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I still haven't recovered from losing to Airdrie in the Scottish Cup Semi-Final replay. In general, though, with the time differences involved, if we lose on a Saturday I'm over it by the time I have my lunch.

As much as we like to talk about goal difference, I can't remember us ever having to rely on that. It's all about the points right now, and that is 100% up to us. We do need to score more than one, though, as we never win 1 - 0.

A comfortable 3 - 0 win as we pass them off the park and wonder why everybody was stressing out.

If we win by 8 goals I think we go clear into 8th.

Agree with this. The positive is we still have our fate in our hands. Let's keep it that way.

Moult went off injured on Saturday, so it's no big secret. If he was injured training during the week I can see how it makes sense to keep it quiet, but in this case - as Andy_P says - it just means Accies have to prepare for 2 different scenarios.

If any of our central defenders are expecting Samson to come out for it, they obviously haven't been watching any of our previous games. So instead, they'll need to compete with the guy they are supposed to be marking and maybe clear it themselves.

He rolled up on 14th Feb 2015, after which we won 7, drew 3 and lost 6 of our last 16 (including the play-offs). Not brilliant, but not bad - and we'd only won 4 league games since August before he joined us.

Robinson's post match was also good to hear. Set up with a positive approach because what we'd done for the last 20 games "obviously wasn't working" and thought that this "was a game we could win". No coincidence he was involved in the play-off win. Early days, I know, but I'm already a big fan of his approach. He must have been reading the posts on here.

Plus faking the virus he had where he lost about 3 stone. Must be a fan of method acting.

I doubt AFC Fylde were big in Kennedy's career plans.

Our fate is still in our own hands, which is all you can ask for. Well that, plus winning all our games. And a pony.

A few weeks ago, when I pointed out our lack of ability to score more than one goal in a game, was it not you that jumped in to tell me our strikers were doing just fine?

Or, to look at it another way, good job we picked up a point in a game we were red hot favourites to lose.

Obviously I hope we get something from this game, but if nothing else it's great to see a Motherwell manager finally take the game to this mob on their own patch. It won't work every time, but in the long run, it will work more often than our usual tactics.

Unfortunately, we can't exactly hold our commentators up as bastions of sensible patter.

Need to get another goal while we are on top, but there's some definite gegenpressing going on here.

No. You've watched football before, you know that question doesn't really make sense.

Hopefully his form will take a dive now until the end of the season.

When MJC disappeared from here I'd always assumed he finally got his bus fare.

Quite possibly. But let's not forget that team wasn't an instant build either.

I assume we still have the scouting system in place that Les implemented. And Robinson said in one of his interviews that he had good knowledge of the lower leagues. So I'm hoping we already have a few ideas of how to replace Skippy and Moult. If we can sell on Moult and bring in a decent replacement that will be another success in our current business model.

100% this. Except I'm not cuddling anyone. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Haha, aye I was thinking that when I wrote it. When it comes to Rangers games, though, I think we are all in the same boat. I think the last time I fancied us winning was when Tommy McLean was the gaffer.

Best chance ever. Weak Rangers side. Defence we can exploit. New manager giving us a better organization. Due a win. etc.etc. 3 - 1 Rangers who then go onto lose their next 4 games. I can't get excited about this fixture. Sooner or later our mob will surprise me, but I'm not holding my breath.