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At a time when development of youngsters is at a premium, why would the board go against the judgement of McCall and, in particular, Young? Doesn't make sense to me.

Ultimately, I think we are still lacking a bit of match sharpness due, in part, to limited competitive game time with our restricted pre-season schedule. Time will tell, of course, but regaining that cutting edge is something that will hopefully return after a couple more run outs.

I don't disagree - and maybe the seat on the bench helped him a focus a bit more when he came on. Of course, McCall might just have been saving him for the second leg!

The story on here was that Ojamaa was dropped due to disciplinary reasons. I don't know if that is true or not, but even if not, a number of people are of the opinion that he didn't do himself any favours on Tuesday night. I haven't seen every minute of every pre-season game, but in the highlights (against Accies for example) Daley was directly involved in a couple of the goals and a number of the chances. I did see all of the Panathanaikos game and thought that either through inexperience or greed, Henrik messed up a few of our scoring opportunities.

Because Panathanaikos at home is a different proposition from Ross County away.

I think we are suffering from the pre-season cancelations. That kind of sharpness is what those games develop.

So it was dire and we kept a clean sheet and got a point. History shows that the newly promoted teams usually get at least a point in their first home game, and that teams in the middle of a Euro tie often struggle. That, plus the fact we missed a few key pre-season games, means a win today was optimistic rather than likely. If you can't win, then take your point, go home and get ready for the next one.

Glad to see nobody is overreacting to our first away point of the season.

Radio Commentary for the UK folks (or those with a proxy).

No MFC TV commentary today. That sucks. Is a decent ISDN line not one of the requirements for entry into the SPL?

I disagree. He says what he thinks will generate the most reactions from listeners. I don't have an issue with that as it's his job to pull in angry punters. I don't, however, confuse it with what he really believes.

True, but they are on the same run of unbeaten SPL games as we are.

Not if the stories about him needing surgery are true.

Absolutely. And we proved last season that our team sets up well away from home. Even if we keep it scoreless until half time and then grab a goal, it could make for an interesting game. While being 2 - 0 up is obviously a big advantage, it can be a tricky score to defend and teams often get caught up between sitting in and looking for a 3rd. Or maybe I'm just being overoptimistic.

The MFC TV site has a blurb saying: So hopefully that won't be too far off.

My overriding musical memory of the 80s is Soft Cell - Tainted Love; every week, every ground for about 5 years.

Exactly. They exist to create fake outrage so the outraged readers can contact them to be outraged and solicit outraged responses.

I want an early goal in Athens to make a game of it and then see what happens.

If it means no more pictures from decorator, I'm 100% behind it

Or maybe the ice hockey music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAG9tOAHpA Cue the "that's a big organ" banter.

If you hear a wooshing sound, that will be the point passing overhead.

UEFA have observers at all these games, so they don't need to sign up as PlatiniKnewMyFaither on here.

Based on last night's reaction, the current top 3, in no particular order, are: Higdon Humphrey Ramsden

UEFA frowns upon *anything* being thrown at players on the pitch to such an extent that they are prepared to dish out fines to the clubs. The club knows this and asked the fans to stop doing this. Some fans continued to do this. The club might now get fined. See why there is such a fuss now?

was steelboy taking notes for his next anti-higdon rant on here.