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Langfield certainly was a good keeper but prone to the odd howler. Think he has dropped away from his best, we could do worse but I'd hope we could do a bit better even if it a keeper of similar ability but justy less of a dick!

Did most of us not reckon that when saw the team that drew 0-0 at tynecastle not so long ago. It all about attitude on the park.

Any idea who is getting the Q-Q6 sections, upper tier of the south at our end? According to the layout it isn't debenture area?

We'd be mental playing 4-4-2 in the final. Absoultely agree we should player similar 4-5-1 we played when we beat Celtic. Sure might be a touch predictable but barring Celtic having a stunning off day if we went with the recent 4-4-2 I can only see us shipping goals. And as much as I reckon Hutchison is a decent defender and hopefully nailed on starter next season I really hope in the final it is Gunning as the left of the two centre backs. I can't see Craigan not starting so assuming he does I hope it Hutch on the bench. There is a case to be made for dropping Craigan but I just don't see it happening. 99% of managers in an occasion like this will be looking for experienced heads in the team and Craigan provides that though I certainly fear he could end up being the weak link. Fingers crossed we all get a fairytale day out and ends up with Craigan lifting the cup but not convinced on recent form he is an ingredient in our strongest back pairing!

Someone worked out how to turn it up to 11, I hope they can work out how to turn it back to the inaudible mumble we're used to!

Where you seeing that, if it further back in this thread I could only be arsed going back one page? Debenture seats? I'd have fancied they'd all be in the South Stand somewhere.

Not that it gonna matter with them losing but would prefer Aberdeen as genuinely believe we'd win. As it is Celtic I believe we could win but probbly won't, hopefully proved kinda wrong there!

For my money no one really stood out today but Craigan got us on the way so deserves the nod as much as anyone!

Comedy gold! But why didn't Lasley describe himself as the housevives favourite though!

Great point today and a great effort from management and team this season. There has been a stench of apathy and discontmentment hanging around the place nearly all season. Lots of reasons for that outwith the control of manager and players, cost of fitba, expected crap league reconstruction amongst it. However come the end of the season we've earned our place in the top half and at worst made both cup semifinals which quite frankly is a fantastic effort all round. Top marks to Stuart McCall as well, taking over in difficult circumstances and despite some shaky performances early on has got us back on course and done everything anyone could ask of him. As much as drifting away to bottom half and going out of the cup before now would have been no guarantee of a poor manager this is no guarantee of a long term success but I quite confident that if he given adequate resources he can go on and do a good job for us. Certainly seems to want his teams to play some decent football, just hope we can cap this season off by going all the way to the final and then who knows....

Slightly suspect on crosses for us and a bit of a nightmare since he left but if we get a wad of cash for Randolph and a replacement that does as well for us as Smith did we'll be doing alright! If Hibs were to let him go provided he was on basic wages I'd happily take him as back up and hope he can refind the form that had him on fringe of Scotland squad if needed. Would brick myself first few games mind as he has been ganting for Hibs!

If someone with a £100m plus personal fortune wants to step in and underwrite the experiment of putting gate prices down to a tenner regularly I'm all for it. How else it could possibly happen I just don't see. The other reasons for last nights crows included its importance, its lack of being on TV and opposition team on a run of good form making the journey all the more appealing. I daresay if we slashed prices regularly we would see an increase in crowds but would it be enough to offset the difference. Would they still come if we crashed into the first division. If the SPL collectively want to get heads together and cap prices then great but again unless revenue stayed at least the level we have we'd likely see even more diminished quality on the park and that is pretty frightening when you see the product as it is!

Shouldn't be Hampden, or if it is Hampden make it pay at the gate and £10 to get in.

Delighted to see my prematch prediction come true, not the result or goalscorers or that but as always anytime we get a bigger than normal crowd their are always some numpties that reckon their was barely a seat left and it was nigh on a full house. Yes there were more Well fans in than we used to lately on top of a surprisingly healthy away support but from my vantage point in the East I could see plenty seats around the section or two in front and to right of me, plenty in the POD and plenty in the Cooper and again plenty in the South. Fact is if there were approx 4800 well fans in last night that is probably a good 1500 more than we're used to of late/ I dunno whether they count comp tickets or not so maybe there more in the ground than the official attendance but there is no way we're whacking thousands of the gate to dodge some tax. An 8337 crowd give or take a few is pretty much what was likely there. Just a shame we don't get more crowds like that. On the general point indeed the low entry fee helped but a good few factors combined to help the healthy turnout and if we reduced saturdays attendance to a tenner I doubt we'd get as good a result and crowds would soon slip back to the norm more or less unless we suddenly started winning nearly every week and playing like a mini Barcelona into the bargain.

Aye call me picky but the 2nd of Murphy's really poor touches should have been setting him up for a 2nd goal. If'd he done that i'd have given him a well deserved MOTM. As it was he played well but will give the nod to Gunning. Though pretty much everyone played well only maybe Hutchison had some moments and Hately didn't do much one way or other.

Would go along with that, he something of a risk with history of injuries but on a one or at a push a 2 year deal he adds to the squad I reckon. Wouldn't break the wage structure or anything he got something about him.

I just stumbled across the quote and liked it. I've always wanted to want to read War and Peace but just haven't got round to it yet.

I wouldn't say not his responsibility entirely, if players are down he needs to lift them. But qualities like grit and determination I think are inbred in players and if you haven't got that inner metal any manager is gonna struggle to turn that round. Maybe not impossible but to my mind very difficult, a good manager is hopefully one that can judge character and bring in players with character as well as ability.

Close season predicition, we lose some players and wait ages to get anyone in. Those we do get in we'll probably know very little about and the concensus will be we are weaker than where we were start of the previous season. Pretty much summed up most close seasons since McGhees first at a push. What the team will be like who knows. I imagine the back 4 will be largely similar. If Randolph gets over todays form blip he should move on for hopefully a decent fee on his regular form which will hopefully allow us to refresh the team elsewhere. Really big game against Utd, a semi final and possibly a cup final would really help up us keep likes of Jennings and get one or two decent new faces in.

You spot on the money, certain posters will probably bump this thread every defeat until the day McCall goes. Glad I didn't waste my money on that, a promising start fell away through combination of poor defending and a very very soft penalty. After that we just were not at the races and manager might not be immune, but given we lost Jeffers and Saunders and Hammell in space last training session before game, the warm up and early on in first half he probably slightly limited in what he could do. Personally players need to take responsibility for their own atittude and desire to win or at least fight for things. That is one thing I don't think any manager can really instill, has to be in you just my thoughts though.

I somewhat agree but who is to say how many get the option?

Whit Gow or Reynolds, both were murder for us. I'd gamble more on the former than the latter and I'd really rather we didn't bother!

Played some decent stuff in a good few games. We have been inconsistent but in 15 games now I'd say we've played decent or better in 7 games. Dundee in the cup, Hibs win, cup semi loss, one nil loss to killie were decent but lost, wins over Aberdeen and Accies albeit took foot of gas against Accies and again against Celtic easily the outstanding performance. Granted you could say we've been worse in the remaining 8 games but there still includes in amongst that progressing in the cup to Stranraer, and picking up points against Inverness and Accies. Now clearly if that is what we get over the next season or two you could argue that we'd be at best mediocre but seeing as he's taken over a small squad in difficult circumstances I don't see why the guy doesn't earn a break at least until a good couple of months into next season. I'm as sceptical as the next person about his managerial credentials but so far he's done alright and if we win on sunday then this season is more than just a qualified success regardless of remaining fixtures where no doubt we'll be probably frustrating inconsistent. I just wish people would get a grip and get out and support the team, call me happy clappy if you like I'm far from it but we're not in the relegation mire and their no evidence yet that McCall is a numpty. The phrophets of doom may well be proven right in the long run and lets face it the odds are in their favour given how skint we appear to be but you'd think we'd plummeted like a stone the way some people go on!

Not totally shocked to see McCall stick with the same back four today as against Celtic, at least looks like that from the team sheet anyway. Will Craigan now come back in to add experience after an uninspired showing, not that I'm sure it purely down to the centre pairing who were like the rest of the team superb last week.

Not checked it on phone yet but it pretty boufing looking at home!