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O'Hara used to play as a defender for Killie so it wasn't a big surprise he looked comfortable at the back. Certainly seems a decent option and he bring his plastic pitch experience to Livi this weekend.

As most of the season ticket holders are Well Society members, I'm sure they could press the issue if it ever happened. Then you would need a fair system to select who gets in, of course. How many from a family, any age restrictions to protect the elderly fans etc. I'd prefer the club didn't intentionally go out of their way to lose money in these circumstances, but if the majority decide that is what they want to do, then so be it. And I say all of this as someone who has been 100% in favour of opening grounds as soon as possible. I just don't think it makes sense for clubs like ours until the numbers involved can be larger.

The club has guaranteed a full season of games for everyone who bought a season ticket. And free access to all home game streams while fans aren't allowed in. So nobody is losing out as far as I can tell. Personally, if I had a season ticket I'd rather be able to use it when 100% crowds are allowed in rather than a few hundred, but that might change if the ban last too long.

That assumes we can get 4000 people in every week between now and the end of the season rather than a different 400 people every week for a few games in between lockdowns.

My point though is that even if all clubs found themselves able to let a limited number of fans in, most will not - including ourselves - as it would be a loss maker. When the English leagues trialed it with home-fans only recently, 7 clubs allowed fans in and only 2 home teams won, so at least initially there was no major advantage to those clubs (albeit a small sample size).

I'm all for letting clubs open their gates in a controlled manner. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I can't see many doing it (which would reduce the risk further), and I've really enjoyed watching the early round FA Cup games that had terracing and spectators. Right at this moment, however, I'd much rather our clubs were working out agreement on the rules of how to manage Covid-related postponements and what the league plans to do if we can't complete all the fixtures.

We get the stream as part of our overseas deal, but I wouldn't pay a fiver to watch a game on the pitch, never mind twenty quid.

I see there are over 600 people who contributed to the cause and raised £4000 already - smashing the £1000 target. Good job all round,

Presumably he's been better in training the past 4 weeks and the manager thought he was worth his appearance.

None of the youngsters on the bench yesterday will get a minute in the Livi game. That will be the usual bruising, long ball, plastic bounces anti-football game. So given that none of our team had played competitively for 4 weeks, I wasn't surprised they weren't given any game time. It was more important to get the first team players some minutes - and like it or not, Hastie and Crawford are regarded as first team by the management. Given the nature of this season with fixture pile-ups and Covid quarantines, I'm sure a few of those who didn't play will get some game time sooner or later.

Now you sound like a Sun journo...

From what Robbo said in his post-match, we might.

You hope you never have to use your backup keeper, but I'm glad we went out and signed one with some decent first team experience.

I wonder how many players might report a short term injury so they don't have to play at Livi next week?

Definitely a nice change after our strikers' struggles earlier in the season. 3 goals for them from open play and Watt winning the pen.

Randy Newman was the original artist. He wrote it in 1972. (and yes, I did have to look that up).

I'm a big fan of defenders on the goal line.

Of a point? Aye.

Welcome back, Devante.

The "I told you so" is strong in this one.

If Long could channel his frustration into his scoring instead of his strop, he'd be world class.

The classic genius substitution.

Vigurs and Hylton. A double back-to-haunt-us for Halloween.

Another good result from injecting a bit of pace into the attack.

I'm just a glass-half-full-but-it's-cracked-and-starting-to-leak-on-me-but-I-have-my-thumb-over-it-and-chugging-it-quickly kinda guy.