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After 2 password resets, I was finally able to log in. I use a password manager with some pretty long and complex values, so I'm guessing that maybe my initial efforts silently failed because they were too long (or too complex). When I shortened it on my 3rd attempt I was successful. Haven't played around with it yet, but will dig into it over the next few days.

We often struggle in December, but looking forward to it this year.

I'd be happy (but surprised) if we can keep Welsh until the end of the season. It's a double edged sword taking good players on loan. We benefit in the short term, but if they do well, they often get re-called by their parent club in the first window.

It really was a brilliant save. I don't remember who hit it, but it was heading for the postage stamp until Clark finger tipped it over the bar.

The last one I remember was against Aberdeen. Bobby Clark made a brilliant save for them and Martin Buchan played a blinder - so you can work out how long ago that was!

7 points from the last 3 games, with two clean sheets against Hibs and Hearts is a decent return. Could have won it today, though. Not quite ready for a title push yet.

Inevitable 0 - 0. Take your pick...

Login screen unreadable when using the Dark theme on my phone (black text on black background). Doesn't recognize my login credentials even after I reset the password. Says email address is invalid, despite having used the same email address for the Society since day 1. Was there any beta testing on it? It feels like there wasn't. I appreciate the effort, btw. It just seems it was released too soon.

I just hope that after the big build up it doesn't end up a nil-nil borefest.

I'll be delighted to watch us go 3 - 0 up and enjoy every last second.

It was very entertaining watching Iredale have a complete meltdown. Quite a few closeups on the MFC stream where he looked angry, frustrated, confused and helpless all at the same time.

I thought you had to throw them a few million quid every 6 months before they let you join the Board there.

If the biggest complaint is that we have the top scorer in the league playing for us, we're doing OK.

I fully expect Slattery and Fadinger to start to add a little more robustness to the midfield. But I also wouldn't be surprised if I'm completely wrong.

I was thinking about the predictable "JBA will be attracting other clubs" chat. I obviously don't want him to move on any time soon, but what he is building is laying a great foundation. Half the teams in Europe play this way (which is why we see the "obscure" teams pass rings round Scottish teams in the early Euro rounds) - so there should be plenty of candidates who can continue to develop the team in a similar way. All we need is the intent. Similarly, half the players in Europe (and around the world) are developed playing this style, so we should be able to recruit ones that continue with our new approach. What's also going to be interesting is whether any other Scottish clubs go down this path when they inevitably change managers at the end of the season.

We're the Pound Shop Man City and Maswanhise is our Erling Haaland.

It's defintely progressing in phases. Against Clyde, in our opener (on plastic) you could see we were trying something new, but felt like the players only met 10 minutes before kickoff. Early in the season, we were dominating without making too many chances. Then we started scoring a few more, but lacked the ability to close out the game. Now we are scoring a reasonable amount and not doing too badly in seeing out the match. I imagine what is being worked on now is adding another goal or two in second half performances to kill off games sooner. The main thing is we can see the progress, and that has kept most of the fans (and the players) on board with "The Project".

There was feel-good press when we finished 2nd in the league too, so I wouldn't worry too much in that regard. Expecting a tight one again. While there is definitely a chance we could lose, I'm going with win by the odd goal in 3 (or 5)

I'd only add that moving abroad is a huge change and presents all sorts of new problems; especially at that age. I'm sure I could (and many of the other overseas posters on here also could) give a long list of things you never considered having to deal with. I'm not surprised it is taking a few months to adjust.

Given the radical overhaul of the way we were playing, I expected a lot more defeats early in the season, with the rewards not starting to come until after Christmas. I have been pleasantly surprised how quickly we were able to pick up points. The fact we were disappointed not to win some of the first few matches speaks volumes about the progress. It's been great to watch us develop, and the exciting thing is have barely started. Who knew letting footballers play football could be so entertaining?

I now have an idea what it was.

To be fair, like many teams visiting Fir Park this season, the version of Hibs that turned up tonight was the version our players and tactics created.

Hearts bringing 4.800 apparently, so should be a great crowd. And 3pm kick off on a Saturday. What a time to be alive!

6,585 according to the Beeb.

797 Passes. 93.7% accuracy. I dont care who you are or who you are playing, that is impressive.