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Hope he manages to get a ticket.

What What's with the "day-tripper" patter? If you want a bigger number of fans at the final than turns up for Ross County at Fir Park, you might need to lower your standards to people who only attend a few games. We should be encouraging as many people along to support us as possible in the hope some come back more often - not labeling them as somehow inferior.

It wouldn't be a proper cup tie thread without complaints about tickets and fan numbers.

When Brown won in 2008-9, he must have got his votes from more than Celtic players.

Most players get along just fine. Even the ones that square up to each other on the pitch.

Gavin Gunning helped Forest Green Rovers to a 0 - 0 against Alex Fisher's Yeoville Town. A draw that guaranteed both teams retain their League Two status for next season

Zero chance, unfortunately. For the first time in a few years the SFA/SPFL didn't manage to sell any domestic games to the US this season. A VPN and BBC iPlayer will be my stream of choice. (I suppose there's an outside chance a pub might have the same setup, or some dodgy Celtic TV stream, but no idea where you'd find out about that). EDIT: There may also be an outside chance it's shown on one of the Spanish/Latin American channels, but those can be difficult to track down and often it's a replay rather than live.

U20s showing us the way to a victory against Celtic (again).

No bother playing with a broken wrist - just needs the right cast.

Hollywood ending is Sinclair giving away a soft foul in the last minute and Kipré scoring the winner from the free kick.

That's true for us civilians, but when there's Cup Finals to be played, players are often risked.

If he was at Hairmyers, the outcome was probably a 4 hour wait and then they took his appendix out.

I prefer white away too - but I never buy them so can't really complain if it's something else.

Aye, for a Cup Final I can see we'd get extra sales. Most years though I suspect it doesn't make a huge difference - although it would have the beneift of keeping the fans happier.

Do we sell more if we release them early? I'd have thought, given the captive market, it doesn't make much difference to sales - only that we get the money sooner.

The only time the Scottish media talk up any part of our game is when they are touting an OF player or manager for a move south. Given the calibre of manager Arsenal is bound to attract, I can't see them giving Brenda the time of day.

That's great - but he won't be playing for us 4 years ago. McManus was holding our defence together in 2014 - do you fancy him making a comeback to replace Kipre? (And he's 3 years younger than Miller). When you're 38, it's recent form that counts because in sporting terms that's old. Form can dip pretty quickly at that age - and you don't see it coming. This isn't a defence of Bowman. Like I said in earlier posts, I'm 100% in favour of bringing in a couple of new strikers. I don't want us to bring in high earning 38/39 year olds with no sell-on value, though. It's taken Robinson a season to ditch the ones we had. There's more Curtis Mains out there - let's invest in those instead of investing in the past.

You bring on whatever new strikers we sign in the summer. The ones that are younger, fitter, faster and like Moult and Main will bring in a transfer fee. Why would invest our hard cash in a 38 year old (39 in December) when we could bring in another Curtis Main for half the price? As for goals, Bowman 8 in 37 and Miller 5 in 23 both have a strike rate of one goal every 4.6 games this season. We definitely need new strikers - so let's get some new ones.

Given our current signing philosophy (young, pacey, with a point to prove and sell-on value), and given Robinson's removal of McFadden, McManus, Lasley and Hammell from the wage bill, I just don't see where Miller would fit in with that.

The fact that Robinson said this morning in his press conference that we needed to secure our status before he could make offers to other players and start talking to targets suggests that he knows more about it than us.

While I agree, the fact is that until it's mathematically guaranteed the money is staying in Flow's Steelmen coin purse.

You should - as we can 100% guarantee our league safety with this one. As Robinson said this morning, once that's confirmed, we can move forward with other contract negotiations and talks with new signing targets, because we know our budget for next season.

Listening to Robinson's presser this morning. With Bowman a doubt for this game (with a virus he doesn't want to give to the rest of the team), it's James Scott that's getting the nod from the U20s as cover. So maybe that's the plan - or part of the plan - for cover for the final.

I'd rather have piles than Miller.

Watching the Hartley video on MFC TV made me think - if Hartley gets himself match fit over the next few weeks, does Aldred get the heave for the final? As much as I like Hartley and what he brings to the team, I think I'd be sticking with Aldred.