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Every team that plays out from the back loses a goal like that - even the good ones like Liverpool. Brendan Rodgers had a point when he said that fans are quick to criticise when you lose a goal that way, but are quick to forget (or not even remember) when the long ball gets returned 10 seconds later for a goal - and that happens more often.

What I'm saying about the seeding is that whether you like it or not, there's no point in worrying about it because our history shows it has made little (if any) difference to our progress in the competition. Personally, I think that by the time you reach the knockout stages in a cup competition there should be no seeding, but others may disagree. I'm not even a fan of the best runners up, tbh, but we just have to get on with it and keep winning.

We were unseeded last season and got Killie at home in the first knockout round. Season before, we were seeded and drew St Mirren away.

The Bluenose must have forgotten that they qualified from the same group as us the first year they changed the format in the 2016/17 competition.

That's usually just manager (and club) speak for "he's negotiating a move, but we're not telling journos about it until it's complete" Minor niggles always seem to happen to players who are about to leave.

Just heard JBA talking about the Ranger's game: "Next week we have some neighbours over for dinner. Let's hope we enjoy dinner the most" So maybe your chips will be fine.

Also great to see Ox back.

Good workout against a higher quality of opposition. Took a little while to adapt to the higher level opponents, but we improved in the second half. And more triangles than an Airport Toblerone.

That's where he needs the ball.

Ref thinks this is the Champions League Final.

Hope so. Might be a case of waiting to see who is available on loan from the English leagues once they confirm their squads. Definitely one (or two) light in that department.

Been a decent workout so far. A good step up in opposition to test us before the league opener.

Quite a bit of dig in some of the tackles for a friendly match.

I know Connelly will be going back out on loan, but I think he's a better keeper than Ward.

Silky ball skills from Gordon put his keeper in trouble for the pen. Struggled with a 3 yard pass.

Who starts against Rangers?

It would (if true, as they say). Would leave us seriously short on strikers though, so unless we have a instant replacement who has been through a pre-season, it would be a big risk to let him go with the league about to start.

If you found SK's 15 match run without a win entertaining then more power to you.

I liked Theo, but I'd still prefer we went for a new player, ideally used to playing on our new formation. Here are all Theo's goals from his time with us. I'll leave it others to judge how technical they were.

Being in the running for relegation is the price you pay for sticking with the same approach every season. Given that we have zero chance of winning the league, what's the point of playing the league matches every week? For me, the point is I want to be entertained.

They come to learn from the fully qualified coaches who have been trained to the latest UEFA standards using state of the art, data driven training methods and tactics. They don't come to Largs to learn how to run up sand dunes or control long balls on worn out plastic pitches.

Other strikers are available.

It's definitely a learning process. When you have trained for 20 years to clear your lines instead of looking for a pass, some adjustment is required. Equally important is recognising when you do, and when you do not, have time to look for that pass. Mistakes will no doubt be made, but we need to stick to the plan.

If be "even better" you mean he scored 2 goals last season and was dropped from the international team due to poor form, then yes.

Rangers have struggled to win their opener in recent years. I think this will be a low scoring draw. 1 - 1.