC won't be happy with you talking like that about his big team.

Kettlewell confirmed as permanent boss at Ross County.

We can’t finish sixth, so top 5 is assured.

It's actually a misconception that a deliberate hand ball is an automatic yellow, it's only a yellow if it gains an advantage.

If you're having to travel a fair distance to home games, a late evening kick off is the last thing you want. On the way home you have to contend with diversions and road closures and may not get home until after midnight. Also, many older fans are not comfortable driving at night. Also public transport connections can be difficult or impossible. Still, a home win helps to lift the spirits.

I just get disgusted by the sheer dishonesty and mental gymnastics used by Collum (and the authorities generally) to justify the unjustifiable. If I'd had to suffer another year of Kettlewell hoofball and the joy-sucking effect of VAR and its subsequent crap decisions, I would probably have given up going to 'Well games, something that I never thought I would say. In his post-Falkirk interview, I thought JBA bit his tongue a bit and didn't go large on the refereeing decisions in the three games we lost to Falkirk but from the first bad one when Said's wonder goal was chalked off for nothing, it seems we have been pretty hard done to when playing them. Wasn't at Falkirk yesterday but reports of Slattery-esque simulation, a player on a yellow handling without consquence and Bairns players allowed to commit multiple fouls without a caution, it seems it was same old, same old. I doubt Slattery will hang about with a further suspension hanging over him and a very good season behind him.

Collum would swear the sky is green to cover mistakes and deflect. The same incidents get different decisions every week. All dressed up with whatever explanation suits at the time. No consistency. No accountability. Just clowns making it up as they go. The VAR review is pointless as well. It’s just a box ticking exercise so he can claim transparency and say they are listening. It’s the same script ever time and only pisses fans off even more. Nothing has improved. Our officials and their use of VAR has objectively ruined the spectacle and brought even more incompetence, cynicism and apathy into the game.

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.