numpty

I'm not exactly in the Alexander Must Go camp, but I don't think it's hard to understand why a manager that turns a losing team into a winning one might be more appreciated than one that does the opposite.

Well, you would hope that as both our manager and his assistant made a career out of being defenders, they could coach ours to stop doing it every week.

Better just make sure we score a few from open play without relying on their opinions, then. Works for me

Whatever else is wrong at the moment, I'm not unhappy with the amount we've spent to be honest. Especially given how underwhelmingly we've spent the relatively high amount (by our recent standards) that we have. It's perfectly possible to put together a lean and effective SPFL squad on our budget, right now we are just failing to do so.

That's precisely why. Any or all of those can apply whether you touched the ball first, last, or not at all. (The laws were changed a good 10 years ago to remove the bit about whether you touch the ball first.)

Irrelevant, I'm afraid, unless you don't think it was even a foul. The criteria for deciding whether a foul merits a red card don't include whether the player touched the ball.

Well, it did after the Cup wins that got us this far...

There's your answer.

Plenty of promising talents have been stalled or ruined by bad man management and bad coaching. Robinson might not be able to claim any credit for their natural talent, but he and his coaching staff played their part in shaping all the players we sold.

Had to look up how old Alan Gilzean was in that photo... he looks about 50, but he'd only just turned 32.

They did at one point, but not when anybody was anywhere near the ball tbh.

Looks like their goalie is just as bad, however.

Lee Erwin off to FC Haka in Finland.

I retract my half time abandonment request.

Ball's hardly moving already, might get lucky with a half time abandonment...

Currently watching Glentoran v Linfield on BBC NI. As well as all Manzinga, Bigi, Jake Hastie and Ben Hall in the squads (no place for Mich'el Parker tonight), Ian Baraclough is on co-comms, and Craggs is reporting from pitch side.

Certainly shades of Louis Moult at Pittodrie about the hit, albeit with a rather more pedestrian build-up.

Looks like his goal celebrations are from the Chris Long school of Face Tripping too, which should wind a few folk up into the bargain.

It's only risky if you think TW was willing to keep it up all season... sounds quite likely he'd have taken the huff if he didn't get a move this window anyway.

Looked more like he got it for chucking the ball away afterwards, to be honest.

I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, plenty of good teams have somebody unspectacular in their midfield. Better that than somebody who misplaces every other pass or is always giving away daft fouls.

An interview with Bigi in which it turns out he's only ever really enjoyed playing for Motherwell and Coventry.

Kelty Kallum knocked St Johnstone out the cup in extra time, I see.

Pretty much what I expected after a few weeks off so far. Hopefully some improvement to come in the second half.

If his motivation was "chasing the money", surely that means it's worked out perfectly.