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So basically let them do what they want in the ground and maybe get a couple of them who's faces were clear on the videos later.Most of them will have hoods up and scarfs round their faces so that's pretty useless.Only way to deal with it is to have more police per fan so either less away fans or more police and both of them would cost us money.The simple answer is no more Friday night games for Celtic.

There looked to be a fair few people joining in with the gb, maybe not breaking seat but the flairs and smoke bombs weren't just coming from those front few rows.

Would you go into a group of drunk neds and do anything about it if that was our fans? It's the police and stewards jobs to deal with that, not the fans.

Minutes applause before the game, sorry but I don't see why that should happen at any game unless it's something to do with that country or one of the clubs involved.

This thread has went from 'we're gonna get pumped' to 'optimistic, we might even get something' I think it will be somewhere inbetween or a-a since it's meant to be snowing heavily around 9. Even for a shite meaningless game we still get more than that, they'll take about 5000 and i'd be surprised if there's less than 8000.

I'm pretty sure they had plain clothes police in there again, there was one guy who kept going down to talk to them and didn't appear to have any MFC stuff on.Is that just something that happens at every game now? Thought the policing of the game was pretty decent, there didn't appear to be any arrests during the game at least and they seemed to be quite lenient other than the one guy who was determined that nobody would stand on the stairs.

What a load of shite, seriously most people are predicting we'll get beat by 4 or 5? We've not suddenly become a bunch of diddies and apart from Hearts and Ross Co Celtic haven't really pumped anybody.Not saying we'll get anything but i'd be very surprised if we lose heavily, 2-1 Celtic.

The fans were more interesting than the game, of course it didn't help that I couldn't see the first 15 mins through the smoke no doubt a fine coming for the 1 that got chucked on and caused the game to be stopped, not sure about the broken seats though, I never saw any of that and was sat right behind them. As for the game 'absolute shite' about covers it, sorry but McFadden should be nowhere near the starting 11 at the moment, he looks unfit and disinterested and if it was anybody else they would be on the bench til they showed some improvement.Carswell is the most backward thinking player I've seen in a long time, always plays safe passes and slowed the game down far too much.Lawson was just as bad and somebody tell me why we had 2 holding midfielders today.The passing from the back was slow and the build up was far too predictable.Nobody had a clue how to break them down and resorted to pumping hopeful balls into the front 2.Albion played it like a proper cup tie, we played it like we expected to just turn up and go through.Shocking performance which has to be up there as 1 of our worst.

It won't be easy? We're playing a bunch of part timers(?), yes it's a derby but as soon as it settles down we should have far too much for them and anything less than an easy win would be worrying. 5-0!

Yes most games i'm at since I don't have a st. It's only £4 more than the east, maybe get a well bois discount, sing and it's cheaper.

Not much point moving imo but if they're going to then why not use the north side of the main stand? It's usually pretty sparsely populated but there's always a decent atmosphere there when the away fans are in that bit and it's right next to the cooper.

Was pretty good, shame the game was a let down.

I'll be in the pod tomorrow, will try to get a vid up on youtube either tomorrow night or Thursday.

OT but i like the draws being seeded especially in Europe.Say it was unseeded and we get a good team in the 1st round and lose while some average team not much better than us gets lucky being drawn against the weakest teams every round and ends up in the later rounds having made several million from it, how exactly is that fair? ... and i disagree that it makes it impossible for diddy teams to do well, just look at that team Celtic nearly lost to and Apoel 2 seasons back. Anyway we've not had a lower div side for a while so i fancy Stanraer at home.

No chance! From what i saw today and in the first few games teams are getting at us down the wings, playing with 3 at the back would only leave bigger spaces out wide for teams to break into.Imo it should be a sort of 4-2-3-1 with lawson and lasley behind angol, viguirs and faddy.We don't have the players to play on the break like we did last season so we should be looking to control the central area with 3 in the middle and let faddy drift up front when we have the ball.He's not going to run away from people so he's wasted staying out wide, Viguirs or lawson can cover the right side if we lose it.

Don't think we can tell that much from today's game other than Aberdeen should finish 2nd.We need to cut out the mistakes which cost us again and could be doing with a bit of pace and creativity in midfield but we're still better than most and imo 3rd is a realistic target.

Where are people getting this 'big away support' from? I've had a look on their site and they seem to think it will be a poor crowd. Anyway i know it looks a tricky game but just got the feeling that we'll win quite easily, 2-0.

Wouldn't say he's not fit, he just doesn't look match sharp yet, Kuban and more so Hibs had 2 or 3 players round him nearly every time he got the ball which would make it difficult for anybody.Also think we tried to play through him too much today, it was like give the ball to Faddy even if he's in his own half or has players round him. As for the game we lacked a cutting edge but Hibs did sit back a lot for the home team and we still had 2 or 3 good chances.Our main problem is the lack of width which is why Angol could be so important if we don't bring anybody else in but we looked decent on the ball and pretty solid at the back.I know it's only 2 games but McManus looks like he could be our best defender for some time.

Hope nobody stood on the horse shite.

I've been at every home game since Nancy and imo they're better going forward than any of them, they don't look that good at the back but it's hard to put better teams under pressure.Wouldn't say we played well but we'll play worse than that and win games, it wasn't a shocker it was just an average performance against a good attacking team.

Kuban looked as good a team as we've played in europe, going forward anyway.The number 99 is one of the best players i've seen playing at fir park and popov wasn't far behind, just a case of beaten by a better.

The stands we're using hold just over 8500 - 2000 at the ends of the pod so if the away stand is shut there won't be more than 6500.Anything over 6000 is not bad considering we got about 6500 against Levante in the round after this and they're a 'heard of' team.

Think the club are probably thinking more about what could happen than what did happen last season.I doubt 1 or 2 bits of paper would attract attention from uefa but say Kuban get a few dodgy decisions, players rolling about faking injury etc.Next time they get a corner/throw at that side they might be getting pelted by bits of paper which would probably be in the uefa observers report.

Doing that would make the competition worse.The teams that finish 4th in Spain and England are better than all but about 6 league winners.They should do away with seeding and country protection from the group stages, at least give a lesser team a chance of getting a lucky run and making the later rounds.

Not sure it's as much of an achievement as people are making out.Fair enough it's a decent result but Rosenberg aren't as good as they used to be and are a pretty average european side at best.Just because they're in europe all the time doesn't mean they're good, just means that league isn't the best. Anyway the winner of that Debrecen tie is our best shot at getting through.Estoril or Brugge are decent trips and winnable games.