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Because in this day and age when all the information is discussed about sports science, load balancing, rest, recovery, nutrition, training etc. people still seem shocked when medical advice is to leave a player out the team. The days training in the morning then down to the pub (via the bookies) for a couple of pints, a fag and a game of snooker have long gone.

Away team tactics when they win the toss, surely. Rarely happens, but one or two Premiership teams did the same thing against us last season.

If we weren't required to have 3 keepers in the squad I'd be half expecting Connelly to make an appearance at centre-mid.

I still find it incredible that we have fans that judge new players on 1 or 2 first team appearances after just moving to a new country and having 4 hours of training. So not understanding everything David pointed out is not quite as surprising to me.

Not a bad shout. Darren Randolph is available as keeper too, I think. Brian Kerr might be a decent option.

Better teams than us struggle playing Euro/League games Sunday - Thursday - Sunday. That's why teams that are regular participants have deeper squads of first team quality that they can rotate. Even with a fully fit squad it would be a stretch.

Just for the record, there will never be a "none of the above" box. Feel free to not vote. Personally, after some of the pre-match chat about Connelly, I thought he strolled it. Wish the rest of them had performed to the same levels.

Obviously not equipped to play League - Conference League - League cup in the space of a week, but let the recriminations begin. Also take your pick...

If a player hadn't fully recovered from Thursday they absolutely should be rested, but we should be fielding our strongest available team.

If the favourites win every cup tie we might as well just give Celtic the trophy now and the rest of us can focus on the league.

I'd fancy us to beat Palace 3 - 0 too.

Connelly became our number two specifically because he is comfortable playing out from the back. Ox was not. I think people still blame him for the Aberdeen cup loss, but Ward gave away a couple of goals too while generally solid.

I like the fact he's brought his notes about how difficult the cup can be. Good motivation for the team talk too, no doubt.

Club has confirmed it is postponed. And the St Mirren game moved to the Sunday.

Until someone laughs. So at least 7 more years.

There were people on here who boldly predicted he was a great signing.

Somebody smarter than me ran some numbers and apparently you lose less goals getting caught out playing from the back than you do hitting it long and having it immediately returned for a goal.

I was watching us knock it about at the back last night and we have become so good at that. The players and the goalie have so much movement there is always one, and often two men wide open to accept the ball. It looks easy when you do it right, and a bombscare when you don't.

I agree about starting a strong 11, but I don't think putting someone like Whyte in the lineup will weaken us. I'm guessing Hodge will also be making an appearance at some stage too.

Wondering why there's a corpse in the seat next to them?

You can see that right now his footballing brain is a step ahead of some of his team mates, but a few more weeks together and they should be in sync.

The gaffer today:

The man does great interviews:

I was always confident there were plenty of ball playing central defenders out there to replace Welsh, but credit to the recruitment team to come up with one that is so good.

The MOTM on the BBC match reports is an average of the accumulated fan votes on the website. Nothing to do with what the reporters or pundits think. Been that way for many years.